How To Build A Dam Like A Pro 

I can't imagine seeing that mountain in the background every day. I bet it never gets old.

Anyone else get happy seeing how well and happy the family is, amazing job cody!

These irrigation videos give me the fizz... not sure why other than the simple satisfaction of “controlling” water. I’m really enjoy this series. God Bless from East Tennessee.

Seriously heartwarming knowing that he's teaching his familly the way i read about in my grandfathers journal I wish my family had continued the tradition but sadly they moved far far away from the country life and moved to a city where half the kids (my siblings) don't really like when we were 5yr. now 32 im saving to buy back a piece of land that was in our family for generations

I can't imagine my life without my six children, the happiness and love is priceless. Good job Mr and Mrs W, you have a beautiful family. God bless you all.

i love how jack is so comfortable with the camera now that he's happy to be in the intro with his dad .. Cody i hope my son (who's 1 now ) makes me as proud as you must be with jack keep up thegreat work you truely are an inspiration

It's always a good video when Sweetloaf makes an appearance.

Cody, I like the way you bring the family in this, showing the loving , teaching father. Getting all parties involved. This is family core values. As well as homesteading lessons, engineering challenges and general life lessons. Jack and Sweet Loaf will not be wanting for knowledge. Be safe and God bless

Had a flashback to when I was a kid digging trenches and flooding my sandbox. Hope to see the irrigation series continue.

I was glad to hear you say 'can't is not in our vocabulary'. I would never allow my daughter to use that word. One day she said to me ' Daddy , you know that word that you said that I could never use, well sometimes I just need to use it.' I told her that she did not. I told her that she could say that 'up until now I have been successful in attaining that goal' and that would be true but saying that I can't would limit her future. She is now 28 and she meets no limits. She says that she never thinks about whether she can, only whether she wants to or not. She has been well more successful than I have been and I attribute a lot of that to not allowing the use of that four letter word. The very first word I hear from a lot of people is ' I can't'. If you say you can or if you say you can't, you are right. Make the choice. It's yours to make.

I am having trouble getting over how big the Sweetloaf has gotten and how much the man child has progressed in his abilities! Good job Momma and Papa!

You were such an amazing father my dad used to tell me the same thing can’t is not a word can’t is not in the vocabulary I love it good values God bless you and yours Cody

It’s so fun to see mt Fuji in the videos, every year my father and I will hike up to the top of that mountain.

Hey Cody, I’ve been watching the channel for the last 3 or 4 years and used some of your shared knowledge today. I started a new laboring job recently and had to fall a pretty large sized tree today, alone. Thanks to the detail in your videos I was able to fall the tree no problem! Just wanted to say thanks. Have a good one and God bless.

Thank You for sharing your videos they make me smile, you and your family are great.

Good content.....I tell my kids all the time "Can't ......Never Could". Yet they still say it often, but they will never forget. I am sure one day they will teach their children this. JB- Former Logger from East Coast.

A cold and rainy morning here, glad to enjoy a new video with a nice hot cup of coffee!

Great to see Jack out working and building. Thanks Dad for taking value for Jack's abilities and him taking initiative and engineering.!

"Can't is not in our vocabulary." Well done Sir, well done!!

Hi Cody great video I'm so glad to see Jack with you he'll never Forget the times with his father great job teaching him the trades!

Thay yanmar is a blessing!! I've bet more then a few people have picked one up after seeing how versatile your machine is.. god bless guys!( Jeremy from Wisconsin)

I was looking for ideas to stop water in our irrigation canal. This is just what I need!

I love the beauty in these videos it's so easy to get lost.. If I went in real life you wouldn't be able to get me to leave. Thank you for taking me away from this bustling town even if it was only for elevon minutes and thirty-seven seconds again thanks and y'all stay safe.💚

Thank you so much for allowing us into your lives! This is the kind of content I came to RU-vid. Thank you for explaining things so well and helping us learn. I also really enjoy when you throw in personal stories, especially the ones about you Grandpa! On a totally different note I cannot believe how big your daughter is getting! She was so little when you first started posting and look at her now! She has gotten so tall and so absolutely beautiful! Thank you again and God Bless you and your family!!

Sweet Loaf “that’s humongous”! She certainly is expanding her vocabulary.👍

The quality of the video is so good!! It’s like a movie!

Can't is not in our vocabulary but Prodigious is 👍👏👍

Another top quality video from the Wranglerstar household 👌Sweet loaf is coming on leaps and bounds , I can only imagine what is pleasure it must be raising a family in such an idyllic setting. Peace and love from Blackpool, northwest uk 💕

The Wranglerstars are living the time of their lives..... beautiful scenery with the mountain in the background..... watching from Ndola Zambia 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

Thanks for the old fashioned way it's the same way we did it growing up

Love the irrigation series. Anyone know if he will be planting crops or have animals grazing or just irrigating for proof of concept and nice grass?

So nice to see you guys work together. My dad died when I was 1½ years old, so I never had time to learn from him. Nice videos.

So relaxing watching how irrigation works good job Jack

Man, your kids are lucky. Learning real skills.

That landscape is amazing as someone stuck in the city that loves the mountains and outdoors I envy your life and home location. Have a great day!

Enjoying these irrigation videos. By any chance have you guys considered bundling these videos into a complete playlist?

Gosh I really enjoy these irrigation videos.

Wow. You live in paradise. Cascadia does indeed have everything.

These types of videos are why I watch this channel. Good work

I'm not sure exactly why, but these irrigation ditch videos and the videos you did of the porch at the old house with your dad were some of the best videos I've ever seen on your channel. A good balance of outdoors, technical knowledge, family time, ranch-living, etc. Prime content. Thank you for sharing these videos.

Been following Wranglestar for years. He's an awesome dude. Great videos on multiple levels. Bottom line, great example of the kind of man that makes this country so great.

Really none of this is anything that would ever apply to me, but I do find the whole process thourally fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

These irrigation ditch videos are escalating my fascination more and more. It’s got me thinking of ways to control water on my own property more. My great grandfather had a peach orchard on it years ago, the swales and berms still exist and continue to function today. I will be taking advantage of them in the future and your setup is aiding in the implementation of that. I can’t wait to see your future results and progress!

I loved irrigating as a kid in Colorado. We used the tarp dam almost exclusively. Our tarps were a lot smaller and all we needed to set it was the 2X4 with tarp attached and a round point #2 shovel.

New east coast guy here. It may be an old idea but where I am at in Va. we call it Ruarl Water Supply Dam 101 in FF1 class, and is a basic principal used often in our area. Good video.

Lets go. I’m looking forward, water it’s in our blood (NL). For the circumstance your doing quite well, it’s always good to see someone working whit the most simple material making the job done

The end of the video really shows you what type of father he is. Love ya Mr wranglerstar.

That's a neat trick with that tarp... I'm going to have to remember that one

Jack’s hair piece was about to blow away in the wind! Great video 👍🏻🇺🇸

Loving the irrigation videos! Very soothing, as I cook in dry, summer heat.

Awesome job guys! Very cool irrigation setup.

may i add some surgestions: 1. how about taking that tarp double, i dont thing there is that much needed for the floor before the dam 2. you could baricade some of the tark to release some presure into the ground, with sticks or more 2by4s 3. maybe ad another piece of tube directly next to it, as it would double the flow rate, without much stress. these were just some thoughts of a german IT student, watching this after dinner. keep on going, i love the content and its comforting to watch.

It’s just amazing what the original trenches must have required in labor. You and Jack are doing an incredible restoration. Speaking of Jack, that looks like a “ land to House” t shirt. Hydro and solar power fun.

This is relaxing to watch and I bet it's just as satisfying to actually do

i remember as a little kid, playing with the hose in the yard, making rivers with army men, seeing if i could create a mini landscape. this looks like that times 1000 on the fun scale.

Nice to Jack, Working hard,turning into a fine man

bless you and your family, again. I was entertained

I'm a huge fan of Minecraft, and I cannot imagine what it is like to have the ability to install your own systems into a place like that. I know it is alot of work, but the high you must get seeing your work culminate into something that works must be a wonder...Stay blessed Big Brother! God surely must have blessed your hands to do amazing things, even if it doesn't seem all that extraordinary to you!

Another great video that you can’t see anywhere else.

Reminds me of the 2000 acre ranch I worked at for two years before buying my farm here. Love the tropics but miss the irrigation and tending of the hay. Don't miss the hay fever during those two weeks of harvest. Only thing I'm allergic to but haying was a great job.

Great video, very entertaining. Maybe its because I like to play with water so much as a child.

I started flood irrigation around 12. Those are some nice gates and a backhoe would have been cool, but as a kid I had a lot of fun building dams and digging with a shovel. We had farmers that would pay us 25c a gopher so when they would flood the field in the summer we would stack up the gophers and make some money.

Great to see that saturated field! It's going to be beautifully green. There is no water shortage!

Wonderful as always but sure am enjoying learning about this system with you!!!

Just seen a setup like this working on my way back home to Sandy Oregon from my place in Post Oregon today. It was just before the Prineville railway overpass..

I remember being taught this with the fire service, granted was for making a water dam for use to cool heated acetylene tanks but principle is the same. we use a sort exension ladder split into its 3 pieces and lased together, place the tarp, or savage sheet into it and secure. its an amazingly strong and ingenious method. Great to see "old" techniques being used to great effect.

Here in my part of Wyoming we've been irrigating with ditchboxes and canvas dams for decades, and many still are. Though water law varies by state it would be to your benefit to check into your adjudicated water rights, that way you would know your priority in the system in years of drought and also your allotted amount ...likely in cubic feet per second. You right may have priorty to several times the amount your are receiving .... same with it you are on a private ditch company. Either way if the state or ditch company administers your water rights there should be a ditch rider/water commissioner to keep everyone honest on their water usage. I'm currently in the process of rebuilding a number of my irrigation features. Good Luck to you !!!

Straight off the bat. The tarp was my easiest way and you confirmed that, so I'm sold. But I'm going to use those big sealed canvas signs they use for ads on the sides of buildings.

Best wishes for you, the fam, and the farm. That mountain in the background is stunning!

The dirt is amazing. Full of volcanic goodness from Fujiama!

You guys are making a lot of progress.

Oh Cody, when it saw the title is thought you were going to start a pond!! Lol but this is a great quick fix here!

My grandpa built damns with the tarps every year. That's all he used. Except he put another board laying across the back and then layed boards vertically on that and it helped the tarp from blowing out.

Your "old" method was used while I was growing up in So. CO. in the 60s & 70s. On top of that, aluminum and plastic pipes and hoses were used to siphon out of the ditch into the field instead of a culvert. Thereby allowing more control and flexibility. But those were agriculture rows and lands where you're flooding instead. Learning the "old" ways again.

Great video! Thanks for the tarp damn building example! Much appreciated.

Love the irrigation videos! Amazing

From a eastern guy who is use to working in hard packed clay, and being in the east I know Cody would never consider my suggestion. Subsoiler, works great on opening up ground for water to soak in deeper than the top hard pan.

This is classic Wranglerstar "Modern Homesteading" action!

Personal experience as a field irrigator in Central Oregon, when using those tarps it's best to have about a dozen 15+ lb rocks to line the bottom of each tarps edge under the water to prevent it from pushing out prematurely during the ditch fill. Have lots of tarps and boards on standby because they can blow out pretty easily and with no warning. Other then that I say no to rain boots and yes to crocs and shorts to just get right in that ditch to set your tarps but I don't think you intend to change out as much as I do in a day

Looks like you got a big larger tarp.😀 This method of damming is used in AZ today. You are fortunate the 2x6 held on edge.

Hey Mrs.W!! Nice to see you again

i miss the old homestead, it felt more rugged and remote. i miss all the buildings and the shooting range the fruit tree orchard....the tree cutting and the nicely stacked piles of firewood...

Excellent as usual!!!

Great Job. "Fist-Bump" from another Washingtonian! Love to able to visit/see you in person...

Given the song at the end, I wonder if Cody is becoming a legit celebrity

Your daughter is so precious 💖..

Most excellent project.

You're not just a Homesteader, you're a Dam Homesteader! 😁

Great Dam videos keep it up!

Haven't seen your channel in years. Forgot how wholesome you are. Glad I found the channel. Not sure if you're a Christian or not, but there's that love and excitement in you voice.

Great work gentlemen

Curious if in the book they ever referred to it as a "hateful" tarp? That might have made the great results more spectacular. Great job and clever engineering.

This time of year where I live in Southern Oregon the Irrigation District in Eagle Point dams up Little Butte Creek with Tarps and bales of hay. You might try a couple bales of hay behind your tarp for support.

Thank you for your content. 🙏

I was watching some of the older vids on your channel, and watched the Series of 5 about 50 Tools every Dude should own... I do HVAC, have for about 15 yrs now, and I found that if you get 2-3 Glow in the Dark Colors, and mark your Tape Measure at the 6In with just the one color for just the Half-Inch ticks, 1Ft in one and 2Ft in the other, then Alternate on Odds and Even Foot marks (DON'T USE THE Half Inch Color), after you memorize the color specifics you've set up, it makes measuring Duct runs and Copper Tubing and wiring a breeze under a dark house. ( I'm a 3rd Generation Stanley Tape user, but that little change for my line of work, was a pretty sweet couple hours to do it.) Just thought I'd share my weird, semi-useless modification. Note: I'm an "East-Coast Guy, Kentucky here.

Excellent problem solving!

Think about it: the rumors of the toupee, the animosity towards East Coast Guys, the tree felling videos, and now this. Cody isn't a man. He's a beaver in disguise.

Love his T-shirt. Bit promotion for a fellow YT can't hurt. lol.

I have made water gates using salvaged corrugated steel culvert. Fast to install but hard to open. Grandpa used his tractor to open them.

Beautiful day there!