Turtle looked up, seen the Volvosaurus coming & thought, "Oh shit, run forest run!"

That’s some pond dam Chris!! Looks a lot better now it’s cleared! Looking forward to the next video!! Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍👍

Yup, sounds a lot more efficient without that annoying loss of charge air.

Amazed at how easy these trees are coming out. Will see what rains you get out of Elsa!! Time to burn!!

For the Families getting a New Pond dug, it has to be very exciting to see you making progress.👍

Owner said "give me my pond back" and it looks like you have already given him a good chunk of it...

Wow, I can't believe how fast trees grow there! Now I can see where the old pond was. Love your pond creating videos!

Yes, taking the weekend off by doing your job, just for yourself. Makes perfect sense!

you needed strawberry shortcake on the pond dam. we gotta keep that name alive.

Can't wait to see the burning! Love hearing the crunch of the trees! Can't believe how high that pond dam is! Good job as usual Chris!!!!

Hello Chris! Glad you were able to do whatever you wanted to do over the 4th of July Weekend.👍

Looks awesome Chris and yes watch out for those ground hornets.

I’ve been waiting for you to come back on this pond video and hoping I didn’t miss out on seeing it Chris

Now we know how Chris spends his free time after he has been working with the excavator all week, he is playing with a small excavator.

Chris I really like your Yanmar with shredder, cool man. But this super Volvo is the fabulous power lifter !!

I wish I could work with someone like you. Your an absolute inspirational guy.

Nice work. I also love your 2 new additions the the family. Looks like they both will be a great investment. Thank you CHRIS for the taking the time to share a part of your worklife with us all. Much appreciated Andy Australia

Well Chris things are starting to shape up around that pond it looks like it’s a pretty good size pond and you got your work cut out for you fixing that Breach in that dam, but anyway brother another great video and you and John and your family stay safe and keep the videos coming

I like the 220 'cause you can pinch 8" trees right in half, it's cool the power it has.

It is enjoyable watching someone so smooth on a machine. Watching you is like watching an expert fine grade man on a dozer. Thank you for posting good interesting videos.

Time to bring in " The Strawberry Shortcake Munch-A-Lot"

We know you do have a life and do not like to upload vids everyday, but to watch on Thursday what you did Monday leaves us lacking 'new video'. Good clearing job and stradleling an old skinny dam - glad you dig not get bee stung.

He can pull those trees as easy as you can pull a carrot out of sandy soil

It is really fun watching a professional operator run a machine like it's an extension of himself. And this Volvo is a BEAST!!!!!

When we were outside at the back of your excavator admire how well you have kept that from been scratched up it looks great.. i’ve been a little bit scared on top of that little narrower pond dam. Enjoyed your video

Good job, I push trees over daily and have learned for a few reasons to never have the door or windows open.. swarming bee hives, I have been stung many times as bees love to make hives in pine trees, had a swarm that thick on the cab window last week could hardly see out of it.

glad you was able too take the weekend off and stay at home. you work hard enough too deserve it.

A small but noisy part of my brain really wants to put giant googley eyes on your the sides of your excavator bucket, so it looks like a metal dinosaur grazing as you work. I know... I'm bonkers.

I love to hear when you snap the trees off

We're north of you, two days of heavy rain. Braver than I am, I'd use the mini for the pond dam. Can't wait to see how this one turns out.

I was wondering if you were going to re-core the dam . No telling what's there now. looking good :-)

great thursday new LETSDIG18 VIDEO

The white bird looked like an Ibis.

To me, the pond with the little peninsula, looked nicer and more interesting than just the puddle that it looks like you are intending to build

I think the bird might have been a Little Egret Chris.

Chris I wish I could get out and do that kind of work again but I can not so I am glad that you do it and let people watch as you do it my hat is off to you my friend.

My anxiety was killing me when you was working on top of that Dam....

Nice job Chris This dam is a perfect christening for the new Yanmar

The more commentary, the better. I like to know the why behind the work. The videos are great, keep 'em coming.

I hope they tracked good dirt in on that dam. That is a tall dam that’s gonna hold back a lot of water

For several videos now I was going to ask why the 220 sounded like an air compressor with an open hose. But now we know why. Sounds much better!

I could not even imagine that it would look like that before it was cleared.

Yep looks good with the trees cleared bro, hope you leave enough water for snappy. Safe travels

You are a master at operating the Volvo. You make it look so easy.

Your new mini and mulcher would probably be great for the back side of that dam.

Love the video on this Dam or pond ,

A good sized decent machine, with a good operator, sure makes this look easy. I watched the renter of the farm just South of my house, struggle for near 2 weeks with a wore out good sized Deere excavator with a mechanical thumb, try to remove trees and brush from a couple miles of line fence. He even had 2 helpers running a chain saw for the big trees and a grapple on a skid loader to move brush.

Love the contents of your videos what would be interesting is for you to go back and have a look at some of the jobs that you have done over the past year or so to see what they look lime now, keep up the good work.

Egret....white bird was an egret. Love the channel!

White egret was the bird. There are the white ones and there's a dark one like a grayish blue color. 👍

Should have gotten plenty of rain today! We got @5” last night down here in the Lowcountry SC

I’m amazed at how Sandy your dirt is ( we call it soil here in the UK 🇬🇧) nice vid ,cheers 👍

Chris and his 220 VOLV0 a great power. This work is a gigant task. What i sea to the video is the dam from the trees roots possible not thick. And all another works ar hard to make. However you make this very good. The video is grand. Greeting 🇦🇹👍

Awesome machine. You command it beautifully.

You cleaned that up well.

You said the two best words I want to hear when I did the few ponds I did on the ranch and my last acreage. The contractor would ask how deep do you want the pond?? I would answer “Very Deep”!! Hahaha. I always wanted trout in them except for drinking water. We were able to eliminate the use of our last pond we used for drinking water quite a while ago so that had small trout in it as well!! Haha. The kids, nieces and nephews, crews’ kids, and a lot of adults enjoyed even fishing for the little ones. It was private stocked and private land so they could keep whatever they could use. Nothing like a nice little 12” trout fried in a cast iron pan with butter and onions, carrots, whatever and done over an open fire! Anyways. Like I said, Very Deep!! Haha.

Dont you wish all the dirt shook off roots like on this job!? No wasting time.

I look forward to the fire, and also the digging and grading, the bottom of that thing is so uneven it *bugs me*.

This intro 🙂 One of these days I’m going to come down there and take you on a date

I wonder if Chris talks to himself with no GoPro in the cab. I bet he does.

Good job so far ✅ looks like it will be very nice when done. 😎👍

Thats a great job done now I can see the dam 🥰👍

Evening all from the UK.

Awesome footage 🙂

Cool video, love watching you on that machine. Great content.

I couldn't keep the wheels of a SKATEBOARD on on the narrow crest of that old pond dam, Chris. 🤯

I bet the tree huggers love you! Lol

Great footage of that dam failure

Damn man. You could park the titanic in that pond. Hell ots gotta be 15 feet deep right there in that corner

Looking good, lots of work ahead cant wait to watch.😆

You had a expensive weekend with a new toy and a attachment. 😆

Looks like Godzilla attacking the tall trees.😳

you should leave a little water for the critters.....😀

Great White Egret 👍

2:02 that boys and girls is the money shot.

Wow, I can run a back hoe or an excavator. I am sure a lot of folk can "Run" one.. You sir make it so organic and smooth that its hard to believe thank you for sharing skills

Now I know where you get all those toothpicks from at those little pines you just shatter

In Florida we dig ponds with Draglines... The water is clear for a long, long time

That white bird near the beginning of the video looked to me like an Egret, a smaller version of a Heron, known for it's preference for fish.

Glad you had a nice holiday Chris. The white bird at the beginning looked to be an egret. Yes, they are fish eaters.

Looks great Chris 🇺🇲 another great video and well done Job 🇺🇲

Greetings from Florida, Hot 🔥and humid.

White bird was possibly a cattle Egret.

The White Bird is an Egret

With all those trees on the dam failure was inevitable.

Always liked you're channel, very entertaining 👍

Thanks for a great video. I have been enjoying all your video's. 😀🇨🇦

Remember over the winter you started a pond building project but the haul truck kept getting stuck. Is there an update on this project?

That machine is awesome. And the way you run it looks like you are using your hands.

A heck of a waste of good pine lumber, at the cost of lumber these days. A couple or three of good pine logs I could have used on my mill. wish I lived a little closer Chris.

Good video, love watching the Volvo Destruction! 🚜🪵👍🏼🇱🇷

At first I was like....I don't see a dam. Then at the end....oh! There it is!!

Does anyone shake your phone or tablet when Chris pulls up the stumps to shake off the dirt? Lol. I find myself doing it a bit n have to stop. Haha. 😂😂😂😂🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

I was clearing a overgrown pond like this one and came across 2 skeletons i thought was fake on the back side of a pond dam and come to find out they were real apparently the previous owner shot 2 men for fishing in his pond that had no fish in it and left them there to rot the new owner had no idea they were there...that was a wild week for us

Boom almost all the way down and not touching. That's a pirch. No need to teeter totter on that. When you get to the drone before and after on this one, it'll be nice.

I can't see how someone would ever build a pond dam that steep. An ounce of common sense would tell you its a bad idea. Must've been a home project.

I hope they have life guard, that is very deep. Are you going to recore the dam?

Title reminds me of the Johnny Nash Song .. Or a new version "I can see clearly now the trees are gone" Lol

Starting to see what's going on with the tree's cleared !!!!! Moving right along 👍

I've wondered how often you run into ground hornets.