Chris, I am a 76 yr. old pensioner from Australia. Was fascinated by your two videos. It was very upsetting when the rain destroyed everything you had done. I was impressed.......you didn’t swear once. For some reason, I find these types of videos interesting. Next time I come back, I might be a man and work with this type of machinery. I also like to see them breaking up beaver dams. I’m a nurse so I have never done anything like this. You seem to take pride in your work and you did a bloody good job. Congratulations.

I would be sweating until the grass took hold good. Great job and a lot of patience.

Can you do a quick re visit at some point would be interesting to see how it faired up against the weather

Bless you for helping the neighbors sort all that rock out of their yard. Hell of a nuisance for everyone involved!

What a flustercluck. They really need to just defer to your wisdom and expertise and let you do what needs to be done to get everything sustainable for the future. Well done, Chris.

you need a compactor attachment for the mini

Chris: *ties pipe to tree* “modern problems require modern solutions”

Man. Where's this channel been my whole life? Thank's Chris!

Well, that took a whole boat load of patience, and a dent in the budget.

Wow you did an excellent job repairing that mess!

Another Damn Miracle! Great job Chris! And helper! No Tim, but at least he has a pulse!

“JUST SOLVIN PROBLEMS WITH MODERN DAY SOLUTIONS” YOURE A MACHINE YOURSELF SIR

Isn’t that diameter pipe to small and dam to low for the amount of water flowing into that pond?

Nice to see you had some help on this job. You've been on your own a lot of late.

3:07 at first I thought you said “there’s a body down here” and I thought “he really does not get fazed by much, does he” 😂

Dam those trees. I can't imagine that big one at the bottom is going to live and the smaller ones up top with their rootballs 1/2 hanging out in the wind?

Best care the dam has had in over 20 years... We can tell because of the trees which shouldn't have been allowed to grow.

Good work chris, man that was a hell of a hole there, that took alot of dirt, thanks for sharing

Ouch, it really got narrow there at the top, hopefully it will stay in place this time.The tilt asm for bucket on the Yanmar works out well.

Couldn't you lower the inlet of the pipe by a foot aswell to help in flash floods to help prevent water going over the top of the dam

Chris You need some of that material from the other job. Yikes what a mess. Glad to see a extra person there helping things along.😉😁💯💯💯💯

Please be extra careful when you're working alone. Great job. They should have hired you to do more maintenance at the same time.

Addicted my friend. Your expertise with your machines is pretty damn impressive. I'm glad this finish video came out. The first one was awesome. Better job second time around. Feels like you're givin mother nature a reply for that flood...lol. I kinda like the sound of the track too. Reminds me of being in a tank. Watching and learning sir. As always be blessed and safe. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

In southern Missouri where I live there is some ponds that drain such a big area that they put 7ft spillway pipes in 2 acre ponds, I have seen those ponds overflow a time or 2!

Unfortunately the Huge Rain occurred, Flooded Area making Additional Work. You made it Right.👍

Really been waiting for this one. I felt so bad for you after you had done all that work fixing things and all your work was destroyed by flood from the storm.

You need 5 of those pipes side by side for that amount of water the 300 mm 12 inch pye square x 5 would be a major improvement on the over flow maybe a water engineer could give you some accurate data !

Yep that would pi** me off! Well done Chris👍👍

The lack of proper compaction of the soil during the reconstruction of the embankment resulted in the blurring of the heaped soil during rainfall

Hopefully the rain won’t come to Seed sprout up and take care of that washout. That is a beautiful job. 👍☕️🍀

Great job again Chris. If that washes out again then that is some serious rain!! Take care and be safe. Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧♥️

That grading bucket on the knuckle is just an awesome tool

Looks to me like there has been many years of neglect when it comes to that dam, all those bushes on the water side and the trees on the other side, my understanding is the root system in the trees is harmful to the dam, plus you get rodents and such burrowing around the trees and bushes.

You are going to have that section of road well packed.

Man that pond levee needs to be raised all around and let you do what you best. great job

Just consider the first time a practice run 😉 You made it much better this time 👍 I am hoping that the customer(s) compensated you for all the extra work. If you hadn't done the original work, there would not have been a dam to fix, it would have been a build from scratch situation.

Looks good, that pond needs a lot more maintenance, trees off the dam and around the pond if not it will become a swamp .

Nice job Chris hopefully they won't get any rain for awhile 😎👍👍🇺🇸

They really need you to do some tree clearing on that damn Dam !

For seeding I would use Clover as it has very deep roots and grows where most grasses won't .

Very nicely done, thanks for sharing !

Can I ask why you don't put stone instead of dirt , as the last load washed away when dam overflowed 🤔 I do enjoy your videos 👍

Holy moly, it looked steep where you drove down.

Am I the only one that thinks it’s in my best interest to go out and buy a skid steer and track hoe. Every time I see these videos the urge gets greater.

Good job as usual but this dam won't last another 10 years before it fails completely. I know I wouldn't want to be on the downstream side when that happens.

Leave the bottom step on the staircase on dudes and just Bury it in concrete. That would make it even more stable. Great content, loving what you dudes are doing.

Chris you are always Semper Gumby! Always flexible. Great job

It looks like another first class job completed... Good work..

After mother nature tried to stuff this job up for you you fixed it up well bro. Y'all stay safe

You are just working smarter not harder. Love you videos. Makes me wish I had gone into heavy equipment and not driving a semi. But both are good jobs.

Another great video Chris that was a shame that all the work you done the week before wash down that creek after mother natures freak storm that night 9 inches of rain is a lot of water falling at one time oh brother you and John and yawls family y’all stay safe and keep them coming

Looks great Chris hope you are having a great week

I read below some offering suggestions to long term solution. But repairing the dam will just be until the next flood. The pipe is not providing sufficient drainage. I honestly would come up with a better solution than restoration or I would walk away.

Should have built a spillway to the side of your pipe ditch and lined it with d rock for a filter to slow the water down and it wouldn’t hurt to add some over your pipe ditch as well but great fix loved watching

You are a surgeon with this machine!

As many ponds I’ve done I stay away from culverts they plug up and seem to always wash out around them . 👍 put in a natural spill way with lots of rock problem solved . Unless you get a lot of rain hurricane rain then nothing is safe😉

Old Mother Nature just wanted to make extra sure that you really wanted a pond dam there.

I'm thinking that it needs at least 2 pipes that size or more. Maybe do that when they call you back for the next dam failure.

If we had that many trees on our dam DHEC would go crazy!

Well, it looked like it took a little less time the 2nd time 🤔 Hopefully there won't be a 3rd time Nicely done 👍👍

The worst part about all this, is when that area gets another heavy rain event, you'll be back to do it all again. The owner really needs to spend the money and solve the basic problem...build a decent spillway or add another 6, or more , overflow pipes. The outlet (overflow) needs to be able to handle at least double what the inflow rate is...otherwise the water will keep coming over the top of the wall.

Filling and fixing the Dam, "deja vu" Seems I saw you do this a week ago.

Nice to follow your jobs to completion.

I like the way this machine sounds while operating, it's almost musical

I thought you had a new Timmy there for like 10 seconds in the beginning then he disappeared.

That guy needs a 3-4’ wide emergency spillway that’s 2” or so below the top of the drain pipe so the water never gets above the pipe level.

I’m not there but I think that punching with the shovel probably isn’t enough to creat a resilient clay mass. The earth in the new fill probably isn’t as compacted as the earth in the rest of the dam. It will sink a little over time. It will stop erosion on the core of the dam though, so it’s probably ok. Also I hope you scraped the organic topsoil of before you added that top layer of clay. Further I would strongly recommend that all trees be removed from the dam wall and replant with researched shrubs that won’t root through the dam to the water. Good luck.

*First,* given the big flood and washout--are you sure one pipe is enough? Maybe a second, or even a third. *Second,* trees on an earthen dam is a huge problem. The roots can penetrate the dam, then when the tree eventually dies the roots rot out leaving a bunch of open channels and the dam fails.

This may be a stupid question, but here goes, when you are using the bucket to hammer the dirt into corners and really anytime, why don't you use the bucket full of dirt? It seams to me you are beating the shit out of the machine to do this, but with more weight in the bucket, you may not have to beat on it as hard!!

Your video is very well shared, wish you success.

It looks great. So without a spillway what prevents this from happening again?

When you have trees in your dam. You have problems.

Chris put Rock's in with it

Necessity is the mother of invention! Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.

They would need some sort of concrete spill way down to stream to stop the big floods or get rid of the pond.

Very nice good job Chris as usual.

looks like your loven that new bucket great job

Hey there Chris. When you are ready to take a break, come on over to Craig Colorado, and do some fishing or elk viewing

Thank you for posting these videos. They are very interesting. Please ignore all the arm chair geniuses who gain empty satisfaction by telling you how you should have done things. If the man that actually works, stops to listen to all the advisors sitting and second guessing, nothing will ever get done. Thanks for actually doing. and- shouldn't that drain pipe have been a different color?

Small bucket on the mini, fill with dirt then pound the snot out of the ground. Extra weight, extra compaction.

Welldone , lets hope it dont rain none soon

Would putting another overflow pipe not have been a good idea ? I mean it overflowed with just 1

''We do it right because we do it twice!'' Just kidding, that job really did get stuck by lightning twice!

Very good! Congratulation from Brasil!

been watching for 4 hours cant help it. amazing channel. keep up the good content.

Wonder if it would help hold the coupler to the pipe if self taping screws were inserted.

If you were installing this new what size pipe would you put in? Lower the water level so it can handle larger rainstorms? add a spillway? Add rock to slow down the water on the backside?

Should have been inside smooth bore pipe ... lot of water will vibrate it loose eventually .

Chris, it looks like a boom mounted plate compactor is in order for these types of projects.

I was helping a friend who rented a JD 35G. He was not very efficient, but it was his job, so I kept my ideas to myself. It occurred to me that the only way I could justify my suggestions was to say "Well, that's the way Letsdig18 does it."

Yeah he needs a spillway for the run off for this pond I'd say 5 to 6' wide or lay some epdm rubber liner and fill it with rock to make a flow back transition line. It would have to be pretty good size 15' X 35' down the slope. Not sure if that would be enough to handle that amount of over flow but it sounds like that rain was a one off gusher. At least it would wash away but it doesn't take much when you have fresh dirt until it starts getting grass to root it in. I need to get me one of these, Looks much easier than a grader but a little harder than a bobcat. I suck at a grader I had to move one. Tons of levers with no markings, took me forever to find the right controls.

Is the thumb always manually disconnected with the grading bucket or do you have a flow diverter switch in the cab? It seems that the thumb could be valuable to be operational all the time.

Really was a mess. Looks great

Should use boulders to build in that area and hide the pipe looks better and no worries of washout. Or at the very least some good compacted clay.

I bet it feels like the movie groundhog days dumping the dirt from skid steer ,it’s identical to your earlier video before collapse lol

Deja vu all over again!

Seems like this pond dam needs an emergency spillway, so that it does not get overtopped again. Preferably on the side away from the neighbors.

Problem? Ha! No problem for Chris! :-)

Man at 1:09 you almost had a serious disaster, there was maybe 6’ of dirt left holding the pond back if that would broke the water would of eroded a massive hole in the center of that dam and leaked the entire pond out. 😬😬

Well Done but only for a short time When the water get over the dam it spoiled out again The Pipe had to be much wider in diameter Take care Yours Frank