That silt fence cracks me up🤣😂🤣😂 I bet you were shaking your head putting that up, to protect the lake from getting any muddy run off. Great job and great videos.
Man, you have balls ! Seeing this, I'd run away ! Ok, I have no experience in digging or dredging, but holy crap, that was a HUGE undertaking. Respect ! Truely deserved, Southern Man !
Leave it to a bureaucracy to make you install a silt fence around a run off pond, or lake in this case. It's so stupid it's laughable! Awesome aerials. Thanks for the great series, I imagine you're glad it's over.
Well done Chris......Ive been in construction myself (UK) well familiar in what you are doing, and what you achieved , you and your team deserve a beer or three, brilliant effort..........
The overhead drone part of the video is absolutely a winner. It really gives the viewer a sense of what you are being asked to do as well as how the whole lake is fed by those state maintained water runoffs, which are draining the surrounding area. Looks like a really great place to own property, quiet, reserved and without a doubt, expensive.
@@Eric_Cleckler no I was just wondering I used to live in North Carolina to in the Raleigh area. I'm coming up thare in a couple weeks. I live in Florida now tho.
This was quite the project to follow. You are a damn fine operator. I've watched several of your videos after I came across your channel. If people think it's easy they're crazy. I became good with the yard and stay boom cranes on the navy ship I was on, then moved into driving truck. The best trucks I drove and got good with was front discharge concrete mixers. I miss that job, I now drive OTR. Your good sir, and fun to have listen to in bbn your narrative.
SOME SERIOUS MONEY NEEDS TO BE SPENT ON UPSTREAM SEDIMENT TRAPS BECAUSE THIS LAKE WILL BE FULL OF THE SAME RUBBISH AGAIN IN A YEAR OR SO. GREAT VIDS CHRIS. KEEP EM COMING. MERRY XMAS FROM AUSTRALIA
all that money for a beautiful lake lot only to end up with a 2 foot deep unusable mud pit in the back yard . You know those houses lost an enormous amount of value . Value probably go's down more each year .
Great content, fine follow up, looks like they may as well be planning your next visit back. They need to start saving money now because at the rate it fills up you be back there in a couple years.
That sure puts things to perspective, you hauled off 900 truck loads, it hardly made a dent, holy ****, they kept sweeping the problem under the rug for too many years.
Wow! So much work! so much mud was taken out. 900 Truck loads you said. And still you did just the most needed stuff. I gues, if they dont get the sediment stop floating in, they wont have a lake in some years. Or 10 excrevators and and a railway line is needet to demud this whole lake.
For the money they have to spend to do this every few years they should just fill in the lake, install big enough storm sewers and sell the land for more housing with maybe some smaller ponds. Long term investment while the economy is good. Who would ever want to buy a house on this lake knowing it turns into a trash dump and eye sore every few years. Good to know the history of lake front property, I know from experience on this.
If you look around that area on Google maps you will find multiple developments on this same creek that have the same situation. Some of the "lakes" are even worse than this one. They just keep building more crap upstream. Shelley Lake Park is in the same predicament.
That was a serious amount of mud and muck that you removed overall, I enjoyed the drone shots, great coverage, it gives a much better idea of the total area involved.
Great job. Nice before & after shots show the amount of work you actually did. Be glad they didn't ask you pull the stumps outside the last cove you did. lol Work safe & smart not hard.
Chris. Awesome job start to finish. And great drone. But love reading the comments on everyone probably a millionaire on projects like this. Why do so many people think our line of work is so profitable. It cracks me up. We all love doing it. And great doing your own thing. But i tell customers. If your both school teachers or police/fire. Dont quit your jobs to buy excavation equipment or logging equipment. Stay doing your job. You make more then we do
Wow, those aerial shots make it seem like you didn't even make a dent. They need an on-going dredge with dewatering system to pull that deep material in closer to shore to muck out. Can't imagine the costs of that yardage!
Like lots have said still lots of silt left. If they had the funds you could have made a career out of that place. Just bought a small place on the lake and walked to work every day. By the looks of what is still there you'll be back in a year or two. Or have you build a catch basin up stream then you can clean it out once a year. Anyway there was a hell of a lot dig and dumps on that job.
I'm actually curious, If you were to dredge the middle of the lake, would you do it with a normal machine? Or would something like a dragline or a long reach work better? Or even like a barge and dredger?
The drone video really shows how massive this project really is. I can only imagine how long it would have taken if they wanted the entire lake dreged down to the bed. Here's hoping they dont let it go for as long as they did last time.
Working 6 days a week as an excavator operator.... Watch youtube videos about someone working an excavator on my day off.... This is getting out of hand :) Nice job, keep it up!
I laughed my posterior off when I saw the silt fence. Was that to keep silt from entering the lake? Gotta love regulations. Massive undertaking, start stock piling fuel to do it again in five years time. Thanks for the video Chris.
Looks like they need to let it fully drain to the deepest point. Then go in with some big equipment like a couple P&L 1850s and a few 200 ton haul trucks... They might catch up that way. That is a lot of muck.
And? Dredging is valuable material, it can help improve soil structure and soil composition of marginal farmlands. We want to have that material so the continued periodic dredging isn't a problem.
@@jeffjefferson3364 Yes, I agree. I'm not sure what your comment has to do with my comment about seeing the lake back up to full pool. Before I left the construction world, we regularly cleaned out ponds and impoundments. Nothing nowhere as big as some of Chris' projects tho.
What an amazing channel you have, I love your videos. Im curious, this has to be a huge cost to the owners. How would you even price this, by the yard removed? I cannot imagine what this cost because its certainly not a cheap project to even do much less with profit. Again, you are most likely the most gifted operators I have ever witnessed. Im in Construction and have had my share of grading outfits around me. The way you use that excavator is like its an extension of your body. Great work Chris!
Everyone thinks its a millionaire project total cost probably roughly 250 grand plus or minus. And you probably have 250 plus minus houses in the hoa. So grand per house. Over 5 plus years. To do it again. Comes out to 200 a house a year. Not really a big deal or even if project was half again that. Or a few less houses still be only 300 a year per house. Thats my educated guess. From being in the business for 30 years. You dont make no more of a living in this business a year then a school teacher or a police or firefighter. Just more iron. More big fat payments. Gotta gross around a million a year to keep a hundred grand.
I would love to see what this looked like before the development. My guess is a few streams and some swampland. The original developer must have made millions selling that off as lakefront property.
Your correct. The development is what's caused this. There's a 400 acre mountain power lake near me I've been fishing for over 40 years. No silt problems since it was built in 1918. Duke power sold the land around it to developers 11 years ago and it started immediately after they built a road around it. Then the lot clearing. The lake is half the size and depth it was in just that short of time. Sad.
Wonder how long it would have taken to let this dry out and go in and do the whole thing back to the beginning Year might have been worth it just a comment not a criticism
Great video/drone/editing and choice of music. Somebody is gonna get a rude awakening on their "lake". The deepest parts of it are filling also and I don't think they could drain it all without some diversion of creek flows into it. Is that a homeowners group lake or state or county? That's going to be a lot of mud slinging some day. Probably be needing a dragline bottom bucket and lot of equipment. I get it Chris, job security. Is there a Volvo attachment for that? LOL Thanks for sharing.
@@Blazer02LS My sister bought into a "community" HOA told her she couldn't plant tall roses in her front yard. She paid a $ 150 fine every quarter for 10 years, then when the HOA stepped in and offered her a 100% profit on her house she took it... and moved. And took her roses out of the yard with her. The following week after closing the HOA re-plated roses in the same bed. That caused a whole other shite storm from all the other owners. I just know that the topography can be changed for development but mother nature took a long time to create the "drainage" and she will put it back one way or another. Unless somebody pays to fight back with her.
A great video of the 'before and after'. Use as an advertising video! Project looks to be in the dollar range of $350K to $380K...How bad did I miss it....don't tell me I was too high or low, I'll know.
