so
i've made it over to josh's place and i'm currently waiting for him to scuttle on out here
he's gonna hop in the jeep with me and we're going to hit the road to go rent ourselves
a mini excavator yeah we're going to excavator sands all about when possible if able
let the machine do the work and have some fun at the same time we found one at home depot that is
actually small enough we think that'll fit inside the space to work with it is by all definitions a
miniature excavator this thing's tiny but it's going to make this job so much quicker
easier and less back-breaking and enable us to get this septic repaired so they can have
their plumbing and drain systems and be able to use their home again as fast as possible
so just got the machine home huge thank you to sam for having a a big enough vehicle with a hitch and
also for the awesome help first thing we are doing is going back there and showing him everything
that i've all i've already seen uh where the pipe is because it's kind of a jumbled mess
and just getting his take on on on our plan of attack so i'm here at the back of the house josh's
place and we'll have him show me kind of what's going on in the situation i've only ever seen
it on videos like some other people will follow his channel i've been here before but not seen
what he's kind of got going on so we'll go ahead and let him give us the tour the rundown and see
what we got ahead of us for work so this is what we've done so far obviously the floor from me over
is all removed and in a really beautiful pile right outside the door the outlet from the house
is right here and the septic is is directly past y'all so the pipe should go like this
right you should run a straight line to where you're going but for some reason it doesn't it
goes the complete opposite direction and then presumably loops around at some point and goes
back to the septic which is over that way over here we've got the equipment on site
we're getting ready to unload it and this will be a perfect example of the right size equipment for
the right size job you guys will see that more as we go on but first let's go ahead and unload
this thing off the trailer and drive it back there and start tearing the place up get it done
we'll pull this down and then we can just flip it back behind us we don't really need it
as you can see the small excavator is very appropriate for this job he's able to drive
it through the gate through this little backyard kind of dog lot area and then he's going to take
it between the i mean i guess it was the previous person who lived here's workshop or something
between that and the fence line fit it back in there and we're going to start fishing
and following the pipe from the inside out into the yard to see where in fact it actually does go
so
all right so what we have done is we have found the pipe where it comes out from the little shed
here i'm leaving all the nitty gritty cool details of the video in this project for him for his
channel so if you want to see a lot of details and a lot of fun you got to go check it out i'm
going to tease you guys on that but hey why not i want him to be able to show off this project what
i get to do now apparently it's my turn around the excavator and run it into the dog fence
and destroy it i guess that way it maintains the chain of blame you know sam broke it wasn't josh
so i understand it makes it easier to deal with yeah well hey you know somebody's got it got to do
it so 50 50 shot here yep all right putting you guys back on time laps because that's what i'm
going to do and we'll start digging and falling the pipe from here to the tank which is it's right
there it's close right here it's close but it's surrounded by trees and nature all over it nature
so
what i'm wondering is we dig this out enough let's flush water and see if it takes it if it does okay
then we'll just fix that joint and we're good okay all right well i'm gonna carefully dig
this outside and we'll mess around with this we might get lucky that's probably all we have to do
right there i mean you're basically at it i mean that's good enough to put water in it
i'll run get a water hose okay we can do that
all right all right so i'm gonna that'll take me a second i already have it sitting
there but i gotta connect next time i'm gonna take a little more work here
so
so this is interesting the black pipe comes under the shed you got a pvc in there so
the transition from there i mean we'll call it abs yeah that looks like the fail point i hope
water hose here with water on pipe exposed so instead of of digging back up the the septic
and actually looking in it for the water to come out i'm just going to let the hose run
and obviously the pipe can only hold so much so if it goes for longer than a couple minutes clearly
it's making it to the septic i think fernco fittings your best bet the big rubber ones
that was what i was gonna do that's the only thing that passed code on our mobile home when
we connected it from abs to pvc that had to be fernco flex fitting well and and two different
i mean i'm not a scientist but you know two different junctions with with all that this
has to do and the changes in in temperature and everything you know the rubber will will
stay well and what's ridiculous is there's black pipe sticking out of the pvc
that's just going in like they just slid it inside the other pipe yeah yeah it doesn't it doesn't
i don't even think it it's glued the 45 was connected it went from black to white 45 to
black pipe slid it into the white pipe yeah and we're assuming it doesn't go
back to black right right actually that one black pipe's sitting right on the surface
josh has pulled the lid off here of his septic tank and as you see and here we have some
wonderful sounds of water flowing no worries that is water from a garden hose so it's good
although it it is rehydrating all the stuff that's in the tank so
we're not going to hang around very long the pipe is clearly unblocked so that's great we
don't have to dig any more of this stuff up we don't think and now it's just on to repair work of
the weird juncture that they had yeah i mean i i can't blame the guy too much i mean we all make
do with with what we have but uh septic is pretty high on my list of not chins don't don't get don't
make that change yeah you know yeah it's kind of those things you don't want to mess with ever
yeah i would you know deprive yourself of something else but fix the septic correctly
words of wisdom deprive yourself of anything but your septic that's right wisdom whisk them
all right so this is going in its entire length the problem's got to be right there
this is eight feet all right so maybe try it from out here
yeah something a little stiffer i mean you've got more water flow now more than you did have
it's probably just roots oh i bet that well there we go
it was just full of mud or something yeah human mud
what we can see here with this white 45 degree is wrong i'm no plumberologist i don't have a
degree in pipisms and i didn't go to school to poopology but i know that you do not glue
or try to glue abs to pvc pipe you get this you get failure points and you have problems
so we're going to get something that is appropriate and correct
but we'll show you guys all that when we get back from the store we are back from the store
and as you guys can see the boys are here now i got angela right here behind the camera
and we are ready to go ahead and start putting this thing back together we got
all the parts to repair the pipes and yeah so let's go have some fun nobody's volunteering
well we have finished all the plumbing work it is ready josh is going inside
right now to fill up his kitchen sink both sides of it and then he's going to plug it
fill it up and then he'll unplug it we're going to use that as the first flush to
check for any leaks any kind of problems if that's a go then they're good to go
the fun is done the pipes are connected and everything appears to be doing great no leaks
which is awesome huge so sweet now you guys are ready to uh you know have use of your house again
yes we get to we get to flush a toilet man that is that is huge and and make use of a sink in
in the proper manner so i think overall the job was pretty easy actually the job was really easy
all things considered but again check out josh's video it'll be linked down below
so you can see his perspective of this and get to follow along with all sorts
of stuff you're gonna do with your you calling it frankenhouse frankenhouse yeah frankenhouse
it was two single wides that were made into one double-wide it's pretty cool yeah it's pretty
cool so definitely check it out links to all that down below otherwise appreciate you guys watching
if you've got any questions or comments leave them down below too and we'll see you guys next time
well we are all done as you can see i got elijah here behind me he rode back with josh and i we
dropped the excavator back off at home depot got that squared away on the rental and then
we stopped and got some tacos for everybody on our way back that way they could have dinner at josh's
his wife celia doesn't worry about cooking anything and they can enjoy having all the drain
water they want to drain now so they're rocking and rolling and that feels great hello as elijah
and i are riding back back through the country back roads he's enjoying his taco and we're just
driving home i'm really happy that i had the day free that i was able to get off work and be able
to go help them do that it's one of those jobs that i've not been in that particular spot before
but i've been in places where you're just like i don't know what to do i mean i know what to do but
ah how are we going to do this so i was really glad that i was able to have today and go help
my brother and my sister-in-law and my niece and my little nephew so that feels good it's always
good to do something like that anytime you can help someone else you're really helping yourself
when you help someone else because you feel better and they feel better it's just a good thing to do
hope you guys enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up and don't forget to go check out
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that way when he gets it edited you will know and you'll get to see his part of it it'll be
a really cool fun thing to see especially both perspectives of the day not only that but he's
got a lot of cool videos in his to edit bucket i think he said he has nine right now so he's
got a lot of content that's gonna be rolling out too all right appreciate you guys watching
as always take care we'll see you guys next time on the homestead or wherever else we are see ya
you