Dam breach explanation on why it happened
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2022
- In this video I explain why the large pond dam broke and why it wasn't fixed. It's a long video but I explain what happened to the money I had saved for repairs and the issue on rental equipment.
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The armchair engineers don't understand the power of water. Even high quality dams have failures from time to time. At least this gives you a chance to make it better for the future.
Will definitely be better than before or I hope it will be. Thanks for the view
There's usually a weak spot in a dam, and you can never beat Mother Nature. If she pushes hard enough, she will break anything we can build.
Hell don’t listen to people out here tell you what you should do. It is your money and your family’s land so do what you think is best. If people think you should do something else, let them put up the money. Thank you for taking the time to show us this issue.
Thanks!! It’s done been fixed now. It’s currently starting to fill up right now as it rains all night here. I’m in this job over $8,300 so far and not done yet.
Do what you can with what you've got. Everyone has to make choices, you made yours, so don't feel bad. I'll bet most of the people that send you derogatory stuff don't have a clue. They're the people that think comes from stores not cows.. Chris from Let's dig started small, now he has a sizable company. Contact him for ideas of what to do. He started by buying used equipment from auctions on the east coast. Expand as you need to, a skid loader, a truck, a small excavator, etc. Go as you can. Forget the naysayers, you're doing fine.
I have family in SW Idaho farming country. The one thing my cousins were taught--FIRST take care of the land. Everything else will fall into place. The land comes FIRST--ALWAYS. Sounds like you are doing exactly what my cousins would be doing.
Right! I can always fix that pond but the land may not always be for sale.
Hey it's all yours, you don't have to explain anything, you can do what you want. Thanks for the uploads at least we got to see it happening too. I'm really interested to see it get built back better. Good luck regards from the UK 🇬🇧
I appreciate that! It's the wet season here right now so it's on hold right now.
I agree with Kenny comment. Please keep the videos coming on the repair of the pond. I commend you on all your hard work.
Thanks for commenting and watching. Not much going on right now because of the weather.
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You don’t owe anyone an explanation of why things are or how much $ you spend on land and other things. Some people on this internet sit behind their keyboards telling other people what they think they did wrong blah blah blah. Just keep doing what you’re doing and a lot of us enjoy watching your videos and can’t wait to see all the good things you’ll do.
This was super cool to watch. There is definitely nothing you could have done to stop the power of that amount of water. It would be super interesting to see the effects below the dam. But well done on how you are handling the situation. My hat goes off to you.
I just came upon this series of videos!! There was absolutely nothing you could have done to prevent this. Tarps and plywood? Give me a break. I heard your voice in the the dam breaking video and man....i feel for you! Hope everything works out.
Thanks for watching and understanding the situation!
Can wait to see it fixed. You got this.
Hope so! Thanks for watching
With the oncoming water and all the rain plus the critters it didn't have a chance. The best thing is what happened so now you can repair it the correct way. Thanks!
It’s in the works to make it better but it will take some time. Thanks for the view.
Don’t let the haters get you down. You got this. Thanks for sharing the video.
I appreciate that
I Don’t understand why people have to make negative comments! They are not there so they can’t see everything going on! Thanks for explaining it to everyone!
Thanks for the view. Yeah they don’t see what’s going on over here
I love how people saw one video and just made all kinds of assumptions. I like the explanation just because I'm curious. So thank you.
Glad you liked it!
I like your work man keep up the work. There’s nothing you could do about that damn dam at the time. I like that you’re buying the land around you as well. I’m going to try to do that in the future where ever I decide to call home
Yeah I’m done buying land until I get mine paid off. That pond has been fixed also! It’s holding water as of today!
People seem to think that dealing with a bathtub sized pool of water is the same as dealing with a large pond. once that water found A way without some serious equipment especially when it looks like the pond was already overflowing there was no stopping it. This even happens with extremely well built industrial sized dams. Just look at the oroville dam failure. That was a colossal failure that just started as a small crack in the spillway.
Water sure puts a ton of pressure on things. This pond is over 1.5 acres. It doesn’t look it but I measured it out.
Hey don't worry about people's disagreeing about what you do but I'm dealing with the same thing with my 0ond and I'm running my land the way I run it but keep up the good work cause it's your land only and I understand your trying your best. It's not cheap to do this kind of work but you will get it done soon
oh my God! you said it was build 30 years ago - so I thought 1970s. then you said "grandpa built it in 1992." and I about died! (i was born in 1982.)
Time goes by quick
You did the right thing buying the land vs a pond damn fix. Not like the failure totally drained the pond. You must get a heck of a surge during heavy rains. I've got a 18 acre lake and only have a vertical concrete box structure spillway with a 30" concrete outlet pipe under dam. Highest I've ever seen it rise is 2 ft and was back to normal within a day or so.
Wow that’s a big water hole you have. It’s going to take me some time to get done but I’ll get it. Everything is just so high right now also. Thanks for the view.
Sorry about your pond man. All the internet geniuses have no clue. Wouldn’t have mattered what you done with rising water and it breaching the dam besides film it like you did. Mother Nature, people you can’t stop her…
Thanks for watching. Water will carve out mountainsides. It’s so powerful
Where that pond is. My dad your papaw (not the one who built the pond) taught me and my sisters how to drive when we were little. Use to be a flat wooded area
People don't understand the power of water. This was inevitable.
Water will carve out the mountains!
Look at what repeated floods from Montana's Lake Missoula did to eastern Washington, all the rivers and Oregon's Willamette Valley. Water can be scary.
It's a year too late, but I would say get letsdig18 in - he's the pond dam man.
Having watched the breach video, I'm really glad to see the cut didn't take out more of the dam wall. I was worried you'd lose the whole thing.
The power of water and nature is more than a bunch of armchair scientists. Great job Mr. 😊
Thanks for watching
It’s your property, you can do what you want with it, you did say there wasn’t any one down stream, but I like your idea on what you want to with the spillway, and you want to dig out some of where the runoff went. It’s going to be big and beautiful. Good luck.
almost 3 million on last video 👍👍
I definitely feel your struggle! I’m at 85 acres. 2 ponds & 1 lake. My lake needs a new culvert. No dozer. A single female. What was I thinking?
Wow sounds like a big job. I have an old dozer here .It works really well for it's age.
Any one that lived through the Great Depression, still use what every the cheapest way to do anything. That’s still true today, my mother-in-law is 91 now. She still keeps anything and everything. The biggest mistake was probably the six pipeline. Still good time to do your new overflow and the dragging, and cleaning out the back end of the head way of the pond.
One day it will be fix and you have friends to help when you go to fix it
What happened to the water pump you had right next to the dam?
Nothing
Pretty decent dam if it held for 30 years.
Sandbags usualy buys you some time before you have to fix it.
Yes it did. Would have lasted longer if the muskrats stayed out. It’s been fixed for 2 weeks now though. Waiting on the rain to fill it up. Needs to come up about 8 foot.
Hey Brother...You did good
Thank you. I have it fixed right now also. That video is 1 hour and 9 minutes long. Will probably be up this evening
Don't let the bastards get you down. Sounds to me like you have it together. I always find it interesting how folks think they know what you ought to do with your money.
I got it all fixed now. The amount of money put out was high. Not everyone has $10,000 laying around they can just throw at a project.
Sound decision. Get the land. You need to drain back the pond to do a proper repair anyway.
It will be pumped down lower in the dry time of the year.
Hang in there. People will complain whether you do it or not. Thank you for sharing. I enjoy watching these videos. Not even men understand the power of water.
To bad that happened. Well, seems like you have a decent job so eventually things will get back to good. You bought all that extra land and that’s yours for as long as you want it. They aren’t making anymore of it and definitely not adjacent to what you already owned. You are still a young guy and I’m pretty sure lots of guys would like to have your problem. Some day you will be sitting in your rocking chair smiling.
Smart young dude. Bought land instead of toys.
Absolutely! I got the land and the pond has been fixed. Thanks for watching!!
@@Paw95great man. you are my age and i wish i spent my money on land instead of dumb toys. the toys all broke and were sold for nothing, i would trade it all for 50 acres right now. let alone what i could have bought 10 years ago. you live; you learn
Big views bring out all the know it alls and all the negative comments. You've done the best you could with time and circumstances. Thanks for sharing with us. I'm pulling for ya my friend. FYI we got a small 925 tie inserter in here last week. 30 minutes drive to get it here. Trucking was $1000. !!! One way!!! I'll come out and help you hog some dirt 😊👍 muskrats kill ponds, ask me how i know....
Thanks for watching Dave! I can't please everyone lol. Them muskrats sure do make things hard on a pond dam for sure. A shipping bill like that scares me lol
The people don't understand water is the most destructive force on earth.
because of the muskrats I am sure the dam is honeycombed and will need to be widened to prevent other future dam failure after it is repaired.
I know one farmer in Iowa had his pond dam break 3 times because of muskrats tunnels in the dam.
The last time he repaired it, he lined the dam with chain link fencing and buried it with 3 feet of clay and added a layer of rock on the dam, and this was almost 30 years ago, and the dam has never broken since.
It is not your fault it broke, it is because of the rodents that are next to impossible to control.
I watch Dirt perfect videos and re repairs many dames that are muskrat damaged in Indiana. One thing he does is installs a new core. and packs it with a vibration rollerpacker.
In your line of work we know that you know what you are doing, and you will fix it right.
I’ve heard of using the chain link fence before. People kept telling me in the comments I could have stopped it with a shovel and sand bags. I laughed because that would have been a waste of time. It was undermining 6-7 foot foot because of muskrat tunnels. But I got all that under control and pond has been fixed.
@@Paw95 when a dam is over topped and muskrats have undermined it with honeycomb of tunnels, there was nothing you could have done to save it, short of recoring the dam.L
Muskrats and beaver tunnels can turn a dam into Swiss cheese.
People who say using sand bags and other things to save the dam, have not paid attention to the levy failures the army corps have tried to stop with sandbags on the Mississippi River, it may slow the failure, but the levy still breaches.
The only thing the buried chain link fence does is stops the muskrats from tunnelling through the dam and nothing more. When I was a teen caught over 100 muskrats out of his pond over a 3 year period, and they had plenty of food source and reproduce like crazy. The field corn and soybeans was an abundant food supply for them near the pond and the reproduced quickly.
Muskrats pelts was only worth $3 each and most trappers don’t bother with them in the last 1970’s, and now the muskrat pelts there is no market, so the destroy pond dams unchecked. The buried fencing only stops them from tunnelling. PETA killed the market for the pelts and now muskrats do unchecked damage on pond dams.
For the army corp their answer to the problem is to line the levies with million of dollars of rip rap, and even the levies still breach, the rodents still find a way to tunnel through them.
Every time I watch dirt perfect repair a dam because it is leaking, the main cause is muskrats and beavers, it seems.
The dam being over topped in the middle and with standing the years of overtopping goes to the quality of work of your grandfather who built a solid dam, but muskrats can destroy the best built dam.
Your repair is good and will stand up to the test of time, and I am sure your son or daughter in the future will still be fight muskrats, and fixing their damage.
What's the pond for?
Fishing and wildlife
You Sir, didn't have to explain anything to anyone.Some folks need to watch a youtube video explaining hydrodynamics and erosion before commenting on hydrodynamics and erosion. ( And my wife and I are jealous you have so much land ! We dream of 2 acres here, but aren't millionaires lol )
I’m trying to buy all the land I can. I’m some parts of Ohio I hear it’s now over $10,000 per acre of just bare land!!
Dude, you still have a beautiful piece of property there. I thought the would have been completely drained. But it isn't. Wish you the best, I'm sure you'll succeed. You could make a disc golf course perhaps. Offset some of the cost.
Did the state gov't give you any hassle? If the rental is a $1K a day, how much would it cost to hire a contractor to come in and spend a couple days moving and packing your dirt?
A lot more expensive for a contractor and again all booked up wasn’t doing anymore jobs.
I fixed it over the summer
@@Paw95 Thanks! After I asked the question, I realized you have another vid about the repair, soon to be watched.
@@shopshop144 still holding water and much bigger and deeper! Thanks for watching
🧂🧂there is always a fan in the stands that can do it better, but you will never get them to lay the hot dog down and show ya.
Need to invite LetsDig to come down and take a look. Could be fun and insightful. :-)
I’d be up for that!
All i know is water weighs little over 8 pounds a gallon....its powerful stuff...but people can lurn from it tho good luck👍👍👍👍
It sure doesn't take much water to move stuff!!
Thought trees there next to your new 36” pipes. Be good idea to take out. You every get a chance, check out Letsdig18. Chris is a RUclipsr that dose a but load of ponds. Check him out. Your doing fine, it just gives you the time to do it the way You want to.
i wana see a rebuild video!
You should have Letsdig18 from North Carolina. Invite Chris to come fix it. I'm sure he'd love a road trip
I’d let him do it. He has the equipment and I don’t yet.
If you could of done something i am sure you would. The nay sayer's probably don't know what it takes to maintain land. We have a beaver problem which is killing 20 acres of tree farm but the dam is on someone elses property and they don't care.Our DNR is no help. Thanks for sharing your storey all will fine Brother
I got a call from my cousin 2 days ago while I was at work. He said he saw another beaver!! I’m like this is all I need now. I just fixed this pond and have $10,000 into it. We looked and saw signs of it. I went and got some traps today. That thing needs to go!!
Did you try and ask the water to just stop? you never know could have helped. I figured if other people were throwing out dumb ideas i would put in my own, but honestly there was nothing you could have done and it just gives you a chance to build it back better this time.
Water listens to me like a woman lol it doesn’t care what I say.
@@Paw95 LMAOOOO
There was no stopping that.
You could not have saved it. Water is a powerful thing.All you could do sit back and watch. best of luck fixing it.
Yeah it’s very strong. Thanks for the view.
Man there is a hole lot of people that don't mind admitting on here that they are just perfect....they must get up every day an piss perfectness....👍👍👍
Water. Is massive force. Folks dont understand. Water can move mountains if ya let it
I got it fixed as of last Sunday. Calling for rain tomorrow here also.
I guess our county metro parks are "cheap" and irresponsible. They have lost three earthen dams in our area of N.E. Ohio over the past 15 years. Water will always win.
Heck yeah, no brainer there. Buy that land screw with the pond later.. now you keep the crazy neighbors a long way away. And hunt more space.. bet that dude sobered up real quik when he flipped that truck. 🤣
Yeah I love land lol yeah he was laughing when he was in the water after it flipped lol man it was covered in so much mud lol
You don't need to explain yourself to anyone! Let them complain. Your private business should be private, and you shouldn't feel like you need to explain anything to anyone outside of your immediate family. Good luck to you.
In my opinion, if I were you, don't pay any attention to the "ameteur experts" whose opinion or inexperienced advice hold no water. (LOL!)
Yeah I don’t really pay attention to them lol. Thanks for watching!
I could have swore this guy was a card carrying AARP member. Shocked to find out he's not yet 30
Mother Nature will always reclaim what is rightfully hers, if she wants water to flow a certain way, she will make it flow. When you can buy land, you buy land. There isn't any more land being made.
One of the most powerful elements of nature is water. People love to comment on things they know nothing about.
Hello
I thought I clicked on this to hear more info about the dam breach. But I got to hear one of the best RUclips clap backs I’ve heard! Funny how people in RUclips comments can tell you what you “should” have done! 😂😂😂
I guess because they know about every situation everyone is in! Lol I would say “you shouldn’t have worried about them” but I’m glad you did this time, so I could hear this! Also I bet everyone with there “ideas” doesn’t have a dime to do half the projects they say YOU should do.
Then, I bet their mattress is on the floor.
Sorry about the long comment, just had a lot I wanted to tell ya. Keep up the good work! 💪🏻 you should be proud of where you are, definitely with how old you are.
Thanks for writing in!! I actually have this all fixed up now also!!!
Bring back the beavers. I bet they'll work seven days a week to get it fixed up.
Maybe letsdig18 could help with that.. He knows how to repair broken pond dams!
I know how to do it also it’s just I don’t have the equipment to do it with and it’s very hard to even rent it in my area right now.
Mate you don’t have to justify where you put your $! The dam failed coz of all the bloody water! It’s heavy! Plus critters? Do your best my friend and DONT feel like you have to answer your critics. They are probably couch potatoes ❣️
Did you say six or seven foot deep? So count the shallows... maybe an average of 4 ft pond depth we Could say.... and the pond is and acre roughly you said? 4 acre feet... Is something like 300,000 gallons. I think.
I tell you what- the fact that there's people out there who would want to do anything other than have a good time here... people who would instead be rude to a total stranger... well it's just absurd. cowardly as well.
I can't imagine doing anything other than smiling on you man.
Peace.
Thanks for the comment and watching!
Sound just like Donnie Baker swear to God
Angel skinners!
looks like good deer hunting land sell some deer hunts you can make thousands quick.
That’s a big thing around here right now. That’s what’s driving the land price up. We get guys from all over the east coast states down here for hunting trips. Every year we get the same group of guys from Maine here. I’ve saw lots from New York, Vermont, Maryland also. Why I got the land instead of fixing the pond for now.
those people talkingg about stopping it with dirt lol and sticks ...so much jokes.. they would've been washed downstream and never found. id like to say too your grand dad did I great job with those single layer pipe holding all that water and weight.
Mate most of the people bitching have at most watched someone like dirt perfect or lets dig which make them a youtube expert, the rest are people with nothing better to do speak shit with 1 or 2 people that know what they are talking about hopefully.
So just disregard first 2 kinds of people and talk to the 1 or 2 that know what they are on about.
Yeah them big RUclips dirt diggers have done it way longer than me and they have big money coming in from RUclips. I do not get much from it at all. If I was I’d be buying all that nice equipment like they do.
@@Paw95 Not me I'd be buying back some land I had to sell a few years ago, hated doing it but at the end of a 10 year drought left me on the edge of going under so I sold, but I got to keep the rest of the farm.
Dont worry about ignorant people. 95% have never stood foot on a spillway. Enjoy your pah's investment. You cant beat land! I bet you got some big whitetails up there! I envy you for having a big deer haven in ohio!
Darn, what an amount of damage. As you can't fix the pond, the next two or three years. Find a way to stabilize it for the time to come. Play it smart n' built in a water power station. One small of 0.75 K/Watt running 120+ days make you self-sufficient. Six foot of elevation give plenty of water-flow. Think in long run.
The thing is that this stream that runs through this pond really never has enough water moving in it to turn a turbine. Just during periods of rain like this. Most of the time it’s dry or just a small trickle.
folks watch one video and suddenly they're experts.
My son's a photographer, same age as you and the amount of people who argue black's white after only picking up a camera a month ago, when he's been at it since he was 16.
They don’t understand that I had all this other stuff going on. If I was rich it would have been done.
I would have put erosion rocks around the pipe then dirt
That doesn’t stop it from undermining
@@Paw95 ah that sucks hey can you make a playlist with all the dam videos in one group I have a hard time trying to figure out what order there in
@@XMayhemX I can put one together here soon. Last one I put up is the completed dam project.
@@Paw95 thank you kind sir
We’re the gap is in the dam you could do with putting a sluice gate there concrete it in place then you can control the water levels
Yeah but my lord the price was so high. I’m already $10,000 into the finished product. One day though.
Use your dozer to pack it.
phokit walk away.
That was a great way to dumb it down for the dumb ones that just don't get it, and have lived in a city their whole life and never actually done any real work.
You are probably right!!!
Do not read comments. Most all comments are arm chair quarterbacks. I heard your heart break during that dam break.
It’s all ok now. It’s been fixed and holding water now. Thanks for watching.
Buying land is a very wise investment.
Absolutely! It’s getting harder to get around here with prices going up
As of Jan. 2024 it’s up to 2.4 million views.
Gets like 150-200 views in a 60 minute period
People with no lives worry about others lives....
Korn, "Hater"....
You can't bring me down
Already had my life turned upside down
I ride a downward spiral 'round and 'round
But I keep flying, I keep fighting
You won't ever bring me down
I'm good, I'm fine, this life divine
No hate, no shame, no one to blame
You might disguise, your life with lies
I won't chastise
Even if you think you can bring me down
Already had my life turned upside down
I ride a downward spiral 'round and 'round
But I keep trying, I keep fighting
You won't ever bring me down, down, down, down, down
(You won't ever bring me) down, down, down, down, down
(You won't ever bring me)
I can't escape from your disdain
Your hurt, your pain, your drama is lame
Why can't you find some peace inside
I won't chastise
Your having a laugh this is one days work with a bucket and shovel
Yeah a 300 yard bucket and a big excavator.
You should not make these videos if you get upset with the comments. Armchair experts are everywhere. You do like the sound of your own voice.
No I don’t really like my voice
The title of this video is “Dam breach explanation on why it happened”. How did you think that was going to go? Did you think he was going to use sign language? The title kind of hinted that he’d be talking a lot. That’s very common with explanations, you know, people using their voice to explain? Maybe look out for subtle hints like that. 🤦♀️
It’s true you don’t know what you’re doing.
I know what I’m doing. Pretty sure you don’t know what’s going on either.
I wouldn't worry about the armchair quarterbacks. You did what you could.
Just get rid of the rest of the piping . Thats the downfall
It’s all gone. Been fixed and holding water since June of last year.
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We have a cold front moving into Ohio soon. Better stay warm over there and keep the beer close hahah
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