Using your 'original' 220 and older equipment to build your farm pond is continuing the history! That's personal & special. Your business has grown exponentially and remembering those 'beginnings' / those roots are important. Many of "us" have immersed ourselves in following your dreams and passion. Thank you.
Your ability to see the potential in an overgrown site is amazing. When you did your walk-through right after you bought the addition, I thought it was a cool plan but said I'll have to wait to see. Well, I'm seeing and it looks fabulous. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride, Chris.
That’s what I like to see, a two fer with the 220, lotta deuces in that one.😊 be an interesting project using the older equipment to build the pond. Thanks for the ride along sir.
It's coming along, slowly but surely. I know it's not progressing as quickly as you'd like, but if you just keep chipping away at it, and it'll eventually come together. Now that the trees are cleared, you'll have a little time to tweak you plans between now and summer. I know it's going to be a beauty!!!
This'll be the best Chris Letsdig18 pond build yet and possibly ever because it's on his own farm. Ben looking forward to this one since the Pond Maestro Chis announced it as a future project.
A lot to do for a part time job. Really opening up the land, which was unusable before. Looking good. Thanks for sharing. P.S. be careful at the auction, could end up with a 550 to add to the fleet!
Chris, once again great video, and fell that tree right into the pile, with the excavator!! Priceless! The extra acreage is coming along nicely and starting to take shape.
Hey Chris, was hoping to see You here in Florida. I did get to meet Clint and Mike at the Bushnell auction. That was a treat for me.( I am only 40 miles from there). Maybe I'll get to meet you next time.
My dad built a lot of ponds with a D-4 track loader.I worked for a guy rebuilding a 8 acre lake.I ran a D-6 had to push huge rocks of inside of dam .I couldn't believe how many copper head snakes was under one rock.The tracks on the dozer ate em up.I bet there was 8-9snakes.
It seems like only yesterday that Chris was looking over his newly acquired farm property and telling us about his future dreams of a pond and cabin sites. I didn't know the future was just days away 😆
Thanks for sharing Chris. I’ve been subscribe to your channel for about seven years now I always look forward to seeing your videos. Have fun in Florida. Hope to see some contact from down there too with dirt perfect and C&C equipment. Ray from Oregon.
Thanks Chris can't wait to see the pond develop when it starts to dry out more and the fires will hopefully be as big as Mikes, another good video thanks for bringing us along.
Sorry for your loss. That sucks to lose a dog. But Chris is the best medicine for your mind between his work and his sense of humor,You will heal slowly
I know how you must feel as I've been that position. Take some comfort in knowing you have given your dog the best life and although you knew it would be hard for you, you stepped up did the best for him/her when it was needed.
Pond spot looks ideal - pretty area. Happy book working - procrastinating is easy :) when other more enjoyable jobs await. It will be an interesting build with the older equipment - fun times of old.
I like how the old (I hate calling it old) 220 and Chris are so in "tune" with each other. It moves just like it is physically part of him, so smooth, doing multiple movements simultaneously etc.
I’m a retired snow groomer. The br350 snowcat by Piston Bully was a solid work horse. I ran multiple machines with 13000+ hrs on a regular basis. A solid reliable machine allows an operator to become just that much better every time it’s run. I also run dozers; same assessment.
Chris…. Re the mouse problem.. Roll raisins in drywall mud (dry mix) ….. and lay it out on an old cookie sheet. Be sure to change their feed once a week or so. Bye bye mice!!
How about cutting those stumps down to a size for sitting around a fire pit or by the pond while fishing? You might get 10 years of use out of them before they get too rotten.
Mouse versus Excavators - lets see ................ ! Clearing and Cleaning up Your Pond Site ! Burn Piles at the Ready ! It was Rainy and Muddy but hey - more Progress and that's the Name of the Game ! Great Video and Cheers from Australia !!!!
Just before I watched this, I was reading a news report from our local maple syrup producer: They are tapping trees and getting a good sap flow! They said it’s an all time early run, and about a month early! In Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.
So jealous of your excavator :). I have a 3 ton and the swing power is just non existent. I can either pull trees towards me or push them away from me.
Curious on which way the pond's going to drain?? SW to the 2 ponds heading to Carlyle, I presume that's where the main watershed filling the big pond is from. Or East to Wolfharbour where the other ponds drain towards.
Words of encouragement, I love to watch your videos, especially anything with an excavator and the bigger the better. I would have liked to see what that 550 would have done with a thumb and some big ole trees.. and anything to do with building or repairing a pond is my favorite! Thanks for all your videos and I have to ask. Do you find yourself explaining what your doing sometimes when your not videoing… lol
C&C showed some cool equipment at the auctions just waiting for you. Some of the huge 550's would sure look pretty on your lot lol. Unless they were selling mouse pelletisers?
Don't take your check book to Florida!!!! That mouse ate your tractor seat because it smelled Pepsi or tater tots. They are truly destructive. Two mice decided to enter my car thru the a/c blower motor. I turned on the A/C and minced them up. Needless to say the smell was gross. 103 in the Texas heat. My husband was going to replace the motor but by the time he took out the glove box he said "take it somewhere I'm not doing this". Property is taking shape. Will be a beautiful pond. Thanks Chris.
No it's not stupid bud, it's your property an your gonna build a master piece an you wanna use the old iron to make it, like a sentimental deal ya know, completely understandable Chris, thanks for sharing an I look forward to seeing the next video, best channel on RU-vid God bless, I look forward to seeing the auction videos 💪🇺🇲🤙✊👌
At least you have it all opened up in there now, so when the sun does come back out. It can start to dry up in there... Those woods of yours there has been holding a lot of water for awhile !! lolol.. Man, Our maple trees are budding already too, does seem kinda early , don't it ?? I'm sick of all this damn rain , I know you are too !! It just won't stop, seems like...lolol... But, Great as always Chris !! Have a Great Evening, And, On too the Next...
👍; I really enjoyed your work with the 550! Down here in the deep south (Louisiana) I get so tired of summer as it seems like it's 10 months long. So when you said you hoped that summer would come fast, I'm beginning to question whether you need your Southern Card taken from you.😉
Get that seat to your local upholster, it will be cheaper in the long run. They may have some rodent resistant fabric. Mind then in that case the mice may go after the wires .
Chris, I watch every single video you produce that way I keep up, but man I feel like "Last Year's Easter Egg" right now, I can't figure out where you are on the farm. Would you PLEASE GIVE US A BEAUTIFUL DRONE FOOTAGE of progress so far. Also sometimes barely hear the audio when you are in the cab of the excavator.
If you walk past his house down the new work gravel road he put in into the pasture he planted I think this pond site is on the left side a ways in the woods (I Think ) lol
Chris ,any idea of when you will complete your own project ,I can see you being busy with other projects when the weather breaks I can see a service truck in your future
Have you considered buying a mini mill to turn some of those logs into timber for home / farm projects. Seeing you in the 220 just shows how big the 550 was because it made you look small.
