He closed it Wednesday:)

He probably has super arm 💪

@@chris_Duncan88 I think you are right

Lefty loosey..righty tighty 😂

Actually gravity does most of the work lowering the gate

Your welcome

The beaver in me makes me want to assist the process.

Best comment so far!

It's the barest necessity to a functioning society.

So you are one of them because if you say people you are also people right? Unless you are an animal and you won't count among people

Yes the next day they were gone.

budget cuts

It doesn't break down

Probably no wheel so randoms dont try and open it

Engineers....sheesh....😂 forgot about the important bit,

That’s a common way of controlling a gate. We had a little dam on our ranch that had the same system, much smaller! Worked well, and kept random people from messing with it

Emergency closure must take a day or so. 😀

Thankyou. And thanks for watching!

Thank-you! Glad you enjoyed the video.

I think so too!

That was my first guess! LOL

Thank-you for the very nice comment

No I didn't.

You got that right!

I didn't see any ice cubes there, all I see is some big frozen water made into huge ice blocks

I'd be scared to death I'd drop the wrench in the spillway.

You are right! Thanks for pointing that out. And that happened here many years ago.

@@Wheresthewheel Yes there have been many such events just like it, Here in Canada we had a massive ice dam fail that covered most of Ontario and Quebec, and on the west the lorentide ice sheet collapsed triggering massing ice and water releases down into Washington.

Saskatchewan.

Good idea

My pleasure!

Yes a very nice guy. He gave me full access to film where I wanted.

@@Wheresthewheel That's Pretty Awesome

Wow imagine getting permission to film something on public land

@@rosssmith8481 Yep that's pretty awesome

Well thankyou! I'm interested where you viewed it from that seldom gets snow.

@@Wheresthewheel South Texas

@@kbrown5218 no way, I spent 3 winters in Brownsville TX in the '80's

@@Wheresthewheel .Last snow. Christmas 2004. Midnight mass. Started snowing. A gift from the Lord. And that was not in Brownsville.

Thankyou for the kind words and incites and thanks for watching.

Thankyou

sometimes the best tools are the simpliest ones...

@@barrystein8834 Sometimes people make inane comments because they don't know WTF they're talking about.

sometimes people use the wrong tools which makes it harder on everybody else because wrong tools tear up everything.....

I'm afraid this moisture won't make to 'merica.

Yeah before California wastes it. Unlikely.

Unfortunately California wastes something like 90% of its snowmelt and heavy rainfall letting it go right into the ocean instead of filling its reserves.

I’m curious as to why they waste it?

@IH D-360 I have heard everything from saving 1 small endangered fish to just the government being inept. I'm from Michigan where the Governor, attorney General and DNR wouldn't let a dam owner get a loan to repair two dams or lower the level on the tibbawasse river. He told them the dam was in danger of collapsing but because of an endangered mussel or something similar they refused. When the dams owner lowered the level anyway they threatened a huge fine for everyday the dam wasn't raised. He raised the level and on May 20 2020 the dams broke doung 175 million of damage and killing the freshwater mussel anyways. The lake people enjoyed is now just a river. Same concept as California, idiots willing to put people at risk and the species ends up dying anyways.

It is in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada

I left when they were like that and went back a day later and they were gone.

@@Wheresthewheel ace, I was wondering that too.

Thankyou kindly!

Haha

He was a happy sort of fellow. A well paying government job, a nice spring day. He said it's a great job :)

We had over 3 feet more snow than an average winter this year. At the beginning of April, we had at least 4 feet of snow on the ground. Most of the snow finished melting a little over a week ago. I live in a city and there was snow this morning outside of town. This is in northern Wisconsin.

@@daviddeking2676 Lots of snow there, thanks for the info, interesting. Enjoy spring!

Well thankyou! I subbed back and look forward to watching your videos :)

Love it!

Very cool

@@Wheresthewheel You definitely had to be there to actually comprehend the size of the frozen huge river breaking into big pieces the size of many football fields 4 feet thick. The current made amazing new banks as I watched.

@@rogerdudra178 wow that would be something to see.

Where did you see it happen?

@@Wheresthewheel At the 'end hole' on the North side of the river below Slippery Anne north of Lewistown.

I like your attitude!

It was worth 2 boxes of Sudafed.

Even our Limitorques had a hand wheel in case the motor failed. Would have only taken about 500 turns of it to open our backflow gates fully.

They do NOT put wheels on these for obvious reasons. You get some moron opening the gate.

@@berty1422 My pipe wrench is bigger than his pipe wrench.

@@berty1422 they don’t need to leave it on, but if he knows he’s going to open the gate he can bring a wheel to make it easier.

Me too!

I bet that was something to behold

@@Wheresthewheel It should have or nearing the breakup now. The community places a wood platform on the ice with a rope tied to an building on lane that when it breaks it’s recorded, bets are made, it was fun.

@@WORDversesWORLD thankyou so much for telling me about this. I am very interested in such things.

Your welcome and thanks for the kind words. Love your KZfaq name :)

I'll think about it thx :)

Thankyou for watching and being part of my most viewed video!

Very nice

Thank-you! Just a chance encounter 😁

Because the handle was taken off and you get more leverage with the wrench.

And you destroy the shaft after only a few attempts and then have a major repair!!!

​@greigmercer7641 then go get him a better handle.

@@jacobanderson6551 its his job to to get the right equipment before he starts work.

Because vandals took the handles.

You got that right.

Based upon all of the clues, I believe that this was filmed in Canada.

@@foreststewart1968 There is a Dellwood Reservoir in Saskatchewan... which certainly has plenty of similar terrain. Most of this guy's videos seem to be in Saskatchewan.

Saskatchewan Canada

@@foreststewart1968 correct. Thx

@@theblackbear211 yes all my videos are in Saskatchewan Canada.

Actually, just above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Definitely cool.

Most definitely

Thankyou for watching.

I didn't have time to stick around. What I recorded was as long as I was there.

Yes it is :)

@@Wheresthewheel Canada? Wheres the eh eh? I didn't hear no eh!😁 Seriously though, I was reading the comments to find out where this was. If I was there I would be doing exactly what you were doing. Its just interesting watching how things are done.

@@sw8741 you made my day! You understand me and what I do. Thankyou!

Очень интересно. Много ли их там?

I never heard of Dellwood either, so I looked on Google maps, and now I know where it's at.

@@bigredc222 And Ya did not tell us? Now I have to Google it!

No it follows a small stream bed to Last Mountain Lake.

Canada.

Disney land

Thanks I thought so too.

As a former resident of Saskatchewan, it's pretty funny, all the ways ppl butcher the pronunciation of the province and the place names. Tho some of the place names are pretty hilarious too.

No the closest "people" are about 16kms away. The ice was long melted before then. Not sure where you are but we ain't that populated here :)

Yes Robert I called your Mom and told her to watch her way…

Thankyou, Saskatchewan Canada

From the Pushbutton Nation I assume :) ya up here in The Canada we still have use of our arms :) thankyou for watching and being part of my most viewed video!

@@Wheresthewheel I just figured on a large valve like that it would be motorized😀!

@@rodkemp1136 nope it only gets opened once a decade or so and only a little bit. He likely cranked 5 minutes total. I'm surprised how many people thought that was unusual. I'm 64 and worked with many many people over the years. I noticed a large percentage of the "new work force" think if you can't do it from an app on your phone it ain't worth doing. Have a grand day!

@@Wheresthewheel I’m 64 also and have done more than my fair share of manual labor!! I get it. Have a nice day as well😀

Good eye! And I was told that caused the ice and will be fixed this summer.

Haha

Dellwood Reservoir Saskatchewan Canada

@@Wheresthewheel Thank you.

Too funny! Thx for the laugh

Thx!

You guys really have a 6 in your alphabet?

Что действительно произошло бы в вашей стране? У меня есть фидомы, о которых я не знаю. Пожалуйста, расскажите мне больше о своей жизни.

If someone fell into this, it’s no accident. You would have to deliberately be someplace you shouldn’t be.

Exactly!

Seems to be doing just fine with the tool he's got

​@@dangoesfastno he doesn't seem to be doing fine. He seems to be struggling, straining, and working much harder than he needs to be if he would just do what this person said.

He opened the gate a few cm. Very little effort really he said. Gotta love the "experts" that live in mommy's basement and feel the need to add to the conversation :)

Yes

Thankyou!

Google it

Saskatchewan? I used Google but couldn't come up with anything 100% certain.

Yes Saskatchewan

@@johnsmithschannel999 Why should the viewer have to do homework?

@@scottied67 You mean the lazy ones?