Road grading repair in the mud and snow

It's not the best time to do this repair but this was an emergency service request from a neighbor and general contractor in the area so I went out to take o...

• 0:01 - 0:21 All right, so I'm right here in town in Netherland. Just got a call from a neighbor who's a general contractor. He's up here just up the block from my shop. So he had a little emergency service and repair from the dumpster truck who tore up his rut in the road right here.

• 0:23 - 0:52 And then also bent over the valve box here. So I brought up the skid-steer and we got some gravel there and some structural fill over there behind and I'm trying to do a quick fix for him here and just add infill into this rut so that they can hopefully be happy but we got some major saturated material here. We're not going to get any compassion, but we can fill it in and let it dry.

• 0:53 - 1:22 Hope for the best but this is water box here is definitely an edge a wrench in the Wheel Works. And you know, I was just finishing up dinner with the wife and now I'm up here and I'm happy about it. Actually. I love this stuff can't get enough of it. And I'm probably just going to take care of my neighbor here and no charge for this emergency service call is my.

• 1:22 - 1:26 Burr last time we did a job for him. He.

• 1:27 - 1:29 He got a little upset with one of my guys whose.

• 1:30 - 1:33 Maybe what kind of hurt his feelings or something but.

• 1:36 - 1:59 So yeah, I want to just try to help him out and do what I can to get some good karma some good Juju sand neighbor and this is what we got to do in these times and you know, maybe he'll give me a referral give me another job and you never know. It just feels like the right thing to do for me right now is feeling generous. So that's what we're doing. So I got that straightened out now. I need to pull the lid and see if it's still.

• 2:01 - 2:30 If it didn't damage the water buffalo box underneath it, the water shut-off box basically looks like this and this is a screw top that scoot cabbie you unscrew and then you stick a key down into this pipe and that's connected to the shut off if you set that on or off and turn that on so if that pipe bent in the City utility companies not going to be able to get their key down there.

• 2:30 - 3:00 Where they can shut the water on and off so we don't know if that's the case here that I need to be investigated on on a dry day. Not now. We're into the gun on a tight timeline. So we're going to do it. We can't hear for him. I'm just gonna bury this and fill this in and call it good call it a day what we're going to do. We got some inch and a half crushed rock right here. We're going to take that first and we're going to put that down first and check it in a little bit maybe or just dump it in loose and and keep going because.

• 3:00 - 3:30 This is just it's not the time to be doing this job that mud there is all saturated. We're not going to get compaction anyway, and then we got some structural fill their that I'm going to cap it with we're going to hope for the best and hopefully that'll hold up. All right hold that's that we're done got this filled in here and give it a little touch up with the rake. That's completely saturated mud down probably 2 or 2 feet deep.

• 3:30 - 3:54 Deep saturated saturated dirt mud and I tried to get the drainage to kind of go through there and stay off the road because as you can see, we got a nice big rut right here. So that's what that's what we're going to call good for now. Maybe I'll touch up these tracks right here in the road and then go home and.

• 3:55 - 3:56 Have myself a.

• 3:57 - 3:58 Nice adult beverage.