Brings back memories. Cleaned out ponds and ditches every year for over 20 years. And I hated tailgaters when I was driving the dumptruck full of the muck.
Couple sheets of 3/4 plywood on the fence sloping down to your machine would help the clean up at the end of the wet messy job. Great job per usual chris
Nice yeah! Im thinking some 6mil plastic if ya had it. Drapped over the fence.. It would ould rip at the top of the fence, but i think that's about it... Make a water slide too while your at it..
You got to be the best at what you do, and this is a learning video to of you doing these jobs, you are top-notch the best hands down, I feel like I can go out and do that now 😃
just letting you know a little fyi, If no one put the fish in there, (sometimes if it’s the right time of the year) Ducks land in a pond they swim around looking for fish eggs And they grab onto them with their feet And when they move to a different pond looking for fish eggs sometimes they drop some. hence when they hatch the fish multiply and then becomes fish in a pond.
SWMO Fishing 2 not saying your not right or anything, but my uncle is a wildlife biologist and said ducks do a little part in spreading fish in different places. but and again it has to be the right time of year.
One thing you can do in a situation like this is to lift the dump bed about a foot to drain off much of the water as you load. Helps keep the streets cleaner.
Chris, three years from now you are gonna be dredging out a HUGE pond with more mud than you can imagine…and you’ll be doing it with a custom made bucket and thumb that YOU helped design. 😁😁🤣🤣🤣
My ex-girlfriend's father asked me to clean the water moccasins out of a cattle pond (cattle were getting bit and dying). I guess he was trying to get rid of me. I came back with 14 of them draped over the tractor, having killed them with a sickle. Those things'll attack you. Keep the windows closed.
Have you thought about building a mobile conveyor belt on a skid steer base or even an old excavator base to be able to reach over fences and down into ponds for clean out jobs like this? A skid steer you might be able to get a 20 foot range but an excavator should be able to have an extending section to get 40-60 feet of distance centered on the base. A remote for start/stop on the belt you can have in the excavator would let you set it up then jump in the Volvo.
That style pump doesn't like mud that much. You might want to look at buying or making a floating strainer. Then just dig a couple bucketfuls out and drop those in.
fish are transfered from pond to pond by birds. They primarily transfer fish that are born from eggs. they unknowingly collect them in their belly feathers.
Here in CA the county will come toss fish into standing water to eat Mosquito larvae. Whatever those fish are, they are tough! They can flop around in the mud as the water recedes, and last for days. I have gone and picked them up in a bucket and transferred them to my own pond, where they keep on doin' their job. With the drought right now, not so much...
Im in CA too, the quito fish are indiscriminate killers. Theyll eat eggs and fry of other fish species also. Basically anything that moves. If their population grows too large theyll extinct the game fish. This is all info I read online whilst reseaching bass stocking for a private farm pond. The irrigation districts use the quito fish in the canals and so on....
I had to muck out a 15 acre pound with caterpillar track how. I was there nearly month.i made damn sure .I didn't leave no cattails. I even came back 2 months later to make damn sure none regrow in the pond.
Cat tail are natures water purifiers, they are living on the run off from that parking lot and grass next to it. If it were not getting the run off to feed them they would only grow on the edge, up here they grow in 2.5 foot or less of water and we have to get State permission to remove from any where even a parking area rain collection pond now, because it is now a wet land ecosystem once they grow in there and that effects the water quality as it all flows down stream. They used to route all rain water in to deep holding tunnels here separate from sewage and use it for water grass at the parks and stuff, but with crazy rain storms the last 15 years flooding those tunnels out all the time, they made every one remove there rain gutters even from the system. I got orders to hook up to the system tons of work, then 3 years fines for being hooked up to the system and ordered to undo all the work that just got done to hook up to the system. We used pick cat tail shoots and sell them to plant nurseries for them to sell to people with ponds. It is to bad you did not have a way to put those to use in some way. The fish are in there to eat the bug larvae, or you would be getting eaten alive by mosquito digging that up. Fish are required to be added to all standing water ponds around here to eat the bugs, what you put in depends on water flow and depth, but have to be fish has to natural to our state. Here we would of added a few types of mud minnows to that pond, and the ducks and kids add the rest.
Yep. Here in New Zealand there is encouragement for the creation of wet areas, but the debate is how these areas are managed. The problem some people have is that once a low lying area established wet adapted vegetation it becomes "wetland". It is something of a constant struggle to persuade the authorities that you created the wet area for say storm water retention, or silt retention. As such the pond needs to be maintained, which needs removal of the vegetation along with accumulated silt. Catch 22!. One answer is to partly desilt the pond every year or so, This leaves a generous supply of wetland vegetation to re-seed the striped area. Sometimes works. Otherwise, good job and all praise for your skill with a large digger in that greasy silt. Bit of a nightmare really. Loved watching it.
hi Chris, I am currently learning to operate and learn a lot from you, thank you! It's been bugging me though.... what go pro mount do you use and where exactly do you mount it? thanks!
I see you doing a lot of the storm water retention pong maintain everything jobs... is it NC DENR forcing owners to do this or Wake County officials? Most of the time the ponds don’t get cleaned around NC!
I would like to know more about the business and who is involved . Can't imagine you doing all this by yourself . There must be a bookkeeper and job pricer a mechanic
I know in Fl ,turkey buzzards we call em stick a fish ,one hole thru them fly off to another pond , then either leave the whole fish in shallow water ,and eggs escape after tearing into them . Ive learned in my 55 yrs nature will find a way !
Chris, man you get the most difficult jobs, was watching one back in 2018 I think and you were in this freaking slime mud with pads, I do not know how you do it, scary stuff.
Next time you do something Like this, and its messy and going over a fence, You could try putting a Tarp over the fence, just protects it from getting to dirty.
Why wouldn’t the property management company want to dredge the storm water basin a bit deeper to discourage the growth of cattails ? Why not use a shredder to process the load into the truck, wouldn’t that be more efficient ?
2:30 "I'm venturing out to the pond I'm kind of, stabbing around and feeling things; makin' sure nobody dug a" ... makin' sure there are no ex's buried in this mess. :-D
Hey, I'm a environmental engineering specialist. Don't tell anybody. Did you see where the water got pumpéd. EPA regulations are very specific. That Cracker Barrel could still be heavily fined. Plus, Cracker Barrel is heavily tied into the CCP. FACT. Eaglegards...
