I was an operator for 28 years and it's a joy to watch a true operator in the machine, like we always say,everyone can run a machine but not many can operate one

I keep getting visions of Post 10 emerging from the pipe with a full run down on the original wrong installation

When I was a kid, the playground at my elementary school had a bunch of these concrete pipes painted bright colors that we could climb on and hide in. We called them "tunnels." They all had the holes in the top, just like these. After all these decades, I just learned today what those holes are for. Neat.

I love this guy, cool, calm, and very talented.

Your finesse with that large machine is wonderful to watch, you're truly a very skilled operator.

People talk about how good of an operator he is, but the patience he has to keep changing the camera angle and he always has things to say.

The finesse Chris has with the excavator is mesmerising.

It’s amazing to me that someone could screw up a simple pipe run like that. So strait forward, I hope they were able to comeback on whoever installed it.

I started with a company laying drain pipe right out of high school in 1976. My job was to go through the pipes as they were laid and wipe each joint with tar so what happened here would not happen. After 10 years I became a machine operator just like you are now. I'm 60 years old and I love running a Track-hoe best job ever.

When a man talks to the objects he is working with, you know there is passion involved 👍🏼

This is the best channel I've found in Fekkin AGES!!! LOVE IT!!!

Came for the algorithm, stayed for the digging. Great stuff!

I hope that crew doesn't lay roof shingles on the side.

They put the pond on the wrong end of the pipe

And this is why you will never run out of work. Keep it up. Thx for the vid

Chris your operating skills are amazing, John doesn’t miss a beat, I was waiting for him to grab the bar and straighten it out over his knee. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

Thanks, Chris. I find your videos very relaxing! Keep up the good work.

Eff it: If I win the lottery I'm buying a piece of land and an escavator. They look like so much fun.

Safe !! I just started watching your videos last night, it was the one where the rental was buried in pond. A cubic yard of dirt can weigh over 3000 pounds. If you don’t know about soil safety, please don’t rent one of these and get yourself or your helper seriously injured from a trench collapse. He’s digging in class C soil, it’s been previously disturbed. You need competent person training before ever using any kind of excavator, or digging with a shovel if more than 4 feet deep.

I enjoy watching this so much. You don't know how much I wish I had the skill to do this. I can cut and suture people fine, with 46 years of medical practice.... but I truly envy you your skill. .I love to watch your hands and fingers work. Artistry.

So soothing to watch some one use there machine instead of tearing it up. You have the eye for what you are doing. I am retired and disabled now and dad is dead and gone . I remember so fondly working with him and our heavy equipment biz we had for 35 years together. Your videos actually lower my blood pressure. I lived for the adrenaline every day we worked in our hard rock shale pit we drilled and blasted about 5k a year. Use to build lots of driveways out in the mountains to people's home sites and private logging roads to remove the timber. We had a D8 loaders .truck and transfer ,road grader roller and a 40 acre shale pita few sized excavators and a couple hoes clear down to the b20 backhoe I put 9 thousand hours in the seat on the b20 alone. We had a 4 bay shop wit 3 drive through bays. Actually use to rebuild stuff in the slow times the fourth bay was a full machine shop. Had several other old guys that just sat around the shop every day to work on there retirement projects they all shaped in and helped every time they could . Sure learned alot from them guys .

I stumbled across your videos one day. I live in the Mid-Hudson Valley in New York state. I'm a cosmetologist so I have never done any construction. But as a perfectionist I can really appreciate your accuracy & skills. I was quite the tom boy growing up & have a fascination with how things are made & built. I used to love Bringing my sons to watch excavating jobs. I think I was more interested than they were. Thanks for the videos. I enjoy them immensely.

Amazing the soft touch you have with your big machines.

I love your job, great operator, I spent 35yrs on heavy equipment. I operated excavator a few years but looking at you operate and being retired, I enjoy watching you operate. My only machine left that I play with is a skidsteer.

You impress me. Your so gentle. Very good at your work. I'm binge watching you. THANKYOU for the videos.

MAN, you have a delicate touch! You could pretty near change a diaper with that 220...

I enjoy watching your channel you are amazing with your machinery on the things you can do with them keep up the videos

So why do I operate the same excavator all day then come home and watch someone else do it? Sitting here giving Chris my thoughts as if he can hear me. Lol. Nice work mate! I like the the 220 as well. Very smooth and precise machine when lifting.

You could just transport the inlet/outlet to the opposite side, the rest of the sections just flip 180degrees

That digging bar has a real nice bow in it. Cant wait to see the next episode

Great video (even with all the math) that I didn't even think about with the bins and how much was in there. Now that you got our curiosity up, don't forget to tell us what all the fire department was doing!! Take care and thanks for sharing!!

31:58... balls of steel. I almost died, just watching

You are a great operator of all equipment and a great person. Keep up the good work and don’t change

That is some exacting work separating those pipes!

You demonstrate the true meaning of a smooth operator. Awesome video, must've missed this one when it originally came out.

I have watched about twenty of your videos this past month in my pajamas in my comfy lounge-chair on my fancy widescreen Android phone. I am 57 year old male unemployed with poor health and few job skills I often have no earthly idea what you are doing, It is like watching a gymnast on the uneven-bars. It would be nice if you would tell more about the details of everything I plan to go back and watch more of your videos and other KZfaqrs about machinery. I live in an inner-city ghetto apartment, so there are no "ponds" around here, unless that is a slang code-word for bongs or brothels.

The transformation of that rod throughout the video was amazing

Watching you swing all that weight around with such a delicate touch is why I call you a " smooth operator." Great work! Catch you on the next video.

🔥🔥🔥 FANTASTIC PROJECT SEÑOR DIG!!! You get to work on some fun projects on your end of NC. I always learn something new from videos like yours

I enjoyed watching your videos. Your explanation as you do the work is very informative.

Excellent video bro. Makes ya wonder how some people can gat away with it but on the plus side you get money in your pocket for fixing their screw up.

That rock bar sure is earning its money tens times over! 😂👍👍 Those things will bend and flex like crazy! Straightened mine out plenty of times and never broke it.

It is so cool to see you work. I really liked this episode where you and your uncle? went down to the pipes so we could really see the dimensions. We have been sitting behind you in your cab, so it is easy to forget the size of things. So if you can, it would be much appreciated if you do what you did here and show your size compared to what you are doing. I mean, some of the trees you are taking down are massive! Anyways, thanks from Norway!

When you were using those bucket teeth to gently push the pipe apart reminds me of how elephants use the very sensitive end part of their trunks to gently manipulate very tiny objects. Very skilful. Thanks for the video.

Cool video. Enjoy these where you get to use all the tools. Can’t wait to see the next video.

Haha love it .... limits of disturbance to a minimum. ..... that needs to go on a shirt Keep up the great videos

I just love how youtube subtitles the sounds of the machine as music. :) spot on!

You handle that pipe like a new mom handles a little baby. You are one heck of an operator.

Why would you carry them to the other end? You make the original installers look like geniuses. 🤣

Excellent use of the second camera. Both sides of the work. Possibly, both sides of the pucker factor one day. Awesome work.

Great video! I really like the alternate views where you set the camera on a tripod, and we can watch you out moving around, like when you put the bar through the chain. All good.

One has to wonder if they even realized they screwed up, or when they did it was "too late" to fix it.

"I got a lil carried away diggin" I relate to this sooo strongly, I almost wish I was there doing this. I am lying in bed, however, which is dreadfully comfy...

Up in alberta here my 48" pipe weigh 3.67 tons and are required lifting clutches, same with flared end. Work at a pipe plant we carry all the way up to 120"

My company has a set of those mats , they’re amazing, I doubt they’ll hold the 220 up but you’re mini is gonna float on the mud on those 👍

Why not...swap out the first bell, remove one section of pipe the create some room. Then dig the next section, spin it, and set it in place. No need to remove multiple sections or re-grade the bottom.

Every job goes much better when someone who's got the skills is in at the Helm , well done Chris !

If you had a Nickel for Every Project you stepped in to Correct, you would be Retired already. 😬👍

Thought you were going over into the hole when you started lifting the flair on the upstream end of the culvert with the way you were teetering there for a second @ 32:00. Also, my first thought when you went into the culvert to slide the bar in to lift the pipe was... "Well, must be no snakes in there. Chris didn't run out of the culvert like he was shot out of a cannon." Lol.

Uncle John is a thorn in your side. I love the way he relays to you (HEY HEY). Ever think about going out on your own.

Love as time goes on the breaker bar keeps getting more and more bent! 👍😲

Its amazing how some people can mess crap up so much ...... some security for you right lol ..... great video you do amazing work ....

We misseda fair bit of North Carolina cursing during the root canals. Nice work Mr.

I was taught that the male end always points in the direction of flow.

Enjoy watching. My father in law owned a backhoe / grading company and was known in these parts as the best operator around. I miss that dude. RIP Papa Joe Lee Ledbetter. Travelers Rest, SC.

Easy !! easy..... She's a little heavy There Son !! lololol.....That's one of those "Here's ya Sign", moments to who ever put those in backwards....lolol... You guys will have that licked in no time , looking Great so far Chris ! Have a Great Evening an Weekend Man !! I would say, "On to the Next" But, I believe you'll be back with part #2 on this one....lolol....Have a Good One...

👍wow, will the original contractors have to pay for the rework

It's handy how people screw up jobs like this, it gives you more work. This looks like a fun little job.

I could watch these videos all day! regards from Ireland, Sir!

On the bright side you now have a digging bar to work around corners

I'm in awe of our bucket control. Really gentle. Reminds me of our marmalute dog taking a biscuit off me. Massive jaws but really careful (cus he knows he won't get another if he snatches!

Feather-touch, send me one o' them teeth! Thas way so much fun represented!!!

I always thought that was the way the pipe was supposed to run. But you are right. That's differently backwards. Thank you

I believe I watched this video earlier today and it’s December 30 2020 oops it’s December 31 2020 now it’s 1:00 a.m. in the morning here. Happy New Year Chris and I hope you have a great new year in 2021 God Bless

Skilled work, thanks for sharing

Kind of nice and relaxing, without having to dig in the city, around unmarked utilities, and unexpected surprises, trying to spot ditch lines, after everything is supposedly marked.

Your operating skills are amazing I have learned some tricks from you

Looking good brother!

Thumbs up! Why did you move all the pipes? I if they were in backwards, just pick them up and rotate them 180 and put them back down on the same bed, and then you only have to move the end pieces. Glad that guy on the low slope trusts that chain not to give you he'd be a Pizza. Still another nice job, though. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes & Blessings. Keith Noneya

Good Job ,,Tight, Control, well said !!Cheers!!;-)!

My decrepit old back enjoyed the revenge factor as you destroyed that "idiot stick" (digging bar). Used one of those to dig post holes in the rocky areas I grew up in.

A friend had the same problem after he replaced a couple of down spouts on his house lol. Doh!

1..Great work Chris 👍🏻👍🏻

darn near bent the old pry bar into a giant fencing staple shape, lol. Oh well, cut it up into 2 shorter bars and buy a new long one.

I was beginning to worry a little about how much that bar was bending. A really interesting video.

You take good care of moving those cement drain pipes with your gentle touch.

Awesome video Chris keep it up

If I have the use the grass I took up for dressing something back, I prefer to do it with a bulldozer. You can put it in thick and shake the blade while you push, then track it all down and back drag real gently and it works out okay. Then again I may be biased because I run a bulldozer more than anything else so of course I can do the best job in it lol love these videos though!

24:00 so satisfying👌

Great work Mr LD18 👍

That pry bar took a beating ! Might keep it for future jobs like this. Maybe more in the future. Otherwize see if there is a blacksmith in the area he/she would love the bar !

Armchair commenter with fond Tonka memories: Would it have been possible to lift and spin each segment, after making some room?

If you can make me watch what I do for a living on my days off, you're nice!!. 😂👏🏾

It's relaxing to watch would love to run tha claw. Been running backhoe and skid steer for years. Bought to go fix the driveway from the foot of rain we got last night.

"Got a little carried away diggin'". Ha! If it were me, there'd be holes deep enough to spelunk in, and hills you could open for skiing! At 23:58 look at you dropping that chain into that hole! Damn!

The hum of the excavator is so relaxing. Puts me to sleep.

nice work Chris. never understand how they put these pipes in backwards. you and John stay safe.

best operator I have seen. I have a Hitatchi ZX50 and watching you, helps me learn what I can do. Thanks for the videos I still don't understand which way the water is supposed to flow. From the now empty pond and into the pipe? Or is the pipe filling the pond? Which way are these culverts supposed to be? How could someone not know before laying them in?

The crunching noises you hear when he was swinging the flair up the hill was just Chris putting a few new wrinkles in the Ol 220's seat.

Quite interesting. Make go so smoothly