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I really enjoy the family aspect of this channel. For lack of a better word, this is pretty wholesome content. I am glad this showed up in my feed and I sub'd
Stake a couple bales of straw at the top of the area where you’re concerned about erosion. Hope the spring heads you pointed out is not coming from the main pond.
Thanks for the video Adam ! For irrigation you may want to try a shallow well pump ($170 at HFT.) they are set to pump up to 50 psi (which is 115 feet of lift.) You would want to put a strainer/filter on the intake end check or foot valve. I use some thick socks or absorbent painting glove. A 1/2” impact sprinkler will use 3-4 gallons a minute depending on pressure and nozzle size so this pump may run 3 of them at a time.
Loved seeing Anderson being involved. The experience for him is excellent. Learning by doing. Never too young to start learning the value of work. Great pivot to the second pond. This looks like it will be the answer you’ve been seeking for so long.
It's the scale that gets me. It looks like a tiny pond with the machinery and camera angles - then the talk the volume of water and the scale becomes a bit more real.
AMAZING HELPER!! What a fantastic video, 3 generations working on the pond, and one day you'll stop by and you'll say "hey sport, did I ever tell you about when me and your pops and your great grandpa worked on the pond?" "yes a million times!" haha - amazing for the future.
Throw it in a bucket in the new pond with hole in.... They start sucking clay or suck themselves to the bottom... I've always used a pump and thrown it in a bucket and I seem to get better pressure
BTW those strings at the top of the seed bag are made to be pulled and open the top of the bag cleanly. You don't have to cut the bag with a box cutter.
3 generation straw shake. Priceless Keep us posted on the algae problem in the lower pond. Pumping that water to the upper pond might get the algae started in the upper pond Thanks for bringing us along
GOOOOOOOD SATURDAY MORNING EVERYONE, from a cool gorgeous morning here in Virginia Beach!!…Adam that came out very nice. Still praying for you that it all comes together & the upper pond holds water for Yinz. Thanks for sharing Have a day
I totally agree! And was thinking the same thing watching them. It takes patience and extra work to have kids help but it is THE best way to prepare them.
Something that I haven't heard you mention is how your pond can be used in an emergency for firefighting. When you're living in a rural location like you are with no fire hydrants it can be the difference between losing and saving a building from a fire!
Would be a good idea for at least one of the ponds especially pond no.2. Never know if Adam or a neighbor would be in that need. Better to have it be able to be used vs be wishing after the fact.
Doesn't get qny better than having time with dad and son on a project of any kind. Anderson will be invaluable in years to come, enjoy them, all too soon they are off on their own journeys.
a couple of suggestions on the ponds: after the new pondb it stabilizes, add some grass eating carp to keep it clean...you may even want to add some to the upper pond. they work wonders. here in northeast CT, you have to get. permit to get them, and you are limited as to how many you can get, as a non native species. they keep my pond super clean and grass/lily free. also, consider planting some weeping willows down by the new pond. they will look beautiful down there, and they need and love it wet.
When your seeding a field use hay instead . It’s usually less expensive and you add seeds that are in fields anyway and the green will match better. Blessings
I'm 72 and I remember "helping" my Dad work around the house and acreage. We've got pictures (the old kind) of me right beside him fixing a spring tooth harrow when I was about 4.
Greatest time in my lifetime is when my kids wanted to be with me and help. It took longer to finish but you can never get that time with the kids back. I hope they learned something from me now that are adults.
I think I've seen something like big long 'socks' to disapate runoff. Maybe a length of it across where that path heads down to the second pond might help? Love you channel keep it up
Adam if you have an old chain link 20 foot or so fence roll up the last 8 feet or so and drag that around Just hook on to a ball and go amazing results
If you want to kill the algae in the pond naturally without using chemicals, get a few bales of barley, wrap them with nylon string to keep them together, toss them into the pond attached to a rope in various locations. You can pull them out after the algae is gone.
Rural Pumping Solutions makes solar powered pumps that can move water uphill as much as 1000'. I've seen it work on another channel, and would certainly make your setup pretty seamless. Especially if you route the overflow back to the retention pond, creating a cycle so that neither pond dries up.
Get a deep well pump and hang it on a float and trench a 2" or 1 1/4" water line to you other pond or you could even get a solar powered one that will too.
hi there some of the flow problem may be the suction side is going down in the mud ,may want to find a way to get it off the bottom of the mud whole , best to all john
I wonder if you could just bury a 1 inch pipe between the ponds and use the 3/4 hp pump to just keep a small amount of water moving from the small pond to the big one. Maybe even just have a 2 x 500w solar panels power it so it could stay running the majority of the sunny day with no extra input from you.
Great job on the pond! I'm impressed by the amount of effort and time you’ve put into this project. It was fascinating to see how you tackle all the technical and practical challenges. Good luck with the grass seeding and further improvements to the pond!
Cherish those days with your son. They slip by fast. Our best friends lived around the corner and their little boy was always by me while I did things around the house and in the yard and garage. He was my little buddy. I remember him sitting in the jump seat behind me in my truck while making a run to Fleet Farm or Menards. We'd tell each other jokes and riddles. Some very fine memories.
For for pumping water to the big pond, you can consider looking for a diesel or gas irrigation pump. You can find some irrigation pumps for cheap, and even use it for watering the grass and whatnot.
If i need to establish grass quick i spread grass and bird seed. I actually just used some a couple weeks ago so i have wheat, oats, corn, sunflowers, milo, and millet.... people say millet will grow on a rock, seems to work good for me.
I would love to see pond 2.0 get dug out more, seems like it’s the more natural pond location. These pond videos are really nice, easily my favorite aspect of the channel. Good work.
Part of your problem with that pump is it's not meant for "trash water". With the feeah work you guys did, there's going to be alot of dissolved solids in that water ,plus try to float it instead of throwing it in right to the bottom
Adam , locate Barley Bails to control your Algae Also I use Grass carp to control Grass and vegetation growth in the pond. And please don't use pond dye.
I bet if you had a leak in the pond the algae would disappear? 😂😂😂. Congrats on the pond set up, retaining pond and here's to a successful holding pond. The time lapse of the pond was very cool.
Its really coming together Adam. The cover shot shows order emerging from the organic chaos of the original wood yard. Have you thought of adding aquatic planting to Pond 2.0 - marginal reeds, lilys pads - to encourage wildlife etc and naturally manage the algae blooms. It might just be me living in space-poor UK and nature has plenty of space in the US
A SANY hat? Digging with Dylan has SANY and he loves it. He has a tilt rotator on his too. If you’re going to get one, or know someone who is, be careful where you get it. There’s a very popular UA-camr who found out the hard way that if you buy it at an auction, it voids the warranty
Thank you for the great video as you dressed up the second pond. That has to be th3 fastest anyone has put a pond built video together where so much got packed into one episode.
If you need to push 1-2 sprinklers from a pump, you need 1 to 1.5hp irrigation pump. I've been running one from Harbor Freight to irrigate off a pond for 2 years. It could probably push 3 sprinklers, depending on range you need
Have you given any thought of making the second pond the main one…circling that group of trees essentially creating an island in the center? That would be cool.
A 500W solar bore pump will do the trick, with 1.5" line and a 50ft lift you will pump about 5000 Gallons per Day. Maths: 1 L/s @ 25m Lift @ 75% Efficiency = 350W, 32mm Dia = 1.33m/s (ok >0.9 &
That was a nice video using time lapse to show all the progress instead of dragging it out making it look like we’re watching paint dry. Keep up the good work.
I have a Gill Pulverizer tool that would have made an excellent seed bed in 1/2 the time you invested. I would have also spent my time and money on straw and let mother nature take care of watering the grass.
I should have watched the whole video before commenting. I just completed a pond and used the Gill tool to work the dam and the banks then seeded it, I added some wheat along with Fecsue 31. I got it strawed then we got a very heavy ran 4". The straw held and we had only a very small amount of wash outs.
Good morning Adam it’s looking great, all that work should pay dividends and satisfy your intentions to feed the upper pond. I’ll also compliment the Generational Team this should be the Anderson Pond, it will be the little Pond that Could. 😀👍💦👍💦👍💦
have an ideal, have a pipe connecting the overdrain from pond 1 to help feed pond 2 to collect as much water as possible to maintain both ponds water levels...
There is a method to roll the hose or cords up without creating the twist that usually happens. Simple technique, just have to do it intensely. So when you pull the hose/cord out it lays flat every time.
I mean, theoretically, if you had two of the same pumps, you could pump the water up into bathtub sized tank half way and then pump the tub water up the second half if you can't get one pump with enough head pressure. Probably not the best long term solution.
May be a stupid question, but I wonder where is the straw for? Never seen that done here in Belgium. Great work, looks really good, keep up this type of great content! For the large pump you could consider a PTO powered type and run it with the LS compact
Just putting this out there for you. With those two ponds, do you have a backup plan for dealing with muskrats? They'll create holes for their bank dens.
Great video, Adam! You truly deserve a win. Seeing three generations working together is such a proud moment, and thank you for sharing it. I'm curious, how long did your portable power keep the pump running before you had to recharge it?
Three generations working together on pond #2! As a grandpa, that was a satisfying scene for me to watch.
I really enjoy the family aspect of this channel. For lack of a better word, this is pretty wholesome content. I am glad this showed up in my feed and I sub'd
Put your pump in a five gallon bucket then submerge it and it'll pump without as much restriction from sand and mud. 👍🏻
Nothing better than waking up on a Saturday morning, having breakfast and watching some pond content.
You got that right!
That's what I'm doing!
Stake a couple bales of straw at the top of the area where you’re concerned about erosion. Hope the spring heads you pointed out is not coming from the main pond.
Thanks for the video Adam ! For irrigation you may want to try a shallow well pump ($170 at HFT.) they are set to pump up to 50 psi (which is 115 feet of lift.) You would want to put a strainer/filter on the intake end check or foot valve. I use some thick socks or absorbent painting glove. A 1/2” impact sprinkler will use 3-4 gallons a minute depending on pressure and nozzle size so this pump may run 3 of them at a time.
Loved seeing Anderson, your dad & you working together - precious moments/memories! God bless y'all! ♥️🙏👍
Thanks so much
Loved seeing Anderson being involved. The experience for him is excellent. Learning by doing. Never too young to start learning the value of work.
Great pivot to the second pond. This looks like it will be the answer you’ve been seeking for so long.
It's the scale that gets me. It looks like a tiny pond with the machinery and camera angles - then the talk the volume of water and the scale becomes a bit more real.
Great to see the generations of family working with the land, you're a lucky person. Thanks for sharing.
Looking good. Hope the grass germinates before the rain comes. 😊
I hope so too!
Tall fescue takes 14-20 days of solid watering to germinate….says it on the bag!
Good to see your son interested in helping out. He’s got great inspiration around him.
You will be glad you put straw down!
where you been buddy? any new videos?
@@joemurray9131he got really big into pilates. Thats all he does now.
Haha Kyle
Hey Doug. Great suggestion to dig the second pond, especially with all the clay Adam and Ralph found there.
Another job well done Adam and you're right it's amazing Anderson helped for that period of time!!
AMAZING HELPER!! What a fantastic video, 3 generations working on the pond, and one day you'll stop by and you'll say "hey sport, did I ever tell you about when me and your pops and your great grandpa worked on the pond?" "yes a million times!" haha - amazing for the future.
Throw it in a bucket in the new pond with hole in.... They start sucking clay or suck themselves to the bottom... I've always used a pump and thrown it in a bucket and I seem to get better pressure
Solar well pump would be a good system for filling upper pond. Plenty of lift, low maintenance, hands off capability.
Anderson’s enthusiasm is awesome,
BTW those strings at the top of the seed bag are made to be pulled and open the top of the bag cleanly. You don't have to cut the bag with a box cutter.
That’s good to know. Thanks
Love the pond videos and absolutely LOVED seeing your son and his eagerness to help you! Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! I did too
3 generation straw shake. Priceless
Keep us posted on the algae problem in the lower pond. Pumping that water to the upper pond might get the algae started in the upper pond
Thanks for bringing us along
You should consider buying a shake weight. Will help with your form when spreading straw.
Maybe if he wasn’t 6’ 5” and so far away from the ground too! 😂
GOOOOOOOD
SATURDAY MORNING EVERYONE, from a cool gorgeous morning here in Virginia Beach!!…Adam that came out very nice. Still praying for you that it all comes together & the upper pond holds water for Yinz.
Thanks for sharing
Have a day
small world, i was born in monroeville live in pennhills beore moving to hampton roads. live up here on pennisula..
@@MKraus79 Blackwater part of Virginia Beach
Aka
Farm country
part of training is allowing him to feal useful (even when it actually costs you more time)
I totally agree! And was thinking the same thing watching them. It takes patience and extra work to have kids help but it is THE best way to prepare them.
He is a little trooper and such a joyful child. He will say “Pop pop- you are a sweetheart”. ❤
Something that I haven't heard you mention is how your pond can be used in an emergency for firefighting. When you're living in a rural location like you are with no fire hydrants it can be the difference between losing and saving a building from a fire!
Would be a good idea for at least one of the ponds especially pond no.2. Never know if Adam or a neighbor would be in that need. Better to have it be able to be used vs be wishing after the fact.
Access to a large volume of water would also help reduce house insurance costs.
@@jimmerrithew453then they raise your flood insurance cost
Love this! Can’t wait to see what you come up with for the water transport up to #1
Doesn't get qny better than having time with dad and son on a project of any kind. Anderson will be invaluable in years to come, enjoy them, all too soon they are off on their own journeys.
Your son will remember this event for all of his life. Helping dad and grandpa is a big thing at his age.
You should build a windmill or paddlewheel to power your pump up to the new pond
a couple of suggestions on the ponds: after the new pondb it stabilizes, add some grass eating carp to keep it clean...you may even want to add some to the upper pond. they work wonders. here in northeast CT, you have to get. permit to get them, and you are limited as to how many you can get, as a non native species. they keep my pond super clean and grass/lily free. also, consider planting some weeping willows down by the new pond. they will look beautiful down there, and they need and love it wet.
Your work projects always look neat and professionally done after you finish them. This video is a prime example! Well done.
Thank you very much!
New pond is turning out nice! Glad to see it filling up on its own.
Solar power pump from the feeder pond would be interesting, not sure if there's ones that are suitable for that.
When your seeding a field use hay instead . It’s usually less expensive and you add seeds that are in fields anyway and the green will match better. Blessings
Straw only…hay is full of weed seeds
@njonebale7889 same thing I have always done. I don't want rye grass and other weeds growing in my lawn.
I'm 72 and I remember "helping" my Dad work around the house and acreage. We've got pictures (the old kind) of me right beside him fixing a spring tooth harrow when I was about 4.
That's pretty impressive of those 4" pumps. The bonus pond looks pretty good.
Greatest time in my lifetime is when my kids wanted to be with me and help. It took longer to finish but you can never get that time with the kids back. I hope they learned something from me now that are adults.
I know I’m trying to soak it up while I can
I think I've seen something like big long 'socks' to disapate runoff. Maybe a length of it across where that path heads down to the second pond might help? Love you channel keep it up
Cool idea
Murphy’s law. Now that you have the 2nd pond, you will never need it to fill up the 1st pond.
Alrighty! When do you break ground on pond # 3?
Little man deserves some ice cream for his hard work!
He got some peach pie and ice cream following the straw spreading
Wow!!! thank god for the LS tractor, very happy to see it all come together and the LS is kicking butt
It sure is
Adam if you have an old chain link 20 foot or so fence roll up the last 8 feet or so and drag that around Just hook on to a ball and go amazing results
Cut a hole in some foam board insulation so the pump will float in the pond keeps the mud out and your not pumping so high
If you want to kill the algae in the pond naturally without using chemicals, get a few bales of barley, wrap them with nylon string to keep them together, toss them into the pond attached to a rope in various locations. You can pull them out after the algae is gone.
Interesting
@@HometownAcres Research it. That's what we used to tell folks when I worked at the local soil conservation service.
At just a glance this might be a great location for a bridge to the center island. Crossing bridges are much easier to install with no water, yet. 😊
Rural Pumping Solutions makes solar powered pumps that can move water uphill as much as 1000'. I've seen it work on another channel, and would certainly make your setup pretty seamless. Especially if you route the overflow back to the retention pond, creating a cycle so that neither pond dries up.
Good idea!
I’ll have to look into it
Get a deep well pump and hang it on a float and trench a 2" or 1 1/4" water line to you other pond or you could even get a solar powered one that will too.
Nice work Adam, looks great.
hi there some of the flow problem may be the suction side is going down in the mud ,may want to find a way to get it off the bottom of the mud whole , best to all john
I wonder if you could just bury a 1 inch pipe between the ponds and use the 3/4 hp pump to just keep a small amount of water moving from the small pond to the big one. Maybe even just have a 2 x 500w solar panels power it so it could stay running the majority of the sunny day with no extra input from you.
That pump isn't designed for constant use. (Harbor freight)
A well pump would work though.
Came for the pond, stayed for the maths class 😂
"If a UA-camr is digging a pond and it takes....."
Hahaha
Great job on the pond! I'm impressed by the amount of effort and time you’ve put into this project. It was fascinating to see how you tackle all the technical and practical challenges. Good luck with the grass seeding and further improvements to the pond!
It was good to see you and your dad and son working together Injoy your dad while he":s here ! I lost mine when i was age 19 and im 53 now long time !
Cherish those days with your son. They slip by fast. Our best friends lived around the corner and their little boy was always by me while I did things around the house and in the yard and garage. He was my little buddy. I remember him sitting in the jump seat behind me in my truck while making a run to Fleet Farm or Menards. We'd tell each other jokes and riddles. Some very fine memories.
For for pumping water to the big pond, you can consider looking for a diesel or gas irrigation pump. You can find some irrigation pumps for cheap, and even use it for watering the grass and whatnot.
If i need to establish grass quick i spread grass and bird seed. I actually just used some a couple weeks ago so i have wheat, oats, corn, sunflowers, milo, and millet.... people say millet will grow on a rock, seems to work good for me.
I would love to see pond 2.0 get dug out more, seems like it’s the more natural pond location. These pond videos are really nice, easily my favorite aspect of the channel. Good work.
Part of your problem with that pump is it's not meant for "trash water". With the feeah work you guys did, there's going to be alot of dissolved solids in that water ,plus try to float it instead of throwing it in right to the bottom
Love the update finger crossed 🤞 it's all good .
Adam , locate Barley Bails to control your Algae Also I use Grass carp to control Grass and vegetation growth in the pond. And please don't use pond dye.
I bet if you had a leak in the pond the algae would disappear? 😂😂😂.
Congrats on the pond set up, retaining pond and here's to a successful holding pond. The time lapse of the pond was very cool.
Its really coming together Adam.
The cover shot shows order emerging from the organic chaos of the original wood yard.
Have you thought of adding aquatic planting to Pond 2.0 - marginal reeds, lilys pads - to encourage wildlife etc and naturally manage the algae blooms.
It might just be me living in space-poor UK and nature has plenty of space in the US
A SANY hat? Digging with Dylan has SANY and he loves it. He has a tilt rotator on his too. If you’re going to get one, or know someone who is, be careful where you get it. There’s a very popular UA-camr who found out the hard way that if you buy it at an auction, it voids the warranty
Thank you for the great video as you dressed up the second pond. That has to be th3 fastest anyone has put a pond built video together where so much got packed into one episode.
I try to cover a lot in one video if I can instead of dragging it out over 10 videos
Have you added gutters to the storage shed and add a drain down to the new pond?? San Diego, California
Not yet but I plan to
If you need to push 1-2 sprinklers from a pump, you need 1 to 1.5hp irrigation pump. I've been running one from Harbor Freight to irrigate off a pond for 2 years. It could probably push 3 sprinklers, depending on range you need
Those pond volumes are shocking! I never would have guessed those amounts. Great progress.
Right?!
Looks great! Love the family aspect at the end too. Little dude bringing the muscle. 💪🏼
Fabulous series. Ralph is a superstar!!!
He is
Have you given any thought of making the second pond the main one…circling that group of trees essentially creating an island in the center? That would be cool.
I feel like frog population of Pennsylvania just tripled😂
Maybe lay a few small logs as a diversion.
A 500W solar bore pump will do the trick, with 1.5" line and a 50ft lift you will pump about 5000 Gallons per Day. Maths: 1 L/s @ 25m Lift @ 75% Efficiency = 350W, 32mm Dia = 1.33m/s (ok >0.9 &
Good morning Adam, The lower pond is looking really nice. You guys did an amazing job.
That was a nice video using time lapse to show all the progress instead of dragging it out making it look like we’re watching paint dry. Keep up the good work.
Awesome !! Looks great flash .. nice 3 generations working on it priceless!!
Next time put a roll or 2 of straw blanket in the erosion prone areas they work very well
I have a Gill Pulverizer tool that would have made an excellent seed bed in 1/2 the time you invested. I would have also spent my time and money on straw and let mother nature take care of watering the grass.
I should have watched the whole video before commenting. I just completed a pond and used the Gill tool to work the dam and the banks then seeded it, I added some wheat along with Fecsue 31. I got it strawed then we got a very heavy ran 4". The straw held and we had only a very small amount of wash outs.
Good morning Adam it’s looking great, all that work should pay dividends and satisfy your intentions to feed the upper pond. I’ll also compliment the Generational Team this should be the Anderson Pond, it will be the little Pond that Could. 😀👍💦👍💦👍💦
have an ideal, have a pipe connecting the overdrain from pond 1 to help feed pond 2 to collect as much water as possible to maintain both ponds water levels...
If you’re worried about flow of the pump. I’d take the quick connects off. Those reduce the water quite a bit.
There is a method to roll the hose or cords up without creating the twist that usually happens. Simple technique, just have to do it intensely. So when you pull the hose/cord out it lays flat every time.
Fish, fish will take care of that alge.
It's great to watch Anderson grow up!
Thank you!
The pump was under powered from that little battery pac.
Fun, fun, fun. Finishing touches always are.
I mean, theoretically, if you had two of the same pumps, you could pump the water up into bathtub sized tank half way and then pump the tub water up the second half if you can't get one pump with enough head pressure. Probably not the best long term solution.
Thanks for sharing!
Somehow I missed videos of you staring your new ponds. Looking good.. hope you have clay bottom to hold the water.
You’ll have to go back and watch them to catch up 😀
Grass usually takes me a week to germinate but I hope yours is faster!
Good morning Adam!
May be a stupid question, but I wonder where is the straw for? Never seen that done here in Belgium. Great work, looks really good, keep up this type of great content! For the large pump you could consider a PTO powered type and run it with the LS compact
not sure why its just so satisfying to watch dirt being moved, especially when it ends with a good looking pond. lol
Time add drain to gutters on new shop to new pond
That’s the plan
Wow, that lower pond turned out great!
Just putting this out there for you. With those two ponds, do you have a backup plan for dealing with muskrats? They'll create holes for their bank dens.
Seekins Precision Havak 6.5 Creedmoor w/ a Vortex Viper PST 5-25x50. Easily out to 1000 yards.
@@JCWren lol
Living in city limits, I find my PSE. compound is very compelling. 😊
Great video, Adam! You truly deserve a win. Seeing three generations working together is such a proud moment, and thank you for sharing it. I'm curious, how long did your portable power keep the pump running before you had to recharge it?
About 2.5 hours or so. I have 2 of them so I just kept recharging one while the other was running
next time you have to spread hay for grass in an area that size, its worth renting a bale shredder
Maybe you could do a video on how you deal with the algae. Thanks
That grade with the supply pond will gather alot of water when it rains
Do you have enough property on the low end to drop a drain pipe and put a ram hydraulic pump in?