I agree I think the repair acted as a sacrificial patch. Of course with even more rain the whole dam would have gone. I feel bad for the neighbor with all those little rocks in his yard that was in the soil.
I do not understand owners of a company, any company, who doesn't train or test their employees on what is correct. Do a job right the first time. I get upset with, so called, Landscaping companies, who cut back trees, bushes and plants 🪴 at the wrong season. And folks who made the dam wrong. Customer service? Almost non-existant. Well, RU-vid has found some good company owners. Who are worthwhile.
Holy batcrap. Let me say you did a great job in that small area. I think if you hadn't done that work, there would be a large hole in that dam...larger than what's there I mean. I could be wrong, but the way that hole was, it looks like that rain would done a number on the remaining segment! Again, holy batcrap!
This is a perfect example of why you should never let anything grow on your dam. Look at all those roots everywhere making channels for the water to go. Great video Chris ! That was a crazy ending, never expected you to come back the next day and say "So...we had about 9'' of rain last night and had water come across the whole dam'' Just crazy.
I would recommend removing ALL the woody vegetation on the man-made embankment from the inside (waters edge) toe-of-dam, across the top to the outside toe-of-dam. Owner needs to maintain that area in grass and mow it a few times a year to deter groundhogs from borrowing into the embankment.
As many houses around that pond it would be hard to build a spell-way to handle that much water. But I’m really surprised it didn’t wash the ground in front of where you were digging. Amazing how some grass can keep it from washing so well.
I worked for a Flood Control District. One thing nature will teach you is that no matter what you do, nature will always invent a better flood. I've seen water levels rise downstream of our pump station so fast that we could not shut our pumps down fast enough to stay within our required operating parameters. And then watched the water upstream and downstream come out of the banks with the water just going right around our structure and thru it on its own. Our structure didn't run for two days because it took that long for the tailwater to drop. Within a couple years we had a couple more pump stations downstream to move the water. Within a week of the next one down being turned over to us, we exceeded the parameters for the retention pond that it discharged into and overflowed the spillways. Sent millions of gallons of water directly into the Eastern edge of Everglades National Park. We had to keep those 5 pumps running to keep the tailwater level under 6', which was our design limit in our canal. That normally would have given us two feet to the top of the bank from the water level.
That almost made me want to cry for you man. Hate when work gets wasted because of things like that. I’m glad you kept a good attitude about it. Lord knows I would have been a salty heifer
Its amazing how close that came to blowing out completely! I purchased a property in western NC that had a 1 acre pond, which the dam blew out prior to my acquiring. I did much research on rebuilding it, but your videos were probably the most educational for me. We rebuilt the dam and cannot emphasize the importance of a well built emergency spillway (like you said). Also the monitoring of any pond dam during a heavy rain is crucial. Oh and the NC dept of Environmental Quality take lots of pictures if you dont get a permit. Thanks for the great channel!
This has all the makings of a job from hell now and a serious disaster soon. The owner needs to prepare that damn to manage flash floods ASAP! Conditions change, what was fine years ago might not be fine today. I know things are not always what we want but it would be nice to Chis convince the owner to do a complete do-over of that thing before somebody gets hurt ( or sued )
If that much flows over the dam during a major storm, I think a small concrete spillway like a normal dam would be in order. Its only a matter of time before the whole dam is washed out.
Just wow! Mother nature is incredibly powerful. Stay safe out there, please. Listening to you accent is amazing. I am from Australia so it is unusual to hear it. Love it.
Your videos are amazing. You and that machine are truly in sync. You picked the right job. The work you do is not only performed efficiently, but you are a very safe operator!!! Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Did the phone call for this job go something like: ''we think we have a leak on our overflow pipe, could you come and look at it''. That could have got interesting with another rain storm. [Edit] That did get interesting!!! WOW.
Does anyone else hear the soothing music of machinery? This has potential for a relaxing soundscape. Off to tractor supply with my recording equipment tomorrow.
Glad to see you're not a good ole boy who just starts shoving dirt in on top of all the vegetation and debris and call it binder. Very professional and well thought out, Wow, some gully washer. Those folks need to put in an additional wide concrete spillway to supplement that over flow pipe.
That rainstorm was from the remnants of Hurricane Laura I believe! 9" is a heck of a storm. _Very lucky you did the work the day before, otherwise looks like the dam would've broke!?_ Very interesting project!
No pond dam FAILS after you fixed it. The person who made the pond didn't have the dirt high enough around the pond. Can't wait to see the next video.🙂
That's got to be a hard one to tack after all the work you had put into rebuilding dam and overflow pipe and now you got clean up the nabougher's back yard as well, best of luck Chris yet another great video until the last 5/10 minutes.
The pond maintenance professionals are on the scene, they have done this before so they know how to do it Right ! And Mother Nature still showed off her power !
Maybe the pond owner should consider lowering the overflow so the level of the pond is lower and also install a spillway right where you are working because that flood water found the easiest way out is right where the dam is. A cool project!
Glad to see the equipment survived! That would have been a dam shame.... Lol. That is cool of you eating the cost on that... No one around our area would ever do that... You and your uncle are good people Chriss👍👏
23:00 - Did you back into a tree? And that poor lawn. 26:30 - Oh, for fuck's sake. At least the pipe's doing it's job... 27:30 - Time to go ask for the dirt back? 28:00 - Oh. Yeah, you're not getting that back.
I love running minis. My favorite machine to run on the job sites. I really wish I could retire to a large piece of land out in the country with a few tractors of my own. I would be in heaven.
Yanmars are currently one of the favorite minis that are being used these days. And they are very highly rated when compared to other machines. I have never ran a Yanmar but I do like Komatsu, Takeuchi, and a few other brands better than John Deere, Cat, or bobcat.
Up here in rural Maine we all have ponds.. one good thing about them, is we get the local FD to install a Pump Fill station, for fire trucks, and our insurance company ( home owners ) gives us a huge discount ( distance to nearest fire station is a insurance liability question they ask up here)- do you all install or use Fire Truck fill stations at the ponds, down there?? They are really simple pipes.
Wow - That dam wouldn't have survived without the work that washed away. Are you going to ask the client to pay some if not all of the extra material needed?
@@Tom22Lr my family pond we drained the pond by 50-75% depending on how much and how big the storms system is and we never had an issue. Some people can't afford the concrete
This is a really badly disigned 'pond'. I presume he started when it had been dry for some days. Then why is the white pipe needing to drain, before the heavy rainfall? You can see at the start the pond level is about 3 feet from the top of the dam. He says it rained about 9 inches. 100 feet of the dam was underwater, he says As he gets there, the water level is stil equal to the top of the 18" drainpipe, fully draining A log washed over the dam Covered his bucket, so at least a foot deep, he says, on top of the dam Washed away 20t of dirt, incl several pound rocks, so it was violent aswell. If it rained 9 inches as he said, and the pond collected only its own surface area, the waterlevel would have risen 9 inch. No more. So it raised 48 inches, that is at least 5 times its own furface area, while with full drainage AND violently going over the damn over a width of 100 feet Which means thats not just a pond, it must be in the drainage of at least 20 times its surface area. Probably a lot more. Which means, with a noobish dam with trees and stuff and only this 18" pipe, its going to keep giving problems. So if you actually want a pond there, you'd have to make a better dam AND indeed make a spillover construction. And considering the amount of water, you probably have to guide it away in a decent manner, bc it will erode off a lot at the other side (to the neighbours it seems) Making it deeper has no effect, as it is about the incoming water over time period. What they could also do is lower the water level of the pond (a lot), so it can act as a buffer. And start draining right away, so with a pipe at ground level of the 'pond'. But then you wouldnt have a pond there, just a buffer area that is a pond when there is a lot of rain. Either way, this thing is a failure as is.
Everthing that I saw of you work has been very professional & curtious!!! & I been watching along time. I wish you were in South Ga. Around Douglas ,Ga. I need a pond!!!! Martin in South Ga
Awesome job Chris. Love the little Yanmar. I had a vision of that little machine with the same type of thumb as you have on the 160 and 220. Of course on a smaller scale. As always a awesome job brother. God Bless you and the family.
Another awesome fix by Chris hey Chris shouldn’t the over flow pipe be a little lower in the ground seems like not that much dirt on top of the pipe coming out
Just discovered this channel my father was an operator, you know the difference between a driver and a operator. He left me with the ability to operate pay loaders{front end loaders}, bobcats, and forklifts. That being said I can see your skill and can only guess the number of years you have been at this.