there is a youtuber called "Practical Engineering'. He has several good videos in packing dirt and on dirt dams. I enjoyed them and thought about your dam when I watched them. Good viewing and good luck.
I don't know jack about dirt dams but from what I've gleaned from Dirt Perfect, it seems that clay is a necessary and critical component. Otherwise you're just piling up dirt that's going to get waterlogged and have the potential of a blowout.
Dag on dude! Your channel is by far the most real channel I am subscribed to! Your successes and failures, you put all out there! I’m glad you keep it real! Sorry you’re having these added expenses but at the end of the day it only makes you more knowledgeable on the subject and awesome memories with others.
What did you do different to prevent the standpipe joint from cracking/collapsing again? With all the work to dig that up I would have poured concrete around the joint. That would also have helped as a seep collar
I seen the videos of the dam build. It was not built in lifts and each lift compacted. Saving time and money on pond dams is suicide and dangerous because the whole thing will fail and flood everything down stream. Don't you have building codes there?
Your impulsivity makes you loose time, money and energy! Why not waiting to get the proper roller? You trust someone with his advise and you basically go against it... Sit back, relax and breathe! Tomorrow will be another day...
They said if all you can get is a smooth drum it’ll be fine but a sheeps foot would be better. Well a smooth drum is all we could get. So if you can get me a sheeps foot roller here I would gladly use it
I’m so sorry that your huge excitement over building a pond was bashed by one of the 1001 things that could go wrong. It was unfortunate that happened, but I can tell you that we viewers admire you all the more for not moaning about it. Instead, you realized you needed help and set your pride aside to go get it. Thank you for being such a model for grit and determination. That pond is still an exciting project over all!
He visited 5 ponds before hand and hopefully learned another lesson, THINGS WILL GO WRONG. No matter how grand or small your scale, expect to have to drain it and rip things out.
Way to go Adam. Respect to Dirt Perfect and Captain Kleeman also John Maddison for stepping up to the mark and pointing you in the right direction. These are truly great people who will always go that extra mile.
Water weight distorted that plastic pipe due to the pressure? Correct? Add the pressure from a filled pound and can that plastic pipe stand up to it? Just asking if anyone knows?
I've been moving dirt for 40 years. You can tell by how easily that excavator moved through the dirt, and the way the cut fell away, that there is no compaction to speak of. They might fix the leak but it's going to erode terribly.
The lack of compaction during the dam build is concerning. bucket tamp compaction in/around the overflow pipe trench seems like a high probability for a seepage route along the pipe over the next several months/years. pond bottom location of pipe trench is subject to loads of hydraulic pressure = leakage. surface compaction once dam was graded seemed somewhat less than helpful. The partial core/keyway suggestion will help, but there seems to be some other issues that can still bite. Good luck!
Exactly, That Excavator Was Cutting Through That Way Too Easily! An Excavator Alone, Along With A D4 And Roller Isn't Going To Get You To 95% Compaction, Especially With That Type Of Saturation. Each Lift Must Be A Maximum Of 18" To 24" Followed By A Sheep's Foot Or 985 John Deere Loader. You Can't Run Compaction At The Very End Of The Job, Because You'll Only Be Compacting A Maximum Depth Of 12" To 16" Under Your Plate. Now, Eventually The Dam Will Settle, But It's Going To Take Years In Order To Do So, I Wish You The Best Of Luck.
Get rid of the standpipe while you have the equipment there. It adds no value. Run an overflow pipe in a trench down the back of the dam. Use steel pipe. Mine has been there for 50 years. You already have the emergency overflow.
What about hiring a compacter? And also I would inspect that junction from the inside (with a camera (w/light), on a stick) *as soon as possible:* I could see that standpipe get moved about again.
It most certainly did get moved I don't know if it moved the T though. I had actually asked whether it would be prudent to lock that T and standpipe junction in concrete. Still don't know the answer.
Not building a key way in the centre of the dam was an obvious mistake that was apparent in the first minute of the video of the dam construction. The mistake you’re making in this video is putting the key way on the inner face of the dam wall. If the clay is dispersive (and most are), the key way will end up in the bottom of the dam. It won’t take long either. Then you’ve got a dam wall failure staring you in the face. Your next mistake is not using hand compaction equipment around your pipe. It’s pretty obvious that compacting effort was not done around the pipe, as an excavator bucket simply doesn’t work. You also don’t have a filter to remove water from the dam wall, so you can’t control the water that leaks through the core. (And it will leak, they all do). You’re going to have problems with the downstream wall in the future because of a lack of filter and the lack of compaction in the wall. The smooth drum will not effectively provide keying within the clay layers, you’ll be placing clay on a smooth layer which will provide a water pathway. As for the statement that it’s a first dam, that’s a total crock. Humans have been building dams for a few thousand years now, and some Roman dams are still intact and holding water. Your mistake is asking non experts for advice. Anyone building a clay core dam really should seek advice from a Civil Engineer. It’ll be a damn sight cheaper than rebuilding your dam within a few months, and then having to repair your dam within the next ten years, and this dam will definitely need extensive repairs in within ten years. I’m appalled at the way this structure has been built, it is without doubt, dangerous, and should be condemned.
It looks like they recommended a key way. It looks like you didn't install a keyway, and instead just replaced a broken fitting with a new fitting that's the same schedule as the one that failed. Hopefully the compaction that you're planning is the solution to the leak problem. That broken fitting should have been replaced by a much stronger one.
Thanks Buddy, as of current the pond is done and holding about 8” of water so the long distance Hail Mary plan appears to be working haha. Bring on the rain. Or more likely snow
I live in Michigan, and have done excavating, ponds, drain fields my whole life, I have NEVER used anything less than Schedule 40, or steel, why does this look like sced.30?
Complete lack of compaction. First lift was 10ft. "Compacted ONLY with a surface smooth face compactor". Just look at that slide during excavation at 7:12. Not to rub salt in the wound, but man, I'd be pissed if I paid a dime for that job. Basic compaction error.
Good morning Adam. When you said ask the experts, I immediately thought of Dirt Perfect. So good of Captain Kleeman to respond in video 👍🏼 I’m very much looking forward to the next video in this series. Bless’ns to ya, Tedd
Remote control vibratory sheepsfoot trench rollers are available from any equipment rental company. 4”-6” lifts and take your time (I know it’s slower than a large roller) will give you a much better job than a large smooth roller.
The weight of those machines cracked the pipe. I watched Kleeman repair his dam back in August. He made the same mistake at first, not compacting enough. When he fixed his, he rolled and rolled and rolled each layer he put down. You were relying on the weight of the excavator and bulldozer to do it and that’s not enough solid weight. Just stay away from the pipe.
Nothing more frustrating than getting all excited about a new pond only to have it leak. Never a guarantee but I am hopeful you’ll be successful now. Pulling for you!
Wow what a lot of work, glad that you figured it out, looking forward to seeing your family doing some ice skating this winter. Maybe some polar bear swimming? Just to celebrate the damn completion! Great video Adam, thumbs up.
ADAM, Don't ya just hate 're-do's ! But it's always good when you find the culprit!!! And even better when you can find someone who already had the same experience that is willing to give you help!! Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
Doesn't the keyway need to start below ground level and then put the lifts in. I was thinking Kleeman showed on his drawing that the keyway should start below the bottom depth of the pond.
Captain Kleeman is really smart. Nice consult. At this point, it’s less of a pond, more of a money pit! Sorry it’s been such a crazy investment. Certainly it’s making me rethink making a pond next year. -Chad
It looks like you replaced the broken T with a broken 90 deg. That standpipe moved at least 8 inches back and forth as the bucket tamped dirt around it. A hard PVC elbow can't take that much flex. Something had to give in your 90 deg union. I'd get a borescope and look down your pipe for cracks.
I saw that too….with a good keyway and proper compaction, the leak won’t likely return. I doubt the ability to drain what hits the top will be an issue with a crack but if it was unseated, he will be digging again. If so, I suggest a solution like what LD 18 uses where the pipe never gets below the top 1/3 of the dam and then with the flexibility of a double-wall stays under the surface on the backside. It’s a journey and fortunately he has a lot going his way.
Thanks for the video, I hope things work out for you and your pond. It will be beautiful on your property. It can be difficult to take the criticism but you've shown how determined you are. Humility comes to mind. Stay positive! Mike
if you weren't going to take the advice of Dirt Perfect and the other guy, then why post their video? You ignored everything they said other than the cracked pipe. You still have the issue of the water seeping through the dam. It will still need to be cored and compacted (dug down to below the water in the pond, fill it in with good clay, compact it down with a roller or sheeps foot).
Don't know your state - but another source is Chris (friend of dp)- youtube handle is letsdig18. He in N.Carolina and has 1000's of ponds under his belt - on youtube since 2012. Incidentally I've never seen anyone use solid pipe for an overflow as pooposed to black rubber - sorry I don't know the name.. .
Who would ever build a dam without compacting it, especially one that big, with their house down below it? You could see there wasn’t one bit of compaction in that dam when the excavator was digging it was cracking and caving in. It’s just common sense, people. But common sense isn’t so common nowadays.
I owned a sand and gravel operation for 15 years and know a bit about “dirt”. The one constant is that it costs a lot of money to move dirt - even if it’s just a few feet. Building a pond is not a DIY project that I’d recommend. If you are planning something like this be sure you are prepared to PAY.
And I thought boats were expensive. A pond is no small investment and that said, do you want to know what I want for my birthday? To just set on a piece of equipment and operate like a big dog again. Heck, I am only seventy two right now and its been a good eight or nine years since I took a step without full on crutches. I am down now at this time to going a maybe twenty feet on them crutches before just being plumb played out. To add insult to injury, I am losing use of my right hand. No not wanting to do the nasty, just use it enough to make a salad or hold a damn fork in that hand to feed myself. Between being heavy, arthritis, pinched nerves is insuring it will never happen. You have got yourself a nice piece of property and that much water is sure enough water to wash most all the laundry you own now. I will bet though that fixing the pond is a bite in the lunch money. I wish you the best of luck building that pond
Why the stand pipe? That plastic just looks like a future problem cracking ect? Why just not a overflow pipe like I've seen on alot of ponds? This gotta be a shit load of $ so far
Not understanding why you ran pond overflow from bottom of dam? Any i ever saw ran from bottom of backside of dam up though dam to top of inside the dam. No hydraulic pressure on overflow pipe until it gets to overflow.
Thanks for sharing, once again I’m glad I was able to dig my pond and not build it. Sorry you had to experience this but hopefully folks will learn from your experience
i watch another pond video... they had a few leaks and used this polymer sand type stuff. two parts , you spread one , then the other, i guess the water will pull it into the leak and the polymers expand. Worked for him.. If you dont get it to seal up this time, maybe look into that
OK, digging is expensive, especially repeating, a friend of mine installs small landscape ponds. He bought several 240" x 1200" rolls of 20 mil plastic vapour barrier to augment the HDPE liners and to seperate clay from gravel layers (he uses geotextile between gravel layers). What about putting a 20 mil plastic liner in the keyway cut? The plastic needs only to survive the construction phase! Maybe a thinner liner could work but I see construction companies using various geotextiles and plastic barriers in local projects! If the keyway fails please look at a liner or barrier! Also look into using a trencher attachment on an excavator instead of a very slow bucket equipped excavator! Local companies have trenchers that cut far deeper than 8 feet, some can trench and deposite concrete and plastic liner immediately in the trench as it digs! We have more than 2 local companies who have the ability to go deeper than 20' placing concrete in the trench behind the trencher. I am in Alantic Canada so I expect that those are more common in the States! One company has capitolized on ending climate change coastal erosion using that tech down through sandstone layers!
There you go, again!! You've got a problem, & you do what has to be done to fix it - no whining videos - just fix it!! You need a T-shirt that says that - Just Fix It! 🤩🤩🤩 Great videos, always!!
I watched a vid on UA-cam a man built a 5 acre pond they lined the whole thing with clay the damn as well it’s going to be a bass pond that’s what they did I forget where there at tho
Whsn i was running a dozer for construction company when we built ponds and lakes we always had to cut a core ditch where the levees were gonna be what we would do is take out all the dirt about 8 or 9 ft wide and 7 to 9 ft deep then find some good soil that packs good and sets up good we probably put alot of clay also where the levees are then after building the soil up every 10. Inches or so we would pull a sheeps foot over it alot its big roller with spikes sticking out of it you pull behind a big tractor we used a 856 international also id run the old paddle wheel dirt pan over it packing it thats what i alwsys dug the core ditch out with i loved running it cause sitting out in front of it wa s way cooler than any hot dozer but i hope this will help some sorry I'm little late for you .
Hey Adam, it's nice to have friends and people around that genuinely want to help. Everybody would be so better off with nice genuine people around. Nice video.
Hey Adam. Sorry you had to do this extra work again. I know how important this pond is to your family. Fingers crossed this is the fix this time. Great video as usual. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
I was at a garage sale one day and noticed his pond next to his house. It was beautiful. The land was almost flat and he didn’t have a dam at all. He has it st up for fishing and u could see that they spent a lot of time there he said it was the best 5 grand he has ever spend
Learning from our mistakes make us better in the long run.
Always love collaborations between channels, especially when I already watch both.
I breathed a sigh of relief for you when you found the problem . Keep up the good work, Adam .
there is a youtuber called "Practical Engineering'. He has several good videos in packing dirt and on dirt dams. I enjoyed them and thought about your dam when I watched them. Good viewing and good luck.
I don't know jack about dirt dams but from what I've gleaned from Dirt Perfect, it seems that clay is a necessary and critical component. Otherwise you're just piling up dirt that's going to get waterlogged and have the potential of a blowout.
Stand pipes are always a headache on pond builds. Put in a rock spillway and you are done.
You need a drain made out of concrete like the ones used on the east coast, like Chris , let’s dig 18 ?
Dag on dude! Your channel is by far the most real channel I am subscribed to! Your successes and failures, you put all out there! I’m glad you keep it real! Sorry you’re having these added expenses but at the end of the day it only makes you more knowledgeable on the subject and awesome memories with others.
What did you do different to prevent the standpipe joint from cracking/collapsing again? With all the work to dig that up I would have poured concrete around the joint. That would also have helped as a seep collar
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Hands up if you said "Doug" or "Doug's Brother"
I said "Doug", but it might just be you meant him.
@@joopjansen9102 not had my coffee yet
@@TheCaptScarlett Lol, totally relatable.
Thank you "Madison & Gang" for the assist!
I really hope that sheep's foot roller isn't going to be the "key"
I seen the videos of the dam build. It was not built in lifts and each lift compacted. Saving time and money on pond dams is suicide and dangerous because the whole thing will fail and flood everything down stream. Don't you have building codes there?
Your impulsivity makes you loose time, money and energy!
Why not waiting to get the proper roller? You trust someone with his advise and you basically go against it...
Sit back, relax and breathe! Tomorrow will be another day...
They said if all you can get is a smooth drum it’ll be fine but a sheeps foot would be better. Well a smooth drum is all we could get. So if you can get me a sheeps foot roller here I would gladly use it
So the problem is compaction but you still are not using a sheeps foot. I hope you dont regret that decision again
I'm just a viewer but I think you broke that pipe again???? 🌊🌊💧💧
I’m so sorry that your huge excitement over building a pond was bashed by one of the 1001 things that could go wrong. It was unfortunate that happened, but I can tell you that we viewers admire you all the more for not moaning about it. Instead, you realized you needed help and set your pride aside to go get it. Thank you for being such a model for grit and determination. That pond is still an exciting project over all!
That’s why they call it foolish pride right!
I totally agree with you, Ruadh Scottygirl!! Adam has a problem & fixes it - no whining videos - just fix it ❤❤❤
He visited 5 ponds before hand and hopefully learned another lesson, THINGS WILL GO WRONG. No matter how grand or small your scale, expect to have to drain it and rip things out.
Looks good! Looking forward to the next video to see how it all packs in. And thank you for the shout out!
Way to go Adam. Respect to Dirt Perfect and Captain Kleeman also John Maddison for stepping up to the mark and pointing you in the right direction. These are truly great people who will always go that extra mile.
Water weight distorted that plastic pipe due to the pressure? Correct? Add the pressure from a filled pound and can that plastic pipe stand up to it? Just asking if anyone knows?
It looks like your original excavator operator was WAY too rough with the pipe install.
those cracks on the top of the damn are a sure sign of lack of compaction
I've been moving dirt for 40 years. You can tell by how easily that excavator moved through the dirt, and the way the cut fell away, that there is no compaction to speak of. They might fix the leak but it's going to erode terribly.
The lack of compaction during the dam build is concerning. bucket tamp compaction in/around the overflow pipe trench seems like a high probability for a seepage route along the pipe over the next several months/years. pond bottom location of pipe trench is subject to loads of hydraulic pressure = leakage. surface compaction once dam was graded seemed somewhat less than helpful. The partial core/keyway suggestion will help, but there seems to be some other issues that can still bite. Good luck!
Exactly, That Excavator Was Cutting Through That Way Too Easily! An Excavator Alone, Along With A D4 And Roller Isn't Going To Get You To 95% Compaction, Especially With That Type Of Saturation.
Each Lift Must Be A Maximum Of 18" To 24" Followed By A Sheep's Foot Or 985 John Deere Loader.
You Can't Run Compaction At The Very End Of The Job, Because You'll Only Be Compacting A Maximum Depth Of 12" To 16" Under Your Plate.
Now, Eventually The Dam Will Settle, But It's Going To Take Years In Order To Do So, I Wish You The Best Of Luck.
Get rid of the standpipe while you have the equipment there. It adds no value. Run an overflow pipe in a trench down the back of the dam. Use steel pipe. Mine has been there for 50 years. You already have the emergency overflow.
How old are you if you have a 50 yo pond
@@rr4298he didn’t say he built it
Compaction was brought up so many times when you started…
What about hiring a compacter?
And also I would inspect that junction from the inside (with a camera (w/light), on a stick) *as soon as possible:* I could see that standpipe get moved about again.
I also thought I saw the stand pipe move several times. It seemed that when the clay was being put back in place it caused the pipe to move a bit.
It most certainly did get moved I don't know if it moved the T though. I had actually asked whether it would be prudent to lock that T and standpipe junction in concrete. Still don't know the answer.
Not building a key way in the centre of the dam was an obvious mistake that was apparent in the first minute of the video of the dam construction.
The mistake you’re making in this video is putting the key way on the inner face of the dam wall. If the clay is dispersive (and most are), the key way will end up in the bottom of the dam. It won’t take long either. Then you’ve got a dam wall failure staring you in the face.
Your next mistake is not using hand compaction equipment around your pipe. It’s pretty obvious that compacting effort was not done around the pipe, as an excavator bucket simply doesn’t work.
You also don’t have a filter to remove water from the dam wall, so you can’t control the water that leaks through the core. (And it will leak, they all do). You’re going to have problems with the downstream wall in the future because of a lack of filter and the lack of compaction in the wall.
The smooth drum will not effectively provide keying within the clay layers, you’ll be placing clay on a smooth layer which will provide a water pathway.
As for the statement that it’s a first dam, that’s a total crock. Humans have been building dams for a few thousand years now, and some Roman dams are still intact and holding water. Your mistake is asking non experts for advice. Anyone building a clay core dam really should seek advice from a Civil Engineer. It’ll be a damn sight cheaper than rebuilding your dam within a few months, and then having to repair your dam within the next ten years, and this dam will definitely need extensive repairs in within ten years.
I’m appalled at the way this structure has been built, it is without doubt, dangerous, and should be condemned.
It looks like they recommended a key way. It looks like you didn't install a keyway, and instead just replaced a broken fitting with a new fitting that's the same schedule as the one that failed. Hopefully the compaction that you're planning is the solution to the leak problem. That broken fitting should have been replaced by a much stronger one.
This was a part 1 of the fix. The next video shows the key way we put in. I said that at the end of the video
Looking good glade you found part of the problem best of luck 😁
Thanks Buddy, as of current the pond is done and holding about 8” of water so the long distance Hail Mary plan appears to be working haha. Bring on the rain. Or more likely snow
Awesome good deal
@@HometownAcres Just for kicks calculate the force on an 8" dam as compared to a 20 FOOT dam.
I live in Michigan, and have done excavating, ponds, drain fields my whole life, I have NEVER used anything less than Schedule 40, or steel, why does this look like sced.30?
Nice collaboration. Gracious of Captain Kleeman and Dirt Perfect to consult. Fine channels.
Complete lack of compaction. First lift was 10ft. "Compacted ONLY with a surface smooth face compactor". Just look at that slide during excavation at 7:12. Not to rub salt in the wound, but man, I'd be pissed if I paid a dime for that job. Basic compaction error.
Good morning Adam. When you said ask the experts, I immediately thought of Dirt Perfect. So good of Captain Kleeman to respond in video 👍🏼 I’m very much looking forward to the next video in this series.
Bless’ns to ya, Tedd
Remote control vibratory sheepsfoot trench rollers are available from any equipment rental company. 4”-6” lifts and take your time (I know it’s slower than a large roller) will give you a much better job than a large smooth roller.
Nice to be able to get help like this, I have followed both Dirt perfect and Captain Kleeman for several years, they are much about ponds
And that’s why you use concrete around the stand pipe
Not sure if I would put a wood yard below a dam wall that I don’t believe was compacted properly. Hope I’m wrong and the wall holds.
It’s a great community to be part of. Outdoors with the Morgan’s, Dirt Perfect, Captain Kleeman, Concrete with the Haus’s, and you!
The weight of those machines cracked the pipe. I watched Kleeman repair his dam back in August. He made the same mistake at first, not compacting enough. When he fixed his, he rolled and rolled and rolled each layer he put down. You were relying on the weight of the excavator and bulldozer to do it and that’s not enough solid weight. Just stay away from the pipe.
Hey Adam, don't they make a sheep's foot attachment for the excavator?
Experience is your best teacher and making mistakes and fixing the problems is how you get experience to learn from
Nothing more frustrating than getting all excited about a new pond only to have it leak. Never a guarantee but I am hopeful you’ll be successful now. Pulling for you!
I’m revising my pond fill estimate to MAR 2022
Wow what a lot of work, glad that you figured it out, looking forward to seeing your family doing some ice skating this winter. Maybe some polar bear swimming? Just to celebrate the damn completion! Great video Adam, thumbs up.
Is that schedule 40 pipe?
ADAM, Don't ya just hate 're-do's ! But it's always good when you find the culprit!!!
And even better when you can find someone who already had the same experience that is willing to give you help!!
Good stuff, thanks for sharing.
That grass on the sides of the dam is looking amazing.
You build ponds a lot different than we do.
Couldn't you use a Small "Jumping Jack" Compactor closer around the pipe for better Compaction around the Pipe and Union?
You must have a crystal ball. That will be in tomorrow video
You got to play with the big Tonka toys again.
Good luck.... I hope it works out for you.... watching your previous episodes, I was also thinking of the Captain.... great guy !
Doesn't the keyway need to start below ground level and then put the lifts in. I was thinking Kleeman showed on his drawing that the keyway should start below the bottom depth of the pond.
Correct. Coring the dam is the most important aspect of building a pond!
Captain Kleeman is really smart. Nice consult. At this point, it’s less of a pond, more of a money pit! Sorry it’s been such a crazy investment. Certainly it’s making me rethink making a pond next year. -Chad
Yep almost a coin toss on ponds, make sure you don't overextend yourself financially just trying to make a pretty pond.
What do you reckon the cost on this has been?
It looks like you replaced the broken T with a broken 90 deg. That standpipe moved at least 8 inches back and forth as the bucket tamped dirt around it.
A hard PVC elbow can't take that much flex. Something had to give in your 90 deg union. I'd get a borescope and look down your pipe for cracks.
I was wondering the same thing - that looked like it moved enough to either unseat the 90 or break it.
I saw that too….with a good keyway and proper compaction, the leak won’t likely return. I doubt the ability to drain what hits the top will be an issue with a crack but if it was unseated, he will be digging again. If so, I suggest a solution like what LD 18 uses where the pipe never gets below the top 1/3 of the dam and then with the flexibility of a double-wall stays under the surface on the backside.
It’s a journey and fortunately he has a lot going his way.
Thanks for the video, I hope things work out for you and your pond. It will be beautiful on your property. It can be difficult to take the criticism but you've shown how determined you are. Humility comes to mind. Stay positive! Mike
Good luck Adam.
The ironic part is areas like the firewood road that you don't want to hold water always do...
When are people going to realize track machines have LOW GROUND PRESSURE. You can not compact using these machines. Use compactors to compact.
If you had the opportunity, would you build another pond? Don’t consider the cost to answer the question.
if you weren't going to take the advice of Dirt Perfect and the other guy, then why post their video? You ignored everything they said other than the cracked pipe. You still have the issue of the water seeping through the dam. It will still need to be cored and compacted (dug down to below the water in the pond, fill it in with good clay, compact it down with a roller or sheeps foot).
12:01. I can hear the Owners shouting at the Digger driver. GENTLY GENTLY. ! Etc Etc. Lol
Don't know your state - but another source is Chris (friend of dp)- youtube handle is letsdig18. He in N.Carolina and has 1000's of ponds under his belt -
on youtube since 2012. Incidentally I've never seen anyone use solid pipe for an overflow as pooposed to black rubber - sorry I don't know the name.. .
Who would ever build a dam without compacting it, especially one that big, with their house down below it? You could see there wasn’t one bit of compaction in that dam when the excavator was digging it was cracking and caving in. It’s just common sense, people. But common sense isn’t so common nowadays.
I owned a sand and gravel operation for 15 years and know a bit about “dirt”. The one constant is that it costs a lot of money to move dirt - even if it’s just a few feet. Building a pond is not a DIY project that I’d recommend. If you are planning something like this be sure you are prepared to PAY.
I like Kleeman. He's a good guy. Looks like you might have succeeded.
And I thought boats were expensive. A pond is no small investment and that said, do you want to know what I want for my birthday? To just set on a piece of equipment and operate like a big dog again. Heck, I am only seventy two right now and its been a good eight or nine years since I took a step without full on crutches. I am down now at this time to going a maybe twenty feet on them crutches before just being plumb played out. To add insult to injury, I am losing use of my right hand. No not wanting to do the nasty, just use it enough to make a salad or hold a damn fork in that hand to feed myself. Between being heavy, arthritis, pinched nerves is insuring it will never happen. You have got yourself a nice piece of property and that much water is sure enough water to wash most all the laundry you own now. I will bet though that fixing the pond is a bite in the lunch money. I wish you the best of luck building that pond
Why the stand pipe? That plastic just looks like a future problem cracking ect? Why just not a overflow pipe like I've seen on alot of ponds? This gotta be a shit load of $ so far
Not understanding why you ran pond overflow from bottom of dam?
Any i ever saw ran from bottom of backside of dam up though dam to top of inside the dam. No hydraulic pressure on overflow pipe until it gets to overflow.
His "Expert" buddies dam leaked, and his dam leaked....coincidence .?.?
Thanks for sharing, once again I’m glad I was able to dig my pond and not build it. Sorry you had to experience this but hopefully folks will learn from your experience
This pond series is interesting and a good problem solving explanation. Thanks for documenting and sharing
You can say "been there done that" . Learning as you go!
That pipe is too thin. It obviously is not strong enough. You should have replaced it ALL with something stronger.
After watching the video I would say not enough compaction and you should've topped it off with clay
i watch another pond video... they had a few leaks and used this polymer sand type stuff. two parts , you spread one , then the other, i guess the water will pull it into the leak and the polymers expand. Worked for him.. If you dont get it to seal up this time, maybe look into that
OK, digging is expensive, especially repeating, a friend of mine installs small landscape ponds. He bought several 240" x 1200" rolls of 20 mil plastic vapour barrier to augment the HDPE liners and to seperate clay from gravel layers (he uses geotextile between gravel layers). What about putting a 20 mil plastic liner in the keyway cut? The plastic needs only to survive the construction phase! Maybe a thinner liner could work but I see construction companies using various geotextiles and plastic barriers in local projects!
If the keyway fails please look at a liner or barrier! Also look into using a trencher attachment on an excavator instead of a very slow bucket equipped excavator!
Local companies have trenchers that cut far deeper than 8 feet, some can trench and deposite concrete and plastic liner immediately in the trench as it digs!
We have more than 2 local companies who have the ability to go deeper than 20' placing concrete in the trench behind the trencher. I am in Alantic Canada so I expect that those are more common in the States! One company has capitolized on ending climate change coastal erosion using that tech down through sandstone layers!
I wish I had clay to build a 3/4 acre pond.
I’ll never understand the pipe thing. Can someone tell me why the pipe in the bottom is preferable?
When I saw that squished pipe, I could not help by think that this seems to by the wrong type of pipe.
There you go, again!! You've got a problem, & you do what has to be done to fix it - no whining videos - just fix it!! You need a T-shirt that says that - Just Fix It! 🤩🤩🤩 Great videos, always!!
Never knew there was so much to making a pond. I’m in Florida and all you have to do is dig a hole.
I watched a vid on UA-cam a man built a 5 acre pond they lined the whole thing with clay the damn as well it’s going to be a bass pond that’s what they did I forget where there at tho
Did the folks at Dirt Perfect think that this dam would hold? Was there talk about clay content?
Looking good Adam
Now I haven't see any of your video's so I don't know if you did it yourself or not. If not than is the business going to repair it for free?
Whsn i was running a dozer for construction company when we built ponds and lakes we always had to cut a core ditch where the levees were gonna be what we would do is take out all the dirt about 8 or 9 ft wide and 7 to 9 ft deep then find some good soil that packs good and sets up good we probably put alot of clay also where the levees are then after building the soil up every 10. Inches or so we would pull a sheeps foot over it alot its big roller with spikes sticking out of it you pull behind a big tractor we used a 856 international also id run the old paddle wheel dirt pan over it packing it thats what i alwsys dug the core ditch out with i loved running it cause sitting out in front of it wa s way cooler than any hot dozer but i hope this will help some sorry I'm little late for you .
Hey Adam, it's nice to have friends and people around that genuinely want to help. Everybody would be so better off with nice genuine people around. Nice video.
I would say fuck the overflow pipe. You don’t need one.
Hey Adam. Sorry you had to do this extra work again. I know how important this pond is to your family. Fingers crossed this is the fix this time. Great video as usual. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
You used the wrong clay to line the bottom, You need at least three feet thickness of that white sticky clay not the red kind
That’s why you should of used schedule 80 pvc instead of that thin wall garbage 🤦🏻♂️
Wow lots to do. Looks like you have a handle on it now. Interesting how the pipe was buggered up though. All the best, Mark🌴🍻
Drain pipoe shouldnt puncture your dam. could you move it?
Would it make any sense to lock that stuff in and protect it with concrete?
Interesting option of fixing it with the same materials that failed..
Adam.. I Love that song You have playing over Your videos... is that a youtube exclusive?
I was at a garage sale one day and noticed his pond next to his house. It was beautiful. The land was almost flat and he didn’t have a dam at all. He has it st up for fishing and u could see that they spent a lot of time there he said it was the best 5 grand he has ever spend
i think you should have tamped between drops
Great job
The plumber using his dirty hand to apply the pipe dope may not be the best idea either
I think I would have used a mechanical restraint on the new tee.
Whoa - the Cap helping out -- that a boy Cap
Does anyone know what a sheeps foot or a keyway is????