All joking aside, this is what makes this channel far superior to others. It's a craftsmanship at work. Outstanding work!

Don't sweat the cable line. I hit one the other day, it happens. They are just now realizing that cables like these should be protected and have started to install them in proper conduit. It just makes everyone's life so much easier. To replace, or to even find. Good job working through this spider web!

That cable repair brought back memories. I did that work for a long time. That might have been my favorite part of the job. LOL Another great job Chris.

You are a godsend to your neighbors. It's one thing to hire work done, but when you know the person, it makes all the difference. We had a leaking roof and our neighbor at the time was a roofer. He got some extra $$, we got our roof fixed and had peace of mind. When we finally had our roof redone, the company told us that was one of the best patching jobs they'd seen in a long time. Thanks for showing the cable repair. I wondered how they did it.

It's ironic how the smallest and simplest jobs require the most concentration a work lol. As usual, you performed wonderfully!

That was a very difficult spot to be in, especially without someone there to help spot the lines as you were digging. Nice job!!

I don't know what you charged him, but it wasn't enough!!!!!!! That was an awful lot of work digging around those wires!! Even though you knew where they were, it sure made things difficult!!! Nice job sir!!!

Who ever built that dam did a hell of a job compacting each lift. That's some good material. Great video sir

Thanks for showing us digging around lines we all hunger for knowledge. For some reason this part is jumped around in a lot of videos out there. 😊

That hydro excavation is the way to go! Whoever the guy was that figured that out is a fricken genius!

Small but tricky job Chris. I was able to watch a Vac Truck find some utility lines at my neighbour’s place, saves time & back breaking hand digging. Nice to see the little young fella super interested in what you were doing. Great skill mate😊 Take care & cheers🐨🦘🥰

I enjoy your interaction with other people in different trades,also your awesome skill with the mini!

Shallow trenching under multiple utilities (wires), on uneven ground with trees everywhere takes a lot of skill and patience. It's made worse by crappy root-filled material and no one on the ground to "eyeball" for you. Great job! Ditto to the friendly cable repair man.

I would always carry a can of international orange spay paint to spray the lines once uncovered. It helps.

Very tedious work with all those cables, and tight work space there, Chris. You are awesome with that Mini.

Watching you walk that mini up and down that little slope got me thinking of how I used to watch my dad years ago walk his dragline up and down the sides of mountains in Pa. - It was amazing! Good job again Chris - getting under three live lines at different depths was a trick of lots of experience and skill.

Chris great operating skills around and under the utilities, you make it look so easy! Thanks for sharing! Kevin

Mann that takes some skills to dig around those line as such, “Skills Pay Bills”‼️💯

Don’t feel to bad Chris I had one last month that in about as far as u had to dig we encountered 3 phone lines 2 cable lines 3 electrical lines and 2 water lines. It ranks as one of my worse digs to date. Oh yes and around the corner of the building there was a downspout line and 3 floor drain lines. The hand shovel got more hours on it than the mini 🤣

Another job well done. These small jobs give you a much needed and well deserved break from stumping and burning brush on the Bealy Good job.

Man…. I thought the basement lot was a tight fit, then I watched this digging around/under/over all the cables……whew! Good job, sir.

Can’t get much tighter in there. Enjoyed the little boy watching you. Brought back memories of me watching guys to street work all day!!

You did the best you could, but between how firmly packed that was, all the roots, and even one of the lines not quite being where it was supposed to be, I think it was a miracle that you only broke one cable. At least it's something that can be fixed. Love all your stuff, but the pond episodes are my favorites

I thought you had gotten under those lines until you said you didn't. It looks like another successful pond repair job.

Nice job, I didn't think you had near enough room to work. Now that little job took all the skill you could muster. Again, great job.

This has to be one of your most tedious jobs yet. Those lines looked difficult to dig under while trying to keep grade. Good job. Your abilities are very impressive Chris. Great video on how a Skilled operator gets the job done….lol.

It is surely amazing with the new technology out there. How much it can save an operator like yourself in the completion of the job without costing extra expenses for the repairing of damaged hidden of the utilities lines.Excellent video on the replacement of a new overflow system without damaging the buried utility lines. Great Video again Chris.

Have an awesome weekend Chris. Thanks for the videos.

Always really bugs me to dig around power lines. Went threw a double 20 amp service to my shed out back with a trencher.. Sparks everywhere. Almost needed to change my shorts. I had forgot about it.Got underground repair kit from Lowe's. Still working 17 years later.

It appeared like the “ole boy” have done some cable splicing in his time…, probably “outta” keep his number close at hand…, hahaha. Nice work Chris…, as always. Thank you sir.

Chris, Thanks for being so honest and showing the cable break, that something I would have done. As I was watching you dig I couldn't believe you were getting away with it, I thought I know he's good but this crazy good! Your still damn good but thank god your human! I really enjoy your videos, hope you keep 'em coming. Bruce

Jobs only professional's should do. A great operator with that mini is amazing the work they can do. Great job.

Well that was a tight fit! Great job Chris…thanks for sharing!

Back filling pound banks like this is where the tilt rotate head are made for.

Another great job. I know the owner is glad this is fixed now. And what a fine looking little boy watching there too!

Your man was not kidding when he said the dam ground would be hard. The spade was barely making a dent in it, We had a forty metre fence put in last year and the auger bought up a lot of rocks from the post holes. I started boxing it up and taking it to the river - which is about two miles from me - and after three very hard loads, I'd enough and was _veryy_ happy to pay a man with a mini and small dump truck. I hope the young lad on the bike got to see himself on KZfaq. I mean it's not like he could watch his favourite cartoon on Cable that night. 😉

Most entertaining! You really had your work cut out for you on this one. It was really telling to see how hard the ground was when the shovel hit it.

Great video thanks for sharing your day that small sure sounds good it looks to be so handy on small jobs like you sure do good work fast

See, that's why I believe in old school overhead wiring. You can dig wherever you want n not be worried about buried anything.

Very nice job Chris, you are an amazing Excavator Operator! Thanks for sharing.

As my old pops used to say that dirt looks dryer than a popcorn fart🤣

That was a very good job you done Chris love it .

I’ll have to show this to my son. Mega impressed.❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Even the greats need grounding chris 😂 Great neighbour.

When I seen that stump I had flashbacks

Great video! Love watching you work.

Never knew what those hydro trucks did. Seen on roads but… you braver than me filling the pipe with cement b4 finishing new line 👍🏻👏🏻. I enjoy your videos🇺🇸👏🏻👍🏻

Hi from uk Chris👋👍 I can honestly say the years I have followed you I seen one favour branch out to guttering and 2 utility hits but thats still excellent considering in 2 weeks we had a lad fill in for me for 2 weeks off and he hit same power cable times withing 5M of both strikes 🤔 then proceeded to chase a water pipe to find junction where water pipe t junction was for hydrant and clipped the nipples of end of pipe flooding the job so so some operator he was I nearly list my job cos I had a holiday and my crew wont let it down and it happened before lockdown and I still hear them when we digging out muttering😂😂 lol so yes but great job as always chris and excellent job from neighbour (but we wouldn't of said anything and if he had no internet he would never of seen it was you👌😂) thanks for your time and be safe see you soon👍👋

A Wonderful and Brilliant Job ! Cheers from us in Australia !!!!

Whew it made me a little nervous for you digging around those lines ! LOL You did it like a boss as usual Chris!👍🇺🇸

Video made for great viewing bro even the cable fix. Right handy having him so close by. Safe travels

Awesome job I’m with you minimum spade work

Why hand dig when this saves time and is so much safer!!! Luv this new procedure. As always, experienced operator finishes another professional project. God's blessings to u and stay safe Chris.

Dang, 18 minutes and already 532 likes. Proof how awesomely popular Chris's vids are. I've been waiting all day for one to pop up. I switched over from a one of my favorite old shows I was watching on freeve app. I can always go back a continue watching it. A Chris pond repair is more interesting.

Great job as always keep up the great work and videos Always a joy to watch

Always watch each bucket love those big metal fingers. Great job

that fully articulated bucket is the way to go!

Was the little dredging job for the neighbour in exchange for cable repairs? We had a plaster working on our house who's next job was to go and do free skim for a plumber who came out and repaired a central heating pipe he drove a screw through. Handy contacts to have in your book of ''F'ed it!''

Another really fun in-n-out project that turned out great! You did your absolute utmost to protect those utilities but doggone if the cable didn’t just jump right onto your bucket tooth, arg…hate when that happens😕

Well young man, I’d say you earned your money and then some on this project. That has to be tedious as all get out working around buried utilities. It sure came out nice, as usual. Thanks for the ride along.

What an outstanding neighbor a true gentleman

Wow Chris your skills are awesome!! Never a dull video. Thanks 👍👍😎🇺🇸🇺🇸

Hydro exploration is the way to go. Very little chance of damaging utilities and much cheaper too. Cheap insurance. Thanks for sharing.

We had a job to where we had to dig out tree stumps I looked at your videos how you do it and guess what it worked customer was happy we had to put the solar panel rack where the trees were

Well Done Chris, a lot of Finesse had to into this Job. Convenient the neighbor worked for the cable company.

You are like a surgeon with that excavator.

Even when there’s drama, it’s not really drama. Great job! Fun to watch👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

Love showing up to a job and it looks like the paint truck tipped over there haha, and you have to go below it all and still manage to save everything.. then go out in the middle of nowhere and rip out a phone line or something stupid haha

I suggest you keep a can of orange spray paint in your tool box to mark those pipes so you can more easily keep them in sight. Cheaper than a splicer.

This is one of letsdig18 better videos. This a good one to share.

Thanks for showing us the repair of the cable line. We all have those "ahh f#@k" moments.

Chris you seem always to get the most difficult jobs , that because you have the ost experience, great job greater vido

Damn I need a mini that cuts trees up for me like that

Wow what a tight area to work in. 😳 and as always another fine job.

Thanks for sharing.

It’s hell digging with a square point!!😂😂😂😂. Use what ya brung!!

You were really making it look easy to dig around those cables!

Wowza Chris go steady now 21:00 hands on. Love the vid so far.

You tell them you knew I it was broken already … you dug it up for them. Send them a work order. 👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣

That was a lot of lines to run in a pond damn. I’d say that pond has been there for a while. That was a pretty nice little bobcat tractor he had. I love a white machine when they’re clean.

Chris. Looks great. That job was kind of tricky to get by those cable's and sewing that over flow pipe in place then close plus gra tde. Please Take Care plus be carful around all equipment.

That looked like a nice fun day of work,dam appeared to be well compacted.just trudge on along and think nice thoughts,yea right.carry on 👍👍👍😎😎😎

MANS GOT SOME SKILLS IN THAT EXCAVATOR AWESOME WORK BROTHER

That may be the first time that I've seen Chris use a shovel.🙂

Chris, is that yellow box behind the base of split tree your transit storage box? Maybe it's the box that holds one of your tripods? I was just waiting for that box to roll down the hill and into the lake. I'm glad you moved it, whatever it was for. Love the Hydro Digger. I saw it several months ago when you were working along that road and had to find another buried powerline? Great tool! There is nothing like having a neighbor that works for the cable company except when you have a neighbor that is retired from Duke Energy after 40 years of service. Funny thing, so far, our power outages never seem to last too long. 😁 Neighbors worth their weight in gold!!

Got yourself a grey hair finally! I had nice hair like yours until I started utility excavating, and it didn’t take but a couple years and my whole cabazza was grey! It’s stressful work digging around 10,000 volt electric and 2” high pressure gas lines, waterlines, cable wires, old terracotta sewer mains, storm drains with engineers and town inspector’s watching every move you make, but you just go slow and easy on the levers, and if you don’t like the grey hair…go get some Grecian formula!

Great job Chris 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Glad to see that you didn't let the smoke or the Arcy Sparkies out of the power line. Definitely a stressful job.

1) Craftsmanship, despite breaking that one power line! 2) You and your bucket-building partner might think of a "bucket add-on" for the thumb. It would create a basic grapple, and it would be productive (I think) in tasks like this "covering the pipe from below". I'm thinking of a simply to click-on bucket. However, you (Chris or that partner) might get inspired, and design a quick-coupler thumb that could accept an adjusted thumb (obviously) and other add-ons. Maybe a hydraulic winch (if there should be hydraulic lines to spare) as an optional upgrade to the hook on the back of the normal bucket. (I suggested other bucket matters to DirtPerfect, in relation to the machine guidance of "his" Hyundai 210.)

An artist at work. Very impressive and fun to watch. Amazin'!

Your smooth man, that looked stressful!

Very talented at his work!

Quality and pride as always! 🇺🇸💥🖐

This is the absolute perfect mini for the job.

Great job Chris!

You have the skill of a tightrope walker dodging bullets Letsdig18. Pretty pond and neat job.

Mad Skills!!!! Good job :)

Clean job, as usual ! 👍

Good to see a dam fix again!, my favorite videos

Just to think Chris that lad watching you just might go back home and think " I know what I wanna do when I grow up" and 10yrs later he rocks up at your door let me work for you....