Video brought back memories for my self, I started with Operator engineering local #3 in August of 1966, just farm kid , my first pieces Equipment was D6c dozer, then ran motor grader for couple years then my first backhoe was case 580, then John Deere 500c , it seems never to brake down. Now I have over 50 plus years in Local #3 Engineering.

Solid operating brother. I'm really enjoying your videos. I love the back and forth with your laborer. That is one of the best relationships in this industry. Keep up the good content!

Mainlining in the road is where you find the real diggers, anyone can dig on a plat. I love digging in the road and seeing all the pissed off ppl drive by.

Some UK roads have empty ducts fitted with a pull-cord for possible future use, so that the road does not have to be dug-up for a crossing. The duct ends behind either curb, marked by a foot-cube concrete cube with 'D' moulded into it.

9:45 F****** Make up your god damn mind…. You talking to your self? Sometimes🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣. Pure gold

Absolutely love this man!! Can’t wait till I get back in the seat!! You make it easy over this time that I can’t be! Keep up this videos! Gotta say they help others out there man!

Keep on digging...I make $$$ hauling buckets! Watching you work is very mesmerizing. I didn't think I'd watch the whole video...was surprised when it seemed to end so soon.

You have to trust your spotter or no one goes home. Awsome job.

Just started watching this channel, looks like an amazing job with cool people, I work for a excavation company and this month where working on a steep hill replacing drain pipe for a mine blow out and reclaiming a slide near it. I was in a Deere 200Lc, and the guy who was holding me on top the hill while I fix the slide was in a D6XL.

Great video. Definitely shows that civil operators are the most skilled. Easy to get frustrated with your pipe layers when they are telling you to dig wrong.

Fascinating to watch, thanks for narrating what is going on!

Nice job!! interaction with the crew and the challenges of the utilities is what I miss the most!

Just found this channel.. you just found yourself a new subscriber this channel is Rockin

Seems crazy to be using such aggressive teeth in that kind of ground

Dig the top off and make some relief. Everything looks differently when in the cab vs. the side of the ditch. I think the pad man should have time in the excavator to show them what it is like in the seat. Good job to you and Andy.

Hey buddy. Just found you here. Love this. I love watching other people dig. I dig gas mostly. Have done water and steam also. I love running excavator.

I always worked with a blade hand, definitely makes your job and his much easier when you get along and work well together, not too mention caring about your job

I worked for Preston before at Stanford and Facebook. It was a different ball game. I’m use to getting 1,200 days.. my foreman wouldn’t let me dig more then 6” down 4’ pull… awesome video man.

Great video and great job , congratulations !!! Thanks.

Great job and video like always

We here in Aus always have a vac truck at the ready on site even while digging with the excavator vac and digger go hand in hand

you got yourself a new subscriber. Operator and ground man must be as 1 when crossing utilities.

Working for a public works we deal with crossing every day also. Great job.

We would never be allowed to dig round cables etc with a tooth bucket here in scotland uk👍😁 fair play mate

Great team work 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

You doing a good job keep up the good work. 👍

Up here in Alberta they bring in a hydro vac truck to expose gas lines utility lines

I work with a smooth edge all I can. With that many things to cross, huge machine, shorter bucket would be awesome. Yea, gound guy needs to be in tune. I thankfully live out in the countryside and avoid most of the utility world. 😀

You are so lucky to have a guy for five years doing a job for you this day and age almost impossible the companies will never pay them what they’re worth and they always get disgruntled and MoveOn but most people don’t understand is the operator only needs to be so good doesn’t have to be a all-star but if the spotter is first rate everything goes great no matter what Operator

Some very very careful digging there 😦😦

Just found in list and loved it...Annnnd subbed with a like

Great video 🇺🇲

That was ok mate thank you

if i could give you 4 thumbs up i would but i only go two thumbs so i give you two thumbs up lol. Great video as always. You and Andy makes a perfect working partners. Its always fun when you can joke around with your co-workers. Makes the day day by much faster. Nice job

Wish I woulda found your channel when I worked for Preston too 😂

Nice job by the way I wonder only one thing why you guys love those tiger teeth so much I see them on everything in a place where there’s no stones and no frost you should try those same teeth called a bunch of things duckbill teeth the flat ones that almost touch each other your labors would love you and it’s way easier to dig around Utilities I dug all kinds of different soils with them even blasted rock seem not to slow the machines down just an opinion but Maybe I’m missing something

Well done

I was a line locator for 5 years, gas, electric, phone, catv. One of the most hectic damage investigations ive ever seen was a 3 phase primary burried in white PVC conduit. A plumber was looking for the service line between the buisness and Main, he thought that white PVC was the sewer, took a hacksaw and sawed right into the primary. It melted the saw and the plumber was ok, guess the plastic handle is what saved him. The electric company showed up on scene and told the plumber that he should take a trip to vegas because he was the luckiest basterd they had seen. What i would like to know is who the stupid SOB that pushed a primary leading to a pad mount transformer in white plumbing PVC pipe and not grey.

Cat 101 I found sometime it easier to switch to narrow bucket, this way it doesn't create pressure on the outer edge of trench where pipe is.

I like this video.

Would that line have been for future use? The rope is to pull new wires. I guess it doesn’t matter now haha! 450 with killer teeth that’s tricky work. Cool video!

Why would a conduit with a pull rope in it be cut off in the trench. Wouldn't the pull rope be a sign that is was placed for future expansion?

I do alot of saw cutting for Preston out here in the Bay Area

I feel for you underground crews exposing utilities, their is so much shit buried i don’t know how you do it, a lot of potholing with shovel or water. Most locates can have miss marks, the transmitter signal bleeding off onto other utilities etc etc, its mostly by luck and trusting your receiver. I had one telco locate on a busy intersection and their was so much crap buried their on the blue prints that i really thought about puncturing a can of orange spray paint and throwing it on to the corner grass and tossing up a handful of flags! 😂🤣

Oo looks fun

Nice video 👌

Great video, I would give almost anything to be in the operator seat. It's basically impossible to get into your kind of work nowadays without having verifiable experience. But I can always enjoy watching videos.

That stuff is almost as much fun to dig as the blue mertin north of the river...

New subscriber from belgium! Why do you use a bucket with teeth when digging around utilities? Greetz

Great vid bro… could of flipped the bucket round and dug from behind using ur spotter to guide you.

At the time I worked for mountain Cascade they claim the about 250 Excavator, plus bunch other equipment . Loaders dozers , rubber tire backhoes.

Awesome job but you need to take control of your spotter.

First timer to your channel and Im in the uk so not sure what you are doing it for whats the reason for the trench. Great control on the bucket great skill involed.

What is that your laborer is using to clean the road edge? Looks sorta like a landscape rake but with a straight edge? Looks super handy!

Ground man needs to understand the pipe exposure process must consider the operator’s perspective. He’s the man that can bust a line.

Spicy dirt

Killa video

What kinda knife is that that you carry. It looked like one I might need to get for myself. Smooth operating too you do good work.

Boy doesn't that look fun....

Hitachi cab!

What is that labor using to push the drit in the trench?

"we're gonna expose some pipe" heheheheheh

Their is reason behind the madness as a spotter, in thoa video you only see the operators point of view. As shanoe metioned in the video hardpan can be tricky. I like chewing under the utility first before diging the backaide, so once you are under the utility all you have to do is dig the backside and not have to come back and chew through it. My we need a cam on the real star of the show!!!

The conduit formerly known as "spare"

helo super video salutation France ..

Pipe with a rope through it the electric company is going to be pissed when they come to pull wire with their rope next week! Lol

I especially like John Deere 710 backhoe.

Where do you guys get that scraper that the labor is cleaning the road with ,I'd like to get one for our crew ,I Do gas work in buffalo

Good old Preston pipe line.

andy is lucky. here where i work 18 inches of both sides of a marked utility is all hand dig only

So with hardpan eating away the outer edges of your split teeth how often are you flipping them? I swear I go through a full set every 3 months here in the desert working downtown Jobs our out in the boons.

Tell the boss to get you some Paddle teeth! Nice work Fella!

If love to have a 100 loads of that stuff at my house lol

Thanks for the video..... JJ...

I I live in Sacramento County for several years the dirt there in Sacramento can I get suck really bad hard to work with

That a 450 clc on the other end?

Wow

Back to the previous comment that Hard pan is pretty hard but everybody knows it isn’t teeth that makes a Digable it’s the way you dig

where is the air monitor for the trench. are they wearing personals? not seeing the ladders every 50 foot. no more than 25 foot of lateral travel, sometimes less if the shoring is abundant

where are you guys working what state

the way its dug should be wider due to buddy in the hole has no chance once it collapses?

Must be union.. Everyone standing around. 🤣

"fucking make up your mind" thats so funny, is that guy your preferred spotter?

I live in Citrus Heights California for 7 years Sacramento County that dirt can be

What company do you work for ?

Maybe have cameras somewhere between you and him.

When in doubt rip it out

if inspectors here in phoenix az saw those shorings in our trench he would flip his ass lmao

17:26 There is no reason why the side of the trench is dirty and rocky, where is the broom?

They really like to keep the side of the road swept off. Don't want the dump truck's to get any dirt on the tires. Geeze

Well Lever monkey your right about exposing the top layers first, but what you do when your labor insist to the other way.. I found that the labor were a click especially Mexican labors, If you didn't speak Spanish you were practically out. I've seen twice other labor being Spanish that didn't speak Spanish were Eliminated from there crews.

Little after 10min in you man is kinda under your bucket champ I don’t trust hydraulics neither should you just saying other then that pretty skill full at your trade

What they don’t understand is they run the job those guys the foreman thinks he runs the job operator thinks he runs the job but really it’s the spotter or the guy that works closest to the bucket given the directions they run the job it goes one way or the other depending on them 100%

Great video operator from Poland JCB3CX on my channel. 👍🍺

kids...

Should be raking off the top not in there curling the bucket ,,,you need some better laborers there

أريد العمل معكم أنا سائق آلات الحفر من المغرب هل ممكن

Why dig with a toothed bucked with live wires

Explain whats the point in pushing the dirt back just to pick it up?

I would much rather operate the excavator in front of you with the compaction tool. 😂🤣