9 Acre Pond Rehab: Draining The Huge Beaver Lake

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

Комментарии • 267

  • @Todd.Roberts
    @Todd.Roberts 3 месяца назад +13

    Love watching the ponds being redone .

  • @StephenWruck-vm9ww
    @StephenWruck-vm9ww 3 месяца назад +7

    Hello Chris, great to see you back at this project and all the challenges you face in fixing up this dam project. Wishing you and your family all the best with the hurricane. Thanks Stephen

    • @jjMcCartan9686
      @jjMcCartan9686 3 месяца назад +1

      Helene is tracking further west atm .

  • @Hope-Lenders
    @Hope-Lenders 3 месяца назад +3

    Praying that you and your loved ones are safe from the storm!

  • @jimmytew9468
    @jimmytew9468 3 месяца назад +37

    YES a pond job and playing in the MUD! Hopefully a BIG FIRE included!

    • @derekreed8251
      @derekreed8251 3 месяца назад +2

      Looking forward to another bonfire 🔥. Can never have too many bonfires. 🔥

  • @mikegarland-vu8ut
    @mikegarland-vu8ut 3 месяца назад +7

    Letsdig18 is one of my more favorite channels always top hand content.

  • @keithdunlap2701
    @keithdunlap2701 3 месяца назад +6

    Prep, prep, and more prep, is the name of the game, ya know it !! Tell ya what Chris, that Big Smooth Bucket has really been your go too, ever since ya got it !! I believe that is really one of your main tools , when it comes to working on the pond jobs. It can get 2-3 different things done at one time , and really keeps ya moving on a lot faster on the job, and not have to come back to it !! Well, off to a great start, will really start to shape up pretty quick , i'm guessing !! Always does...lolol... Great as Always !! Have a Great Evening, And, On too the Next !! Yeah Man, that hurricane is getting Bigger all the time as we speak !! Looking like the "Low" is going to settle right over us here in Western Ky. in the next day or so !! looking like we are going to get 4-5 in. of rain out of this one, may be more ?? hard to tell just yet but, it is coming for a lot of us !!

  • @Sirspeedystevie
    @Sirspeedystevie 3 месяца назад +4

    I just love it when you put that grading bucket on.. 😎🤌🏼

  • @justlost2010
    @justlost2010 3 месяца назад +2

    I am always amazed at how easy you make this look!

  • @mischef18
    @mischef18 3 месяца назад +2

    Toys playing in the mud is always great to watch bro. Safe travels. Ken.

  • @rondastump8930
    @rondastump8930 3 месяца назад +1

    So enjoying this project. Ur experience shows through n each project. Interesting to watch and learn. God's blessings and be safe!

  • @heatherlane9270
    @heatherlane9270 3 месяца назад +2

    Good catch with the leak. Another great project.

  • @troystricklin630
    @troystricklin630 3 месяца назад +1

    Saweet!! Those tilt buckets are an awesome attachment! I won't one badly. Good job

  • @kubinka879
    @kubinka879 3 месяца назад +2

    Your patience is incredible.

  • @hy78an
    @hy78an 3 месяца назад +4

    why do I find pond jobs so fun to watch?

  • @007ColdFire
    @007ColdFire 3 месяца назад +3

    Soon as I see a pond video from Chris, I stop everything im doing to watch lol

  • @leolarocque-v5v
    @leolarocque-v5v 3 месяца назад +2

    Thanks for the video Chris Like it and your doing work as usuel .

  • @Vickie-Bligh
    @Vickie-Bligh 3 месяца назад +1

    Once again you improve the land you're on. It's looking good, Chris. Can't wait until the next video.

  • @BobCaseyAerial
    @BobCaseyAerial 3 месяца назад +1

    Chris you’re good on the sticks.
    Max every bucket and make it look easy.
    Can’t wait to see the next video.
    Hope you brought the drone

  • @kevinmurray7135
    @kevinmurray7135 3 месяца назад +2

    I agree having that setup with the thumb and grading bucket is very efficient 👍😎🇺🇸 NY

  • @hydraulic-hum
    @hydraulic-hum 3 месяца назад +1

    you did a lot of work, thanks for sharing your long day with us..

  • @FarmLife-f9b
    @FarmLife-f9b 3 месяца назад +1

    Your video has motivated me to try new methods on my farm. Thanks for the inspiration

  • @carolepylant1015
    @carolepylant1015 Месяц назад

    This is the second pond video I've watched. Very interesting to watch and I noticed that you enjoy what you're doing.! Kudos. A fan in Texas

  • @qrptedmac
    @qrptedmac 3 месяца назад +1

    Watching other people use excavators, Chris is like watching an expert. There is a skill to this. Others just don’t have the same skill level.

  • @JuliusCrawley
    @JuliusCrawley 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks let’s Dig have answered my prayers asked last week for this

  • @charleswelch249
    @charleswelch249 3 месяца назад +1

    Back to the good stuff. Chris playing in the mud with the 220.

  • @terryrogers1025
    @terryrogers1025 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for the update, that big pine did not really want to cooperate with you. You made good progress on the day and looks like you moved a lot of material as well. Already looks better, enjoyed watching.

  • @davehenderson47240
    @davehenderson47240 3 месяца назад +171

    Keep messing with those beavers and they are gonna have a wanted poster with you on it at Buccees

  • @randymilligan7077
    @randymilligan7077 3 месяца назад +13

    First view once again. Watching your channel helped me greatly in the rebuild and expansion of my pond recently.

  • @martymclamb5750
    @martymclamb5750 3 месяца назад +1

    Beaver’s are a beast of an animal for sure .

  • @erikcourtney1834
    @erikcourtney1834 3 месяца назад +14

    I miss watching you dredge ponds. A few jobs was real sketchy when you helped John. Sometimes living on the edge with a good challenge makes the job that much better. Although after a while the stress accedes the thrill.

    • @spamlessaccount
      @spamlessaccount 3 месяца назад +3

      Cut my LD18 teeth on a dredging video. 3 years ago!

    • @erikcourtney1834
      @erikcourtney1834 3 месяца назад +2

      @@spamlessaccount I been watching since he ran the long reach on backhoe (iso) controls. I laughed my ass off on that video, I completely understood the aggravation

  • @grilnam9945
    @grilnam9945 3 месяца назад +28

    I hear Tannerite, does a fine job clearing beavers dams and makes for a good watch

    • @brian7327
      @brian7327 3 месяца назад +3

      Yeah it does relocate them fast

    • @bobkohl6779
      @bobkohl6779 3 месяца назад +3

      Not around housing when the pieces fall back to earth

    • @dylan8285
      @dylan8285 3 месяца назад +1

      Problem is there’s a suburb across the pond

    • @crandonborth
      @crandonborth 3 месяца назад +4

      Beavers went outta style in the 90’s…

    • @toadhall1951
      @toadhall1951 3 месяца назад +2

      @@crandonborth Yeah... but they're now making a comeback. Fashion is cyclical, you know.

  • @thisthat7238
    @thisthat7238 3 месяца назад +10

    when you damaged the beaver dam the first time, i was thinking to my self they would have that fixed in 24 hours. they are quick builders.

  • @spencer6764
    @spencer6764 3 месяца назад +1

    Chris that is going to be Awesome no doubt. 👍👍

  • @sylviaprudhomme5417
    @sylviaprudhomme5417 3 месяца назад +1

    Like old times. Familiar mud times. Will look great❤❤

  • @BuckMasterNorm
    @BuckMasterNorm 3 месяца назад +1

    Pond going to look great.

  • @bestlifeblessed
    @bestlifeblessed 3 месяца назад +1

    My favorite videos are the pond videos.🎉

  • @randybourdon2791
    @randybourdon2791 3 месяца назад +3

    I watched an old video of yours yesterday Chris where you transplanted your childhood tree, I hope the tree is doing well!

  • @toddincabo
    @toddincabo 3 месяца назад +1

    👍 Good luck with the upcoming hurricane remnants, Mean Helene, she's a doozy!

  • @michaelholmes562
    @michaelholmes562 3 месяца назад +10

    Your videos are THE BEST

  • @brianmcgill7314
    @brianmcgill7314 3 месяца назад +1

    I see the awe of your bucket has gone, That’s a big bucket Nelson mighty big bucket 😂

  • @markburch7967
    @markburch7967 3 месяца назад +1

    The bucket for the 350 has a unique ware pattern I’ve seen somewhere before🤔😂 Seems to work well on beaver issues 👍

  • @kevinmurray7135
    @kevinmurray7135 3 месяца назад +1

    Well never seen a tree lean that far and not fall till today one big pine tree and stubborn but you will have that from time to time 😎🇺🇸 NY

  • @gragor11
    @gragor11 3 месяца назад +7

    It's always amusing to watch you fold trees Chris.
    Haven't seen you in a dredging video for a long time now, not since you did that one in amongst the houses with the long neck(?). Looking forward to a sticky mucky video soon. I thought you said you had no mats. You taking those logs with you?

  • @r1mein54
    @r1mein54 3 месяца назад +7

    Busy beavers, you just opened that last week. Hope you and Geoff don`t get hit too bad from Hurricane Helena. Landfall tomorrow evening will be about 50 miles west of my location. The Pond Master working again to make a silk purse from a sow`s ear. How many hundreds of cubic yards of 'top soil' have you created clearing and dredging? Digging this mud is not soupy mud like the job with Uncle Jon. Don`t forget a drone video.

  • @JohnHoffman4054
    @JohnHoffman4054 3 месяца назад +1

    Nice foresight about the hurricane

  • @TgWags69
    @TgWags69 3 месяца назад

    When you mentioned the water coming out by that row of houses up at the head section made me think of the time you got into the septic line at the storage unit project. It wouldn't be beneath some contractors to take advantage of an old swamp and run their leach field into it.

  • @clydemartin7941
    @clydemartin7941 3 месяца назад +1

    Good to see you on regular jobs. Great work ethics.

  • @cmdrshanegooseman
    @cmdrshanegooseman 3 месяца назад +7

    been quite some time, since we saw mats being used :)

    • @spamlessaccount
      @spamlessaccount 3 месяца назад

      I was watching video of the pipeline fire in Houston and found the mother lode of mats (look at Google Maps 29.664377, -95.102045) - instantly thought of LD18.

  • @charleslloyd4253
    @charleslloyd4253 3 месяца назад +19

    Major hurricane coming up aimed at the Florida panhandle. You can see winds from 28 to 60 mph. And rain from 2 to 12 inches depending how it acts going through us. It has it reaching you Thursday night to Friday morning. Good luck and stay safe.

  • @ramtuff2007
    @ramtuff2007 3 месяца назад +1

    good pond video

  • @denniscochran3357
    @denniscochran3357 3 месяца назад +7

    I swear, a Beaver can pack 10lbs of shrimp in a 10oz can!

  • @hvy1ton
    @hvy1ton 3 месяца назад

    That's an even more accurate job description when doing custom work. Pulling the head with combine only works well when there's a good spot to hook back up.

  • @TheEggeee2
    @TheEggeee2 3 месяца назад +1

    If houses weren’t so close by I’d say that would be a good spot to have the local scout troop over and teach rifle sills. Beavers done.

  • @mikehillis-q4l
    @mikehillis-q4l 2 месяца назад

    just bought one of your long sleeve shirts trying to help support ya love watching you work and learning some stuff for me on my excavtor as well

  • @WayneFredericks-i6f
    @WayneFredericks-i6f 3 месяца назад +1

    good work

  • @haroldhawkins9370
    @haroldhawkins9370 3 месяца назад +1

    Nice video Chris.

  • @donf3739
    @donf3739 3 месяца назад

    45:54 I was just about to ask if you had an extra thumb circuit after seeing you using the thumb with the grading bucket. Nice feature!

  • @mongosaqqara
    @mongosaqqara 3 месяца назад

    The beaver is back...thank God! 😉😉

  • @kenlee5509
    @kenlee5509 3 месяца назад +4

    🎶 Splish Splash, I was Takin' A Bath, Long about a Saturday night, 🎶

  • @corycourneyea6802
    @corycourneyea6802 3 месяца назад +17

    I was just watching one of your videos from 3 years ago.

    • @steveschritz1823
      @steveschritz1823 3 месяца назад +9

      Ever seen the one where he rescued an excavator buried up to its cab in a mud pit? I think that’s the first one of his I ever watched

    • @johnm840
      @johnm840 3 месяца назад +3

      @@steveschritz1823 Same for me, That was a good one.

    • @timl3605
      @timl3605 3 месяца назад +1

      @@johnm840 Same here!

  • @roseannvolrath2271
    @roseannvolrath2271 3 месяца назад +9

    Good morning my friend love your vidsr❤😊👋👏💐🌟

  • @johnpanzino6656
    @johnpanzino6656 3 месяца назад +1

    Just like the old days, Chris huh Beaverdam’s and you

  • @malcolmyarnold6172
    @malcolmyarnold6172 3 месяца назад

    Good job mate should look good once you have finished I’m sure it will though keep up the good work

  • @Bearsgypsy1
    @Bearsgypsy1 3 месяца назад

    ☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸 diligence sharp eyes & daily walk around finds those wee issues others wouldn’t..this is the mark of the best⚡️ me thinks the beavers are now drawing lines LMAO “ Alice hold my tea I’ll show that whipper snapper who’s pond- oh wait is that a dinosaur?? Did you call your Uncle’s brothers father?? Alice we’re moving…” blessing Chris beavers can be territorial

  • @martineastburn3679
    @martineastburn3679 3 месяца назад

    Maybe Black Gumbo like in the Dallas area. And south - great for Cotton and planting. It can stick like glue. Dry hard. Crazy stuff to build a house on - pier and beam and rock and roll.

  • @matteogomez3678
    @matteogomez3678 3 месяца назад

    Good work with that oversized painful pine🌲

  • @stevenlatham4397
    @stevenlatham4397 3 месяца назад +62

    The people criticizing his machine must not have watched his video where he explains the machine has over 12,000 hours out in the woods. Thats respectable if you ask me.

    • @kenlee5509
      @kenlee5509 3 месяца назад +14

      Stuple are Pepid.

    • @jjMcCartan9686
      @jjMcCartan9686 3 месяца назад +5

      ​@@kenlee5509Universal translator says WTF???

    • @matthewnowell4657
      @matthewnowell4657 3 месяца назад

      People are stupid ​@@jjMcCartan9686

    • @young11984
      @young11984 3 месяца назад +3

      12k hrs its proved itself, no need to pacify the keyboard idiots that dont own one or likely has 12hrs in the woods or excavator

    • @brendanjackson8025
      @brendanjackson8025 3 месяца назад +4

      My old Cat 311C has 15k hours on it. Its all how you maintain them

  • @midcoasttractorservice9182
    @midcoasttractorservice9182 3 месяца назад +1

    The first video of yours i ever watched was of you in a swamp on some mats clearing a beaver dam.

    • @hydraulic-hum
      @hydraulic-hum 3 месяца назад

      with simple man lynyrd skynyrd blasting..

  • @kanenmoffett9539
    @kanenmoffett9539 3 месяца назад

    Awesome operator

  • @bosshogg3548
    @bosshogg3548 3 месяца назад

    Great job 👍🏻 3:13 love the whistle love how you did thumbs up love how you said definitely walking on water now that big pine tree was giving you a fit and I never seen a tree lean like that and not fall down love how you said I’m going to go get the grading bucket and fill it with fuel and that’s nice that he let you stay there 44:37 the way the bucket is tilted it looks like it’s broken

    • @jjMcCartan9686
      @jjMcCartan9686 3 месяца назад

      I love that you love let's dig18 .Kool.😊

    • @bosshogg3548
      @bosshogg3548 3 месяца назад

      @@jjMcCartan9686oh yeah never miss a video

  • @richardwest-q8w
    @richardwest-q8w 3 месяца назад +9

    Robotec needs to advertise "death by a thousand cuts".

    • @BrushCommando
      @BrushCommando 3 месяца назад +3

      I haven’t used it in over a year, it could use a tune up lol

  • @Chocomare
    @Chocomare 3 месяца назад

    Sure hope those fish heeded your gentle warning. LOL

  • @ronaldharmon9891
    @ronaldharmon9891 3 месяца назад

    Let the PARTY BEGIN!🥳🎉

  • @dennis2376
    @dennis2376 3 месяца назад

    Do not back into the pond. :) This going to be one neat transformation. Thank you and have a good week.

  • @BeytekinConstructionMachinery
    @BeytekinConstructionMachinery 3 месяца назад

    Beavers are back in my county too. 😃

  • @troyledbetter6597
    @troyledbetter6597 3 месяца назад

    It’s great to see some pond dredging. I wonder if John’s 250 long reach would have helped?

  • @Huntinghogs
    @Huntinghogs 3 месяца назад

    Hope you get that done before this hurricane gets there.

  • @gregorysmith1107
    @gregorysmith1107 3 месяца назад

    Now that brush attachment would be great to have

  • @kenore4003
    @kenore4003 3 месяца назад

    Nice to have an owner with their own equipment that you can coordinate with and get stuff done. He seems to do the time consuming things and have you do the part of the job that you are going to responsible for warrenty.

    • @kenore4003
      @kenore4003 3 месяца назад +1

      Also are you going to let the owner light off the fire?

  • @kayenicholls5473
    @kayenicholls5473 3 месяца назад +18

    111 good morning everyone I hope you all enjoy your day we have a cold day here in Tasmania ❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @vegasilkit
      @vegasilkit 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes, but you have the loveliest women around to keep your fire stoked!

    • @jjMcCartan9686
      @jjMcCartan9686 3 месяца назад +1

      1am here in ireland & funny enough were getting our first rain in 2 weeks .Autumn has arrived. 😊

    • @kayenicholls5473
      @kayenicholls5473 3 месяца назад +1

      We have a fine day but cold weather in spring 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @richardellis3141
    @richardellis3141 3 месяца назад

    I am ready to play in the mud too.

  • @donprater2754
    @donprater2754 3 месяца назад

    Man Chris” you ae definitely elbow deep😊

  • @maxmacdonald7174
    @maxmacdonald7174 3 месяца назад +1

    I am betting on Chris for the win. But I am sure those beavers will not stop trying to plug the hole up.

    • @ronaldheit196
      @ronaldheit196 3 месяца назад

      Not once he fills in that area with the core of the damn then grades it as the new overflow area.
      It'll be buy buy Beavers forever.

  • @joethanks3745
    @joethanks3745 3 месяца назад

    For a minute I thought you were going to make the beavers really happy

  • @Mtlmshr
    @Mtlmshr 3 месяца назад

    That 350 is a regular push over!😂😜

  • @GARDENER42
    @GARDENER42 3 месяца назад +7

    Once all that silt & organic matter's dried & decomposed there'll be a small mountain of topsoil to cover any bare patches & borrow pits.
    I'll take 30 tons if you can deliver to the UK. 😁

  • @doritleis2773
    @doritleis2773 3 месяца назад

    You work on the 9 Acre Pond. Open the Beaver Lake, that the Water can run down. Clear the Areal from the pull out Trees, how Your make a great Burn Heap. Interesting Video. How You the Beaver Lake Draining. Thanks, gladden my of the Continuation this Works. 💪👍

  • @thomasleonard1846
    @thomasleonard1846 3 месяца назад +1

    LetsDig18!

  • @presley881
    @presley881 3 месяца назад

    Can you imagine what it would be like if the original settlers of that area could be here now and witness those machines doing jobs that took them weeks and months of back breaking work to do, doing it in a few hours.

  • @erikcourtney1834
    @erikcourtney1834 3 месяца назад +6

    Think he needs a couple rollers and new chains, or atleast a few links by the looks of it.

    • @BrushCommando
      @BrushCommando 3 месяца назад +2

      Nah it’s a 14,000 hour farm machine lol

  • @donnamullins2089
    @donnamullins2089 3 месяца назад

    That was a ti ti ti tim tim tim ber finally. I thought It was going to slap back at the 330.
    How big is that beaver dam. Do you relocate the beaver or is it Sayonara??? Great job forming the head section. Thanks Chris good video.

  • @scrappy7571
    @scrappy7571 3 месяца назад

    Them beavers don't know who they are messin' with!!

  • @nickchannel5364
    @nickchannel5364 3 месяца назад +1

    There's a hint of sadness in Chris's voice about working far from home.

  • @davidolson7575
    @davidolson7575 3 месяца назад

    It was just a very industrious beavers

  • @korgjones4844
    @korgjones4844 3 месяца назад

    Hello, I watch your videos. Could you clarify something for me?
    Why in the U.S. do they not work with closed cabins and air conditioning on to
    prevent dust from entering the electronic components of the cabin?
    Thank you very much if you can provide this information.

  • @alive6517
    @alive6517 3 месяца назад

    what would you guess the length of that pine tree you carried out ot be , in any measurement ? As you are correct it is had to gage on camera, Always great to watch and learn, thks.

  • @LouJustlou
    @LouJustlou 3 месяца назад +3

    For generations, the beaver community will talk of the giant yellow beaver that destroyed the families work in one day.

  • @bbrcummins1984
    @bbrcummins1984 3 месяца назад

    Looks like there's halfbacks planted everywhere around there 😮

  • @dirtfarmer7472
    @dirtfarmer7472 3 месяца назад +1

    When you were messing with the big pine, my mother used to say that there’s more than 1 way to kill a cat than chocking it to death with butter.

  • @Brockmarton775
    @Brockmarton775 3 месяца назад +2

    Chris you should let him have a go in the 350 because he won’t to have a go to see what it’s like and if he likes it so he can buy one for a upgrade for his John deer excavator