Last Day: Emergency Foundation repair. First Day: Franky's new site

that's the last day of our project here today and I forgot about halfway out to the site and I realized I forgot the cameras so scoot on down there and get crackin we've got a busy day ahead of us we've got to wrap up one project then mobilize all of the equipment out and get ready for another one we've set the grades around all the buildings to get the water to flow away now we've got extra dirt it's not bad dirt it can be reused but not for what we're trying to do with the grades so we save it for the customer to fill in any low spots in their pasture while Alex and Sam are working on the dirt Frankie's inside wrapping up the garage hi Frankie what what do we got left to do today there isn't much left to do but Frankie's still very picky about how it looks before he leaves meanwhile Alex continues to work outside he's gotten rid of all of the unsuitable soil and now he's just got his top dressing left to gently spread over the slope so that it can be receded and vegetation can establish there's a little extra rock left over the boys want to get that cleaned up as well they try to be careful of the grass so Alex hops to shovel as much of it into the bucket as he can get [Music] they bring it out to the woods and put it with the rest of the unsuitable soil [Music] the boys go around the site touching up their ruts and leveling out any uneven areas by hand if need be the boys have also got to touch up their mess from inside the Roswell Alex touches up the driveway and gives it one last hard pack he does a three-point turn to try to keep the rugs down [Music] with the driveway set to his satisfaction it's time to load up and haul out this time before they load up the truck Sam runs into the cab to make sure it's in neutral and his foots on the brake [Music] the boys chained up and get ready to go to the next site the next project will be using a completely different set of equipment so all of this has to get returned he has to take it slow backing off the trailer it's a tight squeeze and limited visibility and he knows he's only got inches to spare black skid-steer still hasn't been converted from winter to summer and still has its winter tires on the boys have already brought all their equipment out to the next jobsite so all they've got to do now is Park everything and put it away franki will be taking over the lawn care division this summer so for the next few days Alex will be showing him around this thing our bagger Toro has been giving us problems all spray is super dead a new battery would fix that but we only use this machine a couple times a year oh yeah it's not even cranking now cool it's Frankie's first date at our biggest site and they've got 46 yards to clean up it's all begging and blowing today hmm that's not a circle trailer Jake my son-in-law has ran this site for us the last three years but with my daughter taking on a new job at a new hospital he's not available as he used to be so Frankie steps up the handhelds were good to clean out the beds but the big leaf blower is needed for the large areas [Music] at almost $12,000 is an expensive machine but it out works the handheld's almost ten to one but not everything can be done with the big blower we brought the bagger in for a reason Frankie and Sam used the handheld leaf blowers to get out the nooks and cranny's the beds that need to be cleaned while Alex runs the big bagger and scoops everything up [Music] for the day-to-day maintenance we found the stand ons to be the most efficient our site has a lot of wide-open spaces but also enough nooks and crannies to make it difficult to get a big machine in and around this is the only machine we have a dedicated bagger on so for spring and fall cleanups it comes out of hiding and goes to work the team works together to get every area of this site cleared of leaves it's either grass clippings or leaves always seem to end up in the street we used to use a mower to blow them in but with the hurricane on deck you grabbed what's there [Music] but the boys can't use the big lead floor around the Foundation's it'll pick up the landscape rock and send it sailing so they blow it out just far enough for the bagger to come by and pick it up it's dusty dirty work and something tells me the guys have a little bit of fun father with the majority of the clean up behind them the boys pack up the equipment and get ready to head to a new site but that's not till tomorrow I've got to keep work lined up ahead of the boys so while they're out doing their job I've got to go find more work for them so we're gonna go take a look at a pretty big project that I actually bid six years ago so I'm going out to look at a twenty five hundred square foot retaining wall made out of recon block if you're not familiar with that it's the giant blocks they use along the roadways an average project like this will go for anywhere from $50 to a hundred plus dollars per square foot so I could be potentially looking at a quarter million dollar job but the question is do I want it the customers already had an engineering firm design the retaining wall for this site they want us to build a 15-foot tall wall in the swamp holding up all of those back deck footings but it gets better they want us to somehow made magically make those decks float in midair while we dig straight underneath them and then rebuild the entire area using structural fill soil as I look at the site it starts to become clear to me what I think has happened here the homeowners association has hired an engineering firm to draft up a plan for new retaining walls they didn't ask them for a solution to what was going on behind these houses they just asked for a plan for new retaining walls and that's what was given to them now in a project like this I'm gonna probably end up giving the customer two separate price quotes one is gonna be for the work that the way they want it done per their engineering plan but I don't really want to do the job the way they the engineers have it lined I don't know if it's even feasible to do it so I'm gonna end up jacking my price up really high to do a project like this I may be north the 250 plus thousand dollars on a job like this but I'm gonna come up with a second plan for them and that's going to eliminate all of the retaining walls period but I'm also going to be able to do it at a fraction of the cost of their engineer plan so we're going to have two proposals one coming in north the $250,000 and then back up Plan B that I create myself which should come in south of $60,000 if they do they if they opt to go with my plan I'll have an engineer come in draft it up put it together and hopefully we'll be off to the races but I don't know what'll happen with that job at this point it's just a bid and that's our day for today hope you enjoyed the video god bless go get'em you guys and maybe we'll see you tomorrow where we got more work to do and the next day the next day I don't know if I'll make that many videos