Farm Pond DONE! Spillway, Gate Valve, Trash Rack, DOZER PROBLEMS. Part 7/7.
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- Lots left to do. I plan and cut out the spillway, dress the sides of the dam getting it ready for seeding, define the waterline and dress the fields above the water line, among other things. Gate valve, trash rack, final grading. And the dozer fights me the whole way!
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Not many people can make 7 videos of digging the same hole and keep people engaged and entertained for all of it! Amazing.
What does it say about us people watching someone digging the same hole? Notice I said US!
I think the fact that he was maintaining that bulldozer so much helped! I love old equipment and seeing them repaired on the fly!
Its the maintenance that keeps us coming back ,lol.
Why do people fill a trench with water before its finished. Start at the end work towards the water.
If he had brand new equipment he'd have done it in 2
Great video series! And thank you for paying some respect to that graveyard. Let's hope the owner keeps his word and keeps it well maintained.
Glad to hear the owner now is going to keep the graveyard clean and maintained 42:05
I really appreciate the fact that you don't simply record only the productive portions of your projects. Showing the situations of the Everyman and how to diagnose/repair issues is awesome.
Jons videos are brilliant training videos, they should be recommend to schools and businesses to inspire future growth 🎉
This has been by far my favorite series on the tube in a good while. Thanks for the content!
Great job keeping everything running and building a respectable pond. Thanks for taking us along!
I hope we can see it full of water in the future. I’d also love to see it during and after a gully washer rainstorm.
I few followups would be interesting. What I am most interested in is the effect of vegetation. Right now its just a muddy hole in the ground to catch some water, but over time nature will transform it into a little ecosystem with all kinds of life.
I'm thoroughly impressed with what you're able to do with the size of the machinery you have. That's a lot of work and dedication.
I agree, this guy has a lot of resolve that's for sure. Never quit, neverrrr!!
Thats what my wife said. 😂
@@hammondo7 something must be working if you're still married
marrage is like that dozer, might have paid too much for it, but if you put in the hours and fix what you can much of what you need will win out, till the next blow out 😏
Deer was looking at the pond like, "so this is what all that noise has been" 😂
Such cool '70's funk as outro music!! I loved this series, not necessarily for the scintillating content, but for the way your consistently and professionally overcame obstacles. You sir, are a pro. And next time, instead of burning the brush, bury it.
Magnet engineer here, all the flux from those magnets it just going to be short circuited by the steel fuel tank. If you want them to grab onto any FOD in the tank you need to put them inside the tank.
Those magnets senor are temporary only so that he can finish his work.those things are very elementary. Doesn't need engineer. Between the two of you I think you are miles behind. He's an engineer, electrician, a mechanic, a carpenter, a plumber, an arborist, a duct man, and many other things. And he is a good farmer too. You are suggesting things an ordinary man knows. And you are engineer.
Gonna miss these dam videos. Thank you Jon.
That was quite a dam series!
next video: He parks the dozer in the bottom of the pond and just abandons it to the fishes... 😉
Get the fluids out and it would be killer largemouth and catfish habitat.
He sleeps with the fishes.
That's not happening... 😅
Plow yourself into a hole
And then he drags it out years later and fixes it all up 😅
"Here you can see i Moved that top soil johnson i Mean Mountain" 😂😂😂 51:34 to hilarious Jon @FarmCraft101
You have a tremendous amount of patience, my friend! If that dozer was mine, it would probably be a cordless boat anchor!
If he doesn't tend to that engine's oil consumption soon, it will be a boat anchor.
That is one dam fine dam you built.
A fine job and good to see the local history getting the airing it deserves. Thank you for posting, best wishes from the UK.
Your tenacity is impressive, John. Doing that project with smaller
equipment takes a lot of work. Your design seems to be Spot On.
I learned a lot about pond and dam design..
Damn good Dam. Thanks for a great Video...
That’s a lot of Dam work….loved the project!
John, i cannot explain how much watching you struggle and go through the tedium helps me overcome my own frustrations. Thank you for sharing. Can't wait for the next one.
Loved how you got the "Seal of approval", very funny.
Great job, looking forward to the dozer fixing video.
I really enjoyed this series
Graveyard with the Civil war solder looks so much better Jon Nice work 40:08 👏👏 only lived 18 years such a shame @FarmCraft101
Reseal the turbo, replace/rebuild the transfer pump, clean out the fuel tank and you should have a good dozer for future use.
Respect for cleaning up the grave, it was the right and proper thing to do and you were the man to do it. The dam looks awesome, you did a really super job and once it has grassed up a bit and got water in it the whole ecosystem around it will develop.
Rare and unique skills with determination and patience to boot great job
These videos help me to understand my lake better. Our spillway has rough-poured concrete on it.
Don't worry Jon, TH-cam is definitely showing the steepness of that dam hill, puckered a bit at some of the angles the dozer was at.
Also, you could get 2 super cuts out of this series, a montage of the absolute headache the dozer gave you and another of just the dam building progress.
I was thinking about another part next week as a supercut as well, but now that you mention it, you could EASILY have a video just reviewing the dozer problems, and a separate for the dam. It also makes more sense for the casual viewer who wants to see a dam built as one vid, and a dozer being fixed on the job as a separate vid. Genius!
Bless you for cleaning up the cemetery! Great job overall!
Man, the way you put the big rock under the pipe you shortened behind the levee, in addition to, placing all of the smaller rocks around it to prevent erosion as well as looking good!
That’s integrity at its finest with a job like this. You are a stand up guy, John!
I am so grateful you leave the problems you have in your video. Sometimes when I am working on my own stuff I feel like it is just me. Comrades in repairs.
I am glad to see you have made this series of videos. It preserves for all time and all audiences that you gave a dam at least once in your life, even if someone else had to pay you to give a dam. And, now with that you have a dozer, you can give a dam a lot more frequently if you so choose. Many people never have this option, so they have a lesser opportunity to give a dam.
I'll be here all week. Thank god, nobody knows where that is.
well done. can't think of a better way to have spent my lunch than watching this video!
Nice to hear that the landowner is going to keep the little cemetery cleaned up.
My favourite TH-cam channel! I wait in anticipation every week for a new video! Thank John!
WoW! Great Job!! Well done 👏👏👏👏👏👏 what a man and his Dozer, Excavator,and Dump truck can do!! Really remarkable, but still reminds me of building dams with my hands alongside the roads in the rain in Africa when I was little.
excellent, that sums up the way I feel about your video. Glad you were able to fight through the adversity the way you did. Congrats 🎉
So it looks like you have another skill to add to your resume, Professional Dam Construction. Very impressive John.
Hi Jon, fantastic work , well done for fighting through your many problems, a tribute to you, so you should be feeling really proud to have accomplished so much. You used the word 'idiot ' in your narration, something you are DEFINITELY NOT!! Many thanks from Nr Liverpool UK.
Some people just like to call themselves idiots when they do something they should have known better. I'm the same. Don't take that away from us.
That's nice dam work.
I'm only disappointed that it's over! These saga builds are very entertaining, in fact, they've replaced watching regular television shows for me. I look forward to each of your seriers' but really enjoy these that are multiple videos as it gives me something to look forward to. Great work as always!
I really enjoyed your explanation of how clay is waterproof. I have always assumed it was simply impermeable. So simple as you explain it. Perfect for dams indeed!
Have loved watching you create this pond in this series of videos. I've watched every one, typically on the day you posted it.
And I'm really looking forward to the epilogue on this... I was going to be very upset if you never showed us the pond full of water after all of your hard work here!
It looks fantastic John !! Lesser men would have thrown in the towel with all the breakdowns you had.Some pretty strong perseverance on your part !
A great episode on dozer repair with some pond building!
Just kidding! Hope you get that tank cleaned out and that lil dozer running right!
Thanks for taking us on that journey! With all the hours you put on this old equipment it is now truly yours.
That pond turned out great John especially after having to put up with all the breakdowns. The longshot really shows the elevations which look perfect. That dozer is a beast even counting on the breakdowns. You know if the ole girl is going to stop it's going to be at the bottom of the pond just before a rainstorm....that is if your luck is like mine LOL. Videography as is the narration, ohh....and your sense of humor :-).
Great video. Really liked the solution to the dozer problems. Each attempt was as interesting as the previous attempt. Good logic, when all else has failed, it must be..... Will be very interested in the filled pond!!
Love the End with the music 49:10
I enjoyed watching the process, and the progress while learning about Dam construction techniques. Thanks for bringing us along on your project.
Congrats FC101, on finally got the Pond done. with many, oh many times the dozer stop working. fuel shuting-off.
It will be interesting to watch the eventual fix for the fuel tank. Good luck !!
This is a great job. You should be totally proud
All I could picture was the Cat dying on the bon fire and Jon saying, "Good bye ya POS". Lol.
Looks like the dozer fuel issues are fixed and its running like a Champ 7:23 Nice work on the spillway Jon @FarmCraft101
Fastest notification click ever. Love your videos Jon, this series has been wonderful!
Look forward to a full length video showing the pond full at the end 52:48 @Farmcraft101
What a journey, damn is done. Will be nice to see when it's filled.
Great results, your persistence, patience, and skill delivered an exceptional result, congratulations the client certainly got their monies worth. Ray Stormont.
Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.
Greatly looking forward to seeing the pond when it is full of water. I enjoyed this project. Thanks!
Excellent job. Dozer can go back for more repairs now.
Really enjoyed this - loving your insistence on keeping the machines running. Very inspiring.
Jon your a legend!
What a great job!
I love your work, the damm looks awesome.
Great videos Jon 🙂
Really glad you tamed it and got the work done . Thanks for putting up these videos Jon .. so people can see how hard you work .
Seems like there's just one dam problem after another. The little dozer fought you the whole way, but you won! You are the man! Thanks for sharing.
Great job! Hopefully next video is clean the tank of the dozer!!😮😊
Thanks to the CAT for delivering consistant content to your viewers 🙃👍
AWESOME JOB!... Looking forward to the follow up videos as the pond fills and is stocked...
You have the patience of job with that dozer ,what a great effort ,really enjoyed you struggles !
This is amazing. One guy, and 3 classic earth moving machines. Machines that basically haven't changed for a hundred years or more. These machines haven't changed, but think about how much change they've----! Haha! Oh my word, I will hush. lol
Good job building the pond, John 👍
Bloody incredible job!
Growing up around farms all my life, Dam's where always just a thing that was there. I never knew how much enginnering went it to them or stopped to consider how one was built.
Cheers for taking us along on this. It was great to learn the how too's and the thinking behind it all.
Can't wait to see it filled. Oh also G'day from down under.
With regards to the dozer...I was thinking that it was a good thing that you did not have any dynamite for building the damn because you might have had an accident. "Sorry to hear about your dozer being blown up." "Shsss. tomorrow." 🤣 Great video John thumbs up.
That is a Damm cool Dam Jon! Seriously well done!
I love the videos. For a maintenance free pond overflow, on your standpipe use two 90’s to make a u bend. Add a couple of feet of pipe so that it sticks down into the water. Drill a hole in the top of the u bend. The overflow will be under water but will not flow until the water level reaches the bottom of the u bend. The hole in the top of the u bend prevents siphoning.
Excellent idea
Great job the owners got to be pleased It is more than digging a big hole
A massive amount of work.
excited to see it a year from now with vegetation and water and all that fun stuff!
A thought on that grave of 1902-1920, might have been a victim of Spanish flu. It hit heavily in the late teens to twenties and seemed to target the young.
Was also happy to learn the owner had decided to tend those graves. Congratulations on a successful job completed to the satisfaction of all.
What a job this has been, (not to mention all the problems)!
Very nice work, plus you got to shake out all the problems with the dozer!!! well for the most part... lol
Enjoyed going along for the the process on this project! Regarding the gravestone with the 1920 date of death....possibly Spanish Flu related?
Great to watch the whole process.
Hope to see updates once its full!
Excellent piece of rock music. It reminds me of younger days in the late sixties early seventies. Thanks for adding that to an already great video.
It really looks great John!
You did a fantastic job...even while have repeated equipment issues.
I watched it from start to finish. I think you did an awesome job.
Always good to watch your BIG projects ! looking forward to see the compilation video 👍👍
Great work John and great thanks for cleaning up the gravesite I'm happy of viewing your video........ :)
Nice work as always!
Strong work. You may want to check how much pressure the gate valve used on the PVC outlet pipe can handle. Most gate valves of that style can't take much. The gate may deform and make operation difficult or impossible. That dozer is giving you a run for your money or should I say isn't giving you very much running for your money.
Max water high at any point is less than 3 meters, so
Pulling a rope at an angle towards shore will bend the gate rod. The stick to close it won't when the rod is bent.
@@back30 Yup. The idea is that you pull the line from a boat, but user error like always is a problem. I think it would be a good idea to put a small diameter pvc pipe on top of the gate with some bracing so that the rope can never be pulled from the side.
That’s a lot of progress John looking good. What no rain 🌧️ I bet you missed getting stuck 😂😂👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Impressive series of one man digging a hole, i mean building a dam, that attracted me that much. Your're ingenious multitalent! Keep going man!
Try using a piece of poly or pvc as a sleeve and drop neodymium magnets down sleeve to various places throughout tank.
On the bigger dozens without a 6 way blade you always see a ripping tooth on the back. Works just fine.
Great job. You can use a orange highway cone for a grade rod holder. Cut the top so the rod fits, the cone I use is about 28 inches tall. Good luck with the diesel tank.
What a great job, and I also enjoy all those repair jobs you have to contend with, finally nice touch on cleaning up that small graveyard, our nations history is all around us and I for one appreciate immensely your respect of it, graveyard are sacred ground especially ones where soldiers who fought for our freedoms lie, so thank you sir.
Enjoyed the series a lot, high quality execution, brilliant