Death in the family. I asked my father in law to move move in with us so we could care for him as he was not doing well. While living here he started watching this KZfaq channel with me. I would sit down and he would say, "hey let's watch that pond guy". He really enjoyed watching you Chris. He loved the pond videos as much as I do. Sadly this past Friday he passed away. Gotta say thanks to you Chris for providing something we could share in together. It will be something I remember, him calling you "The Pond Guy". It kinda reminded me of that old show I watched as a kid, The Fall Guy. LOL..... Anyway, thanks buddy for giving him something to enjoy before the Lord called him home. Take care and keep on keeping on. Your a great example to the upcoming generation. Good old fashioned work ethics. 💪 Shane from Elberta, AL.

I'm a Forestry graduate from the University of Georgia, and I learned more about water diversion in a 70 minute video than I did in a whole semester of Harvesting and Roads. Well done, sir.

Letsdig18 for President 2024!!!!! He knows how to drain swamps!

Anyone else feel such joy when he breaks through the last area and it runs like a small stream?

No rocks, no concrete makes Chris a happy man. Good ole fashion goupy mud! Great video. 👍

39:39 HE SAID: "This is exciting. I love doing stuff like this." WE SAY: Yes this is exciting and we love watching stuff like this.

You know it’s a wet,sloppy mess when you are swinging right and left and the whole machine is sliding right to left. Can’t wait to see the finished product after you work your “magic “

A teacher, a doer, skilled as an expert but kind and funny. Love you Chris you are a pal in the cab you come across like we are sitting right behind you in the cab in a jump seat! Thanks for every journey you are a treasure to YT and all of us your devoted fans!

Man I was all excited until I realized you weren't talking about the big swamp in Washington DC! Now I need to go back to my shrink 😁

76 minutes of Chris! It's like a Saturday movie for people that Get The Job Done!

This was one of the best videos I've seen, and I watch it about 3 years ago

That's an artist at work. Fascinating to watch. Funny isn't it, how all us kids of all ages love playing with mud and water or at least watching someone else do it?

The final drone shots bring it into perspective. Amazing what a few hours of ditching does

Mr. Donnie and his million mile Kenworth still haulin the mail... You have become one of his best customers with all the equipment your having to move around now.

When I was a kid, and still do to this day, dig little ditches with a hand hoe, to run water off. Even if I am out walking on someone else’s property or public property, I use the toe of my boot to drain water off! I just love doing it. Is the there a support group for people like me? Maybe I am in the wrong line of work helping out folks with disabilities. Maybe I am meant to do site work!

The only “drain the swamp” promise kept! Nicely done.

That's skeeter breeding ground! Only need about 72 more hours of these temperatures to bring them to life! Gotta drain it alright. Nice to see LD18 eagle back in the air!

This is going to be one of my all time favorite videos and series. I found this channel MANY years ago from a beaver dam video. Been here ever since!

I appreciate how you explain everything that you’re doing, I can imagine that little ditch that goes around the property in pretty full by now with what you’ve done so far! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Hey Chris - Professional graphic designer here - Your new logo and type treatment is first rate! Kudos to your designer.

Now I could see just how big that bucket is after you loaded it on the low-boy !!

Chris, that was a nice, fun stress reliever after the Animal Hospital nightmare!....Love the longer video.

You should do a video on the weirdest stuff you've ever dug up. That be interesting video.

You are a master of your craft if I have ever seen one. Most people would look at land like that and think it’s a lost cause. But you know exactly what you need to do to drain it and make it usable. I can’t wait to see the finished product because like every other project you do it’s going to be great. Also this job will give your dozer and root rake a workout! Can’t wait to see it in action.

That only took 10 minutes to get the machine’s moved.Still lots of Friday night left LOL😂😂

Real courage is doing that with the front glass open!

It's so therapeutic watching a genius at work, pure magic.

Got recommended your videos recently and it's so fascinating to watch you take on these projects in a calm, focused and casual way. I keep thinking how even minor parts of your work would easily take 8 men a whole day of hard labor with shovels, AND they'd be absolutely spent from the work. Meanwhile you can do many times that amount of work effortlessly, as one man with the digger. The power of technology

You just can't keep him out of the mud? Dry weather and he finds a mudhole to play in.

Chris " I'm tired of mud!!" goes and finds the wettest mud hole around!! LOL

That was some exceptional trenching work Chris!!!! You did a beautiful job digging that trench and smoothing around them! The dozing footage at the end was super satisfying! Great job!! This is one of the greatest YT channels!

I thought we were going to get splattered when you threw that windshield open!

so folks, here you can see the rare Letsdig18 in his natural environment, playing in the mud.

Chris you’ve gone from a rock quarry to a swamp in 2 video’s, l admire your work. Thanks for sharing. Kevin

What I find amazing about the folks who operate these machines is how they can move the buckets with kid gloves & surgical precision. In November I had to hire a backhoe operator to sadly bury one of our ponies. First his respect & sensitivity of our feelings at having to put down a pony we had had for 20 years. He asked if we (my husband & I) wanted to be there or come back when he was finished. We chose to stay with our pony to the end. Secondly how quickly he was able dig the hole, it turned out it was sand, not even a stone, down around 6-7 feet. Third how gently he placed & positioned the pony in the freshly dug hole and then finish the fill-in. He was amazing, we really appreciated how he handled the whole process. The time from start to finish was maybe 20 minutes. From the time we called him to him arriving was no more than 30 minutes. This was not scheduled ahead of time, he responded immediately, on a Friday afternoon. He only charged us $100.00! He made the whole process so much easier, in a situation that was so hard, but necessary, to go through. (The pony was 27, had had a back injury 3 years ago, with spinal bruising & was starting to show neurological deficits. We did all we could, he was losing weight & in pain, it was time, but the final decision was not made until the vet came & evaluated the new changes we were seeing & with those changes he never would have survived the winter here in western NY.) So a special thank you to Jason & all those who operate this equipment and help those of us in need of your service at a very difficult time. Thank you & God bless!

He's gotten so good with the excavator that he doesn't have to actually think about what he's doing with his hands. He thinks it, the machine does it. Like it's an extension of his mind. God level unlocked, achievement obtained.

He works wonders...parting the waters, stopping leaks here, draining swamps there, building fences to keep the rifraf out, imagine what the kid could do in Washington!

No wonder sea levels are rising with Chris and Mr AJ draining the planet.

I have to say, I'm really impressed by your dexterity & eye - hand coordination. You are born to do the work you do. It's good that you like it so much. I was amazed by your skills on all your construction equipment but now I see you even have skills flying drones. Well done. Thank you for all your videos, I enjoy them emencely.

I love it when Chris sets up the camera outside of the cab to watch.

From solid rock to playing in a swamp with a root rake, Chris only bids on the fun jobs. LOL

Dr. Dirt Digger has performed another successful operation. The patient is recuperating. Prognosis is positive. Just a pick-and-shovel guy, starting about 1970, I appreciate how you skillfully, precisely excavate each site, creating the underpinnings for a variety of high-quality projects with nary a wasted move! Thanks for the videos.

Thank you for filming this. It was very interesting to watch.

Its obvious, from the mere 20hrs of video of your work I've watched, that this is your specialty. Very interesting video, now I have a more context on SO many more of your videos.. this is your thing.

That rake really works good.

Loved every minute of that, thank you. Appreciate the long videos every now and then Chris. Cheers.

A trick that was done in my back property was to take a log - a good sized one - sawed on both ends and grip it in bucket and thumb and sweep the back yard from limbs and stirred up dirt. Made it nice and smooth.

I’m amazed at how you can visualize the grade.

Last time I was this Early, the Imperial Japanese Navy still had Aircraft Carriers operating in the Pacific.

Borderline Post10 content with all this water draining going on!

This so enjoyable all the water draining away see the hunting hide out must be a few deer etc pass thru here looks a good spot

I’m looking forward to seeing this one to completion.....I was a little tired of the rock quarry, I’m sure you were too.

That open windscreen is taking one for the team!

Can’t think of many things that could make Saturday Night Better but this is definitely one of them.

I love watching the totally natural extension of man and machine.. like a surgeon! Respect.

I could do stuff like that all day every day. Seeing the before and after must be very rewarding for skilled people like you Chris.

Chris you are like Four Roses Whiskey.....so smooth with all the equipment. peace

Every guy in the rural areas of the northern midwest knows how this job goes, but it usually involves a good shovel, gravel driveway and spring runoff.

Great video shows you how easy it is to drain something off Well Done Chris

Watching all that stagnant water flow is...euphoric.

Physics, Math, Science, Geography, Earth Gravity Science and Nature all wrapped up in one project. When you opened up the channel for the pond in the road to drain, I thought, that is how the Grand Canyon was cut millions of years ago from mile deep glaciers over the plains states with the heat from our Sun melting the ice.

Reminds me of when I was very young playing in the creek trying to dam it up and plugging the holes with rocks. Amazing skill with the excavator...looks like an extension of your hands...really nice touch, a pleasure to watch. Thanks.

47:50 that's actually on one side a good thing to see that there is sufficient rain and no drought. In Europe we have, "The series of severe droughts and heatwaves in Europe since 2014 is the most extreme for more than 2,000 years, research suggests. The study analyzed tree rings dating as far back as the Roman empire to create the longest such record to date."

Best vid in a while! Love watching you play in the mud and making the water drain off. Lots of different materials moved around today. Like that.

That was some prime Mosquito habitat mister...

No big trees means lots of water.. it’s amazing how much trees drink water

You are a good instructor! It’s just like being in class with the teacher who love’s his job and teaching his pupils!

Lot less shiny in the closing drone shot👍 Amazing how much water you moved out in a single day of work 👍👍

Every time he says "Random Pile," take a drink!

I don't know if Chris knows he had a song written about him in the 90ts, written by Sade. " He's a smooth operater "

So thorough. Landowner will be thankful.

Hypnotic. Watching this lowers my blood pressure.

Sounds like you need a Mr Ajworks style V ditching bucket

i was almost confused with a video of Mr. AJ works :)

Here we go, sit back and enjoy watching a Magician do his Magic.

Chris, you do a fascinating job. Walk the site, put it together in your mind and move out. End result, a work of art.

Me half way through the episode: "It's crazy how much can get done in just a single day of work." Chris: "Lunch time!" Amazing how much a powerful machine can do with paired with a capable operator. Awesome vid Chris.

I do believe that you would be as happy as a clam riding one of those magnificent Bucyrus shovels down in Panama about 115 years ago.

Great drone footage , to show us your drainage work 👏 👍 😀

Maybe you’ll fulfill your draining swamp promise. The swamp runs DEEP my friends. Stay frosty ☃️

Chris back in his natural environment playing in the mud instead of rocks.

We needed you in D.C a few month ago for that swamp 🤣😂 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

its amazing how slippery that crap is when its wet. Watching the machine slide around as you slew shows just how much mass it has and how mucky that dirt is. It was very satisfying to watch all of that water drain away.

This is therapeutic to watch, swamp becoming less swampish

Yep pop always said shit flows down hill. 😂😂😂

You understand that shortly you will be contacted by representatives from the Worldwide Union of Mosquitoes (WWUM) with a formal complaint. As usual a great video.

Man, this guy knows his way round a machine ... excellent work pal .

You know your making headway when brush is floating down the ditch you just finished digging. You sure put the fix on this piece property, night and day difference Chris nicely done.

No rocks, still too cold for snakes, lots of mud, probably a future burn video .... LIFE IS GOOD ..... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In another month the bugs would be eating you alive. Drone sure helps getting the lay of the land. They better consider some serious drainage when they build this development.

Washington hasn't looked this clean is quite some decades.

Third time through the video. It is cool watching you drain the swamp. I know, no removing a forest or moving a mountain but your understanding of fall and mud management is awesome.

I'm just waiting for Karen from nearby to appear saying her yard is now flooded......

Happy Saturday Chris!

I could watch these drainage videos all day Chris! Keep up the great work!

I think this was 1 of the 1st video that I watched of yours Now you’ve done 2-3 big dams got a new 220, a haul truck, a 330, a 6 & a 7 you did the vet office with all of the rocks. It’s been an interesting trip. Thank you Sir for bringing me along I’ve enjoyed the journey.

I knew there was a reason I watched this channel.

I hope to see several videos of this project to completion

My sons love to watch your videos. I enjoy them as well as it is very satisfying when jobs are completed.

Like the jockeys, you need 3 layers of front clear glass so you can flip them overhead as they get mud splattered!