Stand pipes are always a headache on pond builds. Put in a rock spillway and you are done.

I’m so sorry that your huge excitement over building a pond was bashed by one of the 1001 things that could go wrong. It was unfortunate that happened, but I can tell you that we viewers admire you all the more for not moaning about it. Instead, you realized you needed help and set your pride aside to go get it. Thank you for being such a model for grit and determination. That pond is still an exciting project over all!

Way to go Adam. Respect to Dirt Perfect and Captain Kleeman also John Maddison for stepping up to the mark and pointing you in the right direction. These are truly great people who will always go that extra mile.

Learning from our mistakes make us better in the long run. Always love collaborations between channels, especially when I already watch both.

Looks good! Looking forward to the next video to see how it all packs in. And thank you for the shout out!

Get rid of the standpipe while you have the equipment there. It adds no value. Run an overflow pipe in a trench down the back of the dam. Use steel pipe. Mine has been there for 50 years. You already have the emergency overflow.

That grass on the sides of the dam is looking amazing.

Nice to be able to get help like this, I have followed both Dirt perfect and Captain Kleeman for several years, they are much about ponds

Nice collaboration. Gracious of Captain Kleeman and Dirt Perfect to consult. Fine channels.

I breathed a sigh of relief for you when you found the problem . Keep up the good work, Adam .

Thanks for the video, I hope things work out for you and your pond. It will be beautiful on your property. It can be difficult to take the criticism but you've shown how determined you are. Humility comes to mind. Stay positive! Mike

Good morning Adam. When you said ask the experts, I immediately thought of Dirt Perfect. So good of Captain Kleeman to respond in video 👍🏼 I’m very much looking forward to the next video in this series. Bless’ns to ya, Tedd

It’s a great community to be part of. Outdoors with the Morgan’s, Dirt Perfect, Captain Kleeman, Concrete with the Haus’s, and you!

Remote control vibratory sheepsfoot trench rollers are available from any equipment rental company. 4”-6” lifts and take your time (I know it’s slower than a large roller) will give you a much better job than a large smooth roller.

Hey Adam, it's nice to have friends and people around that genuinely want to help. Everybody would be so better off with nice genuine people around. Nice video.

Nothing more frustrating than getting all excited about a new pond only to have it leak. Never a guarantee but I am hopeful you’ll be successful now. Pulling for you!

I need to adjust my time when the pond will be full. I say October 2022. Glad you found the problem and mother nature cooperated. Hopefully you'll get a enough for a little ice skating. Great work and great videos. Have a good day!

This pond series is interesting and a good problem solving explanation. Thanks for documenting and sharing

Wow what a lot of work, glad that you figured it out, looking forward to seeing your family doing some ice skating this winter. Maybe some polar bear swimming? Just to celebrate the damn completion! Great video Adam, thumbs up.

there is a youtuber called "Practical Engineering'. He has several good videos in packing dirt and on dirt dams. I enjoyed them and thought about your dam when I watched them. Good viewing and good luck.

Hope it works for you. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to tomorrow's video. Have a great weekend.

Good luck.... I hope it works out for you.... watching your previous episodes, I was also thinking of the Captain.... great guy !

Thanks for sharing, once again I’m glad I was able to dig my pond and not build it. Sorry you had to experience this but hopefully folks will learn from your experience

Adam, thanks for sharing the entire pond building and rebuilding experience. I may be attempting to build a pond in the next year or so and I'm learning a ton from you! I love your videos. Keep up the great work!

Wow lots to do. Looks like you have a handle on it now. Interesting how the pipe was buggered up though. All the best, Mark🌴🍻

Looking good glade you found part of the problem best of luck 😁

It looks like they recommended a key way. It looks like you didn't install a keyway, and instead just replaced a broken fitting with a new fitting that's the same schedule as the one that failed. Hopefully the compaction that you're planning is the solution to the leak problem. That broken fitting should have been replaced by a much stronger one.

You can say "been there done that" . Learning as you go!

It looks like you replaced the broken T with a broken 90 deg. That standpipe moved at least 8 inches back and forth as the bucket tamped dirt around it. A hard PVC elbow can't take that much flex. Something had to give in your 90 deg union. I'd get a borescope and look down your pipe for cracks.

Experience is your best teacher and making mistakes and fixing the problems is how you get experience to learn from

What about hiring a compacter? And also I would inspect that junction from the inside (with a camera (w/light), on a stick) *as soon as possible:* I could see that standpipe get moved about again.

those cracks on the top of the damn are a sure sign of lack of compaction

Compaction was brought up so many times when you started…

Good luck Adam.

I was at a garage sale one day and noticed his pond next to his house. It was beautiful. The land was almost flat and he didn’t have a dam at all. He has it st up for fishing and u could see that they spent a lot of time there he said it was the best 5 grand he has ever spend

I was wondering why the damn failed. Thanks for updating us. Will keep my fingers crossed that this fixes it.

Whoa - the Cap helping out -- that a boy Cap

Hey Adam. Sorry you had to do this extra work again. I know how important this pond is to your family. Fingers crossed this is the fix this time. Great video as usual. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

You got to play with the big Tonka toys again.

ADAM, Don't ya just hate 're-do's ! But it's always good when you find the culprit!!! And even better when you can find someone who already had the same experience that is willing to give you help!! Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

Watching y'all work it's good thing you don't mind re doing things

Captain Kleeman is really smart. Nice consult. At this point, it’s less of a pond, more of a money pit! Sorry it’s been such a crazy investment. Certainly it’s making me rethink making a pond next year. -Chad

Whsn i was running a dozer for construction company when we built ponds and lakes we always had to cut a core ditch where the levees were gonna be what we would do is take out all the dirt about 8 or 9 ft wide and 7 to 9 ft deep then find some good soil that packs good and sets up good we probably put alot of clay also where the levees are then after building the soil up every 10. Inches or so we would pull a sheeps foot over it alot its big roller with spikes sticking out of it you pull behind a big tractor we used a 856 international also id run the old paddle wheel dirt pan over it packing it thats what i alwsys dug the core ditch out with i loved running it cause sitting out in front of it wa s way cooler than any hot dozer but i hope this will help some sorry I'm little late for you .

And that’s why you use concrete around the stand pipe

You build ponds a lot different than we do.

The ironic part is areas like the firewood road that you don't want to hold water always do...

I like Kleeman. He's a good guy. Looks like you might have succeeded.

So the problem is compaction but you still are not using a sheeps foot. I hope you dont regret that decision again

when it happens again, you need to install whats called s "Bull tee" the area in bottom catch water and absorbs the force so they don't break, also your through pipe should be a size larger then your stand pipe

OK, digging is expensive, especially repeating, a friend of mine installs small landscape ponds. He bought several 240" x 1200" rolls of 20 mil plastic vapour barrier to augment the HDPE liners and to seperate clay from gravel layers (he uses geotextile between gravel layers). What about putting a 20 mil plastic liner in the keyway cut? The plastic needs only to survive the construction phase! Maybe a thinner liner could work but I see construction companies using various geotextiles and plastic barriers in local projects! If the keyway fails please look at a liner or barrier! Also look into using a trencher attachment on an excavator instead of a very slow bucket equipped excavator! Local companies have trenchers that cut far deeper than 8 feet, some can trench and deposite concrete and plastic liner immediately in the trench as it digs! We have more than 2 local companies who have the ability to go deeper than 20' placing concrete in the trench behind the trencher. I am in Alantic Canada so I expect that those are more common in the States! One company has capitolized on ending climate change coastal erosion using that tech down through sandstone layers!

Compaction, compaction, compaction... we recently had our front porch redone (house is cut into a hill, front porch is about 8' above driveway). We had a block wall built then backfilled with native soil. Crew did 12 -16" lifts with minimal compaction and soil supporting the patio at the top of the wall is still settling 2 years later. Too many conversations with that guy where he laments having to come back ... should have done it right the first time. You did well on yours but things can and will go wrong at times. Good luck on the redo.

It looks like your original excavator operator was WAY too rough with the pipe install.

As said from others you may want to check your 90. It definitely moved but idk how much is too much. I will say that there’s no such thing as too much compaction. Tamping with the bucket is doing nothing, you’d get more compaction walking on it. And honestly a smooth drum roller is actually not that great either. Driving over it with a tractor will do more for compaction. More psi. Id be weary of how little compaction you have around that stand pipe. Hopefully when they dig the key they’ll dig it in front of the stand pipe and perhaps tie that on and your anti seep collar will help. When I put in an anti seep collar I cut it way under size and slip it over from the direction of the water. Then I put a hose clamp on just to keep it from getting stretched away from dirt pushing on it. Good luck. It sucks having to fix something you just did and haven’t gotten any use out of.

The trench where you put the pipe into should be full of stirred mud that surrounds your pipe. Then covered with regular dirt and packed with a very heavy roller or dump truck. This wil give a hydraulic seal that will suck soil in as it drys. Pure dry fill is hard to get right.

i watch another pond video... they had a few leaks and used this polymer sand type stuff. two parts , you spread one , then the other, i guess the water will pull it into the leak and the polymers expand. Worked for him.. If you dont get it to seal up this time, maybe look into that

Water weight distorted that plastic pipe due to the pressure? Correct? Add the pressure from a filled pound and can that plastic pipe stand up to it? Just asking if anyone knows?

Great job keep up the good work

Not sure if I would put a wood yard below a dam wall that I don’t believe was compacted properly. Hope I’m wrong and the wall holds.

Sorry you had to fix your dam so soon but great video, look forward to the next one!

Awesome video and solution 👌

Doesn't the keyway need to start below ground level and then put the lifts in. I was thinking Kleeman showed on his drawing that the keyway should start below the bottom depth of the pond.

So much work! So much invested that it’s gotta work or die trying

I remember during the build when the track hoe operator hit the stand pipe. That must have been what broke the T! Man this really is a bummer that you have to re-do the dam. Live and learn seems to be the norm for me! Thanks for sharing Adam

Looking good Adam

Hope this works,, Looks like you're going to need to bring in a water truck for ice skating rink.

Great job

What did you do different to prevent the standpipe joint from cracking/collapsing again? With all the work to dig that up I would have poured concrete around the joint. That would also have helped as a seep collar

How about using bentonite? When I lived in Texas they wouldn't dream of building a cattle tank (pond)without it clay or no clay.

When I saw that squished pipe, I could not help by think that this seems to by the wrong type of pipe.

We got lucky with some more good weather

Sucks that it happened but there had to be some relief when you saw the break in the pipe so you know for sure you're fixing at least one serious issue.

I live in Michigan, and have done excavating, ponds, drain fields my whole life, I have NEVER used anything less than Schedule 40, or steel, why does this look like sced.30?

There you go, again!! You've got a problem, & you do what has to be done to fix it - no whining videos - just fix it!! You need a T-shirt that says that - Just Fix It! 🤩🤩🤩 Great videos, always!!

I heard from an old timer that they used to use a bunch of hogs to seal their ponds. Fence them in and let them wallow. Interesting

I think I would have used a mechanical restraint on the new tee.

Couldn't you use a Small "Jumping Jack" Compactor closer around the pipe for better Compaction around the Pipe and Union?

The standpipe would have been better if placed in the pond away from the damn and not in the damn and it should have been set in concrete. The through-pipe should have also been set in concrete or you could have used an anti-seep collar on it. Setting these spillway pipes in concrete helps protect them from being damaged. Good luck. Hope you get her water tight.

Interesting option of fixing it with the same materials that failed..

Dag on dude! Your channel is by far the most real channel I am subscribed to! Your successes and failures, you put all out there! I’m glad you keep it real! Sorry you’re having these added expenses but at the end of the day it only makes you more knowledgeable on the subject and awesome memories with others.

You should have put concrete at the base of the standpipe encapsulating the elbow, all that weight of the vertical standpipe is on that elbow, even though the pipe is surrounded by dirt the weight is still pushing the pipe down, eventually it will fail again, it needs support under the pipe, that's why your T failed and the pipe had that bend in the bottom of it.

You need a drain made out of concrete like the ones used on the east coast, like Chris , let’s dig 18 ?

Never knew there was so much to making a pond. I’m in Florida and all you have to do is dig a hole.

Don't know your state - but another source is Chris (friend of dp)- youtube handle is letsdig18. He in N.Carolina and has 1000's of ponds under his belt - on youtube since 2012. Incidentally I've never seen anyone use solid pipe for an overflow as pooposed to black rubber - sorry I don't know the name.. .

I wish I had clay to build a 3/4 acre pond.

I seen the videos of the dam build. It was not built in lifts and each lift compacted. Saving time and money on pond dams is suicide and dangerous because the whole thing will fail and flood everything down stream. Don't you have building codes there?

Hey Adam, don't they make a sheep's foot attachment for the excavator?

If the material is clay, you should be able to roll an ⅛" worm with both hands. If you can't, your material contains more silts.

I’m revising my pond fill estimate to MAR 2022

Good to get good info to fix the pond.

There is an old saying; "There is always time to do it right the second time". This reminds me why I never want to live below a dam. Plastic pipe is probably not strong enough for the job you are asking it to do, especially over the long term.

It certainly sucks having to do things twice. On the bright side, you pond wasn't anywhere close to full and needing to drain before you got started.

The weight of those machines cracked the pipe. I watched Kleeman repair his dam back in August. He made the same mistake at first, not compacting enough. When he fixed his, he rolled and rolled and rolled each layer he put down. You were relying on the weight of the excavator and bulldozer to do it and that’s not enough solid weight. Just stay away from the pipe.

Nice.

Thank you "Madison & Gang" for the assist!

12:01. I can hear the Owners shouting at the Digger driver. GENTLY GENTLY. ! Etc Etc. Lol

No such thing as failed. It's about making adjustments and continuing with your mission. FYI, my Guide 119 and fishing rods are on pond standby🙂

I’ll never understand the pipe thing. Can someone tell me why the pipe in the bottom is preferable?

Would it make any sense to lock that stuff in and protect it with concrete?

If you had the opportunity, would you build another pond? Don’t consider the cost to answer the question.

Adam.. I Love that song You have playing over Your videos... is that a youtube exclusive?