You've Never Seen A Water System Like This... 

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Awesome vid man!

Happy to report that my son, Jack, was born 3 weeks ago and is healthy and happy. Can't wait to raise him right and enjoy things together.

This is going to be an interesting series

I'm really interested in the irrigation setup. Would love to see more videos of the rebuild and operation.

Another dutchman here who enjoys this complex irrigation system, please feel free to explain everything! : )

Your relationship with jack is an inspiration. I feel that if every father put as much effort in the world would be a much better place

I rewatched the intro a few times just to watch the camera autofocus as you drove up to it and get right into talking without pressing a thing. Boy do we take our tech for granted sometimes. so cool

Would consider testing the water to make sure there aren't too much nitrates/nitrites in the water. Depending on what the neighbors are using it for it might be high or fine.

Your son is growing into quite a fine young man (who isn't afraid to slide down a hill)! Keep up the great work.

The best part of this video was your time with Jack.

Amazing bit of local history. Keep up the great work. Love the ending with Jack outlasting his old man!

Great stuff Wranglerstar, here in Holland we also see a lot of water run systems.

In my property's area the irrigation canals were all hand dug about 130 years ago and concrete lined. And sluice gates are all cast iron. Some of them still seem like the original ones.

You almost have to rebuild that water system to preserve and honor those that built it. Very fascinating, looking forward to updates.

Keep the irrigation vids coming. Living in the southeast I never knew what the deal with water rights was about until my fam moved to southern Utah. It's such a different environment, literally and legally.

This is honestly your chance to put a video together that could be the instructional how-to that’s used 200 years from now to re-irrigate that land once again.

In eastern Kentucky the local governments dont care what you do and dont do anything and the state won't bother to inspect anything. It can be annoying at times but the fact that they truly leave you alone is worth doing all the work yourself

There is a system like that in an area of Bishop, CA. First time I saw something like that. It is really a work of functional art!

My brother had a ranch in Halfway, Oregon and had this type of irrigation systems. He taught me so much about it. It was fun!

Wow, just WOW! That was so cool, (literally), at the end with Jack. These are the times that Jack will tell his children about. God bless you and your family Cody.

This is the content, which seperates Cody‘s channel from a lot of other‘s. Very crisp and interesting at the same time. What a blessing this (our) mother nature is. Gives so much joy.

That is a very cool irrigation system, using nature, gravity, etc and not pumps. I grew up on family homestead that my great-grandfather started over a hundred years ago. They had the opposite problem, too much water. The middle lower 20 acres would stay flooded too long in the spring to farm. It would naturally drain to the south, but there was a shorter route to the north to another creek so my great-grandfather and other neighbors used horses and skid buckets (not sure what they're called) to dig out the ditch about fifteen feet wide and six feet deep. He used other methods to drain smaller areas, 3" × 12" clay tiles buried just deep enough so the plow wouldn't hit them. He hand dug three wells on the property approximately 20 ft and were used until my grandfather had built a well driller and machine drilled wells down to eighty or ninety feet.

bhahhah....I love it. I've seen a tittle like this on another channel...wink wink...Love it Cody! Your new place is so pretty! Stay safe buddy!

For better or worse I really need to know how this situation gets resolved! I am in carpentry/building and this is very interesting! I've had situations involving wetlands and this could help bring insight on how to work with these types of conditions.

Might be an idea to send your drone up Cody and get photographs of that river bend that way. When they're overlaid it might give a clearer picture of what's happening with erosion.

That irrigation system is impressive! Please do more content on it 🙏

Boy that mountain scenery though. What a beautiful view. Love the videos and cheers from Estonia

YES! up coming wood working for a massive project! Gunna be a good little series

I love this stuff, please feel free to explain it and document all your work. Would be really interesting to see.

Very cool

Hey Cody - Keep up the great content. Question, how do you manage and track your power equipment maintenance, using storage fuel etc.?

Looking forward to the irrigation gate repair and how the bank erosion gets handled. Jack is really growing!

Man, it's great watching your family enjoying the new property and the fruits of living an honest life that features hard work and faith. The water is so calming and beautiful, Cody. Jack's turtle-sledding was the high point of my day. Love to all from Colorado mountains.

You ever consider the synthetic deck boards for your irrigation gates?

Grew up using flood irrigation, we poured concrete gateways and used a combination of wooden gates covered by a removable heavy tarps that helped save the gates and made them last longer

I remember watching an old western movie and they were using this water system

Man I thought u had an amazing view from ur last homestead

Finally a good homesteading video. The cheap Amazon “test” reviews just aren’t the same as these videos.

I tell people, "its time too watch my mentor', do not disturb....appreciate you good sir!

While living in Japan I was amazed at their irrigation systems for farming. Similar to what you’re showing.

Looked like an old Spencer loggers tape. Nice to see you with Jack! We’re working with our local NRCS experts to get a grant to convert 19 acres of scotch broom, blackberry and 3’ high doug fir to Oregon White oak prairie.

The bit at the end with you and your son was super wholesome. I miss those days with my kid.

Here in our valley we use cement to build our boxes and metal for our gates. we use a piece of metal culvert as well to mitigate erosion-around the gates

Just about to finish my Civil Engineering degree, I have to say my water engineering and hydraulics module was by far my favourite! Safe to say I’m interested!

The undermining is called scour factor. Above my pay grade but I've hear the office engineer talk about it.

You were playing with ram pumps when I first came to the channel, stayed for the fellowship. Looking forward to more adventures with water though.

Love having a break in school to watch your videos

I could watch this for hours!

This is my favorite type of video that you do. Real life updates. It is also very cool to see how grown up Jack has become!

Hey Cody try using Alaskan yellow cedar for your board replacement. Great stuff and the most rot resistant soft wood in North America. I sell it in Idaho but there's lots of wholesale lumber yards near you too.

It would be interesting to see where the water enters the irrigation system, but I bet it’s on private property. Cool system!!

Lighting,audio, was outstanding in this video! Love the water rights series....please continue to share.

Totally understand your previous comments that some vids don’t pay, but great to see the homestead again. Fascinating irrigation system.

Cody, four words for you: Time Lapse Drone Footage. 👍🏻

Adding rip-rap is how they used to call it I think. The minute I saw that erosion at 8:04, thats what I thought about. You're right about the utter insanity of the micromanaging of the water system. I was looking at some property near Yosemite and discussing methods of using the local stream for gardening and was told in no uncertain terms that even a foot tall dam is not allowed.

Did you make sure that the King Coil Overs are rated to handle 2 alternators?

Jack is growing up :)

I find this irrigation system so fascinating. Thanks for sharing

Finally another video! Love them always and look so forward to them! God Bless!

For a seriously cool system, rebuild with Viktor Schauburger style of waterway. Viktor was incredibly intelligent and studied natural flowing patterns for his water ways.

nice place. did this kind of work my whole life on the coast.

My recommendation would be for you to also check Google Earth imagery. Specifically, the location of the small fur when you are kneeling in the video that's located at the corner of the fence line. Not sure what the dates you have in your area for satelite imagery but in the south we have areas flown late 2019. If you have some imagery on that property from say around 2012/2013 to 2015/2016 you could also see the erosion effect between those dates. Basically how much closer is the river to that tree.

definitely more irrigation videos, keep up the series it is very fascinating

I was 10 in 1989 and so excited when my dad bought me my first pair of real irrigating boots and a shovel, so I was probably the last generation to irrigate by setting a canvas dam and irrigating row crops with cuts in a ditch. Here in Wyoming everything was flood irrigated then and still is for the most part but is a lot more modern way of doing it with pivot sprinklers and such. We have an irrigation Canal the runs above our place that is approximately 60’ wide and 50 miles long that was hand dug with MEN and horses, it amazes me what they did back then, but that was back when men were made of steel and the equipment was made of wood.

Man i have been excited to see this video. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work

Hello from Ireland. Would love to hear more on the river bank repair, if and when you start.

Good to see Jack. I like these little episodes of the the family.

You sir are a blessed man ! Thanks for sharing, I love learning from our ancestors through people who are not letting there culture be lost. Very smart looking into the erosion problem and not just going at it full speed ahead. Thanks for sharing !

Great video. I love the little bit on the end of you and Jack. We used ditches like that on the property I grew up on. it was cool.

Man the last small clips of u and Jack 🤗 priceless

I'm very interested in the irrigation system! Thank you for posting!

Always loved these kind of systems. Also, what a blessing it must be to be able to live out there and enjoy the beauty of Gods creation.

Love seeing you with jack...reminds me of those years from 10-18 with my Dad ..I played hockey so we drove all over Maine mass NH Vermont Canada together but we lived are outdoors also..just the best memroys I could ever ask for from him!!! I'm sure when jack 40 like I just turned he'll be feeling this the same memory and how they made him into a good man !! God bless your family Cody!!!

The LDS in my area did the same back in the late nineteenth century. They also dug 3 reservoirs all fed by the Little Colorado River as we don't have many water sources in my area of Arizona these reservoirs are vital to supplying water year around. Irrigation rights are still included when property is purchased just like it is in your case. Pretty amazing what the ancestors achieved with hard work and teamwork!

12:18 I do miss the quick access we had to the Sierras and the PNW Cascades.

you should test out some budget survival fishing rods in that river. would love too see it

and what a gorgeous mountain...

I'm late to this series but seriously excited to follow it. Homesteading is our ultimate goal and it's taken a long time for us to realize it. We're saving and almost debt free. So much to learn and do little time left to get it done. I'm so grateful for your channel bringing me back to family and core values. God bless you and your incredible family, Cody.

I would love to follow the whole process for the irrigation system!

@Wranglerstar Thanks Cody. I'm so glad you decided to share the process of getting to know and refurbishing this incredible hydrological technology.

The pressure treated 3x4s I used for fence posts 10 years ago have rotted off, When I was a kid, we had a patch of trees called "the locust grove" by the family, this was a resource for the farm. We would cut black locust posts and treat them with creosote, they are still holding up a fence after 50 years.

I’ve been waiting for the irrigation videos! The heck with the cheapest stuff series lol

Can’t wait to see this series on the water ways... How big has Jack gotten, they grow up soooo fast!! Enjoy it!!

That water system is most interesting. With the homestead thing, can you enlighten us about the hay, which is what I presume you'll do? Is Mr. W getting into the cattle business? Do tell, when the time comes, about the summit of Mt Fuji.

Some google satellite land comparisons are always interesting, in particular with time periods, nevertheless interesting. God bless you as well.

Please do videos as you rebuild it! Would be very interested to see that!

I live in an area where people have used similar ditches to irrigate their fields. However, the river bank is really high so they cannot use gates to flood the ditches. Instead they use a really cool water wheel with buckets attached to it. The river drives the water wheel and the buckets transport the to the ditches over a series of wooden channels. If you are interested you can search 'Wasserschöpfrad' on RU-vid to see them in action.

This is very interesting to have access to that history!!!

My acreage is on the Snake River plain in the middle of southern Idaho. The irrigation system of dams and canals was built nearly 100 years ago. My water flows from the top of the Grand Teton Mountains to the bottom of my fields purely by gravity. I control the movement of the water on my place by using 'concrete headgates'. These headgates use galvanized tin paddles that slide up and down to control the flow of water through a concrete pipe. Several of the bigger farmers in this area have commented on the fact that I have the least expensive farming practice that they know about.

Jack has surely turned out to be a fine young man; a testament of his mother & father.

Love seeing the bonding with Jack at the end.

@Wranglestar Practical Engineering has a youtube channel were he explains a lot of the hydraulics you talked about

Thanks for all you do mr wranglerstar, I have learned from your videos, and really enjoy your content!

This is where I belong. I can't wait to get out west. I genuinely love your videos. There is something just so tranquil about everything you do.

Ironically, I watched this video on the side of an irrigation ditch while taking my lunch break. I am a ditch rider for the local irrigation ditch and the particular location I'm sitting at now has over 30 cubic feet per (cfs) second flowing past me. Each ditch rider will deliver about 100 cfs to farmers every day through canals, ditches and pumps run through the district and established by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1940. Our main canal runs at about 1200 cfs servicing farmers using rill, pivot, handline and wheel line irrigation. I'll be very interested in seeing your progress as you go along.

Goodness! That's some beautiful land!

We have an entire region extensively irrigated with this type of system in New Zealand, now with automated control structures and lazer-levelled fields and weirs.most made of the scheme was completed around WW2

Been watching you sence 2017 you are sir a old soul with alot of wisdom and Knowledge and I wish one day I can live like you sir 👍

I saw a video in SW diverting street run off. The water would rush along the edge of the road during a short storm and the little bit they diverted by the driveway totally watered their garden. They had big green plants and the neighbor did not.