Hey Chris, I know where you can get another mat but you gotta find it in this pond some guy was working on the other day.

Now the two for one takes years of practice. Like clearing a stream with mud in bucket and grabbing a mat all at the same time. Then dropping the mat and then the mud. Now that's talent.

Wow, Chris revealed another trick he employs to improve his process. Today he was getting a bucket of mud and a mat and placing the mat and then dumping out the mud! Neat trick.

The beauty of Chris's channel, not a bunch of 10 seconds clips slammed together, so we get a nice long video an explanation, an actually get to watch the skill of his expertise put to use, awesome video Chris, gonna be a sweet project, you got some awesome pond rebahs goin, thanks for sharing 🌲💪🇺🇸

Put all those sticks and mud in boxes, and sell them as Ikea log houses!

Another video thanks Chris 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

Notice a scoop of mud and a mat in the same move, ......... way to go Chris 😊😊

Whoa it sure looks like snake territory….good thing a little too cold yet stay safe Chris and John

After watching Chris for so many years and see how effortlessly he runs an excavator is inspiring. He has reached that Zen level where he doesn’t even have to think about it on a conscience level. He thinks it and the machine does his bidding. I rented one last year to redo my septic field and it was comical. That experience made me even more impressed with Chris and all operators who can achieve that level of productivity

One more thing you could do while editing these videos, is open google maps, zoom in to an are, and point a pointer where you are working, then take a screenshot and put that picture up at the end of your videos.

Another dredge job , one of my favorites from you! So interesting how you plan and get it done!

Being born and raised for most of my 76 years on a limestone coral- based Island, BERMUDA 32N64W, with very few ponds, in the valleys at the base of natural watersheds, I find this moving of 1000s of yards of mud fascinating ! Our red soil originated from the Sahara, and we are currently receiving a fresh dusting on our surrounding ocean at the moment. We have no rivers or streams, and catch rainwater on limestone shingle roofs, and store it in underhouse cisterns. Appreciate your thorough explanations and videos of how you deal with TOO much water !! LOL. Thanks for your time !

The ole two for shuffle dance with Volvo, one bucket of mud, one mat, one swing, two transfers, done. Sweet. Like the way you work young man.

This looks like a great and very enjoyable project. I can hardly wait to see it done. Meanwhile, I am really looking forward to watching you do it.

Absolute genius ,the way you were digging that ditch and picking up the mats at the same time MASSIVE SKILL !

Another fantastic video! Excited to see the next phase of this job and the continuation of the 10 acre pond! Thanks for taking me along.

Chris can take anything and make it picture perfect it don't matter how bad it looks. He's the man!!!!

Awesome Project!!

Looks like they might need to use an air boat to set those grade stakes in that swampy mess. Safest way to do it anyways. Otherwise they might have a surveyor end up like that lost mat on the last job. Sink out of sight to never be found!!!

That's a mind boggling amount of dirt to come out. Where is is all going to go? I am looking forward to the transformation!

Oh Yeah let's dig it up 👍

"Its gonna rain the rest of the week so we'll let this sit here and dry out", LOVE IT. LOL.....

That high pitched squeal, I think that might be a hydraulic bypass valve on your hydraulic pump. Don't know for sure but that's where I would start. Enjoy the videos.

another great video, love seeing the way you traverse the mud with the mats.👍

Looks like it’s gonna be a beauty Chris. Great project to be following along with.

Really looking forward to watching this one - looks like a huge project that will be a big transformation.

Nice video Chris, looking forward to more on this job and when it's done, good work.

Always enjoy hearing your planning ideas. Then get to see them

Amazing amount of work The right crew is on the job

Chris, I admire your ability to collect and stage mounds of materials from pond center the edges where it can be trucked out. Wishing you and your team a great week. Thanks for sharing this insightful video. Cheers

Interesting collection of challenges here. That's just the little I noticed. I bet there are plenty I have yet to notice.😉 Thanks for showing us Chris. 🙂Be well.😊

This looks like a Huge Job and will definitely back up a number of other jobs in the process. Thanks! 👍

Yaaayyyyy Chris, another multi-phase pond rehabilitation & beautification project..I LOVE these!! And yes I was the little girl who got muddier than her brother trying to make perfect mud pies and race car tracks. Cannot wait for your next video❣️ 👍👏👍👏👍

My kind of video, I know this pond is going to look awesome when you’re finished with it! Lot of work from what you’re saying though and a lot of material coming out, good luck my friend and good digging! Just stay safe brother! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

Chris another big challenge that you will take care of! Thanks for sharing! Kevin

Can’t wait to see this project. No time like the present. I guess you just jump off into the deep end and get after it. Cool video!

Oh that’s a big job can’t wait to watch and see it finished

That's going to be a sweet little pond. Especially with an expert dredging and shaping it.

Evening Chris, Besides moving plant around the UK on a Low Boy, I know nothing about your machines, can you get wider tracks for your machine, as you seem to be doing more and more swampy ponds, and boy don't you make it look easy 😁. Regards Richard 🇬🇧

Another good project….and the 220 is a nice machine, it has good lively swing 👍

Loved the video! Thank u for explaining all the ins and outs of this project. A lot of planning and excavation time required. Will be amazing when finished, so enjoying the progress to that point. God's blessings and stay safe 🙏.

Nice one Chris 👍🏻

This is a big job Chris. I always say you can never have too many mats😊 Maybe you should have also brought the trees you were using for mats from the last job. 🤣 Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰

Big job Chris 👍

Thanks for sharing Chris! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸

big big job can't wait.. nice, mo mud!!

Trying to imagine cleaning that out using two sidewinders and a dredge pan ... and a lot of cable. Like they may have done it 50-60 years ago. Or even further back, with a pair of mules.

This job looks like a real challenge Chris….That being said…Your’e thinking a piece of cake….lol…..It definitely looks like a snaky area when the temperature comes up. NC and SC are notorious for poison snakes showing themselves early….Snake boots and a side arm was a must while I lived in SC. …lol.. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Great Video.

One of the things that makes your videos so entertaining, is trying to figure out the thought processes going on behind what you and the viewers are seeing through the camera lens, you are so in tune with whatever machine you’re operating that like a good pilot you aren’t thinking about how to operate the machine so much as what needs to be accomplished. 👍🏻

I keep watching you work till I fall asleep at night.you are the best worker I see for a long time

John's 220 starting to feel its age. The animal hospital wasn't kind to it with all that rock.

Enjoyed the video Chris.

Beavers bring in a lot of wildlife! I love your videos. Been watching for about a year now. Happy your restoring the older rigs. Helps to keep some of the best built from the scrap pile. And gets away from computer controlled rigs with faulty environmental controls.

This is going to be a fun project to watch, will not miss a day.

Most experienced and the coolest operator

The Pond Master on a 'dredge and reclaim' project. Did Uncle Jon bid this to be a full week project? Chris just established a "field engineered ditch". You are supposed to get splattered early so it`s over with -not wait to the 'last bucket'.

It's a nice project !

I have used the same technique to dewater ponds except my dewatering trench is in the center of the pond and deeper. What happens is the weight of the silt will force the water to take the path of least resistance and weep into the trench and flow to the lowest point. Once dry, I'll use an elevated scraper "paddle wheel" to load and transport the silt to the field where it will be unloaded and leveled using the scraper. The material is very rich organically and is an excellent organic fertilizer. I'll also use the scraper to move any more material shaping the sides and building the dam. Thanks for sharing.

Chris: are you ready for a mud video Everyone: YES!!! *goes back to watching*

To see you run that machine amazes me everytime.

Hmm, suggest to the developer about a "picnic" area at the top of the hill coming down to the pond. Clear a little area there and back the on-road truck into that. Then you only have to track up and down the hill with each grapple load of brush and mud. You could also (possibly) use that picnic area as a turn around point for the haul truck.

Hey Chris !! B/4 you get into the ""SPRING/SUMMER "" Excavations ,, Need a Business Vacation trip out to see Wade with the ""KW"" & trailer & bring back a load of MATS from the ""MAT"" mill that Wade goes to & checkout their layout !! HAHA Looks like a nice long months work ahead of you there !! Have a good week !!

Chris, it's always been that 'last' bucket, chuckles..... Do love the approach too this one.... Most won't recognise the difference, I do....

Chris I can’t wait to see the videos on this project because it’s gonna make for some good videos so anyway brother you and John and yawls family stay safe and keep the videos coming

Love it, keep up the good work

The place looks beautiful. Does it have a nice feel to it? I bet it makes a change for you when you have an engineer make it out. And a Project Manager on tap. I bet it's a mix bag of good and bad. It depends how good they are and what people skills they have. I used to be married to a Civel Engineer, I think that's where my interest started on projects.

Great start to a new project ,with all that you have to do would you consider this a real big job or just a challenging job,beautiful area,just do your thing.👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎

A big job Chris , 👏👏👏👏👍🥰🍺🇬🇧

Love 18'pond dredging.After all this is the First and longest running DIRT Channel on Utube!!

Nothing calms me like these videos.

You've got the best job ever!

Chris, here's a new nickname for you "The Creek Master" because of all of the creeks that you deepened!!!

Hi from uk chris and all👋👍 nice to see we getting back to the dredging jobs where your in your element👌 220 + muddy mess = 1 happy chris😂 hope the roadway holds up cos not much room for you both and being a inclune run to wont work in push mode your tracks will just spin off and and no room to pass neither🙈 hope everything goes well tho for you and uncle john good luck 👍🙏 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon👍👋

Should be a nice looking pond when it gets done

Great work

This is gonna be a real interesting job with all the twists an turns ,fun fun fun

That job looks like it will be fun 😎👍

This series is going to be awesome ❗🙂

Great watching you play in the mud slop chris 😃

Geeze Louise - and I thought the last project was a doozie! 🙃

You've bagged a virgin job - no fixing other people's mess for a change. Looking forward to seeing how it goes :)

you don't know how good you have it. i spent my time out in the swamp moving mats with a drag line...

Somebody down stream will soon have to welcome some new Beaver neighbours.

That’s a big project.

Thanks Chris for another good video and I would love to live down there and be part of your team !

Oh dredging, the best kinda videos

I'm anxious to see the 10 acre pond job.

Great video Chris 🇺🇲 another job well done 🇺🇲

Great video 👍👍

O my Chris what have you got yourself into this time lol! Looks like a lot of work but something tells me you’re the man for the job!

Don't sorry Chris, after you dig a pond or two you'll start to get the hang of it! Awesome doubling the scope & mat move. It's like you have a portable island especially on this and the 10 acre mud hole

Chris never fail to amuze me with how smooth he handle the excavator . Keep on digging brother!!!

Nothing like the sound of freedom seeds being planted in the background.

That is gonna look radically different/Better.

When there is a site manager ya just know it's gunna be a big project, hope the splashed mud in the cab is not an omen bro. Safe travels

I bet the old beaver, looks on at you, and your excavator, like a god!

Hello, enjoy your channel and your skills are amazing. I have noticed that a lot of your pond jobs that I have watched have overflows that drain from the top. Where I am from, there used to be a old mill pond, mill and water wheel long gone, that had an top style overflow spillway, 8 feet across, but the water, at normal stream flow, went through the bottom of the spillway thru a 4 foot pipe that had a adjustable gate, to maintain pond level and to raise it for milling. The outflow from the spillway had two 5 foot pipes. This, I was told, helped to keep the pond from silting up. This particular pond also had a set of two steel vertical rising flood gates, would open to a full open of 4 feet tall by 8 feet long that was used to power the mill wheel and to handle floodwaters. Do you or have you ever done a video that shows this type of pond dam construction?? Long question, I know. Thank you kind sir.

Next set of new mats cover them in thin style foundation coating. Did that to planks and set them on ground to store things. Never did rot.

This is gonna take more than a day or two to do this work. Lots of to be done here. Hopefully the offroad truck will be able to drive in the bottom of the pond. If it's too soft for that to happen then it's really gonna take some time to dig this large pond out.

Chris this looks like the last job, little creek and all, only a lot more of it. Steep incline for the dump truck? Sure hope it stays dry for you. I think you are going to need a few nice tree logs to go with your mats. Already looking better.