Completing Retaining Wall and Backfilling

the mind frame that no compromises okay alex is hand packing over the numerous cable lines and hose lines we got going through here so let's talk about that daewoo a little bit a little bit of a love hate relationship with that machine um that daewoo excavator i bought it for the thumb attachment or the grapple attachment and it came with a uh different grapple than the one i'm currently running we are up to the uh last little bit of wall finally just gotta make it line up with the end of this old timber wall they're gonna keep this wall the old timber wall here and uh yeah so i bought the machine just to get the grapple because literally the i bought it for the price of just buying a grapple but the grapple i got was a pile of broad so then i still have a machine i don't have the thing i need the grapple but i got a machine but the machine is kind of like ah you know what i mean it just it doesn't have it's not a powerhouse by any means it's not a bad machine but it's got leaks where it shouldn't have leaks it has like no power to the tracks if you get yourself in a bind which you know we built these boulder walls and the sides like cliffs and you know you're just you're if a boulder slips and it falls it's gonna come right in and crush you and so you're really dependent on that grapple for almost like you know literally your life because you'll have a boulder and it'll be above your head and you'll have a lake behind you like this is literally the situation we were in in fact the video is up on youtube way way way back and that's how we had to build it and if one of those boulders slipped we'd roll into the machine now the machine would stop it but this this machine doesn't really give a lot of power to those tracks i mean i remember one time when i was trying to crawl up this bank and i had a boulder in my bucket and i'm trying to get the machine to crawl and it's teetering on the side and i'm using the boulder as leverage trying to work my way over the top of it where i should have just had power to the tracks and the machine just walked up the hill