Huge Transformation On The Forgotten Pond In The Woods

[Music] so back at my pond project this morning machine the warming up gonna need a bath with some nasty stuff but uh it's been um six days since i've dug that out and if you remember this splattered when i dumped it out and you can actually walk on it now it's actually dried out it has not rained all weekend long all week long you know but they're calling for a fair amount of rain uh first of the next week so i mean this stuff is almost slightly dusty that stuff that's so hard is like a real fine very fine silt all i know is uh water won't go through it but uh that's filled up almost two feet in six days with no rain so i'm i'm happy about that this is dried out pretty good so that's gonna be a pretty good fill material mixed in with enough mud it should kind of stay together and grow some grass but uh this morning i'm gonna go over there and pull that fire pile apart and see if i can restack it and get that to finish burning then put my grading bucket back on and uh i fixed the quick coupler hose the other day and made sure it wasn't leaking and i'm probably going to start somewhere about right here and start cutting all that out and start building the bank up and the pond dam all the way around and hopefully that'll be burnt down by lunchtime i can throw the overflow pipe in and continue digging the pond out all the way around and uh my goal is to get it done this weekend so that uh it'll be ready for all that rain and hopefully fill back up but it's definitely going to turn this little mud hole into a nice uh nice little pond [Music] all right let's pull this whole fire pile apart and assess this situation just gonna pull all the small stuff and sit in one pile and the bigger stuff in another pile fabulous birch trees that won't break up at least i got dust [Music] [Music] so i'm gonna have to do a small fire if i do uh hopefully i can try to see which way the wind's blowing it doesn't really look like it's blowing too much i wanted to go that way since it is actually kind of dry now the leaves and everything in the woods i don't need to be stopping any uh fires out of the woods today all right let me rephrase that i don't feel like stomping any uh fires out in the woods today but i do feel like i can get a pretty good fire going back pretty easy that's some good dry material here [Music] so the wind is blowing away i don't know i'm not restarting the pile over this way a little bit farther and the wind's blowing that way to kind of keep it away from the woods a little bit farther all right well let me get this pile separated out and uh i'll restack another one over here and uh get it going here in a little bit [Music] so it was taking the brush and piling it up and there was a pile of coals sitting right there nothing was smoking or burning but i grabbed them and i figured i'd just throw them over here just in case uh they were still hot and uh here we are about two minutes later got a nice little campfire going so i hadn't even had to get out of the machine to start the fire back so that's a that's a good thing i'm gonna take and let that catch up a little bit and just kind of pull that pile pile over top of it and it should uh start back i'm gonna take some of this material that was already dried out pretty good from the fire last weekend start piling it up on there [Music] [Music] so a lot of those are those little birch trees i laid to the side because they had so much dirt on them they still got dirt on [Music] [Music] once again i forgot my leg blower [Music] if i need it i can walk back home and get it [Music] a little bit of this and that's about all i want to put on there for now kind of let that burn down a little bit i don't want it to get too big [Music] say that as i just keep piling stuff on there i just wanted to burn real good i wish it burned like that stuff from that other pond that i cleared around that was crazy how well that stuff burned and it was like mud and it just hurt right away all right i'm gonna let that catch up and let the smoke die down a little bit i think that's gonna catch up pretty good all that nice dry material in there i'm gonna dig back through the pile and get some more stuff and go ahead and start laying uh some of that burnt stuff that i pulled out um back on the fire should get uh shouldn't take too long to get rid of this today start moving some mud all right so i got everything on the fire it's burning uh burning pretty good now not a lot of smoke i'm gonna let that kind of burn down and uh do away with itself what i'm going to do now is i'm going to go ahead and fill in the old ditch right here that i cut out um when i drain the pond i'm just going to kind of skim out some of the mud that was in there lay it on the back side and break the dirt that i piled up right there back into it pretty much what i'm doing is just cleaning out that little bit of sediment that's in the bottom um just so there's no chance it may leak through there this this is some pretty goopy dirt so i don't think water's gonna go through it but it just makes me feel better just kind of pack back in there a little bit better but i'm just gonna rake it i kind of piled it all up on that edge just kind of pat it back in place with the bucket i'll put the new overflow in there beside it back on original grounds i don't have to worry about it [Music] being in this softer material but this isn't gonna go anywhere it's all bush anyway so it kind of it really bombs together good that's the problem it bonds together so good it never dries out well dries out quickly i should say [Music] [Music] absolutely nothing fancy or high-tech just put dirt in and i'm gonna track it in pack it down better than anything else pretty much it's not like you're going to run a compactor over this and uh i'll keep stacking the fire up a little bit more and then i'm going to put the green bucket on and go there and start cutting the dirt that i stacked up out and grating the edge transferring it back here building the condom up a little bit and work my way on around here [Music] that was pretty much whatever material now that i'm out of the pond dam i mean it's all pond damn but the critical area everything else the dig out's just going to get dumped back here and spread out with a bucket and that's what it's going to be [Music] so i think i'm gonna dig a hole back here and get a few more scoops of better dirt and finished uh building this up i would like to have at least a good layer of somewhat decent material for the first 20 feet of the pot dammit that'll that'll seal it there's i know of a lot of pond dams that are only about six to eight feet wide up top and hold back acres and acres of water it does not take a whole lot it just needs to be done right let's see what kind of material we have right here scrape the layer of topsoil off [Music] let's well a little bit more off that was liquid [Music] and more liquid see if i can get a few scoops of dryer stuff not really that stuff so goofy the machine won't even hardly take anything pulling me down the hill i'll put that on the front edge we know that'll seal [Music] it's just amazing how the dirt changes so much i mean in some areas i would never attempt to build a pond damn out of a material looking like this but [Music] i've lived here and i know what it'll do but water will not go through it gonna keep dragging it in and packing it down see how much by the ruts pressing it down it all bonds together and it makes a material it won't it'll be fun all right well i'm going to attend to that for a little bit longer and go put the gray bucket on and start moving and great so i set the transit up on a pile of dirt there and what i'm going to do now already got the grating bucket put back on new coupler works good so uh what i'm going to do is come over here and determine the water level i'm going to set the pond at now and i'm going to take all the dirt that i'm dig out i don't still know what this thing is i guess there's no better time now might be a body in here i don't well i'm not saying it was an outhouse but there's nothing in it anyways um the only way this water is coming i'm going to take all the dirt and fill this in around here because it's just so wet and swampy and i'm going to have a little swell on the uphill side here of the pond after i put this in for the water to come down here i'm going to find the lowest point and check that elevation and that's what i'm gonna set the level of the pond at so i need to know that elevation so that i can i'm gonna put the dam two feet higher than this because i'm just putting a 12 inch pipe through there and i want uh 12 inches of cover so i need two feet so what i need to do is find the lowest point which i think is right here and find this grade because i don't want to back water up into the woods so i figure if i check it about right here i can set my pipe and then i'll have a good 12 inches of cover on top of that and that should put the uh the level of the pond pretty much where this water's standing right now so what i'm going to do now is i found the water level over there which is 8.4 i'm gonna come over here on the pond name and just kind of look and see where that lays so i would need to add about 12 to 16 inches of dirt on top of the dirt that's already here to get the elevation i need so let's go over here if we can get past the fire without a hot ember going down my back would be great let's check this grade right here this is where i just filled in the ditch i cut through see where 8 4 is right there so let's just check grade right here and we'll say it's around seven four i'm pretty good so this has only got to come up a foot right now it's already a foot higher than the water level i wanted a foot higher and i should have enough dirt there to dig out there is because i'm just going to dig it out put a foot or so on top and smear the rest along the back side all right well let's go over here and get to digging i'm just going to let that do what it's going to do it's burning pretty good and not really smoking too much all right so i've already dug a little bit with the grady bucket i've made a couple passes just reaching out here and cutting the uh material out and building the pond bank back water drain out this edge right here is not going to be quite as deep as everything else just because i don't have room to put dirt but it'll still be about four to five feet deep which is significantly deeper than it was before take this wet stuff and kind of throw it over here to the side i'm trying to dig like little chambers almost so that i'm not working in the water all the time you know i'd rather have two scoops of wet stuff at the end and then uh try to dig in water the whole entire time because i'm trying to grate the bank here and when it's pouring out liquid it doesn't stay on the slope too good so it's best not to uh make any more mud than you have to let's raise the wind showed up so we can see a little there's a better even though i just washed it so what i'm going to do i'm going to make one more cut then i can go back down there and reach that because i can't quite reach it from here um the stuff with all the topsoil in it i'm using this right here because it'll bond together a little bit better and hopefully suggest that's pretty sandy uh keep that edge from eroding until some grass can get established on it i'll just take that like i said it's got the best top soil in it you can use it for the edge and then the uh more sandier crafting material kind of use it a little farther out [Music] because it's not going to it's flat it's not going to start eroding off into the pond [Music] but most of the stuff is burnt up on the fire not a whole lot left i just kind of keep i just went over there and pushing up a few minutes ago with the just the great bucket no need to change out for that [Music] but this stuff the green bucket hardly digs but i mean at that point right there to where water was i'm already three feet lower and that was a few inches deep anyways and by the time i raise the water up i'll put it it's gonna have plenty of coverage then so i'm really not too crazy about getting it incredibly deep right here because that's why i went out there last weekend and dug that entire center out uh because i knew it would fill up with water by this weekend [Music] and then make the couple passes here to dig out a little divider firm along the shoreline so by the time i get all the way around here this is going to uh some of this that i'm digging will probably actually be out of the water level but just because as i dig this out that keeps going down and down [Music] and then i grade so what i do is i come up here i need to put a little bit more dirt right there fill in that hole i kind of check my grades over here so i can kind of eyeball it for now uh before i get to the bond damn i'll start setting the laser up i might be able to get it up high enough to put the magnetic receiver on i don't know uh that would definitely be handy and then i start cutting my slope in taking that material and piling it up here [Music] trying to keep a pretty uniform slope uh just so it can be maintained a little bit easier the water's probably going to come all the way up to about the edge of my bucket i did it two feet lower [Music] just to kind of raise up all the dirt around the pond so that it it dries out it's just a definitely wet you can't even walk down here so with it being two feet higher than the pond it'll raise it up out of the water table and uh should dry out a little better this stuff right here i'm actually going to slope it away from the pond because all the water is coming from that way there's not really enough runoff that i need this and that'll kind of help if you got from that edge tapered back that rain water will run off and it'll keep it from eroding your bank out a lot of times you don't want that because you actually need the water to flow into the pond but this is pretty much just a hole in the ground and uh it's gonna hold water regardless [Music] all right well let's take off down there real quick and lay that little edge back i can throw it over here um let me get rid of that material before i cut out my little ramp here don't get me wrong it's still pretty goopy and mud but it's a lot drier than it was last weekend when i dug it out [Music] so goopy mud at least i got plenty of room to waste it back there [Music] so [Music] so once i dig this out it's probably gonna be a little bit of a ridge here but it's still gonna be four feet under water and uh it'll kind of give the fish a little little habitat there it's kind of a shell [Music] i'll probably come somewhere down here and dig another hole out give him a good deep spot but it's definitely going to be far deeper than it has ever been in its life [Music] so all right well it is definitely coming together now you can kind of start to see the the shape of it and how i'm going to do it all the way around got a little mirrored image of that right there just a lot more digging to do [Music] so i've dug on that for about an hour now kind of grading and pulling it back and slicking everything up and a uh definitely a huge noticeable difference from that to that right here getting it all grated out i got the stick here i'm gonna go over here and check the uh elevation and make sure i'm uh still on grade i kind of did all that by eye just blending it into the slope up here so we'll walk down here and check it out i'm gonna start getting rid of this pile of mud right here that i piled up when i was digging that section and wasting it back here [Music] in the woods that way as i'm digging and grating uh once i get it back down to the a little bit above the water level that that's the material i need i'll need to finish the pond dam and not this much stuff go here and get it out of the way and luckily with the big bucket it does not take long to do [Music] i'm still gonna lay my top soil up here on the edge there [Music] that's a good place to get rid of some dirt there nice low area [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] me [Music] better not throw it too far i still got to drive out on there to grade it out [Music] [Music] so [Music] i love my great bucket you move a lot of material quick with this [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] get rid of that old nasty slumpy whip that's what i dug out when i drove down in there a while ago to clear out that section i couldn't reach [Music] i don't think i got to worry about the paws leaking through this stuff [Music] this is some nasty stuff and it will splatter you [Music] i didn't take long to hog all that material out now i've got majority of that out of the way i can pull back down there and start cutting out uh more and grading the content as i go i need to probably uh check it here after a couple more passes with the laser and make sure i'm still on grade i'll probably go to lunch here in a minute and uh grab that magnetic receiver and see if i can uh get it up high enough i don't know i think i'm i might be able to raise it up on that pile of dirt high enough i don't know i'll find out after lunch so i had something weird happen with the green bucket it just it got to where it wouldn't tilt the one direction and uh i don't know what the heck happened but it started getting a little slow and then all of a sudden it just it would tilt you to the left but it would not tilt to the right and uh i've messed with it for about an hour and a half and i'm aggravated with it and uh i've got to get this pond done before we get all that rain because i've already filled in the drain out and it would just really make this a mess so i'm gonna have to do it the old-fashioned way with the digging bucket [Music] it's not the ideal way but i've done it my whole life for the digging bucket by golly i'll do it again as long as i can still drive out here what i'm going to do is just grate my type of dam with this and then i'll get in here with the bucket and kind of slope that around fire still burning pretty good [Music] [Music] that's all that's left of the fire right there that little bit that should burn down nicely here whatever's left i'm gonna go in a hole behind them [Music] [Music] i just hate it that the rest of my pond isn't gonna look as nice as that section right there but i don't know i may try to take the hoses off but it's at an angle right now at least i can if i get it back straight i can grade that won't be no different than great never a dull moment [Music] i'm trying to get all this cut back where i can reach it from sitting up here i think i can just about do that finish breaking this out and cut that edge in [Music] [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] so [Music] oh my [Music] [Music] so yeah take this and push it back there and spread it out all right so i'm walking over here to my ditch with the drain pipe i'm going to put in it picks it up a wall for the level spot and the single wall for going down the hill um i said this pond is pretty much just groundwater and runoff pond so it doesn't doesn't need a huge overflow i'm just gonna do a little horizontal pipe through there pretty much it's just a hole in the ground catching catching runoff water fire is almost done about ready to just do away with it and uh get this covered up so i'm going to get this pipe put in and cover it up for today all right so i got the overflow pipe installed it's just a horizontal pipe going through double wall and then the single wall right there to flex and go down the hill into the ditch so i'm going to go ahead and get that covered up and uh probably go ahead and dig a hole and throw what's left of that in there well have you ever had one those days where you feel like you just didn't get anything done even though you worked all day that would be today i don't know ever since lunchtime when this thing screwed up it's just i don't know what the deal is there's something on it it will not allow the cylinder here to move it'll tilt that way but this side will not go down and uh i'm beyond frustrated with it i've screwed with it for like pretty much all afternoon and uh just trying different things i don't know what these valves but i've taken these out it's got these settings up here i've taken those out loosened everything i had it at an angle ended up just loosening the line and pushing down on it till it got back straight and uh tighten the hose back up where i could use it but it's it's aggravating machines filthy but on the bright side i did get well i should have got all this done today but that was a minor setback uh got this side graded out pretty much all the way around you can tell where the bucket quit and i had to use the digging bucket but uh got it all the way over there got the culvert pipe put in in the morning i'll get rid of the fire and finish up all the way around here i'll probably just end up using the the digging bucket but it is what it is i got to get this knocked out tomorrow before all that rain comes in you ready to go get breakfast buddy hey winston i can see your breath i know i got the heat cut on i got your heated seat cut on so your butt doesn't get cold all right let's go get breakfast it's a good buddy oh thanks for drooling just one how dare you so i have to give a shout out to the ami service department they called me back uh yesterday at like 6 or 6 30 saturday night and kind of walked me through what they thought was the problem and we've actually got it diagnosed down to this hydraulic quick connect has failed i just replaced it but it has failed and it's not allowing fluid in this line to run the bucket because i come down here at like seven o'clock last night in the dark and i switched the lines around and it tilted the way that it would not tilt so that's telling me that it's only getting flowing one direction which means that's the problem so it's like 8 o'clock sunday morning the whole pond's frozen it is like bone chilling cold but i'm gonna try to i just replaced it because the other one was on there was starting to jam up and wouldn't go back together so i want to see what i can macgyver around to make this work today i might be able to unscrew that and just do away with the quick couplers and screw that line in or or something worst case i think i can unscrew that and screw it in right here i'll just lose some oil but i got to get i got to get this job done today before it uh rains so much tomorrow boy it's cold oh so i couldn't get the old quick connect back on there so i just completely bypassed the valve and everything luckily this hose actually reached to that and the threads were the same so now i don't have any shutoff valve other than cutting the thumb off so yeah so the tilt buckets is always going to work i can't use the tilt bucket and thumb or the you know get that straight cut it off and use the thumb but at least hopefully i'm about to fire the machine up and make sure should be able to use just the uh tilt bucket now hopefully let me get all these tools picked up and uh get this machine started up about to freeze all right moment of truth [Music] it was the uh it was the quick connect i'll be darned [Music] that is crazy i wonder if i can suck the thumb up it kind of leaked down from changing all the hoses let me see what i can do all right so i got the laser set up i'm gonna go check my grate again i hope this thing moves i was so frustrated yesterday i didn't even shovel off in between the rollers but i'm just super excited this bucket's fixed okay i've never seen a quick connect fail internally before and i mean i was i around with that for a half a day on and off but huge shout out to the the guys there at ami they uh they were able to tell me what i need to check at or look for and boy that saved me some headache because i got to get this pond finish graded out today and i'll have to go back in the pond to fix that over there but at least i can grade all this from uh over there i'm actually going to go bury that fire pile this morning with the grading because i'm not taking it off i've got it where it works and uh we're just gonna use it all right so fire pile is gone i got right rid of that and uh bucket is fixed super excited for that to be fixed uh you just don't realize how uh easy it is to grade with that until it doesn't work and uh that's what it looks like when it doesn't work this is what it looks like it does work so i'll have to come back in the pond when i'm done and slick that up because i can't drive across that pipe because there's not enough cover and it's it's mud and i'm not gonna drive around on that to tear all that up so i'm going to run over here and set up the laser and i think my magnetic receiver will fit on the thumb and uh that way i can finish digging all this out and i have to get back out in the mud and check grade all right so i went to the truck and got my magnetic receiver for the machine now i know my grades and all i've got to do is dig and throw dirt up here smooth it out and carry on dusting everything from the fire got [Music] made everything difficult to see out the glasses it's actually pretty comfy here in the sun [Music] i'm just using whatever mud i have to build this up this dam right here is already above water level so it really doesn't matter the material i use i'll dig out a few scoops pull all that back and then carry on a little farther right now the water level is about four feet low and i'm about two feet of water so all in all it's going to be 35 and six feet deep and i've dug a couple little random holes out here just to get a little some deeper spots if they do want to put some fish in here [Music] um the depth in here is more than adequate for the average pond fish [Music] so let's take out a couple deeper scoops here just to kind of the ground so damn hard i can hardly dig it just to give a little extra a few little random holes here and there now just remember not to drive towards this end of the pond dam when i go back in there [Music] so [Music] so digging rock almost it's amazing there's a that stuff can get that hard and it's just pure silk and sand anyway that's going to be about eight feet deep there when it's full and if i don't throw a whole lot of dirt in it like doing that it'll be fine i'll take the wet stuff cast it back there towards the tree line and call it good [Music] a few ashes left look on the fire i'll spread them out right here and go ahead and start grading this out that is great right there [Music] but the thing with the magnetic receiver you can only do it it's got to be in that one exact position when you check grades because the angle of the boom changes when you cast it way out here it's going to be a lot lower so you've got to take that grade and pull it across the level to your grade right here and this this doesn't have to be critical i just want to get it where you know it's within a two or three inches of being on grade uh that end down there's a little bit higher but i have a lot more dirt to get rid of and the tree line i couldn't waste it over there in it so uh it kind of ended up a little bit taller but look at that it's not going to hurt anything i just want that reveal edge to be kind of even going all the way around that was when you stand on the other side and look across the pond the sand looks pretty even [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right and i'll keep digging out laying up here and working my way back [Music] [Music] me [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] [Music] so so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so all right so i just walked back down here or i can grab it with a machine i'm gonna put the pipe in for the pretty much it's gonna be the intake for the pond so [Music] come on [Music] knock the laser over so pond is pretty much done all the way to the corner up here i'm gonna have all this water diverted to up here and i'm gonna take all this dirt raise this up because you see how swampy and wet it stays um and kind of raise that up and this will all be about two feet higher than the uh pond level and it should keep everything nice and dry and i'm gonna have everything where it's funneled down there's a kind of a runoff hitch to there and here and they'll allow this water to come in into the pond through this 12-inch pipe right here so i'm just putting a 12-inch pipe in and it's got a 12-inch overflow [Music] it's not an incredible amount of water that flows through here and if it becomes too much this is two feet higher if it comes up like a foot it'll just run around and go through the woods or back up i mean there's really no way i'm not doing a spillway or anything there's really no way that the uh pond could ever overfill because it would just back up into the woods and or run around so pretty much this is just a hole in the ground [Music] and the pond i got the great set it is right there at the bottom of that pipe it might actually be in the pipe about an inch or two i just want to kind of seat it down into the pond a little bit so finish digging some of this material out to put over top of the pipe i don't need to cut back anymore because the pond's not going to come back that far dump some of this goopy stuff on top of it and pack it down [Music] so [Music] [Music] so it's some nasty stuff ain't it [Music] but it builds a good pond damn because water will not go through it i'm going to take some of this some sandier material now and top dress it with that [Music] get everything slicked up nice and [Music] pretty [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this dirt can kind of be whatever just because it's two feet above the water level is not doing anything other than just wasting the material raise up the edge of the pond here nothing special [Music] a couple more inches grade right there [Music] so [Music] [Music] now cut a little indentation around right here and it'll allow this surface water to run over here to the pipe and then into it [Music] this should fill up here pretty shortly and start running into the bottom i'm gonna take off into the pond and grab what's left of that island right here go over there and fix that pond bank and then i won't have to get back in this thing anymore [Music] so a little bit of fish having that [Music] yeah that could have been bad it's a big old blob of goopy mud [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a little bit better angle from right there just clean that up all right let's go over here so hole right there so this is about where my quick connect failed and i couldn't tilt the bucket anymore [Music] and i can't leave a section looking like crap so i'm gonna spread it out real quick it won't take much just just needs a little little finesse so so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh that looks a lot better now i'm happy now now i gotta get out of here there's the turtles i rescued i got him a nice pot now put that tire over here by the pipe flatten out my wraps a little bit see water in the pipe looks like it's about ready to come out [Music] so [Music] as i kept digging the pond out the water went down because it's gone down about eight or ten inches that's why you're seeing mud here now [Music] [Music] so [Music] and now i've just worked on finishing that up working my way out [Music] so now i have the pond all dug out and i'm going to finish uh grading this edge i took all that material laid it up here just looked it up kind of left a little ditch along the backside so any of this water will run down there to the pipe and i took the rest of the dirt and threw it up here now i'm gonna work my way up there spread it all the way to the bucket kind of raise this up and spread this out and level it up some and make kind of a nice little flat area here [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so here's the pond i'm gonna go ahead and do a quick walk around video because once i fill all this in i don't know if i'm gonna be able to get back uh walk back over here so uh yeah it's wet but here is the pond all graded around i kind of pulled this edge back a little softer just because it's the bank that everybody's gonna be walking down here to and it wanted to be such a straight down drop off but uh pretty much went all the way around it cleared everything off um burned it all re-dug everything come in here and laid it up to the bank and then went around here and pulled it all up and used it for the dam and the back slope on that i'll walk down here as far as i think i can i got the 12 inch pipe going out and a 12 inch pipe coming in i don't know how much farther i can walk without sinking here this edge should be okay i don't know what they might have to end up having to spray something for that duckweed it's starting to come back i tried to get rid of as much as i could but when i was pushing all that water out but a little bit of it stayed here so this is about the wettest end right here i don't know if i can shuffle over here or not let's see but uh pretty much i funneled everything down you know this is the wettest part right here but all that's gonna run down this bank right here and it'll flow into the pipe which is right here now and it'll allow all that to drain into the pond i set that at the it's like an inch below that pipe so it'll have a little bit of water in the end of it and it's already starting to flow in here i didn't put uh well i didn't have anything to really put here any rock or anything but it shouldn't once it fills up it'll be discharging into the pond and it shouldn't really wash any of this nasty gumbo clay but that's it i'll take the drone and do a little flyover here's a pretty good little view from this side this is the uh when i first walked down here and did the walk around video to start with i was standing right here and this is what it looks like now so got a good nice wide dam to be able to drive all the way around keep everything mowed and cleaned up it should turn into a nice little pond we finished getting this uh cleaned up [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] me [Music]

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Keywords: excavator, trackhoe, track, hoe, digger, bagger, muddy, stuck, accident, wreck, land, clearing, burning, tree, removal, lake, pond, water, creek, dredging, dreding, hole, digging, grading, overflow, pipe, culvert, drain, heavy, construction, equipment

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Length: 86min 44sec (5204 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021