this is one of the few things on my bucket list that I would really like to accomplish before I die. I desperately want to harvest catfish from my own designed and constructed, healthy catfish pond. you got some serious equipment out there
We call it structure and it needs to be put in beneath the bottom grade if you plan on swimming or fishing in here safely. Get on down there and punch in a hole and fill it with the junk tree trunks and cars or whatever the hell the one guy claims in in the wild in ponds. lol
I'm really impressed with the Chris and his crew does. Thankfully in 2022 he now stretches his pond build like this one over several much longer videos so we get to see all that goes into building a new pond and even his pond tebuilds.
What a beautiful job you guys did on this project, working with the natural landscape and creating a very substantial deep end that will hold huge amounts of excess water. I would love to see how it looks today in 2019.
You should be proud of the work you have done.....this looks just great. Please, be sure to show us this when the water fills it, and the grass has grown.
I spent a lot of time in Michigan where a lot of people have ponds. I love them, coming from Australia where water is hard to get at the best of times you just have to have a small lake in your back yard. The Great Lakes in Michigan is a must see, I went fishing with my brother-in-law we went out so far that we couldn't the USA or Canada and this is all fresh water. Fantastic
Don't know why but I always like seeing ponds and dams being built :) might have something to do with growing up with a stream running through the garden and trying to dam it up with my brother when I was a kid.
As kids me and my brothers would dig a good size whole in the yard and fill it so we could get into it in the summer it was just big enough to get all four of us in.
That is the size pond I want to put on my place, currently have one just a 1/4 acre stock pond on the property now and will be looking into hiring someone to do a job just like this one. Great work.
I can tell your proud of your work at the end of each day and that's what makes a man good at what he does and you should be proud looks great that's the same philosophy I try to live by when you look back at the end of the day be proud of what you did!
you do awesome work looks good not that any of us really wanted but now is when we need that heavy rain the pond will look awesome when it is finally full of water
Good work . Great channel. One thing on advise get your self a drone. It would help 1000× in showing your work. You do a lot of work and from the ground its hard to show it all the top angle would open worlds to you.
super gorgeous, though you could probably save the trees cut down, put them in a shallow trench with soil and manure make a giant hugelbed as a visual feature near the pond.
Hi Chris, I stumbled upon your channel and now I'm hooked to your videos. One suggestion as a new fan I have for you is if u make more than 1 video of the same project can you tag them as Part 1, part 2 and so on? It makes viewing of your complete quality job more appreciable. Also maybe after making these beautiful ponds...you happen to visit after t water is put in..you cld show us how it currently looks....will truly appreciate this effort if u do.
New machine is a beauty brother, it deserves a owner like you my friend! I love it! Take care Mr Smooth Operator! KEEP ON DIGGING CHRIS! Always waiting for your next video brother! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hey Chris... Now I know that everything costs money but, it seems to me that you could move a whole lot more brush with a grapple for that track steer. You already own a large skid steer that will move brush quickly. The dozer is just too slow. That would free you up from the haul truck and would certainly be a lot more efficient. Like I said. I'm not doing the buying but it's just a sugestion.
after we seed and straw are grass lawns and hills and we roll them not with the heavy roller just the roller that I told behind the four-wheeler it helps a lot
You guys have great equipment and surely get the job done, but I'm wondering why you don't use a drag pan on some of the big day projects? is it just a matter of not having one?
U need another truck an a bigger bucket an slow that dozer jockey down lol,, your lucky there's no water in florida I run a 12 '' pump while digging great job overall guessing 20. K. cost
The 500 million-gallon question is this, "Did the pond hold water even though it was constructed in porous soil?" If I was a gambler, I'd say there was some very sad faces after a few heavy rainfalls. I sure wish constructing a pond was as simple as digging a hole in the ground.
Another great job..i love these pond jobs....Question- After you do the burn pits and borrow pits when you fill them back with old trashy dirt or the unburnt leftovers ..do you ever have problem with the pits settling over months or years and have to go back and touch them up??? Whats the best way to prevent burn pits and borrow bits from settling?? Is they a general rule of thumb when filling and fixing these back?? Just trying to learn from the best..Thanks
I try to track them in as im pushing dirt back in, we even loaded up the haul truck and drove back and forth over it to pack it down. it may settle some but i tend to leave them a little high anyways so it ends up leveling out. most of the time sticks and stumped wont ever rot that far down in the ground because they cant get any oxygen
Looks awesome! Is the water source runoff/ rain? or spring / creek fed? The fish structure and beds look awesome, I bet you can get pretty creative there too. What kind of seed and method (broadcast spreader on ATV/ Tractor or planter)do you all find works best? We've got two really small 1/8 acre cattle watering ponds fed from field runoff. One dried up this year. I'd like to make them bigger, but concerned they won't hold much water.
Wow that must have cost a heap of money to build with all that machinery on the job. so youve been doing videos for some time then Chris, have you thought of making links to the older ones in your new videos so people can watch them in between !
How porous is the soil? I have always thought that pond buiders lay some kind of insulation material at the bottom of the pond to prevent water from sinking into the ground. How do you survey to see if there are any massive rocks several feet under the top soil? If found, do you just work around them or do you blast them with explosives?
In my area a rough estimate for equipment this size would be $100/hr per machine. Maybe a bit less for the articulating truck. Plus cost of whatever materials (dirt, stone, pipe, ect.) need to be brought in. Seeing this took about 10 days probably be between 30K - 40K, maybe even slightly higher.
Thats a stupid saying. If someone has $20k to spend they have a lot of money but maybe this cost $50k? If you don't ask before doing something you're just stupid.
I am trying to get estimates for a pond now. Can you give me any ideas as for what kind of questions or things to look for do I need to know to pick out a good pond builder??
Where are you located? The dirt in this video looks a lot like the red clay of central Georgia. I'd like a fishing pond about this size. How much does one this size cost?
Man you are a pond specialist...I need some instructions, I can clean one out no problem...but cutting the core and ratio slopes is what I have a question, also width of the top of the levee
What kind of grass seed did you put along the dam? What was the process for the seeding? I just finished building a 1 acre pond and I am unsure about which grass seed to place for Southeast Oklahoma.
