Chris, I am a 76 yr. old pensioner from Australia. Was fascinated by your two videos. It was very upsetting when the rain destroyed everything you had done. I was impressed.......you didn’t swear once. For some reason, I find these types of videos interesting. Next time I come back, I might be a man and work with this type of machinery. I also like to see them breaking up beaver dams. I’m a nurse so I have never done anything like this. You seem to take pride in your work and you did a bloody good job. Congratulations.
What a flustercluck. They really need to just defer to your wisdom and expertise and let you do what needs to be done to get everything sustainable for the future. Well done, Chris.
@@karencary3312 That would make it worse. The real problem with trees on a dam are the roots. Once the tree dies the remaining roots will rot and cause water leak channels in the clay that are a real monster. As long as the trees are alive the roots live and are basically a disaster waiting to happen not a current disaster. Best practices are to never let the roots grow, but once they are there it is too late. It guarantees a future failure once the trees are established. Likely this dam will be overwhelmed before the trees get it, as hundred years floods are coming every year or two these days. They will lose both ends of this dam before the root leaks get it.
Also the ends will be lost slower than what nearly happened here. Because the ends are anchored in stable ground, they will be eaten out slower than the middle would and will likely fail but not all at once to send a massive wave down the channel below. If this thing had failed in the middle it would have been ugly downstream. Lawsuits would have been flying all over. They are lucky that Chris had it "repaired" when that storm came through, but it is sad that Chris had to take the loss on it. The customer's insurance company dodged a bullet big time!!!!
@@tp8030 You know absolutely nothing, Tree roots will damage damns and levees, you should never allow them to grow. It is a requirement to prevent and remove them on Federal and public damns and flood control levees.
You need 5 of those pipes side by side for that amount of water the 300 mm 12 inch pye square x 5 would be a major improvement on the over flow maybe a water engineer could give you some accurate data !
Addicted my friend. Your expertise with your machines is pretty damn impressive. I'm glad this finish video came out. The first one was awesome. Better job second time around. Feels like you're givin mother nature a reply for that flood...lol. I kinda like the sound of the track too. Reminds me of being in a tank. Watching and learning sir. As always be blessed and safe. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Dam those trees. I can't imagine that big one at the bottom is going to live and the smaller ones up top with their rootballs 1/2 hanging out in the wind?
Really been waiting for this one. I felt so bad for you after you had done all that work fixing things and all your work was destroyed by flood from the storm.
In southern Missouri where I live there is some ponds that drain such a big area that they put 7ft spillway pipes in 2 acre ponds, I have seen those ponds overflow a time or 2!
You are just working smarter not harder. Love you videos. Makes me wish I had gone into heavy equipment and not driving a semi. But both are good jobs.
Just consider the first time a practice run 😉 You made it much better this time 👍 I am hoping that the customer(s) compensated you for all the extra work. If you hadn't done the original work, there would not have been a dam to fix, it would have been a build from scratch situation.
Another great video Chris that was a shame that all the work you done the week before wash down that creek after mother natures freak storm that night 9 inches of rain is a lot of water falling at one time oh brother you and John and yawls family y’all stay safe and keep them coming
Leave the bottom step on the staircase on dudes and just Bury it in concrete. That would make it even more stable. Great content, loving what you dudes are doing.
Am I the only one that thinks it’s in my best interest to go out and buy a skid steer and track hoe. Every time I see these videos the urge gets greater.
Good job as usual but this dam won't last another 10 years before it fails completely. I know I wouldn't want to be on the downstream side when that happens.
As many ponds I’ve done I stay away from culverts they plug up and seem to always wash out around them . 👍 put in a natural spill way with lots of rock problem solved . Unless you get a lot of rain hurricane rain then nothing is safe😉
Looks to me like there has been many years of neglect when it comes to that dam, all those bushes on the water side and the trees on the other side, my understanding is the root system in the trees is harmful to the dam, plus you get rodents and such burrowing around the trees and bushes.
IIRC, the drain had a section of fencing (gone with last flooding) and not a professional culvert/drain/strainer. Water mitigation is a science and that pond has some issues.
I read below some offering suggestions to long term solution. But repairing the dam will just be until the next flood. The pipe is not providing sufficient drainage. I honestly would come up with a better solution than restoration or I would walk away.
Should have built a spillway to the side of your pipe ditch and lined it with d rock for a filter to slow the water down and it wouldn’t hurt to add some over your pipe ditch as well but great fix loved watching
Well Done but only for a short time When the water get over the dam it spoiled out again The Pipe had to be much wider in diameter Take care Yours Frank
I’m not there but I think that punching with the shovel probably isn’t enough to creat a resilient clay mass. The earth in the new fill probably isn’t as compacted as the earth in the rest of the dam. It will sink a little over time. It will stop erosion on the core of the dam though, so it’s probably ok. Also I hope you scraped the organic topsoil of before you added that top layer of clay. Further I would strongly recommend that all trees be removed from the dam wall and replant with researched shrubs that won’t root through the dam to the water. Good luck.
Yeah he needs a spillway for the run off for this pond I'd say 5 to 6' wide or lay some epdm rubber liner and fill it with rock to make a flow back transition line. It would have to be pretty good size 15' X 35' down the slope. Not sure if that would be enough to handle that amount of over flow but it sounds like that rain was a one off gusher. At least it would wash away but it doesn't take much when you have fresh dirt until it starts getting grass to root it in. I need to get me one of these, Looks much easier than a grader but a little harder than a bobcat. I suck at a grader I had to move one. Tons of levers with no markings, took me forever to find the right controls.
The worst part about all this, is when that area gets another heavy rain event, you'll be back to do it all again. The owner really needs to spend the money and solve the basic problem...build a decent spillway or add another 6, or more , overflow pipes. The outlet (overflow) needs to be able to handle at least double what the inflow rate is...otherwise the water will keep coming over the top of the wall.
This may be a stupid question, but here goes, when you are using the bucket to hammer the dirt into corners and really anytime, why don't you use the bucket full of dirt? It seams to me you are beating the shit out of the machine to do this, but with more weight in the bucket, you may not have to beat on it as hard!!
I don’t know about that answer? I am with Steve on this one except for 1 thing. I don’t think th there is stupid questions but it seems there is a lot of stupid answers sometimes but now I have a question... is this something u could turn in on insurance
I've operated similar equipment, when you have a bucket full of dirt, you can sometimes lower it faster than gravity and your just basically using the bucket weight+machine force at that point.. The weight of dirt doesn't really help that much. You can pack dirt pretty well with a bucket crown. Chris is also pretty easy on equipment and doesn't beat it to death or shock the hydraulics. There are some Sheepsfoot wheel attachments IPO the bucket that can be used to help pack dirt lifts too.
Your hydraulic speed/functions slow down with a full bucket. You wouldn't gain much. Maybe in a different scenario you might, but for what he's doing it would just slow him down if he tried to get a bucket every time he packed.
I don't think Chris will use one, the stress on the boom isn't worth the cost of repair on the pins , you'll get stress cracks and shortens the life of the machine.
@@tp8030 A properly constructed earthen dam is weakened by trees. There's a reason you never see trees on earthen dams of any significance. A small pond is a different story. A dam isn't a river bank. www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1446-20490-2338/fema-534.pdf
*First,* given the big flood and washout--are you sure one pipe is enough? Maybe a second, or even a third. *Second,* trees on an earthen dam is a huge problem. The roots can penetrate the dam, then when the tree eventually dies the roots rot out leaving a bunch of open channels and the dam fails.
I would assume that having to repair the same overflow system, twice along with also eating the cost of the second repair including the fill dirt and the associated labor must have been really frustrating. Which brings a question to mind, that being, since the overflow pipe was already 75% washed-out by the storm because it was not large enough to support the storm's downpour, why did the landowner not allow you to replace the overflow system with a larger one during the second repair to prevent a third wash-out from some future storm ???
Chris posted in the comments of another video that Tim has moved on to another job; there is not really much chance for advancement at the company Chris works for. From what I understand it was no hard feelings, just time to move on.
Thank you for posting these videos. They are very interesting. Please ignore all the arm chair geniuses who gain empty satisfaction by telling you how you should have done things. If the man that actually works, stops to listen to all the advisors sitting and second guessing, nothing will ever get done. Thanks for actually doing. and- shouldn't that drain pipe have been a different color?
Thank God you had tracked in as much dirt as you did , or they could have lost the entire lake and the dam . Good idea to raise the dam hight by the over flow . A set back , but it could have been worse.
I would guess that the fill clay is too dry as it doesn't compact, I have heard 22% moisture is good from several sources but don't know. I would be using one of those two ft flat compactors, haven't been a fan of the jumping jacks. And yes a spill way of some size to remove the excess water when it comes.
I bet your glad to see the DAMM thing done. I don't know if they make one but a Hydraulic jumping jack that fits on the mini would be handy and not such a hammer field day packing dirt with the bucket!
Or save enough to change and go to something that can handle those huge storms... It needs better backup for something major. Such as like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vQhBIK1aTXE.html
Amazing. Poetry in motion. Not one inch of his machine moves in an unproductive way. Wow. Liked and subscribed. Btw: Sorry you had to eat that. Doesn't seem right.
