Installing A New Overflow On A Big Pond

all right so i got everything here finally uh it's been about six weeks since i put this siphon in this pond right here for it to go down this much it's just a lot of flow and all the rain we've had coming in here it's just it's been a little bit aggravating but here now we've finally had uh two weeks without rain and uh ponds gone down it's down about four feet or so and i am putting a new overflow in it today the uh the pipe that's out there is the old six inch pvc pipe and it's got some stuff in it clogged up and it's just not adequate to handle all the uh flow that comes into this pond and it ends up flooding everything out and going over the spillway a lot so i'm installing a concrete box and a 18 inch overflow pipe today so new box will go about right here and uh what i'm going to do is actually cut that old riser pipe off and put a screw cap on the back side and uh that way he can have a drain if he ever wants to drain the pond back down to be able to do any little thing plus he's still up there working uh with as many and wants the pond to stay down so i'll take the sawzall and cut that off at the order level and uh that way the pond will stay down and when he's ready to fill back up all he's gonna do is put the plug back in on the back side so i'm gonna get set up and uh start getting this overflow put in today [Music] so so [Music] so so huh so so so we went over there and uh checked the elevation of that dock we're trying to raise the pond up a little bit the owner wants it up a little bit higher um just because it's pretty shallow up there in the head section to get a little bit more depth so we went over there and we've got it like six inches from six or eight inches from the bottom of that dock so that when the pond does fill up from a rain it's not you know covering the dock up every time so that's determining my water level that is 6.8 and the box is three and a half feet tall so six eight three point five is ten point three is the grade for the bottom of that box so 10.3 right there so what i do now is come down here and mark that elevation that'll be where i dig out for the box um water is going to be up here so honestly the box is going to sit somewhere about about right in here i just need to know where that level is but first i have to cut it on it will not beep if it's off so pond is i just heard you beep so we're three and a half feet the pond's about four feet low that's kind of what i figured all right let me get to digging okay so i got the little pad cut out for the overflow box to sit on uh now that that's level and to the right grade i'm gonna go get it set the box just because it's a whole lot easier to go ahead and set the box then i'll know the grade to dig the bottom of the ditch for the overflow pipe [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] [Music] so now that i have the box set i've got the elevation at the bottom of the hole i had already knocked the hole in the box at the house and uh measured it with a uh old piece of pipe so that saved me that step and uh now i was able to get the elevation to the bottom of that knockout which would be the elevation of the bottom of the pipe and now i can start digging my ditch all the way through this pond dam [Music] so so so so so so [Music] so well i'm working my way on back i've made it all the way through the dam now i'm going down the slope was uh i had to bench it back a little bit there and trying to pile up dirt as far as i can reach and all i have to do is go down here now my plan is to go down here and i think i can knock that little tree down and then go up through the woods and back around if not i'm gonna have a slight problem that's kind of my only way right now since i'm doing this way i didn't want to dig back up and then try to straddle a eight feet deep ditch and try to dig the trenches together so i'm going to try to just go out through here and then go back up through the woods well i've reached the bottom it's not the prettiest in the world but i'm kind of confined to a tight little space here and i want to pluck uh that little tree out in that little tree and go right straight up the hill there and go back around get my first piece of double wall pipe down here i'm going to reach over the pile and drop it in place then i can come down here and just kind of put it inside the box there's my ditch got it run through here and then kind of curved it around just a little bit to the creek channel and ready to put the pipe in here and start putting it all together all right just here at lunchtime now just finished lunch and uh right before that i went ahead and got all the pipe put in so it goes in and goes all the way down there to the creek down below so now what i'm going to do is get up here with the excavator and lay some dirt on top of this pipe and run the jumping jack down it and pack beside it and then once i get to the top of the pipe we can go the easy route on packing and use the the compaction wheel i got from falco so i haven't used that in a while haven't done one of these in a while and everything's been mud that's still a little bit wet but it should uh should pack it pretty good at least still save me a whole lot of handwork and that's a good thing so so so [Music] [Music] [Music] so now i got all that dirt packed around there and i'm gonna put another lift in and roll it in with the compaction wheel that way i can come down here and i need to mix up four or five bags of concrete for the anti-seep collar go ahead and cover this and then i can finish covering all this up and uh then i gotta pour that box full of concrete mix all those bags but uh yeah you still gotta use the jumping jack but it uh the compaction wheel will do the rest from here you just gotta be able to pack beside the pipe i mean you see how much it it packed down about six inches and what that does is it packs around the pipe and shoves dirt around it and under it and kind of fills in any little gaps so that uh nothing can leak through there so i'm gonna go ahead and lay some more dirt in here and roll it in so so so so so so [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] [Music] so so so so i've got all the uh trench back filled on top of the dam i still got to do the back slope and i went ahead and mixed up seven bags of concrete dumped around right there grouted the inside of the pipe so that's nice and sealed now what i'm going to do is mix up enough concrete to fill the bottom of this box level with the bottom of the pipe that'll reduce the amount of volume inside so that it'll also reduce the uh effort that it'll require for it to float you know you uh take up some of the space inside that's less air space and you know less likely that it'll float and the rest of it i'll dump around here and compact dirt around here and then whatever's left i'll start taking it down the back side of the pond dam and getting all that covered up so not uh not a whole lot left to do here coming along pretty good just got oh see uh how many more bags 15 more bags of concrete to mix so foreign so so so so so so so thank you so so so [Music] so [Music] [Music] well it was a good day today i was busy and i managed to get the entire overflow in new concrete overflow box trash rack set concrete poured look at a nice grout job in there isn't that just pretty so we got that filled with concrete dirt packed around it i'm leaving the siphon in here tonight we're going to try to lower it down a little bit more and i'm going to cut that pipe off and he's going to keep that as a drain so if he ever needs to do work to the pond um he can at least get it down that low right there that is the little john deere mini that i got unstuck uh when i come out here and set up the siphon uh back slope is graded i put a cap on the end down there so when he takes that off he's going to have a pretty good little gush of water come out and uh that way he can drain it i've also got a six inch pvc cap so that once the pond is drained um there's still a fair amount of water flowing in he can go out there in a boat and put it over top of that uh to stop the water long enough to come back over here and put the cap on because that's gonna be a little difficult to put that cap back on with the uh with water it won't be gushing out that bad once the pond gets down but it's it's very difficult to put a cap on with a a good amount of water flowing out of a pipe so that should seal that off and uh that's pretty much how we're going to abandon abandon that old overflow like i'll take the sawzall and cut cut that off at water level uh tomorrow so i'll be back tomorrow to get this finished up and that's a wrap and the overflow is done got everything seated and strawed this morning got the siphon taken up and i was able to go out there and cut off the old riser pipe so new overflow little old overflow so what we're going to do is leave that as a drain so he's up there doing some work he wants to be able to keep the water down lower so we decided to cut that off that way he can always lower the pond down to that level right there um i've glued on a cap down here at this end and what he can do is come down here and unscrew this cap going to take a bath in the process because it's going to spray water everywhere but uh we can undo that and that will allow the water to drain it's going to pour out like so and uh once it drains down should be able to get this cap put back on if not i left him another six inch cap to go out here on this end and honestly you could probably just take a five gallon bucket and turn it upside down anything just to stop the water long enough to put this cap back on because if it's flushing out pretty good it's going to be very difficult to get that cat put back on but all in all that's uh the new overflow and the new pipes right there it'll uh shoot out right into the creek channel and there we go

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Keywords: mini, excavator, trackhoe, track, hoe, digger, bagger, yanmar, setting, install, installing, new, pond, drain, overflow, valve, box, culvert, pipe, leaking, dam, heavy, construction, equipment, felco, compactor, wheel, concrete, trash, rack, towing, siphon

Id: zyK_xUzBugs

Length: 43min 10sec (2590 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 13 2021