Excellent tip on not filling small buckets up all the way! I've had to learn, and then re-learn that before lol! Great video! Thanks for sharing!

I’ve got a 305.5 in northeast Louisiana where we dig river clay, which in the old filled oxbows is very sticky. We mostly use the 12” for cleaning the big machine buckets. At some point they all become heavy spatulas. I’ve considered building a flip down bucket gouger. That machine with a 50” bucket has done more for my roadsides than the 14M I bought. I machined pedal extensions I can send you. Plus a machined “key” to keep the beeper cancel button rocked.

What shall we call your "Little Supervisor?" "MISS DP," since Mrs. DP is already taken? HEY, at the beginning of the video, as a former EVOC/Pursuit driving instructor, I was going to compliment you on your... High-speed Backing... and then realized you were going forward, and we were seeing the (forward) reflection in your back window. Another good video, Mike. A couple years ago, I dug a trench on my nephews ranch to drain a spring that flooded his fields every spring. About three-hundred feet from the spring to the creek. I got that bucket chock full of clay and nothing short of dynamite, or a digging bar, could get it out. NOW I KNOW how to prevent that in the future. Thanx....

Good for you for sharing that mix-up. Nice to see even the professionals drop the ball from time to time! Makes us DIY fellas feel a little better!

You're a good guy Mike and you do your best that's all anyone can ask for !

Because I'm dedicated to your channel, I just watched this video again, this time I really enjoyed it since you enhanced my viewing experience with sound...lol Great job on the vid and the overflow trenchwork! Doug@ the "ranch"

LOL ! gotta love them narrow trenches and empty machines ! thanks for posting !

yup shallow cuts and don't pack it in there. long shallow cuts. A lot of people dig from the bottom of there trench and thats a good way to pack it into the bucket and tear out unknown utilities. We've all run someone thing out of fuel at some point. surprised to see the injector lines under the seat. Most ive seen have the engines in 180* i guess.

thank you for the tips being a newbe this helps me

Well done. I wish I had a small bucket for ditching in pipe or digging post holes. Maybe one day. Fuel thing is just showing you were watching your work hard.

Wow do people ever get np bent out of shape when something isn't right on the video such as audio or something.... I don't know whether you fixed something or whatnot but I can hear it perfectly fine! Great video by the way!! Cheers bud 🍻

Nice work.

Nice job

hello bud im leroy i love your video i cant go out so im stuck in looking at your and wad and letsdig videos

We build 10 or so Dams/ponds, per year, up here in WIS. They R engineered and funded through the county soil conservation service. Most R on farm land. They normally use 8" to 12" sch 40 PVC. We have 2 install anti seep collars on the pipes and backfill compact the soil with jumpin jacks, to prevent water from eating along the pipes. Nice sized residential pond there.

An honest mistake. Makes you a better person for sharing, not enough of that going around. 👍👍🇵🇪🐕❤️

I figured with all those Elite stickers on it it would run without fuel 🤣. That’s what I hate about digging with a small bucket, there’s no room in the ditch. Great video as usual!

At least you didn't have to walk to the filling station at 2 in the morning👍😁

Thinking about cutting out the sides of the trenching bucket to make it into a spoon instead of a scoop. Have to leave enough material for breakout and strength, but remove enough to avoid clay getting stuck.

I think we have all played fuel gauge roulette before and lost !!! 😃😃

Don't feel bad, it happens. With a 1/2 tank of fuel I drove our Deere skidsteer down into a deep hole to retrieve a big rock. While backing out the fuel alarm went off and it stalled. Good time.

hi i just supported your channel

LOL, should have filmed your roll over the hill, good job on overflow

Left speechless. :)

I bet if you welded a steel pipe or tube at the top of the bucket to always allow air in you could take bigger scoops. Just like shotgunning a beer! haha. Also, keeping the inside of the buck smooth would help reduce friction and make sure there is a slight taper in the walls of the bucket

Glad you didn’t edit the rookie mistake

Man that southern accent is awesome !!

Lmbo we've all done that!

That is is oops. :) Thank you.

You dug it I'm sure it is good

You’re not the only one that runs out of fuel. Been there done that 😂

We all do something like that. Run out of fuel just make it work anyhow.

interesting show, as usual. HOWEVER, i don’t know about that apple flavored diesel fuel. i may need to try that.

At the end of the day the job is completed, machinery is going and know one had a melt down..... Id say a good day, learning curb included

Just subbed. Do I ask how many times you have run out of fuel? It is such a pain you don't do it very often. LOL

No rip rap emergency overflow for that pond? I realize not much flow goes to it but if that pipe gets clogged somehow unoticed there will be a wash out some where.

At least you rolled down the backside and not in the water

Was you backing up in the opening shot of this video?

Peal an inch at a time to make to wet clay smaller,I dig in buffalo all day doing gas work and I find it works the best ,but out dirt and clay is hell of a lot different then yours lol

Whats with the Marlboro packet?

but bleeding the fuel system is fun and without running it out of fuel you can't do it right. Next you will say water is not an approved hydraulic fluid replacement.

I run a kitten like that and the rotate power is just super weak. Is there a way to make it stronger or do you have the same problem?

Drill 25mm hole back bucket stops suction

You do that a lot

Yep, I've had a few of those self-inflicted wounds myself! Lol Stay safe Dwayne

Audio engineer forgot to plug in the mic...lol Silent movie mode is ON

Truck going backwards reflection

We're human after all. Remember E means empty??? Put a post it note there E= empty.

How do you drive that fast in reverse?!?!?

Shouldn't it be part of the pre trip on the machine to check all fluids excluding the fuel level lol

Hay have you ever heard of bell to the well always point the bell of the pipe to where the water is coming from always

Bruh. Wheres the audio

Can't hear you!

Mike get a microphone 😜. Engine noise was roaring over your voice .

Remake,add audio please

from my 58 year experience that 6" over flow pipe was a waste of time and money, with that large amount of step hill side a hard heavy rain storm once that pond is full, the water will way over run that pipe, like putting a straw into a bath tub over flow, that over flow pipe needs to be minimum 24", buti put a 36" in for that extra back up, come try and dig here in my hill sides with a small bucket, you will have that bucket jamed up by the 3rd dig, the red, gray sticky clay here is like snot, its the best modeling clay around, it is need to look at the walls of the hole to see all the laters of different color clay, it is like someone, was laying it down in 10 to 18" layers, the gray clay layers look like a frosting on a cake, and as thick as it,, the bucket teeth cuts perfect ledges that hold there shap, gray, red, dark red to 3 different colors of gray, 37 feet down is still the same

NO SOUND ON THIS VIDEO ????????

and "E"DOES NOT MEAN EXTRA contrary to belief

you ol perry co clay is sticky try some of good ol mo gumbo so tight it will make you wonder what you stuck you,re bucket in also a bucket wider at mouth than back will shag sticky stuff also cut small hole inside or back an don,t hog it full even though you have power fill small layer time spent shaking a buket is lost revenue and wear you have to pay for good luck enjoy view of that mighty ohio if i didn,t own farmland here i would be back on bank of ohio watching tugs and fish

Its a conspiracy....first corrupt SD cards....now, faulty mics? I wonder where the “human error” comes in. Haha...just messing with you. Thumbs up anyways. 👍🇺🇸

Here is what I pictured when you said you fell out the machine. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptOaedKdu7TFkYE.html lol, sorry to laugh at your pain. you would think they would have come up with something for making it easier to restart a machine if you run it out of fuel by now.

We're doomed! I cant hear you explaining how to do it! Aaahhhhh nooooo

Me thinks you secretly one of those DANGEROUS "roll the dice" GAS gauge deniers. "I can make it", until you don't. I heard you say, "Makes for an exciting video" before. Marlboro man should not play near gas speculation. LMAO Stick to the sure bets; like... home by SUPPER time.

Really? A shitty 6" pipe with no screen is it? A few leaves and small branch will clog that thing in a heartbeat and then that big storm overtops the dam and you've got a huge problem.