What a pleasure to watch a married couple working together to make life better. And especially nice that a man compliments his wife so enthusiastically. I'm impressed.

When you cut the limbs off of trees, undercut the limb first and then cut from the top. The way the branches broke and tore away part of the wood makes it harder for the tree to heal.

No kidding. This is the best pond video on the KZfaq.

At 10:19 you nailed it. That statement is 100% true👍.

I’m from Crawford county good to see fellow Ohioans on KZfaq

Wow!!! What an emotional rollercoaster of a project video. It was like watching a sitcom, a reality show mixed in with an epic dramatic tear jerker of a movie. You really did a great job editing in the funny parts, that were so hilarious, yet not without imparting the knowledge that the many takes would leave about the way a siphon works on a large scale and how to start the suction, which was a genius idea on your part. I'm eager to experiment using your tried and true siphon technology to assist with my 2" Predator water pump, in flooding we've been experiencing with these "Atmospheric River's'" in Belmont CA. What really moved me though was to see how much love for your family you have. It shows how big ideas require being resourceful and that creative solutions to problems, even if they fail not to give up and anything is possible, what a lesson for your boys to experience. The bonding with your family in such a constructive way will always make this a sacred space to gather together and enjoy with the wildlife that will benefit from what your mind, hands and heart created, that which came from you and you are what in nature is truly Sublime. Here is something I can give back, it's just an idea from my background as an Artist. Read this Your pond project when complete I see as being a beautiful place of peace with nature. How awesome to have a pond to escape to and see as it grows and life thrive. It makes me think of the monumental canvases by the Impressionist artist Claude Monet and his pond paintings of "Water Lilies* he did. Nearly blind he made massive paintings that take up entire walls that are displayed in a circular gallery that surround the viewer with a spectacular experience, capturing the water, light and color of his pond and water lilies, that he loved to spend his time painting that are spectacularly exquisite. Take a look at his "Water Lily" Paintings, if you haven't seen them. But even as a Graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute and as a former Docent at SFMOMA, I continue to marvel and learn how impressive a pond can be. Maybe you or your young Monet's might capture the light on your pond on a canvas with paint or a sketchbook There are a ton of videos on KZfaq to show how to approach painting "Water Lilies " The idea is to have a small look out as a shaded art space with an easel, canvases, paint, sketchbooks pencils brushes and a bucket for some water or whatever art supplies as a place to slow down and observe by drawing and painting the many ways in which to appreciate and capture the beauty of the pond. It can be as simple as a portable easel or a pergola, tree house or some place to explore and create with a big easel with all the supplies ready to go is just another facet to how to interact with the pond. Monet pulled out the greatest works of art from his pond Any activity away from phones and video games and more time interacting and learning from the pond is awesome. Just a thought Some of Monet's painting's being 6' x 14' are about the color, the light captured as movement on the water and loose bold brush work that his paintings are composed of his pond are Masterpiece's Thank you for making this video. Your sense of humor, love and hard work is inspirational and I am grateful to have seen such a positive video to learn from. Happy Holidays to you and your Family Respectfully, Randy Chavez

Incredibly satisfying seeing all that muck disappear ^^ on my way to part three~

Awesome when that's filled up and with all that structure man add more bait fish and maybe catch some lunkers and bring them in you have a nice little pond

Great video

I wish we had creeks like that where I live. Here in texas a creek is just a dry dusty bed where water may flow once every 3 years for a day after it rains

Great progress! Nicely done. Looking forward to the next one. We've got a zipline over our private natural lake, lots of fun. Got a couple videos of it on my channel. Cheers.

Great video hope to see more videos like this.

the way you pruned those trees made my blood run cold.

You are truly blessed :)

Very good video keep uploading more love from india

All that concrete slab pieces would be great structure for underwater caves and ledges.

AWESOME VIDEO, I just subscribed 👍

Looks like you might want to consider building some sort of a retaining wall on your ‘new backyard’ lest it might ‘slip’….. just an idea… if you’ve already considered such…. Sorry I ‘butted in’….looks like a lot of fun and a beautiful property!

Awesome videos man, the music throughout was a little repetitive lol. How do those geothermal coils work? Would love to see a video on those. Best of luck on your adventures 💪

Our situations are very similar. We bought a country home with a 1 1/2 acre pond out back. Our pond was originally dug in 1963, and was 12 ft deep. Over that 50+ years our pond has filled with "muck" also, and is in much worse condition than your pond. We don't have the option to drain our pond because it is fed by 10 farm tiles and is flowing most of the year. We also have significant trees around the pond that we don't want to do away with. Like you, we have wrangled truckloads of filimentous algae and hydrilla from the pond every year., We no longer have any valuable fish in out pond. It is currently home to bullfrogs and a host of turtles.. I am considering two options: 1) bubblers and muck eating tablets over the next 5 years or 2) renting a Dino6 floating dredge and pumping the muck into dewatering bags. Both methods will cost upwards of $50k. You had a significant advantage -- you and your wife are still young. My wife and I are 67. Thanks much for the videos. What did you do about the muck in the area you didn't drain? Also, can you give me a ballpark of what the excavator costs were, please?

In my County (SE Minnesota) it is illegal to pump any standing water into a river or stream. You would face a heafty fine for doing what you've done. The logic behind this is to protect our waterways from being contaminated.

So just removing that layer of muck is all that was needed to clean up the pond? - not that it was easy, but that was it? What about the shallow area that you didn't get drained and dredged? DIdn't that just keep muck in the pond?

Your going to be walking trough your yard one day and think to yourself “why are there so many fishing hooks in my yard “ and you’ll remember this moment

After many years, a lot of bottom sediments accumulate at the bottom of the reservoir and the lake becomes shallow and overgrown with algae. To prevent this from happening, you can clean the lake with a motor pump for dirty water and a suction nozzle Bagermaster

Ad what pray tell did this little endeavor cost ?

What made you decide not to use a barrier?

How did you handle the DNR? did you need a permit? What was that process like? Obviously you increased the health and safety of the habitat for nature, but fish and game wardens sometimes seemed to know little about what they try to enforce. I have had to deal with them on my river home.

Any chance fish got sucked out the siphon

so you are aware that hooking fish stresses them. because it causes them pain.

Think you may have killed the 3 mature trees you piled soil on top of their roots

You should’ve usd limbs as cover in the lake for crappie

You have a good woman .

Should you really be handling chainsaws and cutting down trees???? LOL