Its amazing how close that came to blowing out completely! I purchased a property in western NC that had a 1 acre pond, which the dam blew out prior to my acquiring. I did much research on rebuilding it, but your videos were probably the most educational for me. We rebuilt the dam and cannot emphasize the importance of a well built emergency spillway (like you said). Also the monitoring of any pond dam during a heavy rain is crucial. Oh and the NC dept of Environmental Quality take lots of pictures if you dont get a permit. Thanks for the great channel!
I agree I think the repair acted as a sacrificial patch. Of course with even more rain the whole dam would have gone. I feel bad for the neighbor with all those little rocks in his yard that was in the soil.
As many houses around that pond it would be hard to build a spell-way to handle that much water. But I’m really surprised it didn’t wash the ground in front of where you were digging. Amazing how some grass can keep it from washing so well.
Holy batcrap. Let me say you did a great job in that small area. I think if you hadn't done that work, there would be a large hole in that dam...larger than what's there I mean. I could be wrong, but the way that hole was, it looks like that rain would done a number on the remaining segment! Again, holy batcrap!
Just wow! Mother nature is incredibly powerful. Stay safe out there, please. Listening to you accent is amazing. I am from Australia so it is unusual to hear it. Love it.
That almost made me want to cry for you man. Hate when work gets wasted because of things like that. I’m glad you kept a good attitude about it. Lord knows I would have been a salty heifer
Your videos are amazing. You and that machine are truly in sync. You picked the right job. The work you do is not only performed efficiently, but you are a very safe operator!!! Thank you for sharing your adventures!
Everthing that I saw of you work has been very professional & curtious!!! & I been watching along time. I wish you were in South Ga. Around Douglas ,Ga. I need a pond!!!! Martin in South Ga
This is a perfect example of why you should never let anything grow on your dam. Look at all those roots everywhere making channels for the water to go. Great video Chris ! That was a crazy ending, never expected you to come back the next day and say "So...we had about 9'' of rain last night and had water come across the whole dam'' Just crazy.
That's got to be a hard one to tack after all the work you had put into rebuilding dam and overflow pipe and now you got clean up the nabougher's back yard as well, best of luck Chris yet another great video until the last 5/10 minutes.
That rainstorm was from the remnants of Hurricane Laura I believe! 9" is a heck of a storm. _Very lucky you did the work the day before, otherwise looks like the dam would've broke!?_ Very interesting project!
Up here in rural Maine we all have ponds.. one good thing about them, is we get the local FD to install a Pump Fill station, for fire trucks, and our insurance company ( home owners ) gives us a huge discount ( distance to nearest fire station is a insurance liability question they ask up here)- do you all install or use Fire Truck fill stations at the ponds, down there?? They are really simple pipes.
I do not understand owners of a company, any company, who doesn't train or test their employees on what is correct. Do a job right the first time. I get upset with, so called, Landscaping companies, who cut back trees, bushes and plants 🪴 at the wrong season. And folks who made the dam wrong. Customer service? Almost non-existant. Well, RUclips has found some good company owners. Who are worthwhile.
If that much flows over the dam during a major storm, I think a small concrete spillway like a normal dam would be in order. Its only a matter of time before the whole dam is washed out.
Awesome job Chris. Love the little Yanmar. I had a vision of that little machine with the same type of thumb as you have on the 160 and 220. Of course on a smaller scale. As always a awesome job brother. God Bless you and the family.
Another awesome fix by Chris hey Chris shouldn’t the over flow pipe be a little lower in the ground seems like not that much dirt on top of the pipe coming out
Does anyone else hear the soothing music of machinery? This has potential for a relaxing soundscape. Off to tractor supply with my recording equipment tomorrow.
By watching you move the mini and the Volvo up and down hills and slopes I can see what my dad did as he worked the dragline up and down the mountains of Pa when he worked for a strip mining company in central Pa. That piece of machinery was much much bigger than the 220 and must have been tricky getting it from one mountain side to the other. I know he used the bucket both going up and down. Thanks for your videos!!!
Glad to see the equipment survived! That would have been a dam shame.... Lol. That is cool of you eating the cost on that... No one around our area would ever do that... You and your uncle are good people Chriss👍👏
Just discovered this channel my father was an operator, you know the difference between a driver and a operator. He left me with the ability to operate pay loaders{front end loaders}, bobcats, and forklifts. That being said I can see your skill and can only guess the number of years you have been at this.
Glad to see you're not a good ole boy who just starts shoving dirt in on top of all the vegetation and debris and call it binder. Very professional and well thought out, Wow, some gully washer. Those folks need to put in an additional wide concrete spillway to supplement that over flow pipe.
The pond maintenance professionals are on the scene, they have done this before so they know how to do it Right ! And Mother Nature still showed off her power !
I worked for a Flood Control District. One thing nature will teach you is that no matter what you do, nature will always invent a better flood. I've seen water levels rise downstream of our pump station so fast that we could not shut our pumps down fast enough to stay within our required operating parameters. And then watched the water upstream and downstream come out of the banks with the water just going right around our structure and thru it on its own. Our structure didn't run for two days because it took that long for the tailwater to drop. Within a couple years we had a couple more pump stations downstream to move the water. Within a week of the next one down being turned over to us, we exceeded the parameters for the retention pond that it discharged into and overflowed the spillways. Sent millions of gallons of water directly into the Eastern edge of Everglades National Park. We had to keep those 5 pumps running to keep the tailwater level under 6', which was our design limit in our canal. That normally would have given us two feet to the top of the bank from the water level.
No pond dam FAILS after you fixed it. The person who made the pond didn't have the dirt high enough around the pond. Can't wait to see the next video.🙂
I would recommend removing ALL the woody vegetation on the man-made embankment from the inside (waters edge) toe-of-dam, across the top to the outside toe-of-dam. Owner needs to maintain that area in grass and mow it a few times a year to deter groundhogs from borrowing into the embankment.
Wow - That dam wouldn't have survived without the work that washed away. Are you going to ask the client to pay some if not all of the extra material needed?
Curious why there are any trees at all in the dam wall. Here in Australia we're advised to have no trees there, as the roots will penetrate the wall and allow seepage, leading to a failure in the dam/damn wall. Not so in the US?
Did the phone call for this job go something like: ''we think we have a leak on our overflow pipe, could you come and look at it''. That could have got interesting with another rain storm. [Edit] That did get interesting!!! WOW.
Man Chris, that's insane, yea there is nothing you could have done, that's alot of water. The power of water is incredible, man can it do some damage, thanks for sharing Chris, great content as always.
This has all the makings of a job from hell now and a serious disaster soon. The owner needs to prepare that damn to manage flash floods ASAP! Conditions change, what was fine years ago might not be fine today. I know things are not always what we want but it would be nice to Chis convince the owner to do a complete do-over of that thing before somebody gets hurt ( or sued )
Wow - watching this whole thing, thinking you were coming back for the glory shot, only to find it all washed away in a freak flash flood! Geez, I am not sure I would want to live there!
Algae blooms are good for ponds during the summer it keeps everything fed at the bottom of the food chain people actually put like triple 13 fertilizer in bass ponds to start the blooms so there is plenty of food from the bottom of the food chain to the top
I love running minis. My favorite machine to run on the job sites. I really wish I could retire to a large piece of land out in the country with a few tractors of my own. I would be in heaven.
Yanmars are currently one of the favorite minis that are being used these days. And they are very highly rated when compared to other machines. I have never ran a Yanmar but I do like Komatsu, Takeuchi, and a few other brands better than John Deere, Cat, or bobcat.
It’s a real privilege to see to all your work and how you do stuff Chris.
It was gutting to see all that good work undone!
Its amazing how close that came to blowing out completely! I purchased a property in western NC that had a 1 acre pond, which the dam blew out prior to my acquiring. I did much research on rebuilding it, but your videos were probably the most educational for me. We rebuilt the dam and cannot emphasize the importance of a well built emergency spillway (like you said). Also the monitoring of any pond dam during a heavy rain is crucial. Oh and the NC dept of Environmental Quality take lots of pictures if you dont get a permit. Thanks for the great channel!
Chris....great job ! I’m always amazed at how talented you are with that big equipment; you’re like a surgeon....Thank you for your videos.
Ive been watching for probably 2-3months. This is my new favorite channel. One thing I’ve learned, ponds are expensive!!
I love your pond videos. That was a tremendous amount of water overtopping that dam!
That was a freakish amount of rain evident in the debris, but I believe the dam would have failed without the work you had done.
Flannel I’m with you! I believe if Chris hadn’t of had most of the repair done that dam would have failed!
I agree I think the repair acted as a sacrificial patch. Of course with even more rain the whole dam would have gone. I feel bad for the neighbor with all those little rocks in his yard that was in the soil.
i agree.
Completely agree
Man this is my kinda luck.The neighbors probably going to take legal action at some point against the owners of this pond.
Hats off to you for your attitude and taking that setback in stride and so well. It's a testament to your character.
As many houses around that pond it would be hard to build a spell-way to handle that much water. But I’m really surprised it didn’t wash the ground in front of where you were digging. Amazing how some grass can keep it from washing so well.
Glad to see a good fluent skid steer operator on youtube this is 1 of every few channels i enjoy watching 👍
facinated by watching the machine pick up large objects and i dont know why but its satisfying to watch.
That's tight working next to that pine tree, I'm surprised you didn't remove it, especially with so many exposed roots.
@drop stix August of 2021 will finish it off.
It looked tipped over after the flood
@@austinbeimers4440 think we'd all look a bit tipped over in a flood if our soon of our foot had just been cut off
Hello from Conway, Arkansas. Always love watching your You Tube channel old and new!!! Be safe!!
Holy batcrap. Let me say you did a great job in that small area. I think if you hadn't done that work, there would be a large hole in that dam...larger than what's there I mean. I could be wrong, but the way that hole was, it looks like that rain would done a number on the remaining segment! Again, holy batcrap!
Just wow!
Mother nature is incredibly powerful.
Stay safe out there, please.
Listening to you accent is amazing.
I am from Australia so it is unusual to hear it.
Love it.
Putting a lot of dirt into perspective to. Great video. Sorry for all your hard work washed away.
That almost made me want to cry for you man. Hate when work gets wasted because of things like that. I’m glad you kept a good attitude about it. Lord knows I would have been a salty heifer
Watching you with that machine is like watching an artist with a paint brush...amazing
Your videos are amazing. You and that machine are truly in sync. You picked the right job. The work you do is not only performed efficiently, but you are a very safe operator!!! Thank you for sharing your adventures!
you can tell this guy LOVES what he does for a living .... refreshing to see people enjoying "work"
Wow!
Damn!
I mean dam!
Thanks for taking us along.
Once again Chris is here to save the day, awesome job sir. I have noticed that I haven’t seen Tim for a while. Where’s he been
Glad to see that none of your equipment was lost!
You sure do earn your money. I love seeing how well you complete each job. You are the gold standard for your industry. Well done young man. 👍
Everthing that I saw of you work has been very professional & curtious!!! & I been watching along time. I wish you were in South Ga. Around Douglas ,Ga. I need a pond!!!! Martin in South Ga
This is a perfect example of why you should never let anything grow on your dam. Look at all those roots everywhere making channels for the water to go. Great video Chris !
That was a crazy ending, never expected you to come back the next day and say "So...we had about 9'' of rain last night and had water come across the whole dam'' Just crazy.
Wow the way he’s operating the machine is incredible, it’s like an extension of his body.
Sorry to see all that hard work washed away Chris look forward to seeing you reworking this project when it dries out some 👍👍
That little tree had a better root system than half of the big trees you knock over.
That's got to be a hard one to tack after all the work you had put into rebuilding dam and overflow pipe and now you got clean up the nabougher's back yard as well, best of luck Chris yet another great video until the last 5/10 minutes.
Good thing you had the pond siphoned down before the rain came.
When you came back to the site I said “Oh No!” so loud I scared my cat. Tough one, but glad you’re making it right even though it’s nobody’s fault.
That rainstorm was from the remnants of Hurricane Laura I believe!
9" is a heck of a storm.
_Very lucky you did the work the day before, otherwise looks like the dam would've broke!?_
Very interesting project!
Looks like they're lucky the dam didn't bust. That must have been one hell of a storm.
Might thoughts exactly. Looking at what remains all I can think is they were so close to disaster.
You are an awesome operator, and you always do clean work,, you have a class (A) personality meaning you’re a “worker”...!!!
Up here in rural Maine we all have ponds.. one good thing about them, is we get the local FD to install a Pump Fill station, for fire trucks, and our insurance company ( home owners ) gives us a huge discount ( distance to nearest fire station is a insurance liability question they ask up here)- do you all install or use Fire Truck fill stations at the ponds, down there?? They are really simple pipes.
time to talk them into an appropriately sized emergency spillway
After that much rain and the result, it may not take much talking.
Just do spill way
Yes, without a spillway, the dam will always overtop. Dams are not designed to be overtopped during any storm event.
That is what he wants to do
I do not understand owners of a company, any company, who doesn't train or test their employees on what is correct. Do a job right the first time.
I get upset with, so called,
Landscaping companies, who cut back trees, bushes and plants 🪴 at the wrong season. And folks who made the dam wrong. Customer service? Almost non-existant.
Well, RUclips has found some good company owners. Who are worthwhile.
I always feel like I did a day's work when I'm done watching one of yours. Interesting camera angles on this one and good editing, never got bored.
I love how he takes a mess and makes it beautiful He's The best !
If that much flows over the dam during a major storm, I think a small concrete spillway like a normal dam would be in order. Its only a matter of time before the whole dam is washed out.
You are one with the machine. Such smooth operation.
Awesome job Chris. Love the little Yanmar. I had a vision of that little machine with the same type of thumb as you have on the 160 and 220. Of course on a smaller scale. As always a awesome job brother. God Bless you and the family.
I just knew either the pine tree was going to fall over or you were going to fall of the edge when dumping the dirt!! It was nail-bitter episode! 🤪
Well it’s good that the dam didn’t burst
my braincells burst when i watched this haha
Another awesome fix by Chris hey Chris shouldn’t the over flow pipe be a little lower in the ground seems like not that much dirt on top of the pipe coming out
Does anyone else hear the soothing music of machinery? This has potential for a relaxing soundscape. Off to tractor supply with my recording equipment tomorrow.
WOW! That was insane! You're doing great man. Keep up the great work Chris!
He uses a big machine as a little machine and a little machine as a big machine. True operator
Chris you are my favorite english Teatcher 😄 i start understand little What you say but not easy you speak speed. Hi From 🇫🇷🇫🇷
teacher its okay you can learn more
TAN GUAN XU 2020 it’s not easy but i try ! ;)
By watching you move the mini and the Volvo up and down hills and slopes I can see what my dad did as he worked the dragline up and down the mountains of Pa when he worked for a strip mining company in central Pa. That piece of machinery was much much bigger than the 220 and must have been tricky getting it from one mountain side to the other. I know he used the bucket both going up and down. Thanks for your videos!!!
That just stinks😩 but yet you’re so calm👍🏻 I was Sick seeing all ripped apart again.
Glad to see the equipment survived! That would have been a dam shame.... Lol. That is cool of you eating the cost on that... No one around our area would ever do that... You and your uncle are good people Chriss👍👏
water is a very powerful thing it s amazing the dam is still there good luck with it chris
I'm so sorry for you and all the effort you put in to see it destroyed 😔
Just discovered this channel my father was an operator, you know the difference between a driver and a operator. He left me with the ability to operate pay loaders{front end loaders}, bobcats, and forklifts. That being said I can see your skill and can only guess the number of years you have been at this.
Glad to see you're not a good ole boy who just starts shoving dirt in on top of all the vegetation and debris and call it binder. Very professional and well thought out,
Wow, some gully washer. Those folks need to put in an additional wide concrete spillway to supplement that over flow pipe.
9/11/20
Brother from what I seen in this vid, you met calamity with Grace and senerenty. God bless you.
Man you lucky your equipment didn't get destroyed be careful out with that pond do not let your guard down. Take care stay safe god bless
The pond maintenance professionals are on the scene, they have done this before so they know how to do it Right ! And Mother Nature still showed off her power !
Yeah mother nature can be a real bitch at times. 😀
Yep , unpredictable and unexpected
HOLY Muddy Mess ! I guess it still is 2020. He's lucky he still has any pond left. sdh in CT
Love watching your videos, very therapeutic, wish I had done this line of work, your skills are many...carry on the good work....
I worked for a Flood Control District. One thing nature will teach you is that no matter what you do, nature will always invent a better flood. I've seen water levels rise downstream of our pump station so fast that we could not shut our pumps down fast enough to stay within our required operating parameters. And then watched the water upstream and downstream come out of the banks with the water just going right around our structure and thru it on its own. Our structure didn't run for two days because it took that long for the tailwater to drop. Within a couple years we had a couple more pump stations downstream to move the water. Within a week of the next one down being turned over to us, we exceeded the parameters for the retention pond that it discharged into and overflowed the spillways. Sent millions of gallons of water directly into the Eastern edge of Everglades National Park. We had to keep those 5 pumps running to keep the tailwater level under 6', which was our design limit in our canal. That normally would have given us two feet to the top of the bank from the water level.
No pond dam FAILS after you fixed it. The person who made the pond didn't have the dirt high enough around the pond. Can't wait to see the next video.🙂
Wow. I really enjoyed watching you do that job. Sorry it worked out with the rain the way it did.
I would recommend removing ALL the woody vegetation on the man-made embankment from the inside (waters edge) toe-of-dam, across the top to the outside toe-of-dam. Owner needs to maintain that area in grass and mow it a few times a year to deter groundhogs from borrowing into the embankment.
You are a good guy I am glad your equipment is OK
A good operator, no wasted movements.
At least your machines got a good bath!😄
You doing really very nice work. Keep it up.
Wow - That dam wouldn't have survived without the work that washed away. Are you going to ask the client to pay some if not all of the extra material needed?
Curious why there are any trees at all in the dam wall. Here in Australia we're advised to have no trees there, as the roots will penetrate the wall and allow seepage, leading to a failure in the dam/damn wall. Not so in the US?
I will never again complain about the rain we get in this country, that is ridiculous.
That was a royal mess. The homeowner should budget to widen and raise the dam with a proper overflow riser. "You'll be back"
Did the phone call for this job go something like: ''we think we have a leak on our overflow pipe, could you come and look at it''.
That could have got interesting with another rain storm.
[Edit] That did get interesting!!! WOW.
At least the algae is gone now.
the algae is damn gae
bright side of life.
Man Chris, that's insane, yea there is nothing you could have done, that's alot of water. The power of water is incredible, man can it do some damage, thanks for sharing Chris, great content as always.
Wow the power of WATER!!! 👍 AWESOME VIDEO
Always takes a pro to fix a cowboys mess & great skills
Between you and DirtPerfect, this is “Failing dam week” on RUclips.
your blade must be sharp you cut through that pipe real quick lol 🤣😂😅 nice led back up lights on the skid steer
That’s unreal! Was going too smooth
12:40 Nice how you use the momentum of the little digger to launch the dirt down the hill.
Holy cow - I guess you guy's got some rain!
This has all the makings of a job from hell now and a serious disaster soon. The owner needs to prepare that damn to manage flash floods ASAP! Conditions change, what was fine years ago might not be fine today. I know things are not always what we want but it would be nice to Chis convince the owner to do a complete do-over of that thing before somebody gets hurt ( or sued )
dam...
Wow - watching this whole thing, thinking you were coming back for the glory shot, only to find it all washed away in a freak flash flood! Geez, I am not sure I would want to live there!
The left track on the skid steer looks like it needs some tension
They rain that we have had to deal with is UNBELIEVABLE!......
Looks like your packing job below the pipe held up pretty nicely.
It's just amazing what a water will do nothing you can do about it.👍😀☔🍁
Luck that the whole dam didn’t fail! Geeze!!!
Algae blooms are good for ponds during the summer it keeps everything fed at the bottom of the food chain people actually put like triple 13 fertilizer in bass ponds to start the blooms so there is plenty of food from the bottom of the food chain to the top
Always a fun day when the mini is involved!
I love running minis. My favorite machine to run on the job sites.
I really wish I could retire to a large piece of land out in the country with a few tractors of my own.
I would be in heaven.
Yanmars are currently one of the favorite minis that are being used these days. And they are very highly rated when compared to other machines. I have never ran a Yanmar but I do like Komatsu, Takeuchi, and a few other brands better than John Deere, Cat, or bobcat.
Dang, now that's my luck right there! I can't wait to see the rest of the video.
I like the view from above the cab, and not just because your excavator sounds like a cylon from that angle.
I’m wondering how many more calls Chris will get this week from people needing their dams fixed after that storm?
An artist at work!
Loving your video bro can't believe how good u are on that Escalator u make it look well easy keep up the good work brother 🇬🇧🤜🤛
Big Yikes!! I/m glad the whole lot didn't just give way!!
I think you need a LD18 Mini thumb!!
That is crazy right there, the one job you didn’t need rain on.
GOOD LORD!! What a mess!! Starting at 0:49 and then going forward. That huge washed out hole with so much Junk, , Junk inside the hole!!!