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Awesome vid man!

Happy to report that my son, Jack, was born 3 weeks ago and is healthy and happy. Can't wait to raise him right and enjoy things together.

I'm really interested in the irrigation setup. Would love to see more videos of the rebuild and operation.

Another dutchman here who enjoys this complex irrigation system, please feel free to explain everything! : )

This is going to be an interesting series

Your relationship with jack is an inspiration. I feel that if every father put as much effort in the world would be a much better place

This is the content, which seperates Cody‘s channel from a lot of other‘s. Very crisp and interesting at the same time. What a blessing this (our) mother nature is. Gives so much joy.

I rewatched the intro a few times just to watch the camera autofocus as you drove up to it and get right into talking without pressing a thing. Boy do we take our tech for granted sometimes. so cool

In my property's area the irrigation canals were all hand dug about 130 years ago and concrete lined. And sluice gates are all cast iron. Some of them still seem like the original ones.

Amazing bit of local history. Keep up the great work. Love the ending with Jack outlasting his old man!

Wow, just WOW! That was so cool, (literally), at the end with Jack. These are the times that Jack will tell his children about. God bless you and your family Cody.

Great stuff Wranglerstar, here in Holland we also see a lot of water run systems.

You almost have to rebuild that water system to preserve and honor those that built it. Very fascinating, looking forward to updates.

Finally a good homesteading video. The cheap Amazon “test” reviews just aren’t the same as these videos.

Your son is growing into quite a fine young man (who isn't afraid to slide down a hill)! Keep up the great work.

Hi Cody, love your channel! I'm a geologist. Would just like to point out that the river cutting into your bank there is a completely natural process. Look up meandering river progression and meander scars, oxbow lakes, etc. Rivers will cut back and forth and migrate laterally. You can dump rocks in there to slow the process, but in the end the water will win. And plus, you would be interfering with the natural movement of the river. Best to accept it. In tme it will eventually start to deposit sand on your side and start cutting into the other side. It's a pretty cool feature to have on your property too, as birds and critters will nest in the cliffs.

Man, it's great watching your family enjoying the new property and the fruits of living an honest life that features hard work and faith. The water is so calming and beautiful, Cody. Jack's turtle-sledding was the high point of my day. Love to all from Colorado mountains.

I'm late to this series but seriously excited to follow it. Homesteading is our ultimate goal and it's taken a long time for us to realize it. We're saving and almost debt free. So much to learn and do little time left to get it done. I'm so grateful for your channel bringing me back to family and core values. God bless you and your incredible family, Cody.

Keep the irrigation vids coming. Living in the southeast I never knew what the deal with water rights was about until my fam moved to southern Utah. It's such a different environment, literally and legally.

Would consider testing the water to make sure there aren't too much nitrates/nitrites in the water. Depending on what the neighbors are using it for it might be high or fine.

That is a very cool irrigation system, using nature, gravity, etc and not pumps. I grew up on family homestead that my great-grandfather started over a hundred years ago. They had the opposite problem, too much water. The middle lower 20 acres would stay flooded too long in the spring to farm. It would naturally drain to the south, but there was a shorter route to the north to another creek so my great-grandfather and other neighbors used horses and skid buckets (not sure what they're called) to dig out the ditch about fifteen feet wide and six feet deep. He used other methods to drain smaller areas, 3" × 12" clay tiles buried just deep enough so the plow wouldn't hit them. He hand dug three wells on the property approximately 20 ft and were used until my grandfather had built a well driller and machine drilled wells down to eighty or ninety feet.

I was 10 in 1989 and so excited when my dad bought me my first pair of real irrigating boots and a shovel, so I was probably the last generation to irrigate by setting a canvas dam and irrigating row crops with cuts in a ditch. Here in Wyoming everything was flood irrigated then and still is for the most part but is a lot more modern way of doing it with pivot sprinklers and such. We have an irrigation Canal the runs above our place that is approximately 60’ wide and 50 miles long that was hand dug with MEN and horses, it amazes me what they did back then, but that was back when men were made of steel and the equipment was made of wood.

In eastern Kentucky the local governments dont care what you do and dont do anything and the state won't bother to inspect anything. It can be annoying at times but the fact that they truly leave you alone is worth doing all the work yourself

The bit at the end with you and your son was super wholesome. I miss those days with my kid.

@Wranglerstar Thanks Cody. I'm so glad you decided to share the process of getting to know and refurbishing this incredible hydrological technology.

My brother had a ranch in Halfway, Oregon and had this type of irrigation systems. He taught me so much about it. It was fun!

Lighting,audio, was outstanding in this video! Love the water rights series....please continue to share.

The best part of this video was your time with Jack.

Love seeing you with jack...reminds me of those years from 10-18 with my Dad ..I played hockey so we drove all over Maine mass NH Vermont Canada together but we lived are outdoors also..just the best memroys I could ever ask for from him!!! I'm sure when jack 40 like I just turned he'll be feeling this the same memory and how they made him into a good man !! God bless your family Cody!!!

That irrigation system is impressive! Please do more content on it 🙏

YES! up coming wood working for a massive project! Gunna be a good little series

Good on ya for caring about our streams. Too many folk complain about it around here without understanding the full impact of changing flow.

You sir are a blessed man ! Thanks for sharing, I love learning from our ancestors through people who are not letting there culture be lost. Very smart looking into the erosion problem and not just going at it full speed ahead. Thanks for sharing !

There is a system like that in an area of Bishop, CA. First time I saw something like that. It is really a work of functional art!

Looked like an old Spencer loggers tape. Nice to see you with Jack! We’re working with our local NRCS experts to get a grant to convert 19 acres of scotch broom, blackberry and 3’ high doug fir to Oregon White oak prairie.

The LDS in my area did the same back in the late nineteenth century. They also dug 3 reservoirs all fed by the Little Colorado River as we don't have many water sources in my area of Arizona these reservoirs are vital to supplying water year around. Irrigation rights are still included when property is purchased just like it is in your case. Pretty amazing what the ancestors achieved with hard work and teamwork!

Boy that mountain scenery though. What a beautiful view. Love the videos and cheers from Estonia

Grew up using flood irrigation, we poured concrete gateways and used a combination of wooden gates covered by a removable heavy tarps that helped save the gates and made them last longer

This is my favorite type of video that you do. Real life updates. It is also very cool to see how grown up Jack has become!

You ever consider the synthetic deck boards for your irrigation gates?

This is honestly your chance to put a video together that could be the instructional how-to that’s used 200 years from now to re-irrigate that land once again.

Wonderful NW histories in the making. We also love seeing the Sweet Loaf. We lost our daughter 22 years ago, age 4, and miss her every day. Cancer. Big clouds here in the NW. Mythic over Rainier. Flying back from Paris. Small jet. Circled the Mt. 3 times Best & cheers, R.

Totally understand your previous comments that some vids don’t pay, but great to see the homestead again. Fascinating irrigation system.

Here in our valley we use cement to build our boxes and metal for our gates. we use a piece of metal culvert as well to mitigate erosion-around the gates

Thanks for the update on the irrigation system. Super Cool!

I find this irrigation system so fascinating. Thanks for sharing

Might be an idea to send your drone up Cody and get photographs of that river bend that way. When they're overlaid it might give a clearer picture of what's happening with erosion.

Super glad you made an update about this. Looking forward to the end results.

Looking forward to the irrigation gate repair and how the bank erosion gets handled. Jack is really growing!

Keep us up to date on the water issues. Love seeing footage of you and Jack, or SweetLoaf, or Mrs. W, or all ofd you. Family is important! Your kids are your legacy, no matter what material poeple say.

While living in Japan I was amazed at their irrigation systems for farming. Similar to what you’re showing.

Wow! How cool is that!!?!? You are definitely blessed to have access to free fresh water!! And Jack has grown since I've seen him last!! He's such a handsome young man.

For better or worse I really need to know how this situation gets resolved! I am in carpentry/building and this is very interesting! I've had situations involving wetlands and this could help bring insight on how to work with these types of conditions.

My grandson just graduated from high school. He and I have started doing more things together lately. It’s satisfying to show him woodworking techniques, tricks of the trade, auto repair and maintenance of vehicles. We had three girls so as a father, the opportunities for manly instruction didn’t go far.

Utterly magnificent, the awareness, grasp, intellect and hard working fortitude of those 100 years ago to capture the gravitational feed of life-producing irrigation water. Just Brilliant!

Finally another video! Love them always and look so forward to them! God Bless!

I'm very interested in the irrigation system! Thank you for posting!

Love seeing this Cody. This is real life beneficial knowledge. Currently looking at a piece of property with a large brook, and if the purchase goes through I will have a huge peace of mind having fresh, mountain water rushing in my backyard with several acres of forest, surrounded by hundreds of acres of forest. Love seeing how you're learning and adapting to having this river on your property. Also, if any of your grant applications go through, please let us know what you were able to use! I've been advised to look into that if I go off grid as well so I'd love to hear. Thanks for the "homestead working" style video. I've missed them! -Geo

My acreage is on the Snake River plain in the middle of southern Idaho. The irrigation system of dams and canals was built nearly 100 years ago. My water flows from the top of the Grand Teton Mountains to the bottom of my fields purely by gravity. I control the movement of the water on my place by using 'concrete headgates'. These headgates use galvanized tin paddles that slide up and down to control the flow of water through a concrete pipe. Several of the bigger farmers in this area have commented on the fact that I have the least expensive farming practice that they know about.

Great video. I love the little bit on the end of you and Jack. We used ditches like that on the property I grew up on. it was cool.

Thanks for being a good man and being so responsable and teaching your son to be one to.

Cody , a good explanation for people unfamiliar . Amazing skills over 100 years ago . If I were in your shoes , I could not help myself from building a pond near the bottom end where you could have swimming and fish .

Thank you for doing an update on the irrigation system I really enjoy watching it

Very interesting! Will be looking forward to more!

Ironically, I watched this video on the side of an irrigation ditch while taking my lunch break. I am a ditch rider for the local irrigation ditch and the particular location I'm sitting at now has over 30 cubic feet per (cfs) second flowing past me. Each ditch rider will deliver about 100 cfs to farmers every day through canals, ditches and pumps run through the district and established by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1940. Our main canal runs at about 1200 cfs servicing farmers using rill, pivot, handline and wheel line irrigation. I'll be very interested in seeing your progress as you go along.

Just about to finish my Civil Engineering degree, I have to say my water engineering and hydraulics module was by far my favourite! Safe to say I’m interested!

The pressure treated 3x4s I used for fence posts 10 years ago have rotted off, When I was a kid, we had a patch of trees called "the locust grove" by the family, this was a resource for the farm. We would cut black locust posts and treat them with creosote, they are still holding up a fence after 50 years.

Love the irrigation stuff. Glad you're dealing with the cut bank. One flood will change it dramatically. My broken up concrete driveway was a good solution in a similar situation.

Good to see Jack. I like these little episodes of the the family.

definitely more irrigation videos, keep up the series it is very fascinating

I live in an area where people have used similar ditches to irrigate their fields. However, the river bank is really high so they cannot use gates to flood the ditches. Instead they use a really cool water wheel with buckets attached to it. The river drives the water wheel and the buckets transport the to the ditches over a series of wooden channels. If you are interested you can search 'Wasserschöpfrad' on KZfaq to see them in action.

Thanks for sharing and updating us on the irrigation system. It's super interesting. I can't wait to learn about the process.

I've always been fascinated by unique irrigation systems like this, great content!

I love this stuff, please feel free to explain it and document all your work. Would be really interesting to see.

Please keep these videos coming. Love seeing the progress on the land.

I love these types of videos!!!! I understand the survival videos/ product reviews are fun and likely a bit less work than these types and I do enjoy them. But these are the types of videos that got me into wranglerstar! Keep up the great work Cody!

Very cool

This is going to be an awesome series! Can’t wait to see the process!!

Very interesting concept regarding your irrigation. Love to see more. As far far as the wrap up, you’ve raised a fine young man, Cody. Troy

I just love these little scenes at the end..God bless you and you family

Love having a break in school to watch your videos

My gosh....the ingenuity of those folks! Amazing!

This is very interesting to have access to that history!!!

Hey Cody try using Alaskan yellow cedar for your board replacement. Great stuff and the most rot resistant soft wood in North America. I sell it in Idaho but there's lots of wholesale lumber yards near you too.

What a great system. Thank you for the information!

Man i have been excited to see this video. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work

Your problems with the river ARE VERY INTERESTING and I would like to see what is happening!!!! Thank You an GOD BLESS !!!

My recommendation would be for you to also check Google Earth imagery. Specifically, the location of the small fur when you are kneeling in the video that's located at the corner of the fence line. Not sure what the dates you have in your area for satelite imagery but in the south we have areas flown late 2019. If you have some imagery on that property from say around 2012/2013 to 2015/2016 you could also see the erosion effect between those dates. Basically how much closer is the river to that tree.

This is where I belong. I can't wait to get out west. I genuinely love your videos. There is something just so tranquil about everything you do.

Interesting little fact, there is a town in South Africa called Parys, I am mot sure about today, but it used to have all these water canals on the side of the roads, like what we typically have for water run off, but a bit deeper and it also had these little gates. These would be flooded and people could water their lawns and gardens when it was their turn to get water. I think it is very similar to what you have there, just on a larger and smaller (whole town) scale, the canals (much smaller) ran beside just regular city roads. I am guessing with the state of things in South Africa now, these are just part of the history books (maybe not, history is being re-written...). But was very cool to see the water coming down these canals and made for ours of fun for kids playing in them.

Excellent, been waiting to to see more about this irrigation!

I have 35 years of experience using pressure treated & non-pressure treated lumber in various situations. Pressure treated definitely lasts significantly longer in all situations, but it isn't indestructible. It will eventually rot when in contact with the soil. Where it really shines is, termites, carpenter ants, etc, won't eat it. The drawbacks to treated lumber are pretty much the added cost, can't be used is some applications depending on the type of treatment, and it can shrink a lot as it dries. You can buy dried pressure treated limber, so it won't shrink, but it costs a lot more.

Really awesome irrigation system! Put in some fast growing erosion preventing trees and plants with deep taproots!

This is absolutely interesting. I'd definitely want to watch the progress.

reminds me of the terraced rice patties in japan, harvesting the mountain water to create a flourishing crop. highly recommend the David Attenborough KZfaq doc: Satoyama (part 1 and 2) I think the Japanese mountain water systems could easily be applied to PNW mountain/valley living. Worth the watch! Great content Wranglerstar! Thanks!

Awesome. My favorite type of WS video!

It would be interesting to see where the water enters the irrigation system, but I bet it’s on private property. Cool system!!

Jack is growing up! Has always been an amazing young man.

Very interested in both the irrigation and the erosion remediation, videos very much appreciated.