@@WindellaFarm do you have artesian wells like over 100m under ground? We dig them here in Serbia about 10-20m usually and there's water but if there's none at that level then we dig them very deep and there's always water...
What a great addition to the farm. Add a few fish to eat mosquitos (perch?) plant some water plants around the edges, get your grass growing and bring in a load of sand for a beach! It will be an oasis 😊 Then go shopping for some native trees that are a fair size, and plant them where you really would like to have shade. Then build out your forest from that start. A ring of 100' of canopy trees, understory trees and shrubs maybe even some fruit trees should do the job. Where ever your prevailing winds come from - make your planting dense so it acts as a windbreak to reduce evaporation. ♥
This is brilliant. Can't imagine having to order water though?! I'm in NW England and have to dig channels to get rid of the stuff. Confused as to why this is called a dam and not a pond? is it a cultural thing or is there actually a difference, Hope you guys and Olive get plenty of good memories out of it.
That's a pond, at least to someone from the Pacific Northwest. A dam is what holds back the water you call a pond, at least according to everything I can read online. Like you, I can't imagine having to "order" water!
We’ve always called them dams here in Australia. Perhaps more officially “farm dams”. I guess technically a lot of them are formed by building a structural dam in a gully to retain water, but we generally refer to the area of water storage as the dam, even on flat ground, & the structural element is the dam wall. For us a pond refers to a shallow ornamental pool, so when I first saw an American getting out a huge excavator to build a “pond” I thought it was wild!
@@JohnDoe-ib3hr Haha, can’t say I’m not jealous of that tho! Anywhere with a 3 acre “pond” over here would cost a fortune unless it was in a flood zone AND barely accessible! So are man-made farm dams for livestock & irrigation called ponds in the UK? (Or do you just wait for it to rain 😉)
Talk about thinking outside the square. Nothing like making a swimming hole for the old dog to exercise in, everything else is a bonus
Loveit!!!
Cheers mate
I never saw the dam but I LIke the pond...
Lol that tail periscope on the little doggo
Shes non-stop that one.
Superb job, the dogs loved that 👌👌🏴
And still do mate
Amazing this is. Great job. Love from Namibia
Cool idea...What's a Jetty?
Cheers mate, like a very small wharf.
Buying water kinda blows my mind. Here in Michigan you can just pump it out of the ground essentially anywhere.
It has become a tradable commodity here. Its ridiculous mate.
@@WindellaFarm do you have artesian wells like over 100m under ground? We dig them here in Serbia about 10-20m usually and there's water but if there's none at that level then we dig them very deep and there's always water...
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What a great addition to the farm. Add a few fish to eat mosquitos (perch?) plant some water plants around the edges, get your grass growing and bring in a load of sand for a beach! It will be an oasis 😊
Then go shopping for some native trees that are a fair size, and plant them where you really would like to have shade. Then build out your forest from that start. A ring of 100' of canopy trees, understory trees and shrubs maybe even some fruit trees should do the job.
Where ever your prevailing winds come from - make your planting dense so it acts as a windbreak to reduce evaporation. ♥
We are on the same page for sure mate. Thanks for watching!
Isn't that a pond? Good luck with it.
No, its a dam. Cheers mate
@@WindellaFarm Called a dam in Australia, Pond in USA.
Do you order water each time the level goes down? how often ?
I think the word you were looking for was lake
Does it not rain were you live ?
Do you not need a clay base to seal it? Surely it will just leak out....
They did
Put fish in dam stops mozzies.
This is brilliant. Can't imagine having to order water though?! I'm in NW England and have to dig channels to get rid of the stuff. Confused as to why this is called a dam and not a pond? is it a cultural thing or is there actually a difference, Hope you guys and Olive get plenty of good memories out of it.
Not sure. Maybe a cultural thing. We would call a pond something in your yard with fish in it. We put dams into paddocks for livestock to drink.
That's a pond, at least to someone from the Pacific Northwest. A dam is what holds back the water you call a pond, at least according to everything I can read online. Like you, I can't imagine having to "order" water!
We’ve always called them dams here in Australia. Perhaps more officially “farm dams”. I guess technically a lot of them are formed by building a structural dam in a gully to retain water, but we generally refer to the area of water storage as the dam, even on flat ground, & the structural element is the dam wall. For us a pond refers to a shallow ornamental pool, so when I first saw an American getting out a huge excavator to build a “pond” I thought it was wild!
@@s-c.. Don’t even get me started on Americans and their ‘ponds’ literally rowing a boat across a 3 Acre lake calling it a back yard fishing pond 🤣
@@JohnDoe-ib3hr Haha, can’t say I’m not jealous of that tho! Anywhere with a 3 acre “pond” over here would cost a fortune unless it was in a flood zone AND barely accessible! So are man-made farm dams for livestock & irrigation called ponds in the UK? (Or do you just wait for it to rain 😉)
Low budget swimming pool😅😅
Do snakes swim in the water ever or is it safe to swim
Yes, snakes swim. Its totally fine. They are usually more afraid of us.
@@WindellaFarm thank you
That is a pond
It’s a dam, damn it!
I think those flys would bug, see what I did there, me much more than the worry of funnel webs lol
You should have seen the spiders when we opened the water outlet. Stuff that nightmares are made of.
@@WindellaFarm Yeah, I think I may have not been totally honest before… I think the spiders would totally freak me out!
Would it be cold enough to make an ice rink during winter?
@@GregMcMillan sadly not. At best the dogs water bowls sometimes freeze over at night but that’s about all.
HAHA nope. Its not Can-A-Dah.