Building Wildlife Pond, Core trench & dam, Start to finish! Kapper Outdoors real estate
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2019
- If you've ever wondered what it would take to dig a small pond, a deer watering hole or wildlife pond, then this is the video for you. Join me for an afternoon at our Illinois investment farm, which is mostly enrolled in the CRP program, as I take you through the entire process of building a pond. While I did not use my Branson Tractor, I did use our Bobcat e42 mini excavator, which is an incredible all around land management tool! Starting from stripping the 'black dirt' sod off of the top and storing it behind the dam for the soon to be pond dam, to digging the pond dam core trench, aka keyway trench, and building up the entire pond dam. Then we'll dig out the depth of the pond so that once it fills up it will remain a year round water source not only for deer, but for all kinds of wildlife. This will improve the homestead real estate value, as well as improve the hunting land aspects and increase the value of our land investment. Then we'll get a look at how it turned out a few weeks after, and then of course we'll get to see it when it was fully filled up a few months later. This is our Illinois 'Project 211' hunting land (aka investment land) and this is just one of several ponds that we installed to increase the value of this land as well as the wildlife habitat improvement. If you enjoyed this video don't forget to hit the Like button and consider sharing it on social media so that others can join in our land management adventures, hunting land improvements, food plots, tractor projects, excavator projects and country living adventures. Thank you. Kapper Outdoors, living the dream, one acre at a time.
Honestly thanks for uploading this video. I am a oilfield operator been working pipelines and facilities for 9 years now. With the recent decrease of oilfield work I started doing some work on a wild life ranch and well they wanted me to build them a pond and I had no idea on even how to start it. I have gain so much knowledge from watching this video all I can say is thanks very much bro
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck! There is a big industry in land management and wildlife improvements!
Hey Great Video my friend..I dug my pond 6 years ago and I love now,the first time i didn't have the soil tested to see if it would hold water,and it didn't. Found out had to go deeper and upgraded to a 325E cat Exvator to get deeper,and now the pond holds water and have great fish in there as well,I don't hunt no more now a big fisherman with my 2 young boys...lol..great job buddy!!!
Nice job, you do good work...just don't twist incorrectly and hurt yourself...stay safe and take care
Awesome job! I’m starting a new pond with my compact tractor,i didn’t know about core trenches but now i do,gonna be putting one in for the dam,thanks for the video!
You did great work on that pond sir! Nice to see water in it!
Nice excavator work! Good pond information!
Great Education Joe!
Great work really enjoyed seein it takin shape 🙄👍💪💪
Nice work on the pond Joe!
Thanks! Awesome music 🎵 too!
I'm not trying to tell you how to do your projects but you have two machines in your 'fleet' that can obtain excellent compaction....your Branson loader with a heaping bucket of dirt driving back and forth over the loose fill using the front tires for the work....and your dump truck, fully loaded (using all tires), and used like the tractor. These are two acceptable ways recognized by engineers to accomplish the needed work, assuming the dirt contains optimum moisture.
Thanks for the video, I wish I was close enough that I could donate a few hours of labor operating your excavator (if you would let me on it...lol). That was one machine I enjoyed using.
so cool, thanks for showing. do a spillway video please.
Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia
Thank you, Good day back to you!
Well for my part I enjoyed your video for several reasons. First my ears were not blasted with superfluous music sounds and second you speak loud enough for your camera to catch what you are explaining. Thank you so much. Look forward to the next vid.
Thank you, we do try hard to have good content and presentation! Hope to see you again. Have a good one
It would be interesting to do a flyover of Project 211 one of these days and see how all you started is looking this year for the new owners if you could get their permission. Otherwise, I'm certain you have plans to dig one or possibly 2 of those watering holes at Kentucky 201.
It looks like you're only tracking where the tracks fit in the trench and the space between the tracks is not getting compacted.
Even where you've tracked with the tracks is still not getting very high compaction. Probably only 80 to 85% compaction without using actual compaction machinery. That's probably why so many pond dams fail after a few years and have to be repaired. if you use a sheepsfoot compactor in there it would get 95% compaction which is standard in construction or use a compaction wheel on your excavator.
Chris at letsdig18 finally got a compaction wheel.
Also all the organic material that ends up in the damn creates a weakness in the damn and contributes to the dam's failure.
Have a great day.
Nice build with the Bobcat. I predict there are more pond builds in your future. :-) I wonder how 211 is doing this year with the new owner. Take it easy and don't hurt your self.
When you have the luxury of 3-5 inches of rain each summer months, you can get away with a lot of things.
If you want to check out someone that builds a crapload of ponds is Chris from Letsdig 18. He does a lot of new ponds and repairs to existing ones. He would have lots of knowledge.
Kapper, I have a dumb question what causes the horizontal camera vibrations sometimes? Seems like it has something to do with the hydraulics when you are doing certain maneuvers with the boom and buckets on both the excavator and sometimes with Megatron. Was this filmed on Project 211?
Looks pretty darn granular for clay. On the other hand, you never know til you have it in your hands.
Everything around here below. 6in is pure clay.
@@kapperoutdoors then you are blessed! importing clay is quite spendy. Also be aware that not all clays seal well. "Aggregated" clay that forms tiny BBs in the hand are a pain to get to seal. I wonder if anyone has measured the infiltration rate of that clay under ~10 feet of pressure. Cheers!
@@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists what you said about having it in your hand is my view on breasts. LOL
@@bigjimflying7195 There is nothing quite like that first hand tactile experience. ;) Had to keep my prose professional lol
Seems strange how you use the skid steer for moving soil. In the uk and Europe we only use a dumper
Its all about what machine is available at the time. Not always the 'best' way, but it can still get the job done. Cheers
With the light ground pressure is those tracks and the narrowness of them I think you would’ve been better off just digging it and not over excavating for the core trench. That machine isn’t a compactor unfortunately. Just my 2 cents. Hope it turned out well
I’m watching this 3 years later and I’m thinking the same thing. When he said pack it in I was expecting a wheeled vibrating compactor. If it was undesirable soil he was digging out and replacing with the clay, then that would have been an improvement. JMO and I don’t know jack.
I'm confused about the core trench. 🤔 Please give me a pass if I'm missing something obvious. My only pond experience is with our pond built by an "expert" that doesn't hold water. I'm certain they didn't put in a core trench so my hunch is that's at least part of the problem, but I don't quite understand based on what I'm seeing here.
The clay is in the deepest ground, and the core trench is dug along the deepest part of the ground in front of the dam as a barrier, so the core trench is being dug in clay? From appearances, it looks like clay was dug out of the core trench, then clay was packed back in the trench? I'm clearly missing something because I don't see the point.
You kind of have it down. Yes you actually dig the dirt/clay out of the core trench, and IF it is good clay you put it back in. But the difference is that A) you only use clean clay, so you might have to haul it in if the dirt you pull out is bad dirt or too rocky. Then B) the clay you put back in is compacted several feet below the bottom of the future pond. So that water can't go underneath the actual pond dam. Does that make any more sense? But even with a core trench a pond can leak there are tons of variables.
Was this filmed prior to the hip poping out? I hope so, i wouldnt want to see ya jump in the trench an have a man down situation.
calling grass „junk“, well.... :)