The Contractor Disappeared... So I Loaded a Giant Concrete Pipe Myself

Three years after inheriting this land, I finally decided to remove one of the biggest eyesores—a huge concrete drainage pipe. I originally hired a contractor to clean up the property, but they suddenly stopped responding before the job was finished. In the end, I had no choice but to cut the pipe in half myself, even though I had no professional experience. Today, my goal was simple: load one half onto my dump truck with a 2-ton excavator and haul it to a disposal facility. It wasn't as easy as I expected. The pipe was too heavy to lift properly, it kept sliding, and my excavator wasn't really designed for delicate lifting work. I was also worried about damaging the dump truck. But hiring another contractor wasn't an option anymore, so I kept pushing until it finally went in. Buying the excavator and dump truck cost me about ¥1.4 million (around US$9,000). Hiring someone to remove just this pipe might have cost only about ¥100,000, but this inherited property is filled with things that need to be cleared. Looking at the whole project, doing it myself made more sense. The video is played at 2× speed. At normal speed, it would mostly be me slowly operating the excavator. Chapters 00:00 Giant concrete pipe left on inherited land 01:00 Three years after inheritance 01:18 Why I bought an excavator and dump truck 01:59 Why this video is 2× speed 05:30 The pipe keeps sliding 05:46 I force it into the truck 07:28 Success... but only half is finished I also built a free browser game where you can experience operating an excavator. 🎮 https://baken-saga.github.io/hume-pipe/ The other half of the pipe will be loaded in the next video. If you'd like to follow the rest of this inherited property cleanup project, please subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb565Js1E3w7L9xreF5rzXw?sub_confirmation=1 #Excavator #MiniExcavator #DIY #LandCleanup #Inheritance #Construction #HeavyEquipment #DumpTruck #ConcretePipe #Japan