I know the saying "Does a tree really make a sound when it falls if no one is around to hear it"... so I wonder if Chris still says timber when he isn't on camera. I suspect he does. Enjoy the transformation you make on these type projects. Long time watcher first time commenter. Thanks!

This project has it all, stumps, crunchy trees, ripping out old pipes, big fires, dredging, and wading into the mud still to come!! Thanks for sharing!!

Can't believe how big that stump was!!! The music with the drone footage was great! It's so nice to see someone who takes so much pride in their work, great job Chris!

My 3yr old son and I enjoy watching Mr.Chris move the dirt and "get the job done" throughout the week. Thank you for always keeping everything family friendly 🙏👍 wished you worked in the North Georgia mountains area.

This 10 acre pond series is very interesting right from the starting point and again you hide the small stumps and branches close to the shorelines to speed up your work.

Infreakingcredible how Chris can take something straight out of a backwoods horror movie set and make it look like a Palm Springs golf course level beautiful by the time he's finished. I'd like to see a drone flyover 1 year from now once it's all covered in grass and looking manicured just at the end of spring going into summer.

Looking good Chris. Could watch you work your magic for hours.. can wait too see how the swap clean up goes. Looks like a complete mess.

I can watch these videos all day. I was hoping for a full dredge the pond video!

Holy guacamole, that stump was humongous. You are so precise with the grading bucket, slicking it around, looks heaps better. The drone footage really showed the hot mess at that end of the pond. Looking forward to you tackling that. Take care & cheers 🐨🦘🥰

👍This seems to be an almost perfect LD18 project; using all of the skills most of us, the viewers, enjoy. Tearing out trees and stumps, bonfires, pulling the plug, digging out old overflows, cleaning up and "slicking" the shoreline. Looking forward to the mud mats and overflow install along with the added bulk to the dam in the future. Thanks.

This is a big project. This could be massive project, if it was a dredging job. The attention to detail is amazing. Gonna look nice!

I really like following along on your projects sequentially…like reading a good book when you look forward to each next chapter. Good job!

Chris is the best operator I have ever seen and always does a awesome job ever time

Always enjoy when you are grading with the bucket. Interesting to watch your methods. Can’t wait to see the head section when finished.

Mud artistry is a rather specific craft, heavy equipment master Chris, tackles this mess one scoop at a time. That mud bank sure is shiney.

That there is some of the best fish cover I’ve ever seen! Look at all those beds

I especially love watching your pond videos the transformation is just amazing and the quality of work is second to none

Fun fact... all those little craters in the mud with water in them are spots where fish made spawn bed, most likely bass. Anyway, gonna look a whole lot better when you're done with the pond Chris.

Therapy, that's what I call it, going to be another great job.

Design Engineer cleaning up another mess! Cleaning up tree debris along with shaping looks great! God's blessings and stay safe 🙏.

Logs are good fish habitat and... Good mushroom habitat! I like watching things happen on pond builds and repairs... Ron...

Sycamore is actually quite beautiful when used for woodworking. It also makes beautiful slabs. It’s a lighter wood but does have good character

The drone shows a lot better view of the pond! It a big pond and that stump was huge Chris I liked seeing the overhead view of the creek stream and the way it’s silted the pond and being that low how the creek stream goes and routes itself to that one side! That’s cool looking brother! Thanks for sharing Chris, I enjoy watching you on these jobs! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

As smooth as a deliciously well iced chocolate cake - nice work. A joy to watch.

visual productivity at the end of the day , nothing beats it

Hey Chris, I always look forward to watching your videos! Very informative. Keep up the good work!

Our sycamore tress are used for chain saw testing and firewood… they were originally used for wind breaks

Awesome job on the pond edge. That was satisfying to watch! You have so much fantastic content. Thanks for taking us along on the journey. Good stuff!

Man I watch your videos all the time and this stump is probably one of the widest stump you pulled

I think this is also my favorite work to do defining the edge, but also digging the depth; I like a deep pond.

You always do an awesome job Chris, I know how it’s going to look when you get done! Always looks great once you’re done! Pond Master always my friend! Thanks for sharing another awesome video! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸 imagine when you get on the opposite side brother if you have to clean the other side!

This will look amazing when your done & the pond is full again, another great vid, good Job Chris! 👊💪

All I know is a sycamore tree isn’t good for anything but spreading that bark all over your yard! lol I planted on and after about five years I couldn’t take it anymore and CHOP CHOP it went! lol 😂 thanks for sharing Chris!👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸. Looks great brother !

Turning sows ears into silk purses is an art you have adapted to rather well with that fancy bucket bro. Looking good so far. Safe travels.

It may look bad, but those downed trees are great fish habitat.

Sycamore makes beautiful tabletops, bar tops, cabinets and such. The wood from large trees is really beautiful.

It's cool that you can see all the old fish beds.

At 5 feet deep that would make a great private water ski lake. When I was a younger man I said I was going to build one of these but it’s just not a priority anymore. Great job as usual Chris!

Amazing how the channel subs has grown. I've been watch a very long time when you only had a few thousand. Keep up the good work bud.

If you had a spreader truck like they use on a farm to spread manure that silt you get when dredging ponds would probably make a great fertilizer lol

Love the videos on this pond .

Would be awesome to see all your pond projects after they've filled in and the grass has grown back!

I know they used to use Sycamore as a secondary wood in things like drawer sides and backs. I would say it's my favorite tree just because of that bark.

The drone fly over really showed the overall project, and to me it looks like you tied into a good sized project and you seem to have a well thought out process for handling it. I look forward to the progression of the project and even more so the finish. Thanks for the ride along young man, much appreciated.

Sycamore is good for making your mill smell like cow poop. Stinks when sawn. Alot of it around here is pallet wood. We do cut some finish grade from them. Our river basin has alot and huge Sycamore's. I have some 38" plus logs in now waiting to to be milled.

Sycamore is a hard wood and makes beautiful cabinets, furniture and flooring if dried right, we used cedar and sycamore in my cabin. Used cedar for shelving and sycamore outside framing for the cabinet doors and cedar cut in strips, tongue and grooved it and slid down in the door framing then flat clear urethane after it finished drying after a year.

Chris great video! You make it look easy! Thanks for sharing! Kevin

About at the 8:30 area….that pond looks like you could dredge a couple hundred dump trucks worth of mud out of that thing! Wow!

Love the music during the drone footage!

Enjoy watching you make then old ponds look new again , great video

Looking good chris

Sycamore good wood. Real pretty grain. Used for pallets, knife handles, custom pens, picture frames...

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis) has a use in furniture making. And for looking awesome with their giant leaves and funky bark.

Thanks Cris, enjoy watching you work, Nice job as usual.

When you do that I just love how you do this on the video you're really good at your job there isn't too many people who can do that what you do cuz I've seen a few videos of the people try to do what you do they don't come near as close it's good work as you do get a good workout my friend I love the videos thank you

Awesome job and video, can't wait to see the overflow box put in.

Great Job! What a lot of work done with one person!

Nice work again Chris!....I could watch this stuff all day!,,,,,,,👍😎👍

Sycamore's used in cabinet making, musical instruments & for veneer. Makes hardwearing butcher's blocks too.

Thanks Chris for another great video 👏👏👏🥰 👌🍺🇬🇧

WOWZERS! We've seen you undergo some NASTY looking dredging operations in previous videos. This one appears to me to be one of the most operator unfriendly ones that you've undertaken!

Great stuff Chris!

The Pond Whisperer is back

Sycamore wood is used a a component for certain papers. Intl Paper and Westvaco or what was Westvaco grows acres of it in West TN. Great for deer hunting lots of lanes to shoot down.

Good job so far 👍

Chris that is looking great I always enjoy watching your videos and learning something new 🇺🇲

artistic work with an excavator, creating the pond bank

That stump was huge and worse it had a creepy face on it. :) Glad the home owner decided to clean up the head section, it was driving me nuts. Thank you and have a good day.

Chris i enjoy watching your videos keep up the good job.

Thought this was a Bundy Bear’s Shed crossover episode when the drone music kicked in

Great video longer videos are great thanks Chris👍

Another great video Chris man I can’t wait to you get old Barney out there and start moving dirt with it because that’s gonna turn out to be a fine looking pond there when you get through with it so anyway brother you and John and yawls family stay safe keep the videos coming my friend

Starting to look good Chris👍👍👍👍👍

Time to dredge up the old moniker.... Smooth Operator.

Another masters class in tera forming

Chris,you do a beautiful job.

Sunday afternoon get the notification from Letsdig 18, finally something worth watching, I am going to get to see a Professional turn Mess into Marvelous 1 scoop at a time.

Hi from uk chris👍👋 wow that mid session flyover was great and the scale of this pond is awesome thank you for that and them stills looking to head where epic 👌👍 I wonder what animal had been strolling thru the mud? (Loads of foot trails of summit?) And I could watch you play with stringy trees and grade mud/silt all day if was upload long enough👌 that grading bucket was the white tips on your wand I think 👍 but doin good job as always 👌cant wait to see what trouble you cause venturing out 🤔🙈🕵 thank you for your time and be safe see you soon

Hi Chris, this is a great opportunity to do some time laps as is a big job. Big stumps and all. Timberrrrrr... I remember the 1st video I watch when you rescued the excavator that was stuck in the pond and you used the Big wood mats to move across the pond. Can't wait to see how muddy it is..

It's a good thing you like playing in the mud! You've got a lot of it there!

You are a true artist

Those crunchy roots sound ace

Dang! That was a BIG stump!!

What great music at the 7:30 mark! :-) That seems like much more than a pond. It's practically a reservoir. When full again, it needs fish and ducks and geese. :-)

Nice one Chris 👍😎🇬🇧

Looks great

The sculptor is back to slick her up. Lookin good.

I have always heard that sycamore logs is what railroad crossties were cut out of.

I take it the quote for this job didn't include a lot of time for fishing out all the downed trees! 😉 what a Charlie Foxtrot!

Didn't realize the pawn was so big. Looking good the work you've done so far. Can't wait to see the rest. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦

For the amount of time you would be using that thumb when you are using the grading bucket I'm surprised you haven't "T"ed those hoses so you could use tilt or thumb and still have them both hooked up at the same time. Now that I've written it out I guess the problem would be shutting one set of hoses off when you're using the other tool and then shutting the other set off when you want to switch back again without getting out of the cab. I guess you could throw that idea into the round file with the rest of the good suggestions . . .

This is going to be one hell of a job when the entire pond needs to be dredged, whenever that time comes

You do some nice work

Dang, that stump had some serious roots going on

Healthy population of fish in that pond with all the beds you can see.

The Jedi Pond Master is now on Site......Looking forward to watching the creative process in action.....

Carving it out like a sculptor

That turned out really nice 👌🏻

Instshore just pour an smooth lol great how you make it look so easy and Beautiful

Hell you should attach a trowel to that bucket and trowel finish some concrete lol 👍👍