people love this stuff, and the more you film this type of thing, the more viewers you'll get. Try to do a leaky weir update each month to give a time line history, viewers will flock in.
Great job at natural preservation. I don’t know if that land was cleared in the past for farming but in so many areas land was and now responsible land owners are working to stop erosion created by previous farming practices.
Have only just found your channel so have only watched a few so far. What struck me watching the one after you had the big rain with water all over parts of the land. Those big rock piles were probably holding the land together before someone had the bright idea of moving them out of place. It seems to me that someone had a big machine and just bulldozed sections pulled out the rocks and levelled the ground. I don’t know if you have talked about your theories on this. It is great that you are putting in those leaky weirs and trying to manage the water in a natural way. You collect a lot of water so being able to manage it is vital. 💎
Hi, yes you are right, someone has cleared the land with a bulldozer and pushed all the rocks up into piles. In one part of our farm you can still see the track marks from the dozer. We are lucky that we still have about 25% bush on our land. Thanks for watching. From Geoffrey
I'd like to give a critique of your first leaky weir, and I hope if you take my advice you'll get an improvement very quickly, with the next rain. 1) at 1.10 you mention the first weir hasn,t work well due to the courseness of the rocks, but its getting better over time. A simple bale of hay or straw, broken up in its biscuits and laid across the bottom half of the upstream side,( held down by some rocks) will stop the flow a lot,,,,and one must really stash a few biscuits into the rocks under the waterline also,,,,,otherwise you'll just get erodion under the weir . A channel under the weir as big as your fist will just let the water spill,,,,defeats the whole purpose. 2) yes it would be great to extend the weir each side of the bank,,but 20 minutes of scratching with the front end loader would give a similiar effect until you had time to extend the weir, just simply scratch a diversion drain on the other side from where you were standing, using those fallen logs in the mix, would put water over that flood plain, and you'd get a very big soak. 3) 20 yards down the from the weir at the creek crossing is calling out for you to raise the crossing 50 centermeters,,,even though you have a log weir just downstream,,,,raise the crossing anyways. It will give an extra billabong, good watering point for stock so you can keep stock away from other places, will protect your first weir , and your first weir will protect the crossing.
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people love this stuff, and the more you film this type of thing, the more viewers you'll get. Try to do a leaky weir update each month to give a time line history, viewers will flock in.
Quite inspiring
Amazing update saw peter andrews stuff a couple of years ago very cool to see someone using it so effectively good on you mate
Hi Ned, I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks from Geoffrey
This is fascinating. Thanks for the update on your previous video 👍🏼
Great video Geoffrey well done 👍
Great job at natural preservation. I don’t know if that land was cleared in the past for farming but in so many areas land was and now responsible land owners are working to stop erosion created by previous farming practices.
Have only just found your channel so have only watched a few so far. What struck me watching the one after you had the big rain with water all over parts of the land. Those big rock piles were probably holding the land together before someone had the bright idea of moving them out of place. It seems to me that someone had a big machine and just bulldozed sections pulled out the rocks and levelled the ground. I don’t know if you have talked about your theories on this.
It is great that you are putting in those leaky weirs and trying to manage the water in a natural way.
You collect a lot of water so being able to manage it is vital. 💎
Hi, yes you are right, someone has cleared the land with a bulldozer and pushed all the rocks up into piles. In one part of our farm you can still see the track marks from the dozer.
We are lucky that we still have about 25% bush on our land.
Thanks for watching.
From Geoffrey
I'd like to give a critique of your first leaky weir, and I hope if you take my advice you'll get an improvement very quickly, with the next rain.
1) at 1.10 you mention the first weir hasn,t work well due to the courseness of the rocks, but its getting better over time. A simple bale of hay or straw, broken up in its biscuits and laid across the bottom half of the upstream side,( held down by some rocks) will stop the flow a lot,,,,and one must really stash a few biscuits into the rocks under the waterline also,,,,,otherwise you'll just get erodion under the weir . A channel under the weir as big as your fist will just let the water spill,,,,defeats the whole purpose.
2) yes it would be great to extend the weir each side of the bank,,but 20 minutes of scratching with the front end loader would give a similiar effect until you had time to extend the weir, just simply scratch a diversion drain on the other side from where you were standing, using those fallen logs in the mix, would put water over that flood plain, and you'd get a very big soak.
3) 20 yards down the from the weir at the creek crossing is calling out for you to raise the crossing 50 centermeters,,,even though you have a log weir just downstream,,,,raise the crossing anyways. It will give an extra billabong, good watering point for stock so you can keep stock away from other places, will protect your first weir , and your first weir will protect the crossing.
Would be cool to do a build video if that's a possibility.
Great update
very inspiring
calm down, its a hole with weeds and rocks...
Y my name is not Peter Andrew
I am Andrew Rowland
This is my system and it's not old
Y do you like to live in a lie?
L and of dam li rs