I don't care *_WHAT_* bad/frustrating things Chris has to say about mud, I think we know he enjoys every single moment he's in the middle of it!👍

Oh yes! We get to see use those "Mud Management" skills at work on this project! I never miss a video, and thanks for sharing.

What amazes me about all of this is how vivid your imagination must be in order to see how the project will unfold. All too often, I see you stirring around some mud that somehow becomes an amazing pond and the water levels hit you mark as described. Simply amazing.

Chris, Some people just don’t know that they don’t know. Great work.

I liked it when he used a mat to grade the mud. Such a smart man.

Digging good ground is fun, it's instant gratification, this job must feel like emptying a pool with a coffee mug.

Again I believe you accomplished what you had set out to do this day.still ways to go,but already making a difference.y’all just do what you gotta do and carry on.good video 👍👍👍😎😎😎

This job looks like a proper pain, but you still manage to do an excellent job (both the work and videoing it for us all to see). Thanks.

Another great video Chris man you coming right on along with it about another two or three days you oughta have it done so anyway brother you and John stay safe and keep the videos coming

Two Volvos sitting in a swamp. K. I. S. S. I. N. G. First comes dredging then comes hauling. Then comes Chris with his 220 🎶🕺🏻

I love all the advice you get for a job you've been doing your whole adult life. In conditions that are unique to your area. I've ate some mud loading off roads on a hill. Keep up the good work 👍

Awesome work Chris, slow an steady wins, fast makes a mess, you really do got that down pat using mud matt's an not getting compromised by the mud, the years show that you can pretty much tackle any pond an turn it into a masterpiece! Thanks for sharing, look forward to seeing the next video 💪🇺🇸

Sure is a process. I enjoy more than anything watching you work your plan in process and the efficiency on how you get the most you can while in an area with a machine. For me it’s not about how well you operate a machine, that’s self evident, but how you make every move count, no wasted motion. Thanks for the ride along.

Now that’s a lot of goop. Great idea using the mat like a skimmer, that’s when it looks like you’re getting somewhere. Big job mate. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰

Man, moving the gooey mud is like bailing out a boat with a sippy cup!

Chris and the 220 in their natural environment!, have a great weekend folks! 👍🏻

Enjoyed the video.

Chris. You do amazzing work floating around out in the pond on those mats. I keep showing the church camp folks you working on pond spill ways and dredging out silt filled ponds. Please Take Care of your self, Plus Be Very Care Full around all Equipment.🥔🍋

Looks like you moved a lot of mud today. That’s gonna be a beautiful place when you get your magic done. Thanks for sharing.

Pretty cool @ 2:00 to see you and your uncle slinging mud together. I enjoy working with family and miss running machinery with my grandfather.

Big job Chris!! You two will do just fine, I’m confident of that prediction!! You may ask yourselves later, why you didn’t put a tailgate on the haul truck sooner??!!! There were soo many videos with slop pouring out the back and 1/2 loads that could have been 3/4 loads. In the future that will pay for itself in loads saved! It’s like Mime at Dirt Perfect and the ripper on his 850J. Now he has built his own tile setter and is talking about how he could have used it before they bought it, but truth is they got by….. there’s always a way, but there generally is a more efficient way also. As for moving this mud???.? You are doing it about as efficiently as possible…….. that mud is too slick to doze or too thick to “pump” (hahaha). You are working in a quagmire!! They exist and what you are doing is what it takes!! Once that top 8” or so are cut off I suspect it is not even possible to stand on the mud!!! Looking forward to the before and after!!! This is going to be a seriously expensive home property!

I'm excited to see what that tailgate will do with raw mud on that articulated truck

500 more trucks loads?? You'll have mud pie videos for another 6 weeks! yaaa! Amazing progress so far! Don't forget to fill the windshield fluid bottle! Jim

Chris , can you put a baffle across the inside of the dump bed ? Weld two pieces of angle iron vertically on each side of the bed , and drop 2 X 12s into place leaving a ten inch gap at the bottom . Place this about half to 2)3s of the way back to help stop the wave action while driving . Good luck !

Slowly but surely you always complete your goal. AWESOME....

All one need is 3 machines, 2 highly skilled ppl and a perfect plan of attack.

It always gets worse before it gets better, thanks for sharing Chris! Good job brother! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

It would be so nice and easy to follow when you ad a project and episode number in the title. Thanks for the great content, greetings from the Netherlands

It’s gonna take you a minute to dig that all out wow hopefully it will all go well for you thanks for sharing

Brave soul going out into that kind of mud. I worked on a job excavating a hog barn that was that wet under the concrete. I like how gentle you are dragging the bucket across the mud, and dumping the bucket with it in the dirt so not to splash. Hate it when operators dont care any effort to try keep machines clean.

Excellent video, love the mud videos and being able to see how you deal with it.

Wow, Chris, I just can't believe how much more work you get done and completed than DP, Nice...J O B . p.s. Thanks for the videos. That mud seems like a never ending battle.

Chris, you need to carry a variation on snow shoes (perhaps clown shoes) to allow you to walk out across the muck if you need an escape route. Stay safe out there. Peace brother

Mud, mud, and more mud! U can design anything!! Exciting to watch!!! Stay safe and may God bless u!!!

Love your channel Chris. Your and inspiring individual.

Hope.you.got.plenty Of.paper.towels.for For.the.windshield

Sure it's hard to not get discouraged with a seemingly never ending mud pit. Good on ya.

You have exceptional patience my friend. Thank you for posting. 🙂

It’s Amazing to me that you’re able to Bid out these Enormous Jobs when so much Ground is being Moved. 🤔👍

Back home we call that kind of mud “CP” ( cow plop). No easy way around it.

Truck is earning its keep on this job. Good that you have that for this job.

U always take a dirty and unrecognizable canvas and turn it into a Masterpiece !!! :)

Happy day more mud 👍

Scoop dump repeat, t-shirt saying. Learning each time I watch, thanks.

That is a lot of mud. :) Thank you and have a great day.

Your uncle JOHN seems like a good guy. Good to see family working together. Best of luck

Another day of good progress! There will still be enough work ahead to have enough fun to make up for some of these dredges that have been missing a lot in recent times

Love ur vids Chris especially the new equipment, walk round all your equipment and the repairs and new purchases especially the track loader and haul truck in a year or so I'll be building a 1/20 scale Rc Hemtt version with real hydraulics

What a monumental task!

Great video 👍👍

amazing progress one bucket a time!

This looks like a job for a stinky hot day in middle of summer where the mud dries out faster, say 35C that would be 95f. Long tedious and steady gets it done you guys are veterans at this. Thanks

When my grandfather and I were digging out his pond. He thought it would be funny to cover me and my digger in mud so that me and him were constantly covering each other in mud.

You need a suction pump to transfer the mud into the dumper or up the hill to loadout in the area that makes it easier for you.

You need a slurry pump of some kind on this job Chris. Your pond jobs are getting bigger and more challenging. The other option of course is a big old drag-line.

Been watching your channel for over a year. At first I wondered why you didn't have a drag line to use on ponds. After seeing where a lot of these ponds are, you would have to clear acres of forest to get one to them. As they say on Larson Farm's channel. "Destined to ride the struggle bus again" . Keep digging, I'll keep watching.

Great job.

hi from uk chris and ucle john 👋👍 has it been 2 to 3 years sice you got those mats🤔? My lord it sems like 6 month since I watched you unload them with yellow yanmar 😱😲 nice to see haul truck making good progress so far and yup slow and steady on this one cos if you break thru top layer everything dissolves under you and machine until your on firm ground but still I wouldnt trust it as high as I could stack it 🤔😂 thanks for your time and be safe see you soon guys👍👋

skillfull great job..

Chris... if you could get mats made from thick UHMW, maybe those would last significantly longer. (.. but may be cost prohibitive, depending on the job bid.)

I’d think a long dipper unit would start to pay off if Chris does many more pond jobs. Just the extended reach itself would be a big asset and a time saver. Auction time again?

Good job, Tomorrow is another day of mud

Skimming & Scooping 👌🏻

About the only way you get mats to last any longer, would to take the apart after every use and pressure wash each individual plock of wood and alow it to dry before reassemble them. Not worth the time. What is happening is the mud in between the wood is staying wet and promoting growth of the bacteria that is eating the wood causing what everyone refers to as rot. Best thing to do is store your mats with a 4x4 in between each one and out in the sun rotate them weekly so each side gets sun. But I know time is money.

I like the helicopter idea you had yesterday. LOL

My personal preference is volvo machines. Very comfortable for Operator reliable not to bad on fuel consumption plenty power when required 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Maybe attach the very busted MATT to the top of the tailgate, so the SLOP won't slop out, shouldn't be in way when raising the tail gate...just a thought

You're so neat in everything you do, I'm surprised that window washing fluid and a roll of paper towel isn't a standard supply in your excavator.

If you can , white oak is your best bet on mats,.. It's closed pore. Air tight and water tight,,..whiskey barrells are white oak for that reason. Drying and soakimg is hard on wood. White takes a long time to dry out. I really think it would be best in your application..red oak splits when it drys,

I love mud sligging!

Looks a good days work to me Chris !!! 👏👏👏👏👍🥰🍺🍺🇬🇧

What a tedious job! Kudos to you!

That mud reminds me of a giant cow patty….lol. Great video Chris!

I would love to get into running equipment again

I wondered if two excavators would be required, to keep from having to move only one machine and mats to load out the mud.

I would imagine the cost for this job is pretty high considering conditions and everything you have to deal with

Has to make a long day Chris but only way you can do it my friend, the ending results will be worth it , I know this pond is going to be beautiful again and the customer is going to be satisfied ! You always do some amazing work and it’ll show in the end! 👌🏻✌🏻,✌🏻 Looks like hog slop my friend, I imagine it smells kinda like it too! lol 😂

To bad someone hasn't invented a giant industrial mud sucking vacuum machine yet. That pulls through tank trucks connected to suction hoses from the pond. 🤔👍They have muck cleaners, but that intel's a small operation with divers, hoses and giant muck filter bags.

Mudding mess but you will get it a nice pond nice video

Dawns here ☀️

Maybe bring to truck down nose first & load OVER the cab, then back up to the turn spot, since the SLOP is coming out going up the hill...this from a truck driver...

good pond video

The first time I watched one of your videos was where you were digging an excavator out that was stuck in the mud pretty bad . Been hooked on your videos ever since . As I watch you move all that slop I was wondering how long that job would take using an EC95OF with the largest bucket . Of course to go along with that maybe the A60H ?

Is that like gray fine clay I play with. I always move it too much and turn it into flow able material. I like your mat technique for moving mud without mixing mud. Good on ya.

That pile of mud never gets any smaller, kind of like whatever food I didn't want to eat when I was a kid.

This job is not entirely beer and skittles then.🙃 You have admirable determination young sir.😉 Surely one for the long haul.🤔 Thanks for sharing it.🙂 Be well Chris.😊

Another upload oh yes 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Yep, don't think you could help John.....deep mud! Spoke with Donnie today......fingers crossed!

That's going to be a long one, but someone has to do it, take care stay safe and God bless.

Maybe the Easter Bunny will bring the pond Doctor some new Matt's for Easter!😀

What about making a special mud bucket little smaller than the width of the truck, to pick up twice the load . Speed up mud ponds

Evening all

I know it's a big bucket, but it looks as if you could use one 4 times the size. I can't figure out how you keep it so clean amongst all that mud, Regards Richard 🇬🇧

Is a longreach is not an alternative for you?

Wow I would get bored real fast ....No wonder you are gettin the BIG Bucks Great job though

That doesn't look 👀 Like a pond...looks like a small lake ! Would be an excellent spot for a monster mud truck race event ! They seem to like it like that...the more mud the better ! 🤣👍✌

Hope you had a FUEL SURCHARGE clause on this contract, Chris! I've come to the conclusion there IS a thing as TOO MUCH MUD. 😳

Have to agree with your comment on dig, dump and repeat. Going to be a lot of that on this one!

We showed up to work Friday.. and we had 3 deer stuck in the dump site… so the throwing mud for us was delayed… we were able to get them out !!! At the end of we were all exhausted including the deer.

A while back I seen a huge auger standing in a ditch. And I wondered. How did that get in there and why. Today I saw it working. It drives from 1 culvert to the next. Say 3/4 of a mile. And it continuesly take sloppy mess up, and it dropped semi dry dirt on the field. All the water just dripped/splattered back in the ditch. In the 4 hours between my trip past it the auger went down a few feet. there was a pretty decent pile of mud/dirt on the field. I tried to understand how the soil/water in the ditch became sloppy.... I geuss they just stirred it up by driving the augur thought it several times. The culvert on the highside was blocked with a damsheet. And the other culvert was now totally exposed. Young lad was putting rocks around the bottom part. I watched it for a while. But where I live it is sand. Very low clay content. So I geuss he was protecting it from underdigging.