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I'd love that old number plate for my collection.
If i was digging up garbage i wouldn't be able to stop.. old garbage in weird places is intriguing because like you said, "they use everything"
by the way I picked up a mint condition "Wetterlings" small axe head at an antique store over the weekend.. paid a little much for it ($32) but i couldn't pass it up and in reality it's worth it. also picked up a piece of hickory that's 8/4 x 8'x6" for $63.57 so now i can make a few handles! also picked up some new wood for building a toolbox caddy.. it's going to be 30"x11.25" and the rest of the specs are about the same as yours but i'm going to do a different divider setup.. all the wood is cut so i get to do the dovetail joints today! have a good day!
Trail's End. I know man I love doing that I found all kinds of cool things and. A lot of gross things in the process if you want to look at anything I've gotten just email me at gibsonry281@gmail.com
With all the water and elevation drop I've seen on your land, I'm really surprised you haven't developed a micro-hydro system. Generate all the electricity you could ever need and more. Then you'd really be off the grid.
I'm a civil engineer, licensed in Pennsylvania and educated in water resources. To help repay you for all the excellent videos of your's that I've watched, feel free to bounce any questions off me that you might have.
are you in Susquehanna county?
Luzerne; why do you ask?
Or put up an industrial wind turbine and ruin the landscape for all the neighbors. A proposed full project in that are is being fought: gorgefriends.org/protect-the-gorge/gorge-issues/whistling-ridge-energy-project.html
I downright dug your dig on the dam dude.
Looks like you guys have been really busy with the excavator getting things squared away on the homestead! Looking nice.
Must restore the license plate!
Throw a little boiled linseed oil on it and that will cure what ails it.
Let's poll the subscribers and see what colors it should be repainted!
The key to a license plate is proper grain orientation.
It is made out of a quality metal that you just don't see anymore.
lmao
Love the nature shot at 1:22
Forest remediation--fertilizing the forest floor.
@@E.lectricityNorth Doing his part to buttress the backside of the damn.
If you are still looking for a place to put brush and other cleared scrub/etc., perhaps the area you took some fill from would be a good spot? As it decays into soil, it will help to hold back the dam. You'll also have lots of rabbits (perhaps this is not an advantage per se). You could throw rocks from pasture/gardening areas in there too if you need to get rid of them. Great idea re: hydroelectric setup too--that would make a nifty little series.
That pond looks so clear amazing
Hows it going Sir? I love your videos and the your background music is Absolutely the best ! Your content of course too is impeckable, but the music really stands out. Thank you sir for your contributions.
Look into a trompe system. It's sort of like a ram pump in that uses water pressurized by gravity, but it produces cold, compressed air, which can be potentially be used for endless refrigeration and or shop use.
I think it is a very bad idea to take the earht from the back of the dam, and increasing the hight of it.
Actually what you have done is increasing the load on the top of the dam but removing the support bulk of the earth from the back. Every kind of soil, or gravel etc. has an inner friction angle (for example in sand it is equalent the angle of the side of a sand pile). This means that until the angle of the side is under the inner friction angle you should be fine, but when you increase the angle (higher dam with the same base) it may shear and the water will break through.
Here you increased the hight (more soil= more load + if the drain pipes cannot drain the water soon enough that means more pressure from the water), and you made the dam thinner by removing earth from the side.
As a Msc Civil Engineer I am concerned becuse it already had some cracks, so the reinforcement may cause more problems in the future.
But you may have already considered all of these factors.
Take care!
I am a dredge an by trade and run hydraulic dredges and long reach excavators and find logging chains snowmobiles and lots of little thing like that. It's always interesting to pick up your bucket or cutter head and see what you have found.
You got a lot of work done with that Deere, great job! When I got to use a skid steer my place I would run it for hrs trying to get every job done. These videos remind me when I lived on an acreage.
I'm guessing the "fabric" was put there for weed control and not to seal the pond.
I agree with those that are saying plant ground cover there to prevent erosion and not trees. Trees are not good for dams. Their roots can do damage to a watertight dam.
Maybe the car that goes with that license plate is still down there...
I would be worried about the holes you showed in the beginning, because to me that would suggest that while water is seeping through the dam it is taking with it a lot of material from within the dam. Allso the overflow pipe seems to be at a level so high that the water picks up quite a lot of speed before hitting the ground below. That causes erosion, I'm sure you know - and propably have observed. If that is the case, a level spillway would work better. It can release a mass of water, but because it is level the water has no errosive effect on the dam. I have no idea what kind of trees you could grow there, but bamboo is the best plant for the dam wall. Clumping bamboo in particular, it grows massive rootsystems in the surface of the dam but does not have deep taproots that will destroy (eventually) a dam like this. I would not put rocks on the underside, because when water has to go around the rocks it picks up speed thusly causing more erosion. If you have a source of clay, adding that on the inside against the pressurr of water usually helps in plugging small holes that water has seeped into. All the best from Finland.
Here, the bit of guitar in the middle of this was/is in/from the old pc game Purple Haze-vietcong. That takes me back....
If it was me I would focus on making the dam wider not taller.... making the dam taller makes it weaker since you have now increased the load bearing ability of the dam without increasing the load bearing capability of the dam... removing dirt from the back side of the dam also weakened it's load bearing capability..... I'm not trying to troll just making an observation and don't want you to end up with a bigger mess on your hands. great video Cody!!!
the capacity did change.... a large rainfall like we are used to here in the northwest is enough to overrun that small overflow... and that overflow is placed just under the top elevation of the dam making the top of the dam the final overflow... even though it is a smaller pond raising the top of the dam by even 6 inches can raise the load capacity of the dam by hundreds of tons. making it more likely to fail catastrophically..
I recall there was lots of gravel from the logging operation. Would it make sense to grab that and cover the opp of the dam? Limit erosion and reinforce the top.
I'm sure that pond silt would have made a great addition for your garden...........
saw this video and got excited. I must still believe there's buried treasure out there!
So interesting as usual .Glad you had a goodChristmas😊
That hydro project...I'd love to see that. Very interesting stuff.
worried that winter thaw / spring rains will wash down the dirt and saturate the damn now that you have destroyed all the top vegetation...i think this should have been left for late spring so you could plant grass seed to regain root structure quickly
Cool. I like the plate make sure and put it on the wall in your workshop
What you did was increase the angle of the downhill side of the dam, while also decreasing the width of the dam... I think you should have taken material from somewhere else and packed it down on top, while also adding material to the downhill slope. This will decrease the angle of repose of the soil, decreasing its ability to slump or creep. The big rocks and other massive material you are finding is part of the base of the dam which prevents erosion. A rock "toe" at the base of the dam holds back the above material preventing creep. Keeping vegetation cover also helps prevent erosion.
Disturbing it is not that good. Also, the thinner width of the dam is more susceptible to breaches... Not being a troll, just giving you a geologist's perspective. Especially when it rains, I would watch that bare earth you exposed on the dam.
I thought that he said it was dirt he had stored at the dam and not taking dirt out of the dam?
SteveandDawnFWIW Around 3:00 you can see the area he disturbed with the bucket. This is on the face of the dam, where stability is key. You can also see how the angle of the face of the dam is higher than it was at 1:20.
Having extra dirt or rock in this spot only increased the stability of the dam. More material would have been better to put on top to raise the height of the dam. It is like building a house of cards on a base of four cards vs. building on eight or more... A larger wider base is better.
SteveandDawnFWIW In order to support a slope from creep or slump, the most common methods are decapitating the head, or supporting the toe. He cut off the toe and built on the head, while also removing vegetation which reduces erosion, especially in the wet months.
I made almost the same comment about the dam.... He has now increased the load bearing ability and decreased the load bearing capability essentially making the dam weaker and more susceptible to failure... I too am not trying to troll just wanted to keep him from having a bigger mess on his hands if he gets a monster rain fall....
I was also concerned about dredging the pond. We have a pond that has shallow bedrock around and under the water. It took many attempts to get it to hold water. We had to add bentonite to create a soil "liner" that would slow the water traveling through native soil and along the bedrock surfaces. I would be afraid to ever dredge that pond for fear of going through the low flow soil that is holding the water.
Aside from the other concerns about destabilization, I am wondering what was accomplished by raising the dam level. The over flow tubes were not raised, so the capacity of the pond was not increased.
Hope all the concerns raised here come to nothing.
Yet another good video by you!
@ 1:22 Lucy adding to the dam.
Have you seen any of that dirty rain out your way? Read that they have had some in Spokane and the Tri-cities.
that's a shame, would have been nice to see a video of you guys enjoying that pond in summer, a nice and clear pond wwith some plants to decorate
When you are excavating on the dam, I can hear music by pseudohendrix from Vietcong game by pseudohendrix :) Interesting :)
I thought the dirt looked like the red dirt of Georgia. Let's have someone run that plate - there must be a good story there! I'm not sure Lucy likes that new surface!
love the music at the end
A lot of our pond dams are made of rocks we've had our pond wash out and we've fixed it with a piece of pool liner and rocks that were taken from the fields. Why is your water that colour? I haven't seen water like that in the east! haha
Looking good!
Iv dug a lot of dams with tractor and grader blade I always slope dam backwoods so is deeper at back of dam less weight on dam wall /head of dam
Woah did all of that snow disappear that quickly? You just had several inches the other day. Haha
Did you ever dredge any out of the other sides? Thats a big enough pond it could sustain a lot of fish!
Have you considered putting a small water turbine on your dam/stream? You could possibly power your house.
Mt. Fuji? Can't find a thing about it! Or am I missing something here. I'd love to know the name of that lovely mountain view.
Maybe get some clumping bamboo on that dam to give the soil some rigidity and cut down on erosion?
Dang... I had my fingers crossed for a Stihl 661!
Just curious. I had a person tell me once that digging in water with an excavator was hard on the bushings in the bucket and boom. In you work running an excavator, have you ever encountered any problems with that?
Gotta get some ground cover on that ASAP ...then get some tree action going.
I wouldn't put any trees on a dam, the roots are both strong as well as 'hole poking' ... seeing the area is filled with grasses already, and spring time is slowly creeping up on us, it will be green by the end of summer. The grass roots will hold the topsoil more then plenty, and seeing he has drainage and an extra overflow that top is only needing to be strong at exceeding water levels.
Yes there is a danger in loose top soil on top of a dam, as the water flows over it can wash it away, making the dam lower, making more water rush over, taking more sand away, which might ultimately lead to failure. Seeing that pond has been there for ages, and there is a failsafe, I wouldn't worry about it to much...
I am more worried what he scooped out and how deep, scooping clay off a dam is not good. As water can seep through, and remove sand in the process, weakening the dam, which can ultimately lead to failure...
Great video!
Was a 120 class excavator just right for what you did around the homestead?
Awesome video
It is pleasant watching an experience excavator operator at work. You look as though you could ice a cake with that thing. :O)
Thanks. Luv the vid. BTW great shot of the dog poop'n. LOL!
+Ryan Trobaugh oops
If I had all these tools at my parents crib in Georgia omg i would've had hella more fun! Lol
when you bought your property was the pond already there, or did you have to build it? How did you determine the water situation?
You should talk about the possibility of restocking the pond with fish.
modern archaeology cody is there any old bottle dumps on your land from early settlers
Cody, Guess what my lovely wife bought me for Valentines Day??? Mrs. McNeese being the most intelligent and beautiful woman that she is bought me a " Gränsfors Bruk Axe" !!!! YES she did. Wow I can't wait until it gets here it's coming from Amazon. Should be today!! lol
You are a blessed man, Ronnie.
Enjoy!
Yes, but PLEASE put on all the brush guards and anti-kickback devices that the "powers the be" require. ; ) You're Honey is a honey!! I still have to use an old stump and a flat rock.
+Ronnie McNeese Couldn't you find somewhere closer to buy that axe from? Heck, even Sweden is closer than the Amazon! :-P
Will yam Dysinger I think I'll still stick with my Stihl. It's right outside and paid for.
knowing when to stop is as important as taking action.
What is your soil type?
That is most important thing in understanding Hydrology.
Major Tom Nice hate filled rant Neo Nazi phyco liar.
My father had a little pond like this in the back of the woods and it too was filled with trash like this.
I was reminded of a very important point. When I don't know what I am doing, consult an expert(s). My late step-mom had two ponds. She had an expert do the construction.
Dams have a Spillway, 25 Year overflow and a 100 Year overflow
Nice job
Fujii mountain ??What stupid afirmation for mount Helen??? I'm your one year subscriber from Transilvania , Cluj-Napoca City.
Tenspeed TheBikeHanger Thx.
WISDOM, JUSTICE, MODERATION......
GEORGIA!!!
do a fan meet up in Georgia
From time to time, you mention Mt Fuji, do you all live in Japan?
You never know what's lurking at the bottom of that pond, dredge up a human skull it will freak you out for the rest of the period you live on that piece of property. It was common for old timers to bury everything just the way it was they only had bulldozers in the early years it was push everything in a pile and bury it. Same around here they used to bury old stumps or old cars etc, when the stumps finally rotted out the ground would get a sink hole.
When will we see your hydroelectric project?
Hydro should be a priority.
I would extend that PVC Drain pipe down to the bottom of the dam to keep the dam from washing.
How is the Japanese mushroom project going?
Any fish in those ponds
1:23 Does a dog shit in the woods?
I would seed that down with some grass to keep it from washing away.
Do you have fish in the pond
how many axes does wranglerstar own and what are they
please leave link to a list
One idea was to use old brush. Wrong!. A local private airport put their old tree trunks in for fill dirt leveled, and blacktopped. After a few years the trees decayed, and the runweay wound up with uneven spots and a couple holes! one should not use vegetation for fill.
So, question I've been thinking about and just now asking, how much land do you actually own ?
I purchased a house in Nevada for $8000 dollars, the original owner berried a car to use as a Septic tank. We go there to explore the desert. When I flush the toilet it goes into the car, still working.
How do you use a car as a tank?
Bob pew Ya Bob that's the point, they ran a waste line to the car and all waste black and grey leaches out. meets absolutely no Building code.
use an old van ...it holds better
what's the name of the song playing while you were showing us the track work?
What do you think of the John Deere
MT Fuji in Georgia ?
do you have fish in the pond? and if not do you intend on stocking it ever? could be a good supply of renewable protein plus your kid would have his own little fishing hole.
holy crap what is the PH of that water? 1.2?
Would you happen to have any special way to locate a leak in a earthen pond? Mine has had a leak about four feet below the level it should be at. Regardless of the amount of rain, it soon settles to the same level. SO someplace on that line is a leak. Thanks
Brightly coloured chalks, food colouring, or other things to use as contrast can help. Might take you awhile as you can only test so much at a time and ideally don't have much wave action going on from something splashing around the pond, but you can eventually get an idea of which way the water is flowing and start to narrow down where you need to work on it. (Could also be that you just have a shot liner, and you're leaking pin-pricks everywhere.)
Don't worry. The EPA is going to regulate you out of control of your pond so it'll be their problem shortly.
Did you drag boat from up north
What's an escavator?
Dragging or dredging?
What song it is? I have eared in the radio a few days and now here and i dont know the tittle
I liked it.
Do you still have that GEORGIA TAG?
Nice!!
1:23 time to pee!
What do people make of John Deere diggers ??
meh, not bad the new 470gs are fast
ha ha ha dog was shiting in 1:26
that license plate was from the year I was born thats cool
any fish in pond how deep?
There is one number 1and two number 2's in 1:22...
I wonder what the story behind that license plate is...
Sure don't need a story of how you tipped over into the pond...
It's your damn dam and you can do with it as you please. I am a geologist and I don't have a damn bit of advice to give you on your dam. Looks fun.
Seriusly no one knows the name of the song un the middle?