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Man, behind the scenes, I'm not a real smart guy, but I don't think we got a tall boot those pipes are going to fit through, bud. I think so. We're getting close, but we just ain't quite got it yet.
>> On top of that, I don't think they're quite flexible enough to get down there.
>> No flex through there.
>> Well, I mean, we can maybe make them flex. We can get them started. I just don't know if we'll get them pulled through. So, all right, we're going to try to do a little bit of uh they call us the recycling project.
>> Yes, it is. Yeah.
>> It's hard to believe. At one time, all these were full rolls of tile. Oh, yep.
>> Now they've been reduced to a core.
>> Yes, they have.
All right. They're a combination of the big job we did last year for this farmer and this job we just finished up here.
That's the field we pattern tiled in a couple days ago. And the other field is just around the corner over there. You can't quite see. We got all these tile cores. So, this is what they have in the center of the uh tile that they roll it up. And we can grab it, put it on our tile carts. I don't know why you'd think the tile company would want these back, but they don't. Uh they're kind of hit and miss. Some of them are good, some of them are bad, and sometimes they vary in size, but uh they had enough of a selection here. And we got enough 18-in tile cores that we're going to attempt to put them into this ditch right here and make two fields into one. You can see they got an 18-in uh culvert coming underneath the road right there and it just kind of drains down through here and makes a big old mess and got a big old wash out down here. So, we're going to get the laser set up and uh we can put this on a continuous pitch or slope or however you want to say it. And basically, we're going to go from the creek right here, straight shot up to the culvert up there.
And uh that should be that when it's all said and done, right?
>> Yeah.
>> All right. So, we just need to pick an elevation down here. And then we need to be a minimum of 2 ft deep up there.
>> Correct.
>> Sounds simple enough, right?
>> They want to do this our way, not state way.
We're gonna We're gonna go there, bud.
>> Hey, I'm employee of the month here.
>> Hey, you know what? I am suffering through the sun in this hot sweatshirt because I realize we might have >> Oh, yeah.
>> We might have.
>> Take that sweatshirt off.
>> We might have m matching shirts or anything.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> I think I would rather sweat myself to death >> than match you. I love >> the color match you.
>> Oh, that's great. All right, let's figure this out.
>> Yes.
>> So down there, we're going to the bottom of the pipe. Up here, we're going to the top of the pipe. So, we had to adjust our little doohickey up there.
>> Yep.
>> Accordingly.
Now, the question is Oops.
Our laser only does 5% slope. Is 5% slope going to be enough? O >> All right. Did we get lucky?
>> 4.5 is the magic number.
>> 4.5.
>> 4.5.
>> Good deal.
>> Now, if we lower that down 2 feet, cuz technically right now we're at the top of the pipe.
>> Pipe. Yeah. We >> go two feet or 18 in.
Two feet.
>> Oh. Oh man.
LA would say I got that on camera.
>> Kick her forward, right?
>> Yeah.
>> It should be pretty close right here.
Yeah.
All right, let's start digging.
>> All right.
>> Oh my goodness.
>> I got that on camera, too.
>> Just fall back. So much easier.
>> You can turn the camera on.
>> I'll wait until you're on solid ground.
All right. You should be >> solid ground.
>> I know it.
>> Are you interested? Let's take a look before we get our feet on, buddy.
>> Yeah. Yeah. A little late for that.
>> All right. First thing we're going to do is uh build us a little dam here to head off some of this water.
Try to keep it from coming at us. Got to be a little bit careful about what we do here is we got a G line and a water line right there.
work fast. See how long that keeps us dry.
>> Yeah.
All right. So, getting started off here is going to be a little bit of the tricky part.
Take some of this dirt.
Throw it over here in this ditch.
Trying to get myself weddled up a little bit.
I've heard rumors they throw a bunch of concrete in this hole over the years.
Trying to uh keep it from washing out rightly. No.
Oh, easy. Now we try to get far enough down in there.
We can reach the bank.
Heat.
Heat.
Going in, folks. Hang on.
Oh, we're so close.
You want to check that? I think it's probably right close. Pretty close.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Now just a couple inches.
Take that.
>> Pretty good.
>> Yeah.
Like somebody dropped a bunch of concrete in here.
>> Yeah.
I go ahead and lay that first one in.
Can I?
>> Yeah, I was going to dictate a little bit farther than I can get you a hand.
>> All right.
Heat. Heat.
How far you think we need to go with that?
I wouldn't let it hang too far. I would fall off in there. I think just kind of flush with the bra.
Weren't you laughing at me earlier?
>> Yeah. Well, you shouldn't be able to see it.
>> I can't. You covered it up with fresh dirt.
>> All right.
>> I made it out.
>> Not as easy as it looks or is to pull the boat. No.
>> No. I was getting nervous.
Thought I was going to lose boot.
Maybe your grade looks good.
>> What if I up here a little bit closer?
I'll help you roll out one down there.
>> But it's all going to get good, ain't it?
>> Yeah.
>> All right, hold on. We roll one more down to you.
>> Yeah, we need >> Hopefully, we won't have to go too much farther. We'll get up out of that.
Oh, I almost stood right in the butthole, didn't I?
>> Yeah, that quick sand.
>> That was not on purpose.
It's something about this field.
They're the quick sand.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. So, they've already got some of these coupled together, which is super handy. Let's see if we can get this rolled down in there.
>> Yeah.
It's like a crazy combination of quicksand and boulders.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Quicksand for sure.
>> I would not go with pleasant.
>> No.
>> All right, let's keep going. See if it gets any better. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
All right, he gets this smooed up a little bit. Go down and check it.
Oh man, that's not good. Quick sand down there.
>> I mean, do you want to check right here or there?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, >> that's almost two foot.
>> Or go back there where my foot went in a foot.
>> That is some crazy stuff.
>> Yeah, it is.
But I think we got her good enough there to go ahead and get another uh section of pipe in.
>> Yeah. The question is, can we get another section of pipe in and still get out?
>> Well, that's true. I don't know.
>> Enough room to get two more in.
>> No. Do you want to dig back a little more?
>> Dig back and try to hook these two together >> up here.
>> Up here. Eventually, we're going to get high enough we hopefully get out of this.
>> Yeah. If we put one more together up here, that's one less we got to put together down >> down there. Yeah.
>> Right.
>> Yep. Nope. I agree. My feet will agree with you, too.
>> That is uh >> you know, your boot goes down in it, it's like 50/50 chance it comes back out.
>> That is that is some true Perry County quick sand.
>> Yeah, it is.
It It ain't like that across Anderson in Spencer County.
I've never seen it like I >> No, I know.
>> You know what? If you got a machine down in that >> I don't know if you'd ever see it again.
>> Yeah. No, I don't know if you would or not. Yeah. Let's band two more of these.
Let's go ahead and dig a little farther.
Band two of these together and uh >> see what happens.
>> Yeah.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
All right. From about right there to about right here, it is absolute no man's land.
>> I'll agree with that.
>> It starts to get a little bit better right here. Look at that water just pushing up out of the ground right there. We literally have a tile 20 ft over, too.
>> Yeah, >> that is crazy. All right, can we please get this down there all in one piece?
>> Yeah. What do you think is going to be the trick to making that happen?
>> I don't really know.
>> Think it's going to be getting lined up where we kind of go at the same time?
>> Yeah.
>> All right. Here we go. Fingers crossed.
>> Ready? One, two, three, go.
Hey.
>> Oh, yes. That worked. Perfect.
That worked way better than I thought it was going to do.
All right, we're going to get that band on that down there.
We'll uh go again.
All right, the good news is we got our band on right here and we're both not soaking the mud yet. The bad news is we're on this side of the ditch and we need to start cheating towards that side of the ditch. So, I'm going to wiggle my way around there real quick and uh come come down through here and just kind of start filling in this in filling this in with the excavator a little bit. Get everything kind of locked into place.
Don't you think?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, I agree with that, too.
>> This agreed a lot today.
>> I know.
>> Yeah.
>> I still need taking my shirt off, though.
>> You know, this uh they don't have this isn't perforated, but these joints should allow some water to get into this bot. Yeah.
>> All right, let me go up and see what I can do.
>> All right.
Yeah.
Heat.
All right, now back to the joint.
All right, that's looking better.
Yeah, I think if you can get some good dirt and start chalking that in, I think be in good shape.
All right. Don't go any further that way. We won't be able to get that band under yet.
Off >> the ground. Think you'll be all right.
>> Oh, good.
Pretty good there.
>> It actually needs to come back to you there. That's That's looking better there.
That's looking good. We just Yeah, just keep working your way down.
Try to get some better dirt up here.
>> I would I'd try to get a little better dirt.
Same way right there. It needs to go toward you a little bit.
All right, that's good.
That's good there. That looks really good. Uh, now this last joint still needs to come back to you.
Oh, whatever you can find. Good. Get that last joint and I think it'll be good.
>> Yep.
Yep. There you go. Torque. There you go.
Looking good.
That That don't look bad at all. Right.
Like that.
That's good for now.
I think that'd be good. I I don't think this should go anywhere down here. We got one more uh joint, but I think we'll be fine.
>> Yeah. Hopefully we can put some better dirt now.
>> Yeah, man. I can walk again.
That looks way better than it did 5 minutes ago.
>> Yes, it does.
Well, I don't know if you guys can see down through there, but it is remarkably straight for the conditions we are fighting.
Remarkably straight.
>> Good.
>> All right, we got to try to do the uh four of them again. You think?
>> Do four of them again. I think I'll go ahead and get these two banded together and >> Okay.
>> Uh we're going to I think we're going to run out of pipe.
>> Well, I wasn't in charge of calculating that. Well, the Matthew was in charge of that and uh I think he just kind of quit on us. He was doing so good banding these together and all a sudden he just disappeared.
You know, he had something to do.
>> The funny part is about the time we had to get down the hole. Yeah.
>> Is about the time he's definitely not going to get one of those employee of the month shirts.
>> No, he ain't. No, he ain't at all.
>> Hello.
>> Yeah. Funny how that works, ain't it?
Yeah.
>> All right. Let's uh let's hammer down and get this next section in.
>> All right.
I Thank you.
I got that.
Go back.
Yep.
Backward back here.
Yeah, this way.
You want to go this way?
Yeah.
Yeah. Over here.
Yeah.
That one is That's That one. I don't think it's going to hurt anything. Do you Oh, that was close.
>> Yes.
>> Yep.
>> Ready?
>> Yep. All right.
Well, man, behind the scenes, there's uh four more in.
>> Get the gloves dirty.
>> I didn't go uh I didn't go horrible. I think putting four of them in at a time is definitely the uh trick, don't you think?
Yeah, it's well worth doing for not working down >> especially as nasty and as muddy as what that hole is. So, all right. Well, we're also getting into a little bit of a shallower ground which helps our cause a little bit too much. Helps our calls also. Let's uh let's dig in there for >> All right.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat up here.
Heat.
Heat.
Hold on.
Heat.
Heat.
Nothing.
Well, we got two more in. Our dam seems to be holding, but uh it is just almost impossible to stay out of the uh out of the mud. So, doing this uh basically four at a time has worked out pretty good.
We end up getting it just a touch more shallow than we anticipated. The field's got a little bit of a swag in. So, we uh changed our slope a little bit just to kind of hedge our bet there.
We're getting down to the nitty-gritty.
We ain't got a whole lot of uh whole lot of pipe left. We only got four sections left. So, we're going to try to get two more sections in here real quick. And before we bust out a little dam up there, I think we're going to go down through here and kind of just get everything back filled enough to where a whole bunch of water comes down through there.
It don't mess with or float our pipe.
All right, let me get this dug back here.
We'll go again. What a sloppy sloppy mess.
Did you hit the water line right there?
>> Yeah, you hit something.
>> Ain't that crazy?
>> I just water.
>> It's like underwater caverns.
I don't understand.
>> It's craziness.
>> I got one over there. That hole. It's about like that. I stepped down in it and it's a foot of water.
>> All right, everything's all great. Let's get this next one in.
>> Yep.
>> You know, if I had to do this all over again, I think I would offset from that ditch.
>> Offset from that ditch.
>> Put the pipe over here where you're >> over here and then just Yeah, I like the way you're thinking there.
>> It's a little too late for that. But >> yeah, >> that probably would have been a smarter play.
>> Yeah. And we should have double checked our uh slope in the middle there. We're still going to make it. So, all right.
Before we bust Dave up there and send some water down this pipe, we're going to get this uh back filled here and get it all It needs to be all worked away.
This way it gets the our our ditch is actually pretty straight, believe it or not. We just got a lot of mud to work with.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> All right. You ready?
>> Yeah, I'm ready. Hey, we do got water coming out.
Good deal.
Ah, well that means it is working as field tall too. So that's a plus.
Yep. Right like that. We just keep working that all the way up. Uh, that's going to get it.
Yep. Beautiful.
Yeah, he might go up a couple joints up in front of you there and start pulling it over. Yeah, there you go.
Yep. Keep on going.
Right like that. Keep on going.
It's looking good.
Yep.
All right.
Everything looks good right there.
Um the very end's got a crook in it. There you go. You're kind of straightening that front out. So the end's got a crook in it. But then if you keep on coming back, we got to push it in a little.
Yeah. Just keep working it back.
All right, folks. We are getting down to the nitty-gritty here.
Our little dam is right behind us. We don't want to go much further than that because we got a faux line right on the other side of that.
We're on the other side of the phone line.
We got a water line.
Well, our dam's still holding for now. I kind of wanted to stop right there. That phone line runs right through here.
here. We need to leave a little bit of room for a catch basin up here as well.
But man, there's water, water, water.
It's water everywhere, man. Behind the scenes.
>> Yeah. Can't get rid of it.
>> Oh, you finally got the right one. Last one, right?
>> Yes.
>> That's the one I wanted. Is >> that the one we've been looking for?
>> That's the one we've been looking for.
This one we've been looking for right about you, but I'm ready to get out of this buggy ditch.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, we got to get this zip tied.
I got to find a way to get out of the top of that hole without sinking. And I guess we're going to dig out that uh dam and let the water fly. Huh?
>> Yeah.
>> All right. So, here's the plan. I'm going to attempt to get off our little dam without busting it.
>> Yeah. We'll come down here, get this somewhat back filled like we've been doing, and we'll bust the dam and see if you can race the water to the other end and beat it.
>> Yeah. Yeah. I have a feeling it'll beat me cuz there's already water coming out of it.
>> Field towel is working. I sure like that towel that goes through that plow a whole lot better.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> All right, let's get this done.
>> All right.
All right. I did not beat it down here, but we do have water running pretty good.
We can look up through there.
>> Uh, let me look.
So, I don't think I got anything on camera, but it did not work. He slid and made a uh made a dam in front of the pipe.
Ouch. Uh, so now looks like we're going to have to be doing some digging.
Well, >> worst case scenario.
>> Yeah. Huh.
Not only the dam out the water.
>> Yeah.
All right.
>> Well, it was running out good down there.
>> Well, that's good to know.
>> Yeah, I didn't beat it down there.
Oh, and I parked right in the way.
Huh? Who's the idiot parked that there?
I got a yellow shirt.
>> Yeah. Yeah, you got your yellow shirt on.
You have plenty of room.
Now we got some water running. We'll go see now what it's doing.
All right, there it comes. Hey, we beat it. We beat it.
All right.
Yes, we beat it.
>> Yeah, but I even gave up on the running.
That's That's good. That's clean.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat up here.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
All right, >> that looks better than I thought it was going to.
>> Yeah. Yeah, it turned out pretty good.
>> Now, if it dries out, it'll be in good shape.
>> I'm just trying to figure out what it is.
>> Yeah. Ran out of dirt.
>> They hold all this concrete in there. I don't know where that come from. You You might know. They tore down. That came from uh Ferdinand. They ripped out a street out by the high school.
>> Oh.
>> And that's where all that came from.
>> Perfect.
>> Yep.
So >> So that is our rip wrap.
>> That is our rip wrap.
>> Nice uniform size.
>> Yes.
>> All right. Well, I guess I'm going to take the shoe and just kind of start swelling this out because this is where all the surface water from the field gets down to the creek. So we got to make sure we don't dam it up and make a bigger mess.
Yeah, >> I don't know. It's probably hard to see on camera, but this raises quite a bit from >> Yeah, >> I don't know. Like 4T.
>> Probably close to it.
>> All right, let's see what happens.
>> All right.
All right.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
fell into place pretty nicely, didn't it?
>> Yeah. Yeah, it locked in over that pipe.
Didn't hurt it a bit. It fell in real good.
>> I think it was enough over the dirt right there. I kind of back up to the back side of that ridge of concrete I got there. I'm going to take what I got here now and kind of build up to me. You think now you fill that void in there? I think that'd be pretty good.
Yeah, that void right there. Yeah. Can I fill that in and bring it up to you?
Oh boy.
The end is inside, folks. The end is inside.
We got to be one of them.
That has come a long ways to where it was a couple hours ago and we can barely stand right there.
>> Yeah, no kidding.
>> That's a big difference, ain't it?
>> Yeah, big difference.
>> All right, we're going to make a few last passes with the skid steer. Polish this up and call it a wrap.
>> I think so. How's our pipe doing down here? They both still running.
>> They're both still running, >> man. That one's even g That one's still gaining speed, ain't it?
>> Yeah, it's gaining and gaining.
>> That was a lot of water.
>> And this one, I think we're down to just what's catching out. I think it's finally caught up and just what's coming from underneath the road.
>> I have a feeling that it's eventually going to start catching some more.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is.
I don't know how much water is going to go down through there now at that culvert cuz actually all three culverts are piped now.
>> Yeah.
>> That we're going through here. You know what I mean?
>> Yep.
>> Cuz that cover's not in anymore. That culvert's got a catch basin and the one all the way at the end of the field's got a catch basin.
>> Yeah.
>> It's going to help out a lot.
>> Sure ain't going to hurt anything.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, let's wrap this up. All right. Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat up here.
All right.
I think it's ready to farm.
>> I don't know what else to do to it.
>> No.
>> Planted the corn.
>> Yep.
I think that turned out remarkably well for the >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Catastrophe we had starting off.
>> Yeah.
>> That last flood we helped or had didn't help us any either. We lost a little more. So, >> all right.
We should load up and get out of here before they find something else for us.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Cuz that's next.
>> On to the next one.
>> Yeah. Don't buy.
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