Excavating a Pond with a Yanmar Vio 25 Mini Excavator
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- Excavating a Natural Swimming Pond with a Yanmar Vio 25 Mini Excavator
I show how we fill up our water tank for the off grid cabin. Then quickly show my solar power charge controllers doing an equalization charge. We grease the Yanmar Vio 25-6a Mini Excavator then start building a small retaining wall. After that we do most of the excavation for our natural swimming pond. This pond will be filtered to keep the nutrient density low to prevent string algae and other unwanted water clarity issues.
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@ 0:00 - 1:40 Filling the Water Tank
@ 1:40 - 2:25 Equalization Charge
@ 2:25 - 4:41 Getting the Mini Excavator Ready to Work
@ 4:41 - 5:53 Thank you Vince From Buckeye Power Sales
@ 5:53 - 10:56 Placing Rocks
@ 10:56 - 14:19 Getting More Rocks
@ 14:19 - 15:20 Placing the Last Rocks
@ 15:20 - 17:11 Taking Out a Cedar Tree
@ 17:11 - 19:07 Speedy Digging with Voiceover or Music
@ 19:07 - 21:42 The Sound of Diesel
@21:42 - 30:08 Sped up
@ 30:08 - 34:38 Real Speed Digging
@ 34:38 - 38:52 Fast Digging Then Surveying Days Work
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Glad we could lend a hand. Looking good, can't wait to take a dip.
admit it, now you want to buy your own 50 acres and make a cabin (as do we all)
Your siding a dry hole, you need clay. And a spring. Really?
That little Yanmar sure did a lot of work for you guys 👍🏻 Nice all around video!
Thumb would be handy for rocks, picking tree stumps, logs,etc.
Great video once again. Hats off to VINCE and Buckeye Power Sports for all their support. What a great relationship you have, with your dealership. YUP, get a thumb if you can.:)
Thank you! And will do!
All our excavators have thumbs, they are so handy. It’s a game changer. It would have been handy with the rocks, trees and more.
If you’re planning more rocks, I’d get a flat trailer, nothing special. Something just for the property.
A trailer and a thumb are both on my list.
not all excavators have thumbs, yours doesn't. If you can put one on it, I highly suggest that you do
Most definitely get a thumb, it would be so beneficial to have around the homestead
When you were messing around with that cedar I was thinking, "A thumb would make that easier." It would also help with moving the rocks. If possible, a power thumb. Also, if it's fun it ain't work.
I do plan to get a thumb as soon as I pay off the bank!
@@50Acres I used to fill underground 5 ton ore cars with some big pieces of rock without a 'thumb' it can be done, but with a thumb it would have been 'way' easier and quicker too!
@@50Acres You can get a manual thumb way cheaper, doesn't really take long to set up.
@@50Acres maybe THE DEALER WILL GIVE YOU ONE?????
@@tommmarree3689 You would think so. I mean he's advertising to 51K of us and steady growing... almost 6M views now.
Like your philosophy about work. If it seems to be a grind, it's better to let it wait if possible until your heart is in it.
Seems like Camarata was born on an excavator. Lol. He is a real gearhead. With experience you'll get there. You are very accomplished in what you do. Best to you and yours!
Thanks Sydney. I appreciate it!
You are very welcome, Mike. I really admire your work.
And 5 years or so it would be nice to see a Look Back video at all the work you have done as you're sitting back reaping the rewards of all your hard work!
Yea that would be a good idea. Those videos always get like a million views too!
Andrew Camarata great guy good info.
Dude you’re channel is fast becoming my most anticipated of the week. Awesome work!
Wow, thanks! I'm really glad you enjoy it!
Great ingenuity with carrying the rocks back.
Thanks BPS for the assist ! The Yanmar is a awesome machine !
A Saturday morning vlog and best way to be awakened 👍🏼👍🏼
Enjoy!
I can't believe how excited I was when I saw your new video pop up on my feed! Definitely addicted to your channel.
Yay! Thank you!
Now I'm in the mood for a Andrew Camarata video! Your place is really taking shape.
Oh nice thats my goal right there!
That’s a good lesson for anyone / everyone. Enjoyed again.
Pond will be a great addition. Can't wait to see the full design
Winter is coming, you need a garage for your baby.
nah, his quick build 'shack/lean-to/I don't know what to call it' is great!! ;)
What he needs is a bigger bucket on the excavator.
ShelterLogic shed for now
And a finished exterior of the cabin!
@@frankcoldwell4424 a bucket stretcher would definitely help.
I was telling my wife about your excavator and how the company you bought it from had been really good to deal with and that you had left their information on the machine so at least they were getting some advertising for it. Well I guess the term "service after the sale" really does mean something to them. I live in Missouri and my wife told me my less than 1/2 acre city lot did not need an excavator, no matter how small. If I lived anywhere near you I am sure if I needed to rent or buy one they would be my first stop. My wife did relent and told me I could have a mini excavator but the only brand I could have was Tonka.
Get a Yanmar and a custom-made BIG Tonka sticker. ;-)
haha roy, first off you can dig a lot of holes on half an acre! Hopefully if you work on her long enough she will eventually upgrade you from Tonka!
@@PeterLawton They do make fully functional model construction and farming equipment.
They're made in Germany and you can buy them as a kit or pre-assembled but these are expensive models since they're fully functional. They cost thousands of dollars. They really do dig and do everything else that real construction and farm equipment does.
They even have large get-togethers where they put a big pile of dirt in the middle of a convention hall and bring people with their remote control miniature tractors and trucks and farm implements and they put them to work doing their everyday chores and people come by in the hundreds and watch them operate. Some of those remote control models are big enough to lift an adult person. I saw one video a few years ago where several people got together with the remote control construction equipment and dug out a guy's basement for him. But it was funny to see the little tiny trucks and tractors about 1 to 2 ft long doing all this construction work for real and going up these ramps that were made out of boards to take the dirt outside. Look up RC excavator or RC construction equipment on TH-cam.
Maybe some excavator activities might give you the opportunity to buy adjoining properties
You are absolutely correct, enjoy ever moment you have building the place, someday they will all will b just memories, enjoy the here and now!
Shanty storage for your digger is still standing LOLOL...amazing. THANK YOU BPS for helping. Wow love the pond going to be sooooo kewl LOLOL
haha its still there!
The cabin is looking awesome! I started my cabin back when I was 18, it’s still a work in progress 😂 just a little trim and siding to finish. I have never showed it on my TH-cam channel mainly because people can be so critical and I do like to keep some aspects of my life off camera. Thanks for posting 👍 you have a awesome excavator there! I’m in the process of trying to buy one, but I’m not sure if I’m going gray market or newer used or new? Like you I never make crazy big purchases like this. Ps you mentioned possibly doing a collaboration, I’m up for it, we just need to figure out a good video idea. Take care
Hey thank you Mike! I know how you feel about not showing it. Even when 99 out of 100 people are super positive, that 1 negative always sticks in your head! It looks like you have plenty of mechanical skills and the shop tools to keep an older machine going so I’d say go for it. I don’t have any place to work, and whenever I do, when I’m done, I’m usually out what I spent on parts plus whatever I tried to fix is still broken. Yea I’m not sure on the collab. I’ll try to think of something creative. I like stuff that fits the flow of the video and doesn’t seem forced.
A Cabin and 50 Acres Right on 👍 let’s stay in contact, I will try and think of a video idea too. Take care 🙂
A Cabin and 50 Acres. Always remember, you are following your dream, the armchair critics are bitter and jealous. Any job or piece of work can be done in many ways, choose the one that works for you and ignore those who second guess you!
Only you know your budget, your skill level and what your ultimate goal is, just go for it, so far you've done alright!
Btw, I'm a little envious myself😬
Small tractor, with a bush hog would be helpful for keeping your road wide.
Yea that may be the route I go, I need too much stuff with not enough money for it!
@@50Acres if you have a Rural King nearby, check out their little tractors. Great machines, tons of attachments, and great prices.
You can put a hydraulically operated Bush hog on the excavator.
Great for doing steep slopes and hard to get places you can't get with a regular tractor.
Like watching someone working smart and creatively . Interested in seeing what a ‘thumb/thom’ does and looks like. Glad you have a nice friend, willing helper.
Thanks 👍. The thumb attaches to the excavator and helps you pinch/pick things up.
You made a very valid point about "mental health". Sometimes with all the work we need to get done, we just need to step back a second and go do something else. Forget about it and enjoy doing something else! Just think of a hot summer evening and you are out in that pool floating on a chair. "Honey, can you bring me some more ice?". What fun! Great video! I enjoyed it a lot.
Thanks bud glad you enjoyed it. I need to pace myself on some of this stuff! Im looking forward to being able to cool off in the pond next summer! As you know that heat can be downright aweful!
@@50Acres They make a motorized pool lounge chair so you only literally have to lift a finger! You should buy one and not tell Sara haha. As they say, marriage is made in heaven. Of course, so is thunder, lightening and hail storms! Men have to be weathermen too! You never know what storm is brewing until it hits!
All coming along nicely, and as you mention 'at your pace' is an attraction to your channel' for me. So much reality tv with fake deadlines and rushed jobs. The pond looks great, I like the placement and thanks for sharing the advice about not having it in the ravine. Only question - should the downhill wall be compacted (maybe run over) more and/or thicker. I saw you pat it with the bucket some, but i would think driving over it or wetting it along the way might be needed? When full it will have some good side pressure on it. (?)
Thank you, glad you enjoy the way we do things! I probably should build that downhill wall up more.
By all means get a thumb. I have a Kubota tractor and one of the first attachments I bought was a root grapple....... your equivalent of a thumb. Can't tell you how much I use it.....
Right on Im gonna get one as soon as I pay off the bank!
@@50Acres Hahaha write that check. We got work to do !!
A thumb would be handy for picking and carrying those big rocks
Great video again. The middle bit with you talking about your mindstate and how you try to keep it good by working on projects you're motivated for is exactly why I enjoy your channel. You not only share your work on the cabin, but also openly and honestly share your self with us viewers. Much love.
Hey thank you glad you enjoyed that part. I try to do that every once in a while without sounding preachy.
Appreciate the shout out. Excited to see how this turns out. Keep on digging, or whatever you’re in the mood to do.
You bet, no problem bud!
I bet if he reads another comment about thumb he's gonna smash his laptop lol
haha possibly
LOL! I am seriously afraid, the day will come, you will flatten out the mountain around your property, just ´cause it´s soo fun with the new excavator ....lol... At least you dreamed of this already? Sure you did? ROFL...
Bytheway: I am into HiEnd Audio... and I pet my Speakers and my amplifiers, and also my turntables! If I had your Excavator, I´d pet it too! (When no one looks, for sure! lol)
I do have to be careful to leave it natural looking. I don't want it manicured like a city lawn!
Wow can't wait to see it once it's finished
Thanks Vince, from South Carolina
Use chains? Good philosophy and attitude. Its a labor of love.
Impressive what you picked up without a thumb! Thumbs are awesome for precision placing rocks and picking up trees.
Thanks 👍
Yes for the thumb!!!! My priorities, morning kayak, my flower garden, hiking with my dogs, maybe I will working on my now 5 year long project of getting my timber frame finished sometime during the week!!!! Looks like pond will be the focal point with your beautiful cabin as the backdrop.....I like your vision!
Sounds great! Gotta keep the dogs happy! You'll get there at your pace.
It's great that you are watching and reading and discussing before just digging enormous holes that will become stagnant, I had an uncle that created the largest mosquito breeding habitat in northern Minnesota.
Thanks Jen, thats my worst nightmare right there.
You're getting the hang of the excavator, Mike! It's looking great - anxious to see the finished pond. Loving the progress.
Thanks 👍 Bob!
This is so awesome! I can't wait to watch this series, my wife wants a swim pond so bad, I'm sure I'll be picking your brain about this Mike!
Thanks Bud! I cant wait to work on it again.
Hello and a special thank you to VINCE at Buckeye Power Sales! -God Bless
Thanks Vince from Buckeye Sales!!
Thanks Vince for helping our buddy out. 👍👍
Pond looks great. Amazing what can be don’t with that backhoe. Helps me fantasize about what I want to do with my property. A pond is certainly on my list.
Hey Phillip, isn't planning and dreaming fun!
A Cabin and 50 Acres yea, can be more fun then actually doing it. Lol.
No limits
Thanks Vince. Good action shots and clear angles :)
It’s gonna be wonderful!! Keep having fun
Huge project! This will be cool to watch!
yay Vince! thanx 4 helpin' our boi...
also being videographer.
Thks vince for helping its good dat u can come n assist
Thank you Vince! We love this channel. And that's quite a machine!
Thank you Steve!
I love natural swimming ponds. Excited to see how you build it out.
Can't wait!
Impressive to see BPS man there to backup and instruct ... Great Show. !! There are some good guys left
It was great to have him there to help.
A slice of heaven you are creating....great work.
Thank you! Cheers!
Has to be exciting to have a machine that can do soo much.
I’m glad you can have that option.
It really is!
That’s gonna be a kick ass swimming pond I’m looking forward to see how it turns out
Thanks Scott
OK, I had abdolutely no idea what this "thumb" thing was that everyone is writing about, but now that I looked it up I am in agreement:) It's amazing the things you can learn about from watching your channel. Can't wait to see the pond filled and in action!!
Glad it was helpful!
For someone with 50 hours operating time you are doing a good job. Even Letsdig and Dirtperfect had to start somewhere. All the best.
Thank you Wayne
Getting pretty good with that thing!
The cabin is looking amazing. You have done a wonderful job. Congratulations!
Thanks so much!
Thanks Vince! Jean from Arizona 🌴🦎🐍🦂🌞🌵🌻
Firm believer in collecting as many different tools as possible. Having options is a great thing to have so if you haven't gotten the thumb yet I'd say definitely add it to the arsenal!
Very true!
Vince hanging over the fence, helping the toolman! :-D Isn't that right Tim? :-P
I can already tell Having Vince on the camera makes much better videos. Like it, THANK YOU VINCE‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
Those Vince's are helpful folk!
Hi Vince!! Thanks for coming! On the other hand... this is a project that I'm very interested in. Thumbs up!!
Awesome, thank you!
It's called digging therapy :) & absolutely on a thumb!
Kudos to Vince and BEPS seems to be a great company with quality people working for them, and definitely get the thumb will make your life with your excavator much easier. Great job everything is looking amazing.
Thank you, they have been great. Glad you like it!
Thanks, Vince!
Speeding it up is a good thing Normal speed is like watching paint dry 😁
They do have some good paint drying videos on TH-cam for your interest.
Looked like a perfect day for digging !
it was!
Thanks Vince of BPS! 👍👍
Another great one Mike!!
Thanks Vince!
Shout out BPS whoot whoot! Welcome to the cabin!!! The pond is going to look awesome you have the tools and the rock and water for this to look awesome. Plant some filter plants and you are good to go. Your nieces and nephews are gonna love it.
Thanks 👍 Lena thats the plan!
Nice job pushing the tree over. I do the same. No more digging out stumps. We both learned this from Andrew.
Thanks 👍 Yea digging around the base really helps!
Nice work and good video with a nice mix of ambient sounds and music - and the voice over work’s great 👍👍
Thank you very much!
There’s nothing like having a third hand for every project! Everyone needs a Vince!
It was so great having him there!
Wow! Lots done. Looking great. You are getting quite handy to have around, you and your machine.
Thanks 👍 Hopefully Sarah keeps me around!
thanks for helping out vince. great show
hell yeah get a thumb
Funny, when you were moving the rocks in the beginning, I was saying “He needs a Thumb”. Made me smile later on when you said it!
haha, Ive wanted one for a while, just getting caught up on finances!
Looks good. Sound good.
Bless your heart your doing great you do what you feel and makes you good about it 👍❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks Elizabeth!
The only thing better than having a coffee and watching a video of you building your cabin, would be if I was able to do it myself.
Thanks!
Just wanted to say I’m so jealous. That’s going to be so nice 👍. Just check for snapping turtles before you jump in. 😝
Thanks Turkey man, yea good call!
Regarding transporting rocks, a sled would be an option. Digging these vids.
Thank you Ken.
I would definitely go for a thumb for the excavator they are so handy for grabbing things rocks trees etc. I also love the sounds machines make. I also really like how you explain the ideas you have and work with a purpose. I am also learning not to burn myself out on projects it can be hard.
Thanks Josh, yea I try to pace myself!
A bucket thumb is a force multiplier and you will wonder how you ever lived without one. A strong one made for rock and it will do fine for brush. Another consideration is that it stow flat against the arm so it won't be in the way when you don't need it.
My Mom used to tell me "if you want three children, plan for two" and it applies to your pond. Ponds rarely are always full so dig at least a foot deeper than you want the depth of water. You also want to plan for sand under the liner and perhaps pea gravel to cover over the liner. Unless you have a stream fed pond with a constant outflow, dig it deeper.
Thanks for another great video. Your progress is showing!
I'm definitely getting a thumb and another bucket, cant wait. Thanks for the advice on the pond, I think I will make sure Ive got some extra depth. I do have a small spring that I plan to feed it from. It's maybe 3/4 gallon per minute, it stops running late June through about now though.
One of my favorite channels. Via Italia!
Thank you!
love it!
I wish I could grease all my joints, elbows, knees, hips, every day like you do with that excavator. Lolol
haha Id grease up both my knee joints for sure!
Vince, you are a great guy!!!! 👍
he's really been good to me.
Maybe Vince and BPS could hook you up with a demo thumb! We all want to see it! 😁 Thanks Vince for all the filming! There’s some nice editing too, good job!
hint hint Vince!
I said before that you are quite the Andrew! I loved the reference "Let's get "this thing" going. Let's get to work!". Can we have a "That's fixed!" Great work , thanks. And thumbs up to Vince. Maybe thumbs from Vince?
High compliment right there! I need my own catch phrases!
Good project and always a great video. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I've seen those swimming ponds that use plants to filter and clean the water on TH-cam. That will be really nice.
I can't wait!
Pond is a good idea. Everyone should help you get the thumb. Let’s get this man a thumb.
Thanks Josh! I appreciate you watching, that is a great help!
WOW, very impressive when you walked into the cabin and spanned the room...it's looking so fantastic...each thing you accomplish is getting you closer to being done. I remember when building our cabin, we thought it'd take forever but we kept plugging along and we impressed ourselves. You're doing a great job with it all....the pond is going to be a nice addition. Stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep dry. NC here...
Thanks so much!
It sure looked like you were having fun.This pond will be a nice addition and it will bring wildlife I to your yard.
I had a blast!
Nice job buddy, ur like a kid with his dump truck toys, enjoy your Yanmar, Andrew is smiling and proud of you !
Im having a lot of fun!
I just reached the point where you asked about the thumb attachment. It is worth it's weight in gold! I bought a fixer-upper and have projects identical to yours. I took out quite a few dead trees (50+) and it made moving, and cutting them a snap.
I'm really loving it!
The thumb was a must when I got mine makes cutting fire wood much more enjoyable no more bending over
Very nice family will enjoy this next year👍🏻 well done this whole site is going to be awesome 👍🏻👏🏴
Thanks Al!
Having a thumb would make moving rocks, trees & anything so much easier. U LOOK LIKE YOU'RE GETTING VERY COMFORTABLE OPERATING THAT MACHINE, GOOD LUCK, LOVE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, PS, THANK YOU VINCE‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
Thanks 👍
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