Hi Chris in the eighties and nineties on a large cut fill building sites we would use a 633 self loading scraper and a 815 compactor or 2 /627 pushpull scrapers with a 815 or 2/ 637 pushpulls with 825 compactor we found these combinations work well to achieve good compaction in clays like what you are doing here 0n my last project we used a 44 tonne excavator loading 10 trucks and dogs on a 1hr turn around 10 hours a day for 8 weeks the bucket had 6 inch teeth but work to tolerance of 3/4 of an inch using satellite technology things are changing all the time from the old bugger in Australia
I can’t wait for the drone view. I hope you’ll have time to come back one day to do an Ariel view when all is said and done. I’m sure I’m not alone in wanting to see the pond full and the bridge in. Bridge makes more sense than a huge pipe to row row ya boat through. Have a great vacation. God bless and peace from Virginia. 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
Stock if with bass and form up a nice sandy beach and bam! Bob's ur uncle! Great place to hang out on a hot summer day with a rod and a cooler full of beer. Fantastic job! Thanks for the video.
Looking good bro. Slowly getting through your videos from day one but crikey I will be old and wrinkley by the time I catch up, lol. Great video by the way.
I wish you would show some before and after videos, like a year after you come in and fixed these messed up ponds! After a few days of y’all working on it, I can’t tell which pond it was! lol y’all always do an amazing job! Like this one, is it the one that you cut through the pond dam that was narrow and someone else screwed it up? Because this one looks damn good!
What's happened to the rain you haven't had any for a while, you are making a lot of progress there Chris. I assume you now move to the other side to shape it out or the middle to lift the road up and put the pipe in.
If you were here in California, I can guarantee you you'd have representatives from the EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the local birdwatching society, and the county demanding you set them up an air conditioned diversity pavilion where they could perform secular re-enactments of the parting of the Red Sea and sing tree songs while supervising your efforts.
Yea, we may want to hate on government regulations, but we are living in a much healthier environment compared to the 50s, 60s, etc. This is all due to regulation.
@@rajbeekie7124 Well then, if we had infinite government regulation, we would be living in an absolutely perfect world, would we not? Chris could just slightly adjust his topography for the dam on that there pond and we could probably create 40 or more acres of rice paddy. All of us could wake up about dawn, put on our special hats, sing some patriotic songs, and then go to our assigned areas in the rice fields to produce our daily quota. The neighbors wouldn't mind, I'm sure. Well if they did, the police would just come in and kill them and take their land anyway. So that's cool.
Hey Chris I know it would be a major pain. However if you waxed the inside of the haul truck bed the clay wouldn't stick and build up so bad. Just a suggestion buddy.
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@letsdig18....will u please get a video of it with it filled when it's completely finished and full of water...btw love the video's bro....just as good on a dozer as you are the excavator.
Hey Chris! Great videos! Question how do you get the key way put in where the creek is at the end of the damn? Also how tall is the damn and what slope? Thanks!
I was climbing on to the armrest of my chair like in the old days where I operated a dozer until I realized that luckily i´m not on a dozer anymore. :-)
Just wondering why you don't build the dam wide at the bottom and slope it while your raising the dam? I slope mine while coming up to grade with the dam.
Chris, I love these videos and have followed you for years......Big fan...... Just an objective question; what is your liability if this new dam fails when spring run offs and rains challenge the basin...?
Hi Chris, Quick question...You mentioned in a video the other day that the small dozer needed a new undercarriage and I have heard that about other tracked vehicles. Exactly what does that entail and is it worth doing on older equipment? I have zero knowledge of heavy equipment.
When he started on the water side of the dam I wish the camera was in the cab with him. Couple of times I thought "oh crap" for him. Looked like it slid down a touch
Hey Chris just a quick question why do y'all not own your own small roller like a smooth drum with the sheet foot outer bolt on part y'all have the truck and trailer to haul it and it seems like you do enough work to make it worth owein your own
21:00 is the back left tire getting ready to blow out the sidewall or is that just sticky clay on it? Looks like a gash. Side sloping seems like things can get a bit loose and hairy riding along on it.
If its hard ground they'll go. Seen a guy roll a 450 deere over. But yes 95 % will slide. When we use to loam our ponds we would go straight up and down with small dozer. Then seed them. And not rake them. Half worn dozer pads. Best water break around for erosion
Any idea as the degree of angle...on the inside bank...?? My uncle ran a dozer for a company that made drainage ditches. ..nice job...I would get a sore neck. ..