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Turning a Slope into a Flat back Yard 4K

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This video details the process of constructing an elevated landscape berm using compacted fill dirt, addressing initial planning, clearing obstacles, delivering and grading soil, and implementing erosion control measures. The project aims to create a stable and aesthetically pleasing landform for various landscaping purposes.

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pretty much where the line is right there there's a there's a metal post here that is the actual line that's stuck right by the tree so we're actually not really raising up this area we're just leveling it off in here no this will come up a little bit here is this his property line though no our my property line starts right above oh so we can build the hill up a little bit huh yep yeah it's just going to it's just going to up here at probably going to be here and then down over there it's going to be more like 2 and 1/2 yep I just like right now we can't get a good fire and people out here cuz it just there's no way to sit you get a chair out here and you're like so we're raising this up to about what height so over here you got your we can stop like you're just basically concerned about like leveling this area off in here this is where like the hill would probably start right here sloping down about like I said 2 to one you're probably coming up about this yeah that's what I was figuring about 3 maybe 3 and 1/2 ft coming up in here this will probably be like the the where it's leveled off this will probably be the corner and then everything Beyond this will just you're going to seat it right away soon yeah he will we might see the for extra charge and do some erosion control um netting and well I don't know if we'll need to do any netting on here I don't think well that's what I want I want to make sure that I don't deal with the aosion that's my you do want it so you might want how much more is I mean I want to know what it is or is the netting is about $4 a square yard so so let's say are we only use the netting around where the hill is where it's going to be slued off on the edges here and then so it's 8T long our Hill might be a little bit longer but we could probably cover a majority of it the rolls are 8 by 100 ft so $4 for and we should have on the low side here some silk fence in case we do start getting a lot of rain it honestly if it washes a little bit by that min like the the staks you pound in you did a little trench and you put the flap in the ground going heading uphill and you bury it so any anything that would wash would get caught on that fence before it washes down into the we got to be able to back a dump truck into here so yeah so I was thinking the dump truck would come and dump probably right in front of that tree his back my truck up here and then have him dump you know if he can dump back here it's he'd have to get past that Branch there he's not clear he can hang the ass end over yeah better he could back into it and remove it for all right guys I'm going to jump in here cuz this hurts this hurts so please don't do this to your own equipment now Alex and Tim two of the best operators I know Tim and an excavator I will put him against anybody in the nation but this can't be everywhere all the time but you know what sometimes the shortest route from point A to point B is just the barrel straight on through it's just I can feel that through the screen every smack in general you're not supposed to bang your Hydraulics what I get in there that that one stay yeah I was just going to dig out around it so Ro a didn't cuz it ain't going nowhere you're supposed to use the power of the machine the breakout Force to do it not the the weight banging on the Hydraulics you're going to blow cylinders you're going to blow rupture hoses you're going to twist arms you're going to have lots of problems doing it like this but I am guilty of doing it sometimes too like you know what you can spend an hour digging on something or you can hit it one time and be done with it what's worse I don't know I'm asking you what's worse on a machine would you rather spend an hour digging something out or punch it punch through it one single time what's your opinion i' like to [Music] hear I'll hit [Music] it [Music] [Applause] [Music] got [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] he [Music] all right so we've wrapped up the job we got it all done in one day we bid it for two but we got it done in one so this is our final wrap up of what we got brought in nine loads of fill two loads of top soil oh H straw blanket on the Hills to prevent erosion seed down and Rak and then finished up where we destroyed everything they get all the materials yeah everything's all wrapped up got done in one day we were hoping we were thinking too with Trucking but John pulled through for us and trucked all day and got it done and all one it's nice to have a victory once in a while and what I mean is it's so awesome as a business owner when we get a job accomplished ahead of the deadline instead of on the deadline or after the fact after the deadline and on this job we actually had some time to do some bonus work for the customer as well I think this turned out really beautiful and it was a very simple job 9 loads of structural fill laid out compacted and graded so that it won't settle so we've got the structural cushion underneath that's Rock Solid hard and then two loads of pulverized screen black dirt and that's fluffed and spread and gently laid out so that way the uh vegetation has an ability to establish and and let a yard grow back in for this customer I'd love to hear what you guys are currently working on tell me about some of your projects if you don't mind and uh again I want to ask you one more question too uh on Hydraulics if you run equipment what's your idea on banging Hydraulics versus using the breakout Force and and just powering through it that way but that's all we got for you on this one God bless you guys I hope you uh enjoy your weekend your week your days your nights your family your life that's all it's that's all it's that's what it's all about God bless go get them you guys

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