Horrible situation on the farm! LEAKY Farm Pond is failing! Let's fix it!
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2022
- Horrible situation on the farm! LEAKY Farm Pond is failing! Let's fix it! Come along today on the farm as we try anything other than rebuilding the pond dam to fix the leak! Link to Damit Product: shalex.com.au/damit-dam-sealer/
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People should really be watching the Facebook lives because I already know how fixing the pond came out!!! But still watching this video. Woooooo, good stuff!! 🙋♀️
I know right...but you'll learn how I did it on this vid.....Lots of great live daily content on Facebook.com/stoneyridgefarmer
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Ok for those of us who did not watch it.. how did it turn out? I was just about to email the company and ask if it could work on my pond :)
I don’t want to know anything bad enough to return to FB. UA-cam takes up what little time I do have, & FB was so divided… just can’t. I look to this channel for sanity’s sake.
I gave up facebook a couple years ago when they decided violating my first amendment as a conservative all the time was ok.
There's so many of these videos and they should all basically have a tagline of "Make sure your pond is built right to begin with..".
Especially when you see how much these products cost. I'm reminded of the saying, "An ounce of prevention..."
yep....but even if the pond is correctly built, leaks still come up my friend....of course setting sail with the right build to start with is best...but hindsight is always 20/20
Fixing a leaking pound in a drought is a good thing.
Nice product! Nice job! Stay cool brother! 😎
I can see why you don’t want to breathe that stuff. Catfish, being bottom feeders, might go for it, but it appears they, somehow, know better. Great results- good job.
I bought a battery powered ryobi spreader and it works good. I enjoy you videos👍
Was hear
Woooo!
Like a few others, bentonite came to mind. Then I realized to do it right, you should drain the pond first. This Damit looks like a pretty good product to try first. I guess if you ever build a new pond, you now have the experience. 👍
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That was great Josh
Thats wonderful that its working and you don't have to tear pond out
That is great. Loved your explanations as you worked through the problem.
We used bentonite clay on my brother in-laws pond
Most interesting product.
That is great josh so glad it worked
Awesome Josh! I think I would have risked heat exhaustion and wore a Tyvec suit... LOL
Peel it off and throw it away...
Thanks for sharing this very informative video . Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe. May God continue to bless you, your family and your adventures.
Looks like you found a great solution. Thank you. !! H.
Duck poop is the best pond sealer, fence a flock in for a season
Bentonite clay is a natural sealer that works well if it remains moist or wet. You could drain the pond, get sacks of dry clay, put out a layer and fill it back up. How much to use, where to buy it, that is another issue, but it is an alternative for comparison.
This product apparently has a finite lifetime of 5 years, so yeh I’m thinking bentonite clay is a better solution? But this is cheap and easier to apply, and possibly the fissures will self seal over time if the outflow rate is reduced? An interesting consideration though.
My daily is working on the property till I get hungry or hot come in the house check and see what Stony Ridge is doing- great vid
Hey Josh,
I have a leaking dam on my property which is heritage listed in our local area of Western Sydney together with the rock walls built that seam to go for ever. I will try this product in the near future but I will also need to fix the leaking rock wall section of the dam.
I will try this product in summer and keep you updated.
Hope I hear you say in the future “DAM IT it worked “ !
Like the video on the pond leaking .
Good to find out about this product. I’ve got a pond to get dug that will have a dam. The soil is clay, but I’d love to have a back up plan.
Excellent video
Great video Josh 🇺🇲 WOOOOOO 🇺🇲
Don't feel bad on dirt perfect channel he uncovers problems like yours. Clay will catch ya at anytime... surprise you w/o notice.
I had bought a JCB backhoe to build some catchments but, decided to let someone else enjoy that liability. Now selling the backhoe cause I could use a smaller unit on our farm.
Have a great day!
If you can get a dump truck to haul clay from work sites to dump next to your pond that could help the contractor get rid of the clay and help you seal and build up your dam.
Super cool!! Gotta love science!
Yessir for sure!
Awesome I hope it works good for you
Jeez the stress must be immense! Glad the fix worked for you my friend. 👍🏻
Hey Josh, it has been hot and dry here in the northeast. I use a couple rain barrels to supplement my watering and it helps. Good luck with the pond project. The results looked amazing! Take care.
Pretty cool Josh, man you are a jack of all trades, your farm is really coming along!
yeppers you gotta be a jack of all trades to building a farm
Glad to see this. Our pond is around 40 years old. Beaver and muskrats are having fun and made holes in the bank. We are going to rebuild the pond and this stuff will definitely be used after moving/disposing of the beavers/muskrat when needed.
You probably won't need it once you fix it
I saw Adam on Hometown Acres us that in his pond on it worked.
WOW! That is awesome.
While I expect you want to test this product alone I would suggest some bentonite since you found the leak. A few bags over the leak spot would add insurance and might keep it sealed if the Damit breaks down.
I actually put some clay over the hole after a few days just to be "double safe"
Looks like a great product to add when you build a new pond as layers are added.
I seen Hometown Acres on his pond as it was leaking also out the back of the dam. I think I would've tried to mow/weedeat that dam as far as I could get on the water side of it. That stuff worked great on Adam's dam. And he even had the dam cored after he built it with good clay in the core. Glad it worked for ya!
We treated our pond in May with 5 pails of Damit....had 10 pails but the wind picked up too much to put the rest out. It was quite a circus with painter suits and even bought a Pond Prowler plastic boat to get out in the middle for even application. It seems to be sealing the bottom where it was more sand than clay and the water clarity is much better. It did kill thousands of frogs that got caught in the slime....we don't have fish yet.
Hey Josh sorry to hear about the bad news but at least upon is getting better now I guess damn it it works and that's a good thing so happy for you just try to stay cool out there like I am trying to do too
good information glad to see that it is working. have a great day
Uh-oh!!! 🤯
So glad it worked!
That was amazing! Blessings
I've seen that product on some other channels. It's amazing at how well it works!
Josh, I can't thank you enough for recommending this product. I was about to get a tri-axle load of clay to fix a leak in my pond dam when I saw your video. I ended up buying one bucket and used less than half of it. I checked the dam a few day later and the leak was plugged. A week later the ground below my pond dam was dry! This saved me so much work!
Does this product gets hard after some time? I’m concerned it stays slimy permanently
@Stoney Ridge Farmer
Has the company stated how long Damit will last ?
check out the website for more details...I think it's good for around 5 years or so
Good job Josh, sure saved you some money and time.
Awesome stuff especially since it worked. Need to do a follow up of the pond after two weeks and let us know how it looks buddy. Hopefully it fills up all the way and stays full for ya.
Awesome stuff Josh glad it worked for you buddy appreciate the awesome content 👍
thanks Ben!! And thanks so much for being a channel member!!
Well hope that will work , it will be lot of trouble if it doesn’t work .
The old remedies would have been Bentonite or several loads of heavy clay then feeding a herd of hogs in the dry pond until the soil is packed down.
Lucky pigs.
That’s awesome !
Hey the stuff works, esp. on seeps. My new pond was leaking 12 inches every 24 hrs after we kept pumping it full from a creek. I tried the 15 liter pail and after 4 days now losing 3 inches every 24 hrs, huge difference. I still have a hole on the back side leaking around 5 gals per minute, I just ordered another bag, hope it finally stops the leak.
Several people are talking about bentonite clay we was told by our local ag extension office to spread bentonite in our pond to stop the leak so we did and we applied it as we were told and it was a total failure. It might work if the pond was drained and dried up then till in the bentonite and pack it then refill the pond that might possibly work.
welcome to the ag extension office...surprised they didn't hand you 14 pamplets and tell ya to read the "pond book" they provide....I've not found one way the ag extension office can be helpful yet...AT ALL!! Very frustrating! When I bough the farm I went over there and sat down with the extension agent...I asked.."what are folks farming in this county that makes money".....crickets!! An ag extension agent should be able to tell you what's working in the country and what's not working in my opinion
Awesome
My friend what about the Sun it everate also ask the people that sale that powder the Sun.
Awesome video. I’ve been doing a big pond project and I’m going to use the same product
be sure your pond doesn't hold water first..give it time...don't waste your money if you don't need too my friend
Hi Josh,
Started to do a little pond in Bosnia too and I was thinking about it already how to do the bottom of it - don't want to use a foil because it's plastic, but beton is also no choice for me because I wanted to have it naturally... Hope I can find this product here in Europe too... Thanks for sharing this great solution !
Wish everyone a great day!
Regards from Germany
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I’ve seen a couple of other videos where people use this and it worked for them. Hopefully it’ll work good for you.
Another thing I’ve seen people do with the coupons is fill them with organics, grass clippings and hay which I guess once it breaks down basically turns to Clay. But they’ll put a lot of grass clippings in hay and leaves in the pond and after a few years it seals it up. I was researching this about a year ago but I haven’t done it myself so I can’t tell you but the stuff you’re using I’ve seen work in two or three videos and it worked well for everyone who used it
Yay, that’s amazing! 🤩 and a little disgusting…
I would love to see where was the leak.
Used to use something just like that called chem-mud for well drilling. I can tell you from experience…don’t bite the bag open! 😫. Interested to see how well that works. Having a similar problem in my dug pond. Good luck!
I think they call that "grout" for the well
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer grout is used for sealing the well. This was used during the drilling process to keep from losing water while drilling. Keep up the good work! Thanks again!
Woo! I’m really happily surprised this product doesn’t effect the wild life. I wonder if it’ll last or a reapplication might be in the future. Still probably saving money.
you are playing with ghostbusters slime be sure to show the paranormal activity:) hope it holds a long long time
I tried to leave a comment on another post, not sure it went through, so sorry if this is a repeat. I saw the international model A along the driveway. Just wondering if you have plans to restore it and have it in the shop for when you get set up for having folks there? Would be a cool thing for them to see. Good luck on your endeavor, I grew up on a farm about the same size with animals and crops in Ohio and know the struggles. You got this. By the way, spent many hours in my youth cultivating crops on a model A.
that's my dads old super A industrial...I'll be you never saw a yellow one!! Very cool old machine!
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I had a channel cat dig a hole in my dam which caused a huge leak and nearly catastrophic failure.
Happy for you Josh. Did you speak to the company about using it as a preventative measure when first building the pond? I'm curious because I will be building a pond on our farm and if it works to prevent possible leaking on a new build its well worth the insurance.
Thanks for the video's.
it's not a product you'd typically use before your pond fills....if you have a quality contractor build your pond and the right soil you may need nothing....however they are the experts so I'd say reach out to Shalex and ask
That thumbnail was straight from Reddit, lol 😬😮
not really sure what that means....but it's from the video lol
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer look up the image for "soyjak pointing", lol
Wouldn’t it be better to broadcast it after the water level is up after a rain? But glad you found the leak. Pretty cool stuff, will have to remember it in case I ever have issues.
I believe the pond in the video had some catfish. I'd love to see if there was any impact at all on the fish in the pond; or any concerns regarding eating the fish soon after the product application. Definitely interesting product.
Hey Josh! I an glad that the more economical solution worked! I am curious though, is it a one time application and you're done... or does it need to be reapplied every so often?
yep...one and done my friend
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer THAT would make it even MORE attractive as a solution! What a brave new world that has such wonders in it! On to the next chore on the list!
There’s a UA-camr who built a pond and had the same issue of it leaking and used a polymer to seal it
How’s it holding up? Paying close attention because I have a small pond that is leaking
yes...it has held for about a year now
Is there any concern that this will have an effect to the spring feeding the pond?
The pressure of the spring feeding the pond is greater that the level of the water that the pond held, so no viscous fluid product will hold back that kind of pressure. It’s only not leaking out in reverse because the majority of the pond floor is solid and its surface area is hugely greater (remember you measure pressure in PSI, and the spring feed is a few inches in diameter versus a hundred square yards of pond water pushing down)
@@____________________________.x Thanks for the info. I was just wondering if after the material "set-up" if it would be similar to a liner that for the most part would not be able to be penetrated by a below ground source. Also would the material have to be re-applied periodiclly?
@@brentallen15 it looks like it stays in it's slime condition and seeps down into fissures, a bit like tyre sealant. The website gives a 5 year life, I'd imagine that if nothing changes then it's going to be good for a lot longer as clay silt will have replaced the degraded polymer
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Well, I can't always catch the facebook lives, so Thank you for putting out this video. Very interesting. That is encouraging that it worked. But I am curious on a few fronts - being it is on the bottom, until sludge covers the bottom, does it just pass right through the fish and invertebrates or? What is the expected length of time this fix will last? Thanks Josh!
it washes off with water...so as the fish breath and frogs...it simply washes through the lungs/skin. No dead fish or animals of any sort were found after this...the fish were jumping for joy!
Let us know how the fish do after awhile
keep on watching
Hi Josh ! how is your pond now? I have the same issue with my pond, about the same size and depth as your pond.. Every year its full in the spring and slowly goes down in the summer. I believe its pressure forcing the water out of the bottom as my pond is about 10 feet deep. Looks really beautiful when its full !!! I have been reading about Damit for a while. Some people have luck and some don't, just wondering how you are doing !
water level is still coming up my friend
If it ever did come down too needing too rebuild the dam! You can use your skid steer and do it yourself and save a ton of money. I built a one for a customer acouple years back with a skid steer because it’s all I could get back too site other then a mini excavator because they didn’t want trees cut or cleared too get too the area.. I just walked in the dam in 4-8 inch lifts and had a compaction test done and it was like I used a roller but only used the skid steer too compact the dam.
it would take me 2 years to rebuild this with the skidsteer...need a big excavator to move this amount of dirt..skid steer on a project this big is like loading a dumptruck full of gravel with a spatula my friend...trust me I've learned it's better to hire bigger equipment in the long run
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer 100% bigger is always better but I’m saying a project that big could easily be done in 1-2 weeks. I do grading and dig ponds and mostly basements.
We have a pond that holds water til full then busts a drain hole that goes into an old well thats too close to the pond. It dries up multiple times a year. I drove a 4x4 round post down into the hole to see if it plugs it but kansas refuses to fill it back up this year. That stuff looks like a contender to fix if my plug doesnt work.
I'm not so sure driving a wooden post in a pond dam is the best idea my brotha
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer its not a pond dam its like a drain in the bottom of my pond. It drains into an old well not in use anymore. Someone dug the pond too close to the old well.
Hello Josh, my dad built a pond 2 years before he built his house and it was ground fed and he put walleye and perch and bass and bluegill and the patio was 2' away from the edge of the pond and dad would always feed the fish when he was grilling lunch or supper on the grill and you could take a piece of bread and the fish would eat it out of your hands.
But Dad passed away 5 years ago and I should ask my stepmom if she is having any problems with the depths of the pond as dad had it setup for the house for drawing water needs and he had a reverse osmosis in the basement so you could drink the water along with bathing and washing dishes and washing clothes but when it was dry out he often had to suck water from the creek nearby 200' ft away to raise the water table up in the fall so it would be high enough to get through the winter cuz the pump froze up cause the water table was to low but never had a problem after that when he filled the pond after that and when they had lots of water he had a over full pipe he could control the water depth of the pond and he had 5' ft around the pond to keep the weeds down and he spent as much time on the pond as a farmer would spend farming 40 acres and you could go up stairs of the house and look at the pond and see the bottom of the pond in the middle which was 25' deep and he had it so it was clear blue. The pond was 2 acres big. But I don't know what the situation is now because the pond was his Only source of water for the whole house and he didn't want to dig a well because of costs. I need to talk to my stepmom and see what is going on with the pond now. Thanks for the information Josh, I will have to pass it on.
How long is that stuff supposed to last/seal the pond Josh?
I dug a pond about an acre and a half and then waited for it to fill up it never did. I tried everything I tried chemicals I tried but with different kinds of dirt on it and packing it nothing seemed to work, finally, one of my neighbors an older man told me he had upon like it when he was younger and what he did was just put a fence around it and put some hogs in the fence. What I didn't figure I had much to lose so I tried it, it took several years I think three years or four years, but it was a deep pond, but they kept rooting around down in the bottom where the mud hole was started off with then as the water came up they just kept rooting around it and they, sure enough, sealed it. Just in case your chemicals don't work.
@Stoney Ridge Farmer
WOOOOOOO!
Hey Josh, potential dumb question here. What's with the minnow trap hanging from the roof on the Kubota?
And for the smart question:
Doe the Damit just coat the inside of the pond or does it seep down into the substrate and produce a clay/polymer matrix?
vid coming soon..it's a fly trap
yep exactly!
I have a few questions for you.
Question 1 what advice do you have for my first time butchering Cornish cross chickens.
Question 2 Is how I'm running my channel good for growth or is there something more I need to do?
google how to butcher chickens...my vid will pop up first.....I see your avitar(photo)...that's not good for channel growth buddy...I did go over and look at your channel....what is LF Studios? Think of a channel name that rings true to what your doing...watch tim schmoyer and derrel eves on youtube and you'll learn a ton!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Thank you so much for your input on this issue. How does the new profile picture look?
I’m glad you were able to salvage that pond without costing a ton of money.
If that doesn’t work get you a few hogs in it. Hogs will seal it up for you!
Exactly
Ducks?
Hey Josh, so how is the pond doing now? Do you still think this stuff is the answer to fixing leaks in ponds?
yep...still filling ....gonna take it a month or more to fill from the spring
I just ordered a couple buckets for my pond, is your still filling up Josh?
Wouldn't powdered clay do the same thing?
this is totally different my friend
Length of time of repair before fail?
Get some Beaver in there...
How are the fish, did they get coated or get any into their gills ?
it settles to the bottom slowly...water running over their gills washes it away...not one fish was harmed doing this...if it was toxic to them they'd all be floating dead in the water my friend
Line your dam with plastic when you build it.
Bad idea, how long do you really think that will last, the best way is natural way which is just compression either by pigs or an earth mover
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With a buried plastic liner. Long enough that it won't be my children's problem either. When the plastic does break down you have decades of settling as well as the mechanical compaction from the tractors and rollers.
Did you find that the Cornish Cross from Meyer was of lesser genetic quality than that of McMurray? We got two shipments from Meyer this year and had multiple chicks that never grew up. We have never had that issue from McMurray. Thank you for your opinion on your experience.
never grew up?? You mead died? Not sure what ya mean....I do believe that most of the cornish X chicks from around the country all come from the same place...I could be wrong
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer No they didnt die at all actually. 53% of our order at 10 weeks old was at about 4lbs. 12% of our order at 10 weeks old lived but never grew larger than 3lbs, some even under 2lbs. Identical conditions for all Cornish from Meyer. We haven’t seen those types of poor numbers from McMurray. Have you seen consistency or inconsistency or did we just get a bad batch from Meyer?
get a paper suit to wear when you do it again. use for a covering when exposed to insulation and other materials that you do not want to come in contact with clothing. just throw it away.
yep....however...slip and fall in the pond and you may never get out lol
Old Farmers trick is to run Hogs in the pond for a season as they will plug up any leaks, a completely natural way.
Ever seen it done? I’ve always wondered if they can swim.
@@swamp-yankee Pigs swim ok (dog paddle; no butterfly stroke, no Australian crawl, no frog kicks). Fly? Not so much.🐷
not a very environmentally conscious way to do it...but if it works? who knows lol
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer it's a heck of a lot more environmental than any chemicals of ANY kind. and if there is a hole in your pond it will be dry up to it ,they root and dig filling in the holes and packing the clay to seal it. sure seems natural to me.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I’ve heard Salatin mention it. That’s probably where OP heard of the idea
I have a pond that was fine until my neighbor bulldozed about 1.5' of soil away on his property which is about 50yards away from the pond. Since then the pond will not hold more than a out half what it used to. This has caused the grasses to grow up and it can't be used anymore. Would this product work to seal the bottom (live in southern georgia. Have 2' of sandy soil then about 1 foot of blueish grey clay followed by 2 ft of red clay. When the pond was dug, they broke thru the red clay and the neighbor removing the topsoil allows the pond to drain through the breaks in the clay).
Contact the folks at shalex...they can help you