Busting The Pond Dam And Clearing The Island

okay so I'm over here on the pond dam I'm going to dig me a ditch pretty much right through here that goes to there I'm going to turn around and dig it from the pond back I think I really only want to lower it maybe 2 2 and 1/2 ft so I'm going to come back level and then you know leave a spot cut it down and then uh go ahead and dig my ditch all the way out not let any water come through then I can come back up here and just kind of slowly cut that down there's some gravel down there so I'm going to use that for a check Dam I may go up there to the concrete pile and grabb a bucket full of big concrete and kind of put in there to hold it and then put that filter gravel in there that's just kind of keep any sediment or anything from going Downstream there so yeah let me uh go ahead and get started on digging the ditch [Music] here I'm going go right here stump left in there [Music] huh need to throw that to the side some roip that right there at least it'll give me a good idea of what type of material is in this pond dam looks like some good red clay so I'm happy with that I'm really surprised that the red clay down here it's just not an area that should have red clay like this so I'm going to cut my ditch level and then what I'll probably end up doing is getting some more rock once I get it down to grade and putting like a Little Rock Dam across there so this way I can kind of control it and I'm not dumping all that out at you know one big gush there so now I'm going to come about right here and let's use the excavator grade control zero that out let's go down about 2 and 1/2 ft so I've moved so I want to check the elevation of the water right there so I'm not setting level so it's not going to be 100% exact so I want to go that's pretty much the same we zero out then go down 2 and 1/2 ft we're about right there that grade right there still grade got right there and what that's going to do is pretty much allow the pond not to go any lower than that but you can't drain it no deeper than your ditch going out so as long as that is the grade that I want to lower it to I I'll be good then I can just come in from the side up there and cut that little bit out and kind of keep slowly releasing it out throughout the day here [Music] what [Music] [Music] it's mushy down here [Music] [Music] [Music] so somebody's actually got a pretty good slope on that pipe right there you see it's coming out a little bit more than a water hose worth they got about 2 and 1/2 ft of fall on 40t a pip I don't even know if that's 40t a pipe maybe 30 [Music] [Music] okay ditch is dug now I'm going to uh take the excavator up there and go grab me a bucket of bigger concrete to kind of put right here for a check Dam and then pour that smaller gravel on top of so went got a bucket full of broken concrete um I don't know if I can reach down that far let me drive down here [Music] [Music] [Music] all right I'm going to go up top and grab that uh gravel and pour in front of [Music] it grab a little bit of this grav [Music] all right that should filter through [Music] that all right check dam is in place let's go ahead and scratch a few inches off of the little temporary Dam I left and start letting the pond down slowly [Music] [Music] [Music] all right that should let it down about 3 or 4 in and then once it gets down to that level I'll come over here and cut it down a little bit more and just kind of slowly work the pond down here today all right so while the pond drains down some more I'm going to uh hop on the little Dozer here break through everything over here now that I have all that put onto the pile and go over there and root rake all that up there as well and before I leave today I'm going to go out there and clear the trees off of the island getting a little Dusty well I started transferring some of that brush back from up front well up front but far up on this row right here and want to go ahead and stack some of it into the burn pile I think everything's drying out enough where it will burn through the pile here it's a big pile but I think uh I think it'll burn through it so I'm going to go ahead and stack it up that way all I have to do when it rains is come over here and light these bad boys on fire [Music] it's a whole lot easier when everything is kind of perpendicular to you there and you can grab it a little bit better so I went through there and pulled it all out and kind of stacked everything up into one big pile here instead of one grapple full at the time transferring it down these machines they work a lot more efficiently sitting here kind of transfering than to sit there track one bucket full up time [Music] [Music] but the pond is going down it's probably down 3 or 4 in and uh like I said nothing dramatic just a nice slow little let the water out and uh hopefully after lunch I can go out there and grab the island take those trees off of it might still be in a little bit of water but I think I can go out there and clear that relatively easy at least every little bit that I take out it just won't be as deep I haven't been out there to the island but from what I can reach from the bank it was only about 2 ft deep or so so should be able to drive out there relatively easy so I'll get all this stacked up and probably go work on that I need to put uh I may run up there at the 330 and grab uh another bucket full of concrete I'm going to put some right there where I started my little cut down uh that way I can kind of put some rock in there and it won't possibly cut down it's a little bit deeper than I think I wanted now so I can put that rock there and that'll keep it from washing down any deeper and lowering the pond deeper than I wanted to go there seems to be a lot of good Springs up here so I don't think it's going to be too big of a [Music] problem the pond being as shallow as there is I can't imagine there's too terribly much stuff in there but uh that should leave enough water where everything's fine and dandy was even as dry as it is right now they were still probably over a garden hose worth of water coming out that overflow pipe and you can see how dusty dry everything is so water table is still pretty high even though things are drying out [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right I'm going to keep piling all this brush up and then we'll go lower the pond a little all right well this is draining good still just finished stacking up the rest of my brush over there I've got a mountain I'm going to run up there and grab his loader and go up there and get a big scoop of that concrete and dump it right here um that's a little bit lower than 2 and 1/2 ft now and that'll just kind of keep that from changing water's nice and clear heading out of here little check down May throw a little bit more concrete on top of that but it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do you star to see the ring around the pond now it's going down so may scratch that just a little bit lower and uh while I go up there and get some uh concrete to dump in here what that all do is that'll hold that grade and keep it from washing anymore so I'm up here with the loader and uh it's just a very long walk with the excavator up here this has wheels so it does a lot better job I'm going to uh see if I can't get a scoop of this stuff right here it's pretty pretty small and take it down there I don't know how much I got isn't really the perfect stuff to be scooping [Music] [Music] up let's see we might go for another one here I'll dump it out up there beside it pick out what I want with the excavator [Music] we got a big piece of rebar let me go pull that out of the bucket real quick and throw that to the side be right back so I got my scoop here going to back down here turn around and head down there to the pond I'm going to dump this in the ditch and then come back and just throw a few 20 or 30 clean pieces in the bucket take that down there and uh dump it out so I can put it on top of the check Dam kind of add a little bit more mass to it so let's uh make the track down here and dump this in the ditch making my way down here to to the pond I should have just went up there this morning and grabbed this instead of tracking the excavator all the way up there but that was a long walk like this would definitely be a lot quicker [Music] [Music] [Music] all all right I'm going to go up there and I'm probably just going to get one more scoop and uh that should be enough to take care of this and leave me enough to add to that check Dam and coming back here with scoop number two I'm going to dump it on top of the dam that way I can grab it with the excavator and add to the check Dam there and all that should be good then let's see about right [Music] here like so all right there is The Rock I'm going to go park this and bring my truck back go ahead and place that rock in there well actually I'm going to go ahead and do it right now while we're here make sure I got enough that would be bad not to have enough so we're going to come over here and push the last of the brush over to the burn pile that I could reach this morning from the other side and I'll just leave it over here in a pile for when uh when I bur I'll just grab it then and throw it in the fire right through it now while it's nice and dry it'll push over here and stay a lot cleaner then if I try to Rak through this after it rains [Music] [Music] electric fence wire got him I got to get that off the Dozer it's wrapped around the window canopy let's let some electric fence get wrapped around stuff that stuff will be wrapped around everything think I got past it I'm going to take this and push all this over here and that should kind of get that little bit of wire condensed over here in the one pile this stuff gets in the tracks or something it will be wrapped around the Dozer 20 times there we go all right got that obstacle out of the way now so it definitely does does make sense now that when they clear these fields they just pushed everything up into piles cuz you can definitely see the ridge of dirt that I'm on now so I think that can be cut down and spread back over the field right here to kind of level that up big old black snake go like SN I have seen my fair share of snakes out here let's see I don't think I can push that whole entire pile so make one more pass right here and get some of this stuff separate it out maybe there was a little more left than I thought there was hope I didn't leave more than the noer will push that would PR good is getting Dusty that time of year starting to get hot and dry let's see if I can cut some of this material out and not end up with all of it I definitely left more brush and I have Dozer uh-oh now we might have a problem now we got a log oh come on that piece of log trying to go up on the track let me push that over here there we go got a big push full now there we go all right well I'm going to finish uh pushing the rest of this stuff over here and get it all over over into the burn pile pushes here we go getting all the brush hopefully pushed in one big pass here [Music] there we go to the burn pile we [Music] are yeah it won't push them more all right I'm going to finish cleaning all this up and then go clear the island well everything is now all R and pushed up there to that pile I'm going to go down here and check and see how much this has drained down looks like it's been drain raining just very slowly today probably down oh 12 16 in or so so I'm going to lower that down just a little bit more and while that goes down I'm going to go over there I think I can come around the back side that island and take those trees down so let's see what it looks like looks like everything's holding up well I'm take the excavator and scratch that down a couple more inches and let a little bit out check Dam's holding good I ended up going and get another bucket of concrete and dumping there and all that rock so yeah it's holding all that back nicely there's the island it's still an island I'm want to set the camera up out here I hope that I can get out there I think the ground should support me it seems pretty pretty solid I don't know how deep it is over there but [Music] it's not as deep as it was let's go [Music] swimming I think I'm going to be okay [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm literally in the [Music] pond so Island's got to go well I don't know if the Island's got to go but the trees on the island have to go there's not going to be much of the island left after I take these trees down cuz they're going to eat up most of the dirt [Music] but when we redo the pond we'll probably let he just wants to rebuild it make it taller probably do away with it because as you can see L you figure out how to maintain it they turn into this mess right here [Music] [Music] that was a big old maple [Music] tree for island tree really wasn't that big of a tree [Music] sh [Music] [Music] so much [Music] Roots so this was also I saw on the other side a good like hiding spot for the nutria and it's not good to have those in a pond because they like to Tunnel into the embankments and what they can actually do is B B A or burrow a hole through the pond dam and cause it to start leaking so they're actually a very big nuisance to ponds and there's a couple of them out here so hopefully uh doing all this cleanup work will deter them and they will leave and go find somewhere else other than this Pond to to make a mess [Music] up climbing up the island [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right this is all the trees let me get this cleaned up and kind of rake everything off and that's going to be a wrap for today [Music] go and get all this shut over there into the burn pile [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and that's a wrap as you saw I got the island cleared off it looks very small now it's actually big enough to put the 220 on top of as I drove up there on it to clear this side of it off but all those trees are out of there now Pond's probably 16 to 18 in low now so slow but steady it'll probably go down I think I probably get another foot or so out of it which should get most of that water down to where the island is so I think if I can kind of get from the island to the Head section up there drained I think that'll be adequate to do the work that we need to do

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Id: 2Avbq-1uw98

Length: 37min 21sec (2241 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024