Unclogging HUGE Dam That Has FLOODED Property for Years
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The water won't stop flooding the property! The new pond is overflowing and could destroy the berm holding back over a million gallons of water. I dug a spillway for the extra water to flow through, and discovered a drainage ditch that has been dammed up from years of sediment, leaves, fallen trees, brush, you name it!
Tag along as I unclog over 500ft of dammed up water, and start draining all this water!
Lucky for us it isn't a beaver dam and having to deal with them constantly rebuilding it, but Mother Nature sure has a way of making things happen whether you plan on it or not.
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Am I really going to watch a man unclog a swamp by hand for 20+ min? Yes I am
Thanks for watching!
Same!
Take it your not a fan of post10 , we’ve sat for hrs on his crusade against the beaver & dam destruction
@@3sasky This was actually very first video I had ever seen. Never seen video like it I assume it came as a suggestion due to the amount of bushcraft and offgrid reclaim builds I had been watching.
@@3sasky LOL, I watch post10, too. I think his latest video is over 2 hours, LOL! Love them all, though! this is the first I have seen this channel and I can't help hearing post say that he would never wear full waders, LOL!
A LOT of hard work, but a very satisfying video watching the water repeatedly pick up speed as you clear the path. I know you felt super good when the work was done!
Best feeling ever!
I can't help but wonder if the blockage was set on purpose by a previous owner. Maybe this could be done to create more amphibian habitat or to help replenish ground water.
Could be yes. It absolutely does both those things.
Honestly it looks to be everyday common tree and leaf fall not intentional blockage.
Does anyone noticed that tree stumps was precisely cut , seem like it cut by machine
@@sukhmandeepsingh757 he cut them so he could remove them.
The cut logs look like they were purposely placed in the way.
Amazing how the water flow sped up as you unclogged each area, good job!
SUPER satisfying to see it move more and more as it was cleared out especially at the end, pouring out!
Young boy , brilliant work .
My back hurts just watching you move and pick up stuff!!!
I'm glad it's done! Ibuprofen is my friend 😀
This was fun! I almost immediatly saw the water starting to increase in flow, but wait a minute.. How could he lift all the logs so easily..? All the log were sawed precisly to the right lenght..? Aha! This is like the cooking shows on tv, "and then you put it into the owen for twenty minutes. and here is one we prepaired before the show".. Excellent! Means less time for us to wait, and "better" tv on you tube!
The magically cut logs where satisfying
That was so satisfying to watch.
Thanks!!
If that’s your land I would start piling up the loose limbs and use them for firewood or rent a shredder and make mulch out of them. Less material for the beavers to use and more land for your use.
Plenty of firewood out here with all these downed trees, mostly dead Ash in our area.
Wonder if the soil erosion is going to be worse now that the water is moving faster and the effect on the wildlife around the area. Too bad there isn’t a pond around to store the water so it enters the water shed slower and the ground water can be replenished.
There's a huge half acre pond right where it all starts.
We all those trees, buy your self a large commercial wood chipper, bag and sell the wood chips and clear your land also
Wood chipper would be sweet! Need a heavy duty one, any recommendations?
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To do it properly, you should dig a small ditch into the older ditch and dig that ditch out of all the accumulated debris.
For sure, just need to get all this water drained from the area so I can get some equipment in there to do it without burying it. Thanks for watching!
Great job.
Okay, that was some job! Time to hit the hot tub and a cold one after all that! Anyway it looks FANTASTIC!! 👍💯😎
Thanks!
Can we stop and appreciate the shear size of the tree shown at 2:10? The trunk is massive.
It really is, it's a huge cottonwood! Probably the biggest tree on the property.
wow weal done bravo
I see the cut logs and wonder why someone is throwing them into a stream only to dam up the water flow. Great job clearing it but getting to the root of the problem needs to be addressed.
Thanks!
Someone did that intentionally. Nothing like watching it flow again! Damn, you're a hard worker.
Thanks!
I am really sad that you destroyed that incredible wet land!The diversity of nature that that was supporting was huge.If this wasn't destroying a home ,why would you do that?
Still a lot of diversity in and around the pond, haven't messed with that at all. This was to get all the extra water that has been flooding the property every year moving on out.
Mother nature thanks you
Thanks!
Mother nature is not thanking him. He is ruining her work.
Nice job.
Thanks!
I’ll bet he slept good after all that back breaking work.
For sure!
Very temporary. Once it is drained and dries out, he really needs to come up with a better solution for keeping it drained. One rain storm and he's back to square one. And for those of you who love to speculate on the pre-cut logs, of course he cut them off camera. Just like the root of that last tree. Didn't you see the saw sitting there? He spared you having to watch him do all of that. Besides, 75% of you trolls out there would have been massively triggered if you had seen him use a chainsaw in the water.
💯💯💯 It's going down this Fall with a mini or tractor to clear out and trench that whole run.
Let the water do the work.
The tree is going to be removed in time as long as you cut a root or two and make sure the water keep flowing.
For sure, I'm impatient though and want to get the tractor in there and get that tree outta there. Your advice is spot on though.
Very convenient all those trees were already cut. Weird.
Unclocking such an area reduces biodiversity, as living habitats for many insects and other animals is demolished.
Instead of throwing the logs and large branches willy nilly, maybe you should take the time to stack them parallel to the shore (waterflow). That way when you gather the leaves and small twigs, you can throw them behind the logs and they won't blow back and clog up the stream again.
I was in it to win it! But definitely in the future I'll do that, I just wanted to get things moving and see that water flowing on out.
Realistic and sensible
They would rot and make dirt thus forming a bank over time. And as the stream flows it erodes naturally the bank. So you'd hypothetically never see that stream erode new paths or need to be redug ever again.
He got his big high boots on!!
I’m having trouble keeping my bearings on this one. There is so much clog I can’t see where it’s coming from or where it should be going to. Good work
Thanks!
How high am I? Enough to watch some dude pick up sticks and leaves for 26 minutes and be 100% captivated by it
Thanks for watching! Feel free to share it out!
Why where there so many evenly cut logs? The ones that were all in a line are particularly curious.
All those cut up trees and yet the one that should be cut to straighten the flow is still standing.
Will be tackling that soon, along with dragging out some big downed trees in there for future firewood.
I like the part where he moved the stick
Looks like to me some of those dams were put in to hold the water in, all those logs were neatly cut to form a barrier.
Plenty of restoration projects are deliberately flooding spaces to help the land regenerate.
I get it, in our case we have an overabundance of water runoff from surrounding areas so was important to send it down that drainage ditch that was established decades ago. Been learning new things about this land every year!
@@hurstyoutdoors yes great work - I've only just been seeing things like this pop up thanks to the good old algorithm! Best of luck with your land.
Great job mate!!
Now go in and get all that fire wood!!
I'm on it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks awesome video!!
A rake would've went a long way on this job!
Hey you live and you learn! But totally agree!
That kind of fuel during the summer is asking for a California scale fire disaster .
At least the beavers are blameless.
No beavers here, quite a few muskrats in the pond though!
@@hurstyoutdoors at least beavers would have kept it neat and tidy.
Looked like wood duck heaven!
I had no idea what the old waterway was. What you tried to clear.
Old drainage ditch that must've been dug years ago. It was needing some love.
Vernal pool? How much wildlife depended on that ponding in wet weather?
I mean there's a huge half acre+ pond that's stocked and full year round 😀
Trees don’t like being in water, hence so many fallen i’m guessing.
Once the ground dries & the worms come back the trees will start to get nutrients from the soil again.
You are lucky,someone cut all those log 🪵 😂
Plenty of firewood there. You could be selling. ❤❤
Definitely. Once Fall arrives I think it would be worth getting out there again and hauling all that wood out.
I didn't realize it was that flooded. Shit's crazy.
You still need to get a handheld log tong for those larger pieces...that's how you throw your back out
I think you're right, some of those logs are just too heavy. Tongs tied to a tractor would make it easy once all the water goes down!
Post 10 would be proud.
If anyone thinks that pre-cutting logs diminishes from this project, shame on you
who made all the saw cuts to those logs, this is very odd
Who and when were many of the ytrees cut into logs that could be easiy removed?
Used a chainsaw right before moving the big logs that were in the water. No way I could've moved it with how big they were. Thanks for watching!
Who cut these logs to smaller pieces?
Looks like someone came in with a chainsaw and cut a majority of the medium and large pieces before he started the clean up!
My cousin got fined 10,000 bucks for cleaning his property of trash and an old car a washer and a fridge plus a pick up truck full of trash
They said he was disturbing a wetland
I don’t know how long the car had been there but it was still leaking contaminants into the water
The previous owners-had been using it as a dump and he got fined for cleaning it up
Maryland sucks this is the same state that fined a man for shooting a bear that had broken into his house
10,000 fine for shooting a bear out of season and without a bear tag or hunting license
That's wild and super disturbing..what the heck.
At 12:16 is that the channel behind you blocked by the big dead fall
Love watching your channel but you should not have dug up the dirt at that tree cuz now over time that tree will fall over
Oh it's coming out! Thinking soon actually, just need to see if I can get the tractor back in there.
Wouldn't a tractor have made quick work with less back-breaking labor?
I wish! Would've loved to use mine but the ground was way to wet, would've sunk it in there!
You could've done all that with an excavator. I'd do it for you if I were there.
"Why work harder when you can work smarter."
That's my plan this Fall, getting a mini excavator or tractor in there and go to town with it!
Y'all need to burn all that wood when it dries out a bit and get rid of it. A lot of wood on the ground there...
Without a doubt. I plan on getting all that dead wood out of there and cleaning up the forest floor. Anything that is still good will make excellent firewood.
Nobody ever bothered about moving the sawed of logs to the side. That's a bad habit.
It's definitely future firewood if it hasn't rotted yet!
I’m guessing you’re the one who cut all of that timber into workable pieces? Otherwise how convenient. If you did cut it up, why did you not have that part to the video, It’s a lot of work?
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Hey thanks for watching! Yep, chainsawed the big logs right after doing the initial walkthrough in the beginning. Figured people didn't wanna see that part, man was I wrong!
@@hurstyoutdoors that’s a lot of work might as well Get video ,get some views.
@@hurstyoutdoors guess my comment wasn’t heart worthy. Lesson learned.😁🇺🇸🦅
I feel sorry for anyone dealing with feral hogs and beavers. Both pests that destroy land!
Totally, luckily haven't had to deal with either of them. Heard there are feral hogs though in other parts of Michigan going wild on people's land
so who cut the timber
Another habitat destroyed!
What in the world LOL. To each their own, but I think discovering and restoring the drainage path of this water to drain is the right call. Have a good one.
What happens when you don't have forest fires to clear the fallen debris
We don't struggle with that in our area too much. A lot of this dead wood that is down is ash and will be rotted within the next few years. Any issues where you live with fires?
Cook that man a ribeye steak!!
Heck yea!
I think it was for ducks to go
Nothing beats the sight and sound of running water. Well done sir!
You got that right! Thanks for watching!
Except for when you need to pee.
You must be 0% beaver
Cripes old mate your going to rip it up why you hate the place keep it up till it totally fked cripes get learned on land learning first FFS Vandal some one fixed it before with all those chainsaws.cut logs. Light lite yet!
White Fella thinking domination control all wrong.
That was quite a nice wetland frog bog you had there. I bet there are a lot of diverse species of plants and animals in there. at least 5 kinds of mosquitos, my guess. Seasonal flooding areas are rich nurseries for many species of birds and amphibians. Did you notice the frog songs quit about the time you got half way down the slough. Looked like most of the obstructions you cleared were cut logs someone left as they fell.
Trying to get this water moving so it doesn't cause a crazy breeding ground of mosquitoes. With all the rain weve received in the Midwest lately, if I don't do something I'll need a boat to get around on my property soon! Thanks for watching!
All the frogs would eat the mosquitoes
@@hurstyoutdoors Thank god it wasn't beavers! You have to shoot those critters else they wreck the whole area!
@@Helen-mh8mqI don't know what kind of frogs you have but I live in a very wet area like what he is working on...I know the are frogs and toads but believe me...they don't eat enough mosquitoes to make a difference...
@@Raven-qj8xkoh my god. Beavers don't "wreck whole areas", they restore waterways and land. This is absolutely backwards.
For as much as I love removing dams I wonder if these ponds don't have a favourable impact on the ecosystem
They absolutely do. They create riparian habitat. Some of it looks to be permanently flooded while other parts appear to be intermittent or seasonal indicated by the flooded grasses and dry or moist soil dwelling plants. It creates great habitat for amphibians, waterfowl, wading birds, water and wetland insects, minnows and fish fry, etc. New wetland species will often appear which provide shelter and food sources for wildlife. They help collect and store groundwater and prevent erosion. If it’s not causing any problems or nuisance it can positively impact the ecosystem and resources of the entire property.
It's amazing what one man can accomplish with nothing but a shovel, saw, able body and determination.
Wont have to worry about it long after a few seasons, the runoff wont settle and refill the ground water, and the whole place will dry up. And 50 years from now someone will save the place and restore the ground water so it will be green again. Places such as that are what holds and allows the water to work itself into the ground and slowly be released back into the streams.
Notice that he didn't dig down? He didn't create a new ditch. He was just trying to remove the excess surface water which appears when his (expanded) pond overflows. Without doing that, many of the trees would die off and there would actually be far less groundwater in the future, once the sun was glaring down on the treeless soil. That land will still see some pooling of small amounts of water doing it the way he did.
@@SlickBubblesnope. This is wrong.
@@SlickBubblesthe water is going to rush away, this will increase erosion.
I started working on my ditch problem but I never thought of actually going into when the water was high. When it gets warm enough I think I am going to try your approach. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! Good luck on your ditch, nothing waders and sheer will can't solve!
I wish you could fix my useless dam!
Years ago someone built an earthen dam on the property because it was a low spot and a stream ran through it in the past. Now all it gets is gross runoff water from the road and runoff water from surrounding property. Hasn’t been a stream in decades.
The water never stays and it’s always gross.
Don't you'll lose all your soil and cause damage to your land. First figure out how often it floods then work out how much.doil you want to loose. As you see those logs was cut by chain saw as a rehabilitation project. Swampy ground ok it does lots of good filters out compost builds soils. Fast flowing does the opposite I'm 70 yrs old now and learned before I did anything studied the land zoned it own 105 acres and it's health and good though a.22 year drought and three floods. All good got most of the boofhead up the roads soil and tank earned him but he's like old mate here lol
I'm a tourist to your channel so I don't know context here, but, these kinds of wetlands are increasingly rare habitats for a lot of animals. The ability to dam it up and have those wetlands can be rare but if it's land you're wanting to reclaim that makes sense.
Thanks for stopping by! Totally get what you're saying which is why I had the pond doubled in size to have even more wildlife benefit from it!
@@hurstyoutdoors Very cool. Good on ya!
Amazing how all the logs were conveniently already cut into small pieces so you could move them. 😁 Seriously, good job and satisfying to watch.
Hey thanks for watching! More to come!
Yeah, and no wood chips anywhere, llol😀😀😀
Very precise beavers
A lot of good fire wood..
Good Job..👍👍
I used to work as a groundskeeper on a historic woodland estate here in the UK, part of which was built on ancient marshland, we pretty much had to do this at least once a year in summer to drain the clog of debris that built up, so many dead leaves! The tannin in the water stopping them from rotting away. Then having to re-dig a channel to a river with the Kubota, my god I could smell it again as I watched you.
That's really cool, could definitely learn a thing or two from ya! It's a unique earthy smell that's for sure! Thanks for watching and feel free to share it out.
Actually looks like lots of fun.
Back breaking job! Somebody has got to do it. Well done! Finding that drainage ditch was a goldmine. Be safe most of all!
Total gold mine! Once I found it everything could drain and get back to normal. Thanks for watching!
I never thought that you would get rid of all the mess and have running water well done fantastic job ❤❤😊
Curious why you didn't mention you went through with a chainsaw prior to moving those logs. I could see all the wood chips and fresh cuts on many of the logs.
He clearly knows that no one wants to hear the sound of a saw. We’re looking for water flow
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Also, the more people comment about the mysteriously convenient log cuts, the more UA-cam recommends the video.
Awesome work!
Might be worth taking a rake with you? For the leaves and such you’re bending over and tossing. It’s what my sister and I used to clear the creek in our backyard after big rains 😊
Thanks! Yea definitely need to bring a sturdy rake next time!
Did you do an earlier video where you chainsawed the trees into movable pieces?
Didn't do it on video to save time, but cut up the huge logs so they would be movable! Thanks for watching!
I like your low impact approach ♥ I suspect the blockages occurred over a decade or more. Walking the drainage once or twice a year will be adequate to keep the channel open.
Totally agree, now that I know it's clear, I'll check on things a few times a year and not have to deal with this issue again. Thanks for watching!
Disagree. A better long term solution is needed.
@@gmoffat70 I suppose you envision a straight line trench approximately 6 foot wide and 4 foot deep with all vegetation removed at least 12' on each side?
Hi , you were really lucky someone must’ve known you were coming and got there chainsaw out,
Didn't include it in the video, but broke out the chainsaw before kicking things off, just to cut the big logs into movable pieces.
Hi, hope you thanked the person with the chainsaw they did a good job, and so did you it was really good to watch.
From Carol.
Queensland Australia.🦘🪚🦘
I find these videos incredibly satisfying! Used to play with dams and such when growing up where there was plenty of water (PA)!
Dude, fantastic episode…. It wasn’t the tree that caused the blockage but the cowboys who cut down the trees and didn’t take away the small logs which created the buildup off soil and other deposits hence the blockage….
Hi there. I found it very interesting that there were large logs and tree trunks conveniently cut to be able to be moved by one person. Did anyone else notice that? Sue Australia.
I’m wondering if these were larger logs he cut before filming -easier to lift that way
Awesome job! Interesting to watch as the flow got better and better. I have enjoyed some of your video's before, but now that I have found you again I am a New subscriber. Ontario Canada
That's awesome!!
Great job! I'd rather be there with you helping unclog that forest than here laying in my bed watching videos.
Goodjob sir. I hope there's a part 2 to continue the flow. 😊 New subscriber here. 😊
👏🏻 great job. That tree has to come out or make a deeper wider trench go around it
Definitely! Once the ground isn't so wet I'm pulling that tree out with my tractor!
I’m seeing a terrific amount of cut logs (those straight cuts are not from breakage or decay) being moved, undoubtedly human intervention has once again created an unnatural flood plain. So nice to see you working hard to clean things up, and save those trees from all that water. ❤
I thought the same thing, only I wondered if he had previously scoped out this area and cut them himself.
@@LJB103 He's not showing the cutting in the video, but it's obvious that he's doing a lot with a chainsaw...
@@AndrewAMartin He actually talks about this in the second "check-up" video.
He cut all of that so he could move it, didn't you notice the root cut off at the very end? Nobody came in and ruined the environment, have you ever been outside in the woods? SMH😅😂😂
SMH 😂
really?
For future consideration, a good metal garden rake would be very helpful for pulling the leaves and small sticks out. I feel like that would have been easier.
Hindsight is 20/20 🤣
What a lesson. I hate people that whine and complain, but do nothing. If you don't try, you know what will happen. Prove naysayers wrong and try - you might be pleasantly surprised.
Right on!
Wow! Watch the water go! And the area take shape! Winding Stream, pond and property instead of flooded land, stream and pond practically all in one! I thought he would use a tractor, not his hand! Cool! Shows how our own lives get clogged up over the years from hurts, offences, pain, unforgiveness, bitterness, disease, etc . But when we unclog in Jesus out of our bellies flow rivers of living water! I love it. Fodder for my Sunday message on the need for Deliverance.
Awesome back breaking work and you did it while complimenting nature.😊
My concern is that many of those logs were not from mother nature - the ends look too clean cut.
The water isnt clogged up. its actually very important to have areas like this to retain water in the woodland and create much needed habitat. no clue why you made a video about this as most people are trying to create areas like this, the relentless draining of land is one of the main reasons for aquifers drying up. leave it alone let nature sort it out.
Sooo... Nature took great care to create a swamp area that has a huge number of benefits for the local animals and filters the pollution we are dumping onto the land. Seems to me this is a great loss.... Frogs, minnows, mice, any number of water bugs and other insects, birds, deer, bear.... I wonder if they'll miss that water too?