What a mess, tedious digging to get to the bottom of it all. The second cast iron pipe from the overflow catchment looks to be something that could be removed and just cut off in the catchment box as the lower culvert will drain it directly rather than have two outflows. Or am I missing something with it. Nice work Chris and Tim, always enjoy watching you guys work those Yanmar's
What a Mess you had to deal with Chris, the dirt was still full of water. The Volvos would not have been kind to that small area. Benefits of having the minis.
Having to fix someone else's lack of common sense job mistakes should be priced at a premium. Y'all should include a "fixing something stupid" fee in your job estimates.
Great repair work. That pond should have been built with an outfall pipe cradle. We are getting away from collars even on new ponds now but great job fixing someone elses shit.
All that concrete on top was probably their anti seep collar they charged the customer for. I've never understood people who half ass do a job. My wife gets so mad at me because I take so long to do a job, but when I do it I do it right!
That little mini sure can handle some work....tough little machine....remimds me of the machine used by Elite Earthworks....both machines are TOUGH! Chris you be HANDLIN that mini Sir!!!!
Obviously , too many excavators are out of their depth when it comes to dams and other hydraulic structures. It took until the 1930's to understand the soil mechanics , hydrology , and hydraulics well enough to publish a good text on it . See Terzaghi and Peck . Thanks for the very good video !
Always feel bad for the customers that hire idiots that don’t know what they’re doing. Paying the idiots and then having to pay again to get it fixed right
@@MsRaidman Actually, stupid is probably much easier to fix than apathy. Stupid can watch this video, and just might learn something. I'm guessing the real problem was one part laziness, two parts cheapness, and a steaming pile of "This'll probably last long enough for it to become someone else's problem." I doubt the original contractor compacted the soil properly, and it looked like they didn't bother to dig below the pipe before pouring the anti-seep collar. So, there was probably just loosely packed soil below the entire length of the pipe. It seems to me that "Lowest bidder" leads to cheapness, which leads to apathy, which leads to laziness - all of which lead to shoddy workmanship and premature failure. Is any of what I said correct? I don't care enough to verify any of it. ;)
My brother was one of the best operators I ever worked around. A accident 3 years ago changed that. I don't know a better operator than Chris now. Love watching the videos for sure. What's a good worker like Tim get paid?
After the concrete collars are poured do you use anything like holeplug or benseal they are bentonite products"swelling clay" a natural earth product we use when drilling water wells. We have supplied it to local excavators here for just the same type issues you have with leaking ponds,overflows etc. Not sure if I have seen you incorporate it in other videos similar to these digs,good work ! There are formulas of mix ratios for different uses but for a seep we usually use it straight from the bag as we backfill up against the barrier.
Easy fix dig it up pour 9yds concrete cover in dirt charge 10k and in a few yrs when it fails we will gone let the next guy worry!! U did a great job love your vids keep am up and stay safe in Boston we deal with water allday everyday!!!
Hmmm, I guess the only two options with that are ripe the lot out and start again correctly, or just encase the joints in yet more cement. Ripping it out would be a hell of job and need a full size breaker. Failing that I guess you could dig a new section and abandon this current pipe if the ends were capped. Damn good mess.
Did the inside of the RCP look ok and undamaged? Wonder if the previous people busted it or cracked it. Being why they dumped concrete all over it. Just curious and a though.
Thanks for sharing. Is this just bad luck or was there an oversight in the original construction. Both ponds look like they have been there for quite some time.
Hey Chris it might be a good idea when your using the mini is to put the Cam on the side of the boom or the elbow part so when you twist the whole arm to either left or right we will still be able to see the work your doing and how your doing it. other then that i enjoyed the video as i always look forward to the next one.
I’m trying to figure out why the overflow is underneath (below water level) the low flow. If anything I’d run the low flow inside, sitting on the bottom of the overflow. That said I hope everyone has a wonderful day today stay positive and remember to take your vitamins
Why the two pipes going through the dam???? If the top iron pipe was cut off inside the chamber all the water would flow out through the lower pipe???? No need for the top pipe ... Great videos as always .. Plymouth UK.
Tim you got more energy then I have to bulldog that tamper , you made it look easy . But why in earth would you pour cement on top , dam was that a slab of concert . Nice work not moving the mini and arcing it to dig , but there at last the boom was in the way . But how was you to know .
I think that the giant mass of concrete is them attempting an anti seep collar on the wrong pipe. The did a knock out job, it was just on the wrong pipe.
Bodge it and scarper pond services obviously couldn't be arsed to dig under the pipe so just used the spare concrete on top to make it look like they had.
I would guess all that "extra concrete" is from somebody miscalculating and burning it up on the dam face thinking it will help.. I'm glad to see you're doing it right! Keep up the good work! I wish you were closer to Southern Indiana, and I'd have bunches of work for ya!
I plan on using 15" RCP to make my pond spillway similar to this one. I was considering filling the entire trench in with concrete around the pipe. Good or Bad? Do I have to worry about the pipe floating up in the concrete? At minimum I was going to pour a anti-seep collar at each joint
Hard to tell in the video but was that good clay that they used? It looks like it has quite a bit of sandy loam in it, just hard to tell from the video. The cheapest bid definitely doesn't guarantee the best job but I've also seen shoddy work from expensive contractors. At least you have years of video proof of the work you guy's do!
On this video it seemed as though all we ever saw was digging. Would probably like to see the digging speeded up a little and see what you do to remedy the situation. I love to see the work performed more than I like the digging constantly. Just saying.
seems to me that the second pond overflow was just a bit over-engineered... I can understand the smaller overflow pipe in the concrete pilon.. but to run a separate line out of it to have a separate place to drain just seems odd to me.. why not just dump it into the main overflow? The way it's set up, once it starts flowing.. it could actually act as a siphon as well (but that can work going into the main that the go through anyway)... just seems really odd to me.. then again... I don't do this stuff for a living (had family members that did)
How do you guys decide which one of you gets the new tight enclosed mini and who gets stuck with the loosy-goosy open station. It seems that Timmy usually has to run the left overs... ???
Chris what causes the water to start going under the pipe , is it due to the installation and the dirt not being compacted when installed or for not using the right dirt to build the dam. That's wild how the water will eat it's way under the pipe when the least resistance is threw the pipe. I realize that the water has to reach the level on the overflow before it runs into the pipe it's just wild how it eats its way under the dam and the dirt don't collapse in on its self and sort of fixing it self and stopping the leak.
Gotta love amateurs. 70% of my business is fixing things they did thinking they were saving money. Seems like there's never time to do something right, but there's always time to do it over . . CHA-CHING!!
Why would a company pour that much crete to waste it? I now this stuff is high here in Texas just to pour a pad site for my shop. Thanks for all you do for your viewers and stay safe in the virus world