This is amazing. I still can’t believe it only took them 12 minutes.

I watched it twice, but didn't see any detail denoting the number of beers consumed (at the end of the work day) thorughout the build. If it was like our pond build...it was a large number! ha Fill 'er up!! (both my glass and the pond!)

Great work piecing this video together. Taking a picture a day showing the filling process would be cool too. Have a great day!

Love the video, I think videos like this are extremely important, showing how good work is done and what the process should look like hopefully some young kids will come across this the kind of work to be proud of.

this is one of those times when renting or just buying a Cat D6/d7 sized dozer and selling it right after makes a LOT of sense...those things can move an insane amount of dirt compared to a bobcat/excavator and really tear down deep at the same time and help compact the bed of the pond with the tracks and blade

An extremely well done video. Thank your for your kindness at the PB show. I look forward to us crossing paths again!

That's was satisfying to watch! When I was a teenager I got to watch a dozer work to dam up the holler at my dad's place to create a small lake. Thanks for sharing 👍

I don't know what's more satisfying; watching the bulldozer or the roller! Awesome!

That's amazing to see. I know elevation doesn't show up well on camera, but it became evident after a few minutes that it was much higher near the driveway. So y'all basically built a dam (levee) at the low end to keep in water. Here in flat south Louisiana ponds have to be dug out. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Well Done Adam, we will enjoy hearing update as the pond fills and you enjoy the fruits of your Labour. 😊👍👍👍

Cool to see the build “in one”. Looking forward to some updates on filling and landscaping etc. Would like to do this too one day.😁👍🇬🇧

it's good to see boys and their big toys playing nicely together, it must take time and trust to assume each other won't take one out permanently. I really like watching BIG contractors with their excavators working in close proximity to humans a couple feet away, they don't duck or flinch when the operator swings in the big ass bucket right over them or next to them, those excavator operators earn their money, no daydreaming on that job!

Amazing that this is a pond build and it did not rain once during the construction.

Adam one of your best videos. Just the right amount of vocal content.

This is a serious, professional, pond building, using full finishing equipment. That roller/ compactor, at the late stages is a great idea, but many smaller contractors do not add that step, just harrow or rake it or drag something like broad piece of framed, weighted, chain link fencing to smooth it, then let it settle or capped of in a light rain - adequate for smaller jobs. The problem there being hoping a major rain and erosion doesnt happen before completion. Some guys do almost all the work on small ponds with just a decent sized dozer, alone. It all depends on how much you can, or want to, invest in the project. Going cheaper and sloppier, with risk of wall failures, not recommended for a big pond.

Really well done! Thanks for sharing your Experience!

one of the best videos ive seen. Excellent photography

Thank you so much for posting a well done video not just another long overdrawn time wasting mind numbing video that so many others do on KZfaq.

You would have wanted a concrete apron built around the pipe before it went under the dam. And I would have done a core trench as well. The pond you have here will seep around that pipe, and leech through that dam over time. I am not hating or bashing your video, I just learned a lot through my mistakes as well.

Great Video!! Love the channel!! Was a big inspiration for our pond build series.

Morning Adam! Great video - really enjoyable seeing it all come together. All the best!

Proper compaction with proper clay.

Really it's a half an acre pond. Looks big. Amazing work

That's the style ! Ya'll sure did that pond right !

to be able to do that just blows my mind...... good for you an your family ...

Can you plz explain the cost of everything and what was most important to do in order for the pound to stay and last for decades?

Will still give a like

It's wonderful. Nice work. I might have put an island in it.

New meaning to just going out and digging a hole to let the rain fill up.

Man that's a lot of work! Enjoy Adam! 🐟🎣

I wonder how much a 1/2 acre pond costs to build?

Beautifully done. So simple and straight forward, with excellent techniques. There's some lake building on KZfaq that is just cringeworthy, but this video shows the way it should be. Looks like a mini Queen Mary!

Unusual used almost as much equipment it took build Hoover Dam, will be a nice but terribly expensive dam for someone. This nice time lapse video so different and clever.

Amazing work and thanks for sharing this video! I’d like to know the cost of a project like this.

That was a pretty amazing thing to watch!

Back in my day... we did all this by hand.

Great video. Enjoyed watching all the videos of the pond build. Have a Safe Day

That caterpillar steam roller is awesome

You are one of the only people on youtube that has properly run a roller in their pond. It is mind blowing how many people build a pond and don't roll it in. And no, dozer tracks don't do near as good as a roller.

All right let's go swimmin! Great video Adam, it really ties it all together to see a montage of all the videos of the pond build, thumbs u.

That’s some good looking top soil

Still on the adds, instant like and comment. Great and much need summary to the build👍

but does it hold water?

Insane that after all that effort it still has kept leaking and is still not finished.

Lookin good. The dozer made a big difference!

I like this music

Make sure to add a "Bubbler" to keep the Pond cleaner & help with adding Oxygen to the water. Solar is the way to go...

Hmm, surprised that the dam was not compacted in lifts. I did concrete construction for years, and always used gravel for fill since it is so plentiful here. Never more than 6 inch lifts without compaction. When ever I saw dirt being used for fill, they would use a sheep's foot roller to compact the soil, and in lifts again. The cat doesn't have enough pounds per square foot pressure to do a good compaction since the tracks are pretty wide and long. I would expect that dam to settle quite a bit in the coming years. Did I miss some thing?

You have fast workers. I would do mine in 10 days rather than 12 minutes.

I start my new job tomorow building a pond. I just became a skid steer oporator. Im also a joureyman ironworker and jouneyman formsetter. This will be my first time working as an oporator. Any tips would be greatly appreaciated

After sludge has accumulated at the bottom, it can be pumped out using a motor pump for dirty water and a Bagermaster suction nozzle.

This is step 1 and 2 of building a pond: excavation and compaction . The next steps involve designing the pond for what you want it to do such as swimming, trout habitat, clear water, waterfowl etc. This current pond will be fine for irrigation and some warm water fishing, but it still lacks the habitat for a quality fishery.

Best work ever!

Now you should name the pond!

ha ha love the music! great video! yee haw! :)

you need a D-6 and a Cat 395 medium boom. I completed (by contracting it) a 5 acre redo in total in 3 days.

This would have been so much easier if u take those two Tonka toys away small skid loaders away and saved that money and rented or borrowed a D6 maybe and push that topping up to the joe then instead of the joe grabbing the dirt twice or three × just load it out right as the dozer Britt brought straight into awaiting dump trucks

Nice job! Where I’m from you’d need heavy explosives to do something like that! They don’t call where I’m from “the rock” for no reason!

Thinking about one this size , what's your outside dimensions of it? And how many acres of drainage do you have to support it? Nice video 👍

I'm from Cleveland Ohio and this is amazing, how long did this project take or is it still being made and what's the cost of a job like this I really can't imagine ?

makes it look so easy

Adam, Did you run into any rocks? It does not look like you did. I would say you have some real nice soil on your farm. I wish you hadn't got rid of all that extra topsoil. Your on farm you can always use good grade topsoil.

Great. Well done. Keep me updated. Thanks 😊

Always wanted to see how this was done, so cheers. When are you going to fill it? Will there be a video?

So beautiful

Thanks for the video, did you all do a core Trench? It is recommended by so many people online. Does the pond hold water well? There's also some debate on some other videos as to whether you should have used a sheep's Huff or padded roller instead of the smooth roller even though the smooth roller looks like it puts a nice finish Onnit, instead of looking like a waffle cone. Thanks for a response thanks for a response

Wow amazing!

wow alot of work

I cannot believe you did all this work and didnt dig a damn?? you are supposed to dig down passed the top soil, example you shouldve dug a trench multiple feet down before just piling topsoil up in a mound and expect it to hold water?! This pond will most definitely leak if not blow out one day. Good luck

very cool, thank you

Hey, awesome video! One question - what permits did you need? Thanks!

Here's an idea ; how about a natural looking shape?

Could you have achieved the same effect with dynamite? Serious question and possibly even more serious fun

I missed the part where they wrote the check to the company that did all that work. 😆

Watched the fix video, now I see the key way

Would you please share the links for all the background music you used in this video? Love it! 😊 Also, thanks for the video!

Imagine using one of those giant strip mining machines you could dig the pond in like one scoop.

The time lapse looked good, but I bet the dam leaks.

Thanks for the compilation. Now here come the "Ya shoulda had a dozer sooner" comments again...

Great video! Im going to be critic however. 1st, where was the dozer from go? 2nd, i think a scraper would have moved that dirt way faster then 2 or 3 "moves" to get it to its final resting place with excavator.and 2.or 3 track.steers. 3rd, when making a dam, you need to conpact small layers (6-8"), one at a time for a good solid leak free dam. It was just piled with excavator then "cleaned up" with dozer. That is not enough compaction. This dam Dam will settle and maybe even leak. 4th is the through dam overflow pipe. Why put something through the bottom middle of dam (point of highest hydraulic pressure) that.can fail or cause leakes in time? Im a fan of top down overflows. Dont have to dig up entire dam to fix it. I hope the dam thing doesn't leak on you! If so, start all.over again to core it properly. Yuk! Cool time laspe!

Someone really wanted a pond all right. I felt a huge money suck watching the video. All for a small pond.

How's she goin'? Wow what a project!!! You don't tackle that on a weekend eh!!! It sure looks some nice. Well landscaped and I like the drain ditches through the bottom of the pond. Very nice and well designed!! Take care!!!

Pretty cool

Greatest shit ever I didn’t see them grade but the grade was perfect 👍🏾

Am building same soon

no clay core below the dam? is it not necessary on ponds this size? im def not an expert and i hate trolls so im not here to trash, just curious. the video was great and the pond looks great too.

Real nice we had ower pond don with a bulduser. And it’s way faster

I'm not impressed with the speed that it can be done. I'm impressed with quality and longevity. Do we have any information on the amount of clay used or the permeability of the soil?

So nice bro

Beautiful 🐊🦅🇺🇲👍

Great job!

This was simply awesome

How much would something like this cost? I have no clue

I guess if I have to ask how much this costs I probably can’t afford it! One frog pond coming up!!😂

Just curious why there was no core trench put in under the dam

Watched BamaBass's pond, they had clay hauled over to prevent water from seeping out and still had problems which they had to use some kind of artificial product to fix. Not seeing any of that done here. How do you prevent water from leaking out?

What does something like this cost it’s came out great

Nice video I bet it won't hold water.

Ready to see how long to fill

If I only had a skidsteer.