Man that has to be hard to tell someone their dream would be an impossible nightmare. You then looked for the possible, reminded them what the reality of their suggestion was, and gave them hope for a possibility. You are a good man, Chris.
Man this is AWESOME! My little boy watches Braydon and we have met him a couple times riding - a great young man! Great to see good content creators together.
two things I liked best about this video: you helped him out of the ditch even as his buddies were laughing at him, (even said something like “if you’re anything like me it’s impossible to recover once you’re laughing”) and then during your discussion about the fissured rock you said something like “I don’t know I’m not familiar with it”.. signs of integrity imo
Ugghhh Well said brother... Chris is the best, ( like others said above) Instead of telling them it couldnt be done, gave options, However if it was my land i'd almost be sick after discovering that amount of rock w shattered dreams
If anyone can build a pond on that moon rock property, it's Chris the pond master, no one else could accomplish that task of a pond, great video Chris an thanks for sharing, definitely gonna need alooootttttt of red lay hauled in for sure, but it will be a beautiful pond
This one will be a challenge but as they say, for every problem, there is an answer. At least you are dealing straight with him and letting him know the issues. Thanks for the video.
There are times when you can address a problem, then there are times when you need to just walk away. If it were me, I would walk away. Thanks for sharing.
I have no idea how much a load of clay would cost down there, but I’d bet the bill would be hundred thousand plus plus for the job. What about a “rubber” liner like they use to waterproof the bottom of our landfill cells here. They collect the leachate water and pump it to a treatment plant. Would work fine for a pond, it’s used all the time for smaller residential Koi ponds.
Hello Chris, thanks for this video of a nice young man embarking on a Wild goose chase and wanting you to make it happen. I'm over 70 and I'd suggest you "Just walk away".
Chris I was looking out to see if you were digging in my pasture. I live near a quarry and that's how our ground looks. I think he needs to build a batch plant or a rock quarry. Chris it was a nice trip and it is beautiful land but no cigar.
Set up a quarry Separate rock and clay Separate topsoil (so little onsite) Some Rock can be sold as fill. Sounds like a big spread, dump and grind brush and wood to compost for soil in the the future. My first thought was using plastic liner, cut out the pond and line. I would imagine the cost of cut and liner would be less than, cut-truck in clay- level -compact. Love to see a D11 or something big from Volvo ripping and pushing the hills around!! Thanks Chris 🎉
Braydon: I want a big 10acre pond, fill it with fish, prawns and ducks and rent it out to people just like the Bealy Good Farm. Chris: Nothing but bed rock. Gonna have to see if we can get a 2-3 acre pond out of it if we are lucky. Reality: We have ourselves an above ground pool situation.
I was thinking at one point that the property might be valuable as a gravel pit. Lord knows there's enough rock in there and it's half broken up already. How they ever managed to grow crops on it is beyond me!
Decent top spil from what I saw. And those rocs where honestly only average size and smaller so alot of free minerals in that soil allready.but just too much rock for a good company to allow a friend to pay an arm to get it done.
@@sibernthaw6270 I don't know where your knowledge of topsoil comes from but when the volume of rock is greater than the volume of loose soil in a test sample that is NOT decent topsoil. 🙂 I'm not even sure it would be possible to dig a hole by hand with a shovel.
Looks like he will be money ahead selling this farm and buying one in a location more suitable for a pond site . Anything is possible with enough money or luck . This project is gonna need truck loads of both .
I totally agree with you Nandi , I'd ask Chris to open the secret compartment in his wallet and hand Braydon one of his competitors business cards. My guess is someone could go bankrupt trying to make a mole hill into a mountain.
Man that is a lot of dirt to move around. Be interesting to see what you come up with for a solution. I would almost bet you could start a rock quarry out of the site but I would guess a person would have to screen it all to get it separated, and if the rock was worth the effort. Thanks for the tag along video, lots more to pond building than just digging a hole and putting in a dam.
Haven't heard of Braydon Price. At least the mini looked awesome with those tinted windows. Hindsight. I like watching the process of layout. It is interesting to see your thought process when laying out a pond site. The area I'd like to put a 1-1.5 acre pond would need to be clay lined. It would only be 3-6 feet deep, maybe a tad deeper in some spots. I did a test hole a year or so ago and dug up nothing but surge-sized stone. The hole was 7 feet deep. Perfect for a road base, terrible for a pond lol.
Looks like you are at my property near the VA line, my dirt has smaller like flat quarter to dime size flat pebbles in the dirt. I can disc and bed it up it looks like a carpet but let it rain and it looks like i bedded up a driveway with all the gravel looking dirt but anything will grow in it, one side the creek is that way and the other side all thats over there is quarts rock
One thing there seems to be plenty of is water - if Braydon goes ahead with this it will be an interesting pond build to watch. Pity about the roack though as would make beautiful lake.
I lover that rock lined creek. If I was him I'd build some kind of structure down there to enjoy the shade and the creek. We don't have anything like that here. No rock at all
Same here. 6" or less of soil before hitting rock. But if you want a pond, you only have to dig 6' down to hit water, in the dry season. But yet we grow tomatoes, squash, beans and other things including sweet potatoes on it.
@@m2hmghb Yeah, but really it doesn't matter.. both are porous and might as well have a built in drain... what would need to be done to either is pretty much the same.. you have to line it with a non-porous material.. which can get very expensive.
Here in north western Ont. CANADA MOST land is many feet deep in gravel an solid bed rock. You can find huge gravel pits an rock Quarries just about every 5 miles. None able to build a pond with out ether a liner or trucking in red clay. The land I bought an paid cash for at 18 I bought in in dead of winter and was told all these Mountains were gravel. When spring came i rented a 225 cat to clear a driveway in. A power line in. An dig test holes in the hills an valley buttons... in the valley bottoms I dug though 6 feet of clay 3 feet of black soil. Then in to endless clean white sand. The hills I dug the excavator down 10 feet so I could dig down deeper. Over 30 holes nothing but 2" of top soil an different colors of clay. Starting with red, gray, blue. Not a rock any were. I was up set until I logged the whole property an rented a D8 to strip all the stumps an brush off to make Pastures. Little did I know the value of this clay. Every one wants it to line ditches ponds. The bring in an excavator to load trucks from the huge hill. Pay me $50 Per tri axle mode $175 dump trailer load. Hell that more then the $4 you pay per ton of pit run. 30 years later a drill well though 60 feet of clay 12 feet corse gravel and 27 feet into solid bed rock were the drill rig dropped into a 18" Deep cavity full of water. Drive a steel 8" well caseing into the bed rock that had a driving shoe welded on to drive into the bed rock to seal off any ground water getting in. To this day never found a rock other then what I have had trucked in by township wanting a dump site to dump road ditching Material Being I have huge valleys But I won't fill in and it's all free fill
If you would extend that 25' height measuring stick and car wax it would slide in and out better. I used the same stick for pre-measuring height for transporting large loads. I had had to keep mine clean and waxed a few times a year. :)
But that takes time, and in that time, some developer comes by, buys it up and sticks 300 houses on it! (At least thats whats happening near Knoxville)
Man yea your in my neck of the woods, when you get started and if you tear some teeth or shanks up on your bucket holler we right down the street in marshville. That’ll be a good size pond!
Need a geologist to have a look first. I have worked on a lot of dam constructions and maybe a worked clay blanket on the stone would make a impenetrable liner, but I would spend money on a geologist and sink some exploration boreholes to see the depth of stone..
Two things. Only really need the liner on the downstream end of things. Any area that's far enough uphill/upstream to be feeding the pond, rather than seeping out of it, would not need a liner. For this big of an area, and for the expense of hauling in that much clay and moving it 3 times. This might call for a much thinner clay layer to smooth out the surface and then install synthetic pond liner, geomembrane. The same stuff used to line the bottom of garbage dumps and huge petroleum tank farms. Cover it over with a thin sand or clay layer to anchor it down and protect it from getting cut.
First class guy is what you are Chris. To the point and honest to the core. Everything a contractor should be. Pure class act all the way. He might be better off using the are as a gravel pit and making a few bucks to pay for the much needed clay.
Here in north western Ont. That the kind of ground gravel pit owner cry for. The dig it all up an run it though masave huge crushers an makes the best road gravel. It packs down solid as concrete and still Grateful after a rainstorm to cut out the wash board an pot holes an re-crown the roads. They grade the roads after a rain. And the pit owner get top dollar for road gravel granular A.
Chris ????? If you have good dry Clay with Rock can it be put into a Soil grader on site and use what the property owner has other than buy in and yes it would be faster to have the Clay purchased and put on site. Great Vlog and bring in the 550 Volvo for a real Hard Job. Shoutout to Volvo :)
In my humble opinion, build the big lake! Just put a lower drain on the overflow so you can go back and patch it if necessary. It might take a few years to sort it out, but it would be worth it. 🤘😎
Man that has to be hard to tell someone their dream would be an impossible nightmare. You then looked for the possible, reminded them what the reality of their suggestion was, and gave them hope for a possibility. You are a good man, Chris.
Well Said, Very well said.... was going to say the 1st part.
@@Stratos53100 Especially since he was able to make the Bealy Good pond extra special.
There is so much rock there that it looks like the site where Chris dumped the animal hospital rocks lol
In that creek area, instead of a pond, maybe just dig out a few “swimming holes” along the way...add some picnic tables and a fire pit.
Man this is AWESOME! My little boy watches Braydon and we have met him a couple times riding - a great young man! Great to see good content creators together.
Years ago the power company built a plant here and for the cooling pool they had to bring in clay in rail cars, lots of them.
two things I liked best about this video: you helped him out of the ditch even as his buddies were laughing at him, (even said something like “if you’re anything like me it’s impossible to recover once you’re laughing”) and then during your discussion about the fissured rock you said something like “I don’t know I’m not familiar with it”.. signs of integrity imo
Worked for a man who did exactly the same thing for embarrassed fellows, would say " If you're like me ... ".
Time stamp? I was fast forwarding 😂
Flashbacks of the vet clinic.
Ugghhh Well said brother... Chris is the best, ( like others said above) Instead of telling them it couldnt be done, gave options, However if it was my land i'd almost be sick after discovering that amount of rock w shattered dreams
That’s going to be EXPENSIVE!!
After all the digging, I expected Chris to recommend an above ground pool. 🤣
😂
Or at least, a pool liner...
😅😅
I'd ask Chris to dig a level pad with the Mini and plop a jacuzzi there.
Yes indeed, a vertical drill system and dynamite seems to be the solution here. :)
I liked seeing the layout process of the pond.
If anyone can build a pond on that moon rock property, it's Chris the pond master, no one else could accomplish that task of a pond, great video Chris an thanks for sharing, definitely gonna need alooootttttt of red lay hauled in for sure, but it will be a beautiful pond
This one will be a challenge but as they say, for every problem, there is an answer. At least you are dealing straight with him and letting him know the issues. Thanks for the video.
Someone did a lot clearing for land that could not be cultivated.
That weathered and broken rock seems to be on top of solid rock.
Very interesting watching the whole process of designing and calculating the ponds.
Chris of you take this pond job, it will be interesting to watch you build this one.
Plans changed. He opened a crushed rock business on the site.
That should be a pretty interesting pond build .
There are times when you can address a problem, then there are times when you need to just walk away. If it were me, I would walk away. Thanks for sharing.
Where I live when you buy ground you look at a soil map that tells you about the ground your buying. We have a lot of Memphis loam
I have no idea how much a load of clay would cost down there, but I’d bet the bill would be hundred thousand plus plus for the job. What about a “rubber” liner like they use to waterproof the bottom of our landfill cells here. They collect the leachate water and pump it to a treatment plant. Would work fine for a pond, it’s used all the time for smaller residential Koi ponds.
By the time you factor in the cost of trucking if you are bringing it from off site it’s easily 1,000,000 just in dirt
Hello Chris, thanks for this video of a nice young man embarking on a Wild goose chase and wanting you to make it happen. I'm over 70 and I'd suggest you "Just walk away".
Chris I was looking out to see if you were digging in my pasture. I live near a quarry and that's how our ground looks. I think he needs to build a batch plant or a rock quarry. Chris it was a nice trip and it is beautiful land but no cigar.
Set up a quarry
Separate rock and clay
Separate topsoil (so little onsite)
Some Rock can be sold as fill.
Sounds like a big spread, dump and grind brush and wood to compost for soil in the the future.
My first thought was using plastic liner, cut out the pond and line. I would imagine the cost of cut and liner would be less than, cut-truck in clay- level -compact.
Love to see a D11 or something big from Volvo ripping and pushing the hills around!!
Thanks Chris 🎉
How to visualize a pond from so many different contours is a gift. To express your visuals to others is very difficult.
Love the ride along
Loved this Chris. Some people do not realise what is involved in groundworks and ponds..
Perhaps a quarry instead? 🤷♀️ Agree with all who have said if anyone can do this pond, it’s Chris!!
definitely looking forward to a possible build here
So I'm curious how it would go if you got a screeder there to clean up that dirt.
70% rock vs 30% dirt, still not enough to do the job.
Braydon: I want a big 10acre pond, fill it with fish, prawns and ducks and rent it out to people just like the Bealy Good Farm.
Chris: Nothing but bed rock. Gonna have to see if we can get a 2-3 acre pond out of it if we are lucky.
Reality: We have ourselves an above ground pool situation.
Very interesting to see this side of the business thanks for sharing
I was thinking at one point that the property might be valuable as a gravel pit. Lord knows there's enough rock in there and it's half broken up already. How they ever managed to grow crops on it is beyond me!
I guarantee that ground never saw a plough! Or if it did, hundreds. In pieces!
Top soil buddy
Decent top spil from what I saw. And those rocs where honestly only average size and smaller so alot of free minerals in that soil allready.but just too much rock for a good company to allow a friend to pay an arm to get it done.
@@sibernthaw6270 I don't know where your knowledge of topsoil comes from but when the volume of rock is greater than the volume of loose soil in a test sample that is NOT decent topsoil. 🙂 I'm not even sure it would be possible to dig a hole by hand with a shovel.
Looks like he will be money ahead selling this farm and buying one in a location more suitable for a pond site .
Anything is possible with enough money or luck .
This project is gonna need truck loads of both .
When there's doubt, there is no doubt. I believe I'd give that one a pass. Bucking mother nature doesn't end well.
I totally agree with you Nandi , I'd ask Chris to open the secret compartment in his wallet and hand Braydon one of his competitors business cards. My guess is someone could go bankrupt trying to make a mole hill into a mountain.
Might want to set up a gravel pit.
Yes, bring back the 550 !!!
That was a pretty sweet little Cat 306
Well, it would be interesting to watch......
Man that is a lot of dirt to move around. Be interesting to see what you come up with for a solution. I would almost bet you could start a rock quarry out of the site but I would guess a person would have to screen it all to get it separated, and if the rock was worth the effort. Thanks for the tag along video, lots more to pond building than just digging a hole and putting in a dam.
Come on, get the big dozers from the old guy and let's go!
Let the beasts run
Yup team up those bad boys with the '3 bucket 550' good to go...👍🤔😉
Big dozer with a big ripper.
Just need a few D10's, an EC950, and a few A60H's. You can get it done in a weekend lol.
Best decision you made calling Chris.
Haven't heard of Braydon Price. At least the mini looked awesome with those tinted windows. Hindsight. I like watching the process of layout. It is interesting to see your thought process when laying out a pond site. The area I'd like to put a 1-1.5 acre pond would need to be clay lined. It would only be 3-6 feet deep, maybe a tad deeper in some spots. I did a test hole a year or so ago and dug up nothing but surge-sized stone. The hole was 7 feet deep. Perfect for a road base, terrible for a pond lol.
Looks like you are at my property near the VA line, my dirt has smaller like flat quarter to dime size flat pebbles in the dirt. I can disc and bed it up it looks like a carpet but let it rain and it looks like i bedded up a driveway with all the gravel looking dirt but anything will grow in it, one side the creek is that way and the other side all thats over there is quarts rock
One thing there seems to be plenty of is water - if Braydon goes ahead with this it will be an interesting pond build to watch. Pity about the roack though as would make beautiful lake.
Mane I been watching Braydon since he started UA-cam, & I been watching you since you started UA-cam this crazy that yall are collaborating 🔥🔥
Just make it a stone quarry. And fill it when you ran out of rock/stone.
Looks like a welded rubber liner would be easier.
it all comes down to how bad do you really want a pond here
It comes down to how deep is his checkbook? You can build a pond anywhere if the money's right.
I lover that rock lined creek. If I was him I'd build some kind of structure down there to enjoy the shade and the creek. We don't have anything like that here. No rock at all
Gravel Pit!
It's way better than what I am used to diggin... Aloha and thank you for the awesome videos.
Same here. 6" or less of soil before hitting rock. But if you want a pond, you only have to dig 6' down to hit water, in the dry season. But yet we grow tomatoes, squash, beans and other things including sweet potatoes on it.
@@gravelydon7072 Nice.
That's respect and sign of a stand up person... :-) @2:33
28:34.., the moment you realise.., you'll need at least 3 million more subscribers.
Almost makes me think of Matt's pond with Dirt Perfect...
His was much worse. The rock there was solid but fractured.
@@m2hmghb Yeah, but really it doesn't matter.. both are porous and might as well have a built in drain... what would need to be done to either is pretty much the same.. you have to line it with a non-porous material.. which can get very expensive.
I was thinking the exact same thing, flashback to Matt's pond.
You’re going to need that 550 again!
More like a 750 ;)
At least...
Interesting Video Thanks Chris!!👍👍
Here in north western Ont. CANADA MOST land is many feet deep in gravel an solid bed rock. You can find huge gravel pits an rock Quarries just about every 5 miles. None able to build a pond with out ether a liner or trucking in red clay. The land I bought an paid cash for at 18 I bought in in dead of winter and was told all these Mountains were gravel. When spring came i rented a 225 cat to clear a driveway in. A power line in. An dig test holes in the hills an valley buttons... in the valley bottoms I dug though 6 feet of clay 3 feet of black soil. Then in to endless clean white sand. The hills I dug the excavator down 10 feet so I could dig down deeper. Over 30 holes nothing but 2" of top soil an different colors of clay. Starting with red, gray, blue. Not a rock any were. I was up set until I logged the whole property an rented a D8 to strip all the stumps an brush off to make Pastures. Little did I know the value of this clay. Every one wants it to line ditches ponds. The bring in an excavator to load trucks from the huge hill. Pay me $50 Per tri axle mode $175 dump trailer load. Hell that more then the $4 you pay per ton of pit run. 30 years later a drill well though 60 feet of clay 12 feet corse gravel and 27 feet into solid bed rock were the drill rig dropped into a 18" Deep cavity full of water. Drive a steel 8" well caseing into the bed rock that had a driving shoe welded on to drive into the bed rock to seal off any ground water getting in. To this day never found a rock other then what I have had trucked in by township wanting a dump site to dump road ditching Material Being I have huge valleys But I won't fill in and it's all free fill
He has some dirt! It is enough to make folks in TN very jealous. Looks like a great place for deer hunting.
Yeah, that's going to need the same treatment Bama Bass did with his 5 acre pond build.
Lots of rocks like the Rock Hill Animal Clinic job. If he got a screener and bought lots of cement it could be a Clampett Cement Pond.
Here in Orangeburg s. C. We build ponds supplied with a stream of water.
Upstaging the Bama Bass and Bealygood ponds. Wowsers!
THANKS!
I see the possability of a screener and crusher on that property. And a lot of gravel for roads
Two of the best UA-camrs
If the area around that is the same type of soil, it might be a long haul to get clay.
lol union county’s a nightmare
@@jernst682 There is plenty of clay in the area that can be brought in. Bluemax.
I think they found a new gravel pit but the pond King is at work you never know thanks Chris for a great video and thanks braydon
Nice straightforward with the facts.
Man really likes his temp in his truck at 71
If you would extend that 25' height measuring stick and car wax it would slide in and out better. I used the same stick for pre-measuring height for transporting large loads. I had had to keep mine clean and waxed a few times a year. :)
That's what it's like where I'm at in stanly county always fun to dig for septic tanks
Braydon looked disappointed, it’s a pity about all the rock.
Looks like the Monroe/Norwood NC area land. Got 13 end dumps ready to haul some clay into that area if needed. We’re always in that area!
Top vidio
Wow...lots of rock there...10 acre pond down to under 2!
I guess the lesson is if you want a pond, do the soil samples before you buy the property.
But that takes time, and in that time, some developer comes by, buys it up and sticks 300 houses on it! (At least thats whats happening near Knoxville)
Man yea your in my neck of the woods, when you get started and if you tear some teeth or shanks up on your bucket holler we right down the street in marshville. That’ll be a good size pond!
🤯 There's a lot of variables involved with that type of ground. Definitely doable without a budget cap.
Looks like he’s got himself a nice rock farm!
I think it would be cheaper to build an Olympic sized pool.
Looks like a perfect job for a EL550 with a digging bucket. Wonder if they can miss it for a while. ;-)
Or borrow Tony Beets' 950 during the off-season.
Looks like a good location for an animal hospital.
Chris: Hey Volvo, not sure I got enough seat time to make a decision, going to need the 550 again.
Volvo: 🤨
& the A60 haul truck!
@@jeffwisemiller3590 And the Allis w 17-22ft blades he showed off the other day
Now we talking.
Need a geologist to have a look first. I have worked on a lot of dam constructions and maybe a worked clay blanket on the stone would make a impenetrable liner, but I would spend money on a geologist and sink some exploration boreholes to see the depth of stone..
Or if there are caves nearby….
Two things.
Only really need the liner on the downstream end of things. Any area that's far enough uphill/upstream to be feeding the pond, rather than seeping out of it, would not need a liner.
For this big of an area, and for the expense of hauling in that much clay and moving it 3 times. This might call for a much thinner clay layer to smooth out the surface and then install synthetic pond liner, geomembrane. The same stuff used to line the bottom of garbage dumps and huge petroleum tank farms. Cover it over with a thin sand or clay layer to anchor it down and protect it from getting cut.
Tgey don't line garbage dumps. They just put trees over an keep moving out an up.
Can’t wait Chris I always enjoy watching your videos 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
First class guy is what you are Chris. To the point and honest to the core. Everything a contractor should be. Pure class act all the way. He might be better off using the are as a gravel pit and making a few bucks to pay for the much needed clay.
Here in north western Ont. That the kind of ground gravel pit owner cry for. The dig it all up an run it though masave huge crushers an makes the best road gravel. It packs down solid as concrete and still Grateful after a rainstorm to cut out the wash board an pot holes an re-crown the roads. They grade the roads after a rain. And the pit owner get top dollar for road gravel granular A.
Like the video but lots Rain .
In the first 10 minutes I think you've redefined the word... "Rock Garden." Good luck with this one, Chris....
I could see that pond getting costly quicky, with all that rock. would make a great Rock quarry.
Grace and Peace: Forget the pond and build a roller coaster !!! “they will come ! “
Might drill some cores and see if there is any good material under the rock layer.
Very interesting Chris
Looks like a good place for a rock quarry to me. Screen the rock out of the dirt and sell the rock.
He bought a quarry. Don't fight it, roll with it.
Looks like you were in good ole ROCKY Union County NC
Chris ????? If you have good dry Clay with Rock can it be put into a Soil grader on site and use what the property owner has other than buy in and yes it would be faster to have the Clay purchased and put on site. Great Vlog and bring in the 550 Volvo for a real Hard Job. Shoutout to Volvo :)
That would be a challenge to create. It can be done, would be $$$ to do so but it would look beautiful when completed.
Love the videos man keep it up I’ve been watching y’all for years never though y’all would be in the same video together
In my humble opinion, build the big lake! Just put a lower drain on the overflow so you can go back and patch it if necessary. It might take a few years to sort it out, but it would be worth it.
🤘😎