me too. in fact, i would like to see some of these ponds you've built, repaired, and dredged out after a year or two. when they have filled and the grass is growing.
I totally agree. You could make one video of your greatest pond renovations before and after completely filled. Love looking at your spectacular dirt work but a full pond series would be awesome!!!
I had the exact same thought! Please consider making a video of your best before and after filled works of art!!! I think it may be your most viewed - and that says A LOT!!!
In the late 60s I worked for a farmer in Minnesota who had some wooded area on his property. My breaks would find me sitting next to a small brook in this cool, moist spot. It's so nice to have some water on your land! Beautiful job with this pond...a pleasure to watch. Thank you.
You've been brilliant for my lockdown in Cambridgeshire, UK Chris! Now all I hope is you made an agreement with the landowner to go back with your camera when the pond is full!
All I can say is WOW. DOUBLE WOW. Love the straw blowing and drone before and after. Held my breath on the steep dam incline. One of your best ponds for me. Thanks for allowing me to ride along.
You’re absolutely wright if you say this repaired pond will look great when filled up. Cause it already does look great. Marvelous job. I’m so much hoping you’re going to show us the filled up one too. 🙏😎
Total transformation, For the time ive spent watching this channel can't think of many Trash to treasure moments like this one, turned out beyond superb
You stole my comment!!! Or,,,, wellll maybe I am hijacking yours!! This really has been one of the best transformations so far. Partly due to the situation prior to Chris arriving, and mostly to the work Chris has done. It’s the kind of transformation that makes me feel this is something I would be immensely proud to own!! I don’t often look at them this way as it is irrelevant, but nice, nice job Chris. Oh yeah!! Great comment Stratos53100.
Terrific work Chris. Wow what a transformation. Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Love to see this place when the ponds full and the grass has grown. Thanks for posting. 🇬🇧👌👍
I liked when you went back to the beginning where you explained what you were going to do....then did it!! I couldn't quite remember all the issues it had in the beginning...plus with the machines breaking down and you doing other projects my memory just couldn't recall all the details!! Great video! and very good job...As always!
As always, liked watching you work. Was worried a couple of times when you were working on the top of the dam but knew you wouldn't have any problems. Great job as always, thanks for letting us ride along with you as you worked.
Would really like to see this pond once it’s filled. This project was a test of your patience and in the end turned out great. Like the lines of the pond.
How interesting it is to watch this guy doing his thing. He handles all the machinery like a concert violinist playing his violin. I have always wanted to learn heavy equipment operator. Never did though. I can't imagine having so much power at the tips of your' fingers. Amazing job Chris.
I second that. Would love to see it after a year. As a matter of fact, a compilation video showing these jobs after they've grown in. Hell, I bet most of them would let you go fishin....
Hope Uncle John is recovering well. This is a large transformation. When the mini was sitting in the pond on the slope. It suddenly dawn's on you the angle and height of the dam.
Who knew that repairing a little backyard pond dam would require climbing/repelling gear? Great work. The before and after really help visualizations. +1 on the request for a full-pond visit.
Thanks Chris. This is a wonderful video series and your juxtaposition of before and after aerial drone footage really ties the project segments together. Wishing you and your family a blessed week. Peace brother.
I'd like to add my vote to a return visit after the grass has set and the pond is filled. As it is, that's one hell of a nice transformation! Almost a big enough pond to sail a little Sunfish on lol
You should make a time laps showing how many times you get in and out of the cab in one day . from what you started this job with to how it looks now Major improvement
Wow! What a frustrating but rewarding job. Well done! Thank you for taking us all along with you on this ride. It's so easy to go from start to finish on a job and never see all the heartache and frustrations that can arise. Thanks for sticking with it and keep up the good work. We're all cheering for you.
Like everybody here ! Me included of course ! Beautiful job Chris. And all by yourself !! Is it the deepest you've done so far ? 12 to 14 feet deep ! Almost a private lake ! Perfect for many species of fish ! Wow !
What a beautiful job, Chris! You truly have a wonderful gift from God. To be able to visualize how you want a job to look like when it's done, and then do it. Your operating skills are not surpassed by anyone and neither is your work ethic.
Anyone got a SWAG about how long it might take to fill this thing? To my eye, that's a lot of water! Nice job Chris, you really hung in there with some tough circumstances. I admire your imagination, work ethic and sheer determination to succeed. well done.
@@IR-nq4qv ... plus (god forbid) a hurricane. I'm not sure if Chris ever mentioned if this was a catchment pond or spring fed. There does seem to be a perpetual wet area up next to the dam.
I hope you can come back for a visit after it fills up. What a heck of a transformation. And not just the clearing, but how the sides were cut before and now fixed. It's going to be nice for the owner for sure.
Total transformation! Going to be great place to chill on a warm summer day. Add a outdoor grilling area, a fire pit with log seating. Yup great back yard addition. Beautiful job Chris.
This has been a great series of videos and I really like that you included Day 1 at the end. You dis SUCH a great job on this (as with all you do) and really got tested with the breakdowns. Well done… I think I hear a huge stadium of us fans giving you a standing ovation!! 👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏
Wow that’s insane to only have 70-75 hrs in that entire project. That goes so much faster than I thought it would have. Suppose that’s why you stay so busy. Work very efficiently in which keeps the cost down and in return, more customers.
I'm so glad you went and patted down the soil at the back of the dam. I was so worried when you were digging the overflow, the soil was so loose. Fantastic job, Chris. Thanks for the video.
Great to see the results, and thanks for the first visit review as well. Hope we can see it some time with water in it, but that may be more work than is worth it.
Not bad for one man and 70 hrs, that's a quality job right there....you had to remove a large swath of bush and trees and then fix up someone else's mistakes all the while continually throwing dirt in front of you to move it then the equipment breaking down twice and you still did a good job. I say you did good brother👍👍
Talking about fish hotels in ponds. I came to mind about just stacking - no cement - cinder blocks with the holes to the side and make it several high and have another stack a brick away and so forth for a major. The gritty surface is good an the little ledges are and plenty of bendy edges for fry to hide from bigger fish. Just a thought and it might be a good one. Martin
Hay Chris, think you might return to this one when it fills up..? Like the before and after with the drone on the jobs puts things into perspective. Job well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Cant wait to see it full…. Please do a follow up… awesome work… sure wish I could get ya out to Hiddenite for some pond and grading work…we have 90 acres to work on…
You made a very complicated job look easy even with your troubles with equipment. You are beginning to set a bench mark. Great video and outstanding skill.
Please go back to this pond once it's full and give us a look, even if it's months or years from now! I'll be here watching your channel!
at the rate Chris is going, he'll be rich and retired by the time the pond fills up
@@IR-nq4qv o in the poor house from the 220 and dozer breaking down so much lately.. hope its your scenario
@@erikgiggey4783 me too
Absolutely! I have to see this in it's glory when it's all filled!
Me too
I would REALLY like to see this after the pond fills back up. As deep as that one end is supposed to be, I bet it would be a phenomenal swimming hole.
me too. in fact, i would like to see some of these ponds you've built, repaired, and dredged out after a year or two. when they have filled and the grass is growing.
I totally agree. You could make one video of your greatest pond renovations before and after completely filled. Love looking at your spectacular dirt work but a full pond series would be awesome!!!
I had the exact same thought! Please consider making a video of your best before and after filled works of art!!! I think it may be your most viewed - and that says A LOT!!!
You bet with all the specialized work you put into it. The Fruits of your labor need to be praised !
What everyone else has said. Nice work and that's a beautiful pond.
"I need to take down a few little trees, but I'm pretty good at that." SMALL understatement!! 😎👍❤️️😧
That has been one heck of a transformation Chris - remarkable job.
I would love to see an update on this pond when it is full : )
I forgot what it was like before; those pre-digging and post- digging photos are simply awesome!👍
Great job Chris, despite the breakdowns!! Had to smile when you said “Timmy, I need you”!! Take care and be safe . Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
Several loads of riprap rock on the back end of dam would help the dam last longer. Great job Cris. You the man with a plan $$$$$
Thanks for reshowing the 1st day to the end. Another great pond done.👍👍
In the late 60s I worked for a farmer in Minnesota who had some wooded area on his property. My breaks would find me sitting next to a small brook in this cool, moist spot. It's so nice to have some water on your land! Beautiful job with this pond...a pleasure to watch. Thank you.
Chris and his magic machines worked another miracle. It will be so beautiful.
Amazing so steep it's looks wonderful property owners must be very pleased.
You've been brilliant for my lockdown in Cambridgeshire, UK Chris! Now all I hope is you made an agreement with the landowner to go back with your camera when the pond is full!
All I can say is WOW. DOUBLE WOW. Love the straw blowing and drone before and after.
Held my breath on the steep dam incline. One of your best ponds for me. Thanks for allowing me to ride along.
That perspective shot, all I could say was "Dam"
It came out a little more like DammmMMmmmm from me.
Chris you definitely got to come back in a year or two and give us an update and let us see it full of water. Great job on this one. 👍
It's not a pond, it is a Work of Art. Chris, you are the Master of Transformation.
You’re absolutely wright if you say this repaired pond will look great when filled up. Cause it already does look great. Marvelous job. I’m so much hoping you’re going to show us the filled up one too. 🙏😎
Crazy amount of work you completed by yourself especially considering all the equipment issues. 👍
"It turned out nice." is the understatement of the year. And not only the workmanship is outstanding but also the videography. Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful! I would love to see it full of water!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Total transformation, For the time ive spent watching this channel can't think of many Trash to treasure moments like this one, turned out beyond superb
You stole my comment!!! Or,,,, wellll maybe I am hijacking yours!!
This really has been one of the best transformations so far. Partly due to the situation prior to Chris arriving, and mostly to the work Chris has done. It’s the kind of transformation that makes me feel this is something I would be immensely proud to own!! I don’t often look at them this way as it is irrelevant, but nice, nice job Chris.
Oh yeah!! Great comment Stratos53100.
Pond building, taken to a whole other level! Wow!
That summer sound with cicadas in the background. Good to alive and working outside. Miss that
Watching Chris operate the machinery is like watching poetry in motion. Beautiful.
Thanks Chris for letting us tag along ! .... Yeah, your pretty good at ripping trees and making some room !
Good job Chris. You did it all by yourself. I am impressed.
Fantastic result. It will look really nice when filled up & grass has grown around the edges. Take care & cheers from 🐨🦘🥰
Terrific work Chris. Wow what a transformation. Thanks for taking us along for the ride. Love to see this place when the ponds full and the grass has grown. Thanks for posting. 🇬🇧👌👍
I liked when you went back to the beginning where you explained what you were going to do....then did it!! I couldn't quite remember all the issues it had in the beginning...plus with the machines breaking down and you doing other projects my memory just couldn't recall all the details!! Great video! and very good job...As always!
CHRIS "there's a pond in here."
Me/Us 🤔 ? WHERE ?!?
Add a small sail boat n paddle wheel, years of fun! Good Job.
Another brilliant example of Chris skills in action. Thanks for sharing bud..
Great job there Chris. Worth a revisit once it's filled up.
You are lucky a huge rain didn't come along and wash this all out!! Good work. A pleasure to watch.
As always, liked watching you work. Was worried a couple of times when you were working on the top of the dam but knew you wouldn't have any problems. Great job as always, thanks for letting us ride along with you as you worked.
Would really like to see this pond once it’s filled. This project was a test of your patience and in the end turned out great. Like the lines of the pond.
Just a wonderful transformation creating a lovely area nice job thanks for taking us along
Your machines are beautiful. Never fails to impress how strong even these small ones are. :)
You certainly are the dirt king. Your transformations are truly art. Another great completion.
Given how it looked before you started, that's a great result. The owner is going to be very happy with that.
Yes please go back when full, I would love to see the overflow working
Two ways to do things, the wrong way and your way. Spot On Chris!!
How interesting it is to watch this guy doing his thing. He handles all the machinery like a concert violinist
playing his violin.
I have always wanted to learn heavy equipment operator. Never did though.
I can't imagine having so much power at the tips of your' fingers. Amazing job Chris.
Thanks for showing how deep it is by putting your machine in there. That helped me see how big this ponds is.
Would love to see some of your more difficult projects revisited a few years later to see the difference over time!
Going to be a great fishing pond in a few years. Well done with lots of steep breached dam to reconstruct.
I second that. Would love to see it after a year. As a matter of fact, a compilation video showing these jobs after they've grown in. Hell, I bet most of them would let you go fishin....
Excellent work , I agree we need to see this again when grass and water all in .
I enjoy watching you work. It would be great if you'd include links to the other videos about the jobs you work on.
Top job there Chris, Nice dam and no mud. Will look good in about 12 Months when full.
Hope Uncle John is recovering well. This is a large transformation. When the mini was sitting in the pond on the slope. It suddenly dawn's on you the angle and height of the dam.
It was a great job, can't wait to see the water full up..thanks for the video.
Who knew that repairing a little backyard pond dam would require climbing/repelling gear?
Great work. The before and after really help visualizations. +1 on the request for a full-pond visit.
Work work is like art, hopefully you cleaned the center of the pond out where the grass is.
Thanks Chris. This is a wonderful video series and your juxtaposition of before and after aerial drone footage really ties the project segments together. Wishing you and your family a blessed week. Peace brother.
Outstanding. Could not picture what it could or would look like
I'd like to add my vote to a return visit after the grass has set and the pond is filled. As it is, that's one hell of a nice transformation! Almost a big enough pond to sail a little Sunfish on lol
You do awesome work, sir. Much Respect!
Cheers from Louisiana.
You should make a time laps showing how many times you get in and out of the cab in one day . from what you started this job with to how it looks now Major improvement
Wow! What a frustrating but rewarding job. Well done! Thank you for taking us all along with you on this ride. It's so easy to go from start to finish on a job and never see all the heartache and frustrations that can arise. Thanks for sticking with it and keep up the good work. We're all cheering for you.
Great man. Chris, if you want to take things even a step further, perhaps you want to vist the pond once its full and show us. Would be nice to see
Please show us this pond when it is full of water, I'd love to see it.
Like everybody here ! Me included of course ! Beautiful job Chris. And all by yourself !!
Is it the deepest you've done so far ? 12 to 14 feet deep ! Almost a private lake !
Perfect for many species of fish ! Wow !
What a beautiful job, Chris! You truly have a wonderful gift from God. To be able to visualize how you want a job to look like when it's done, and then do it. Your operating skills are not surpassed by anyone and neither is your work ethic.
Anyone got a SWAG about how long it might take to fill this thing? To my eye, that's a lot of water! Nice job Chris, you really hung in there with some tough circumstances. I admire your imagination, work ethic and sheer determination to succeed. well done.
Great thought. Inquiring minds want to know
I say 6-8 months
@@IR-nq4qv ... plus (god forbid) a hurricane. I'm not sure if Chris ever mentioned if this was a catchment pond or spring fed. There does seem to be a perpetual wet area up next to the dam.
@@ranger2316 I think he talked about a well they were going to use to fill the pond.
@@larrykeenan598 I remember him saying something about a well also, although I'm not sure if it was this job or another one.
Great work! The before and after pictures were helpful, thanks!
I hope you can come back for a visit after it fills up. What a heck of a transformation. And not just the clearing, but how the sides were cut before and now fixed. It's going to be nice for the owner for sure.
Nicely done...Class A operators are hard to find...You sir are the real deal.
What a difference a day makes! Looks so much nicer! The backside of the dam, is awful steep, looks so neat that way, though!!
what a complete beautiful transformation hope we get to see the pond when its full one day great job Chris bloody fantastic mate
Awesome job! Amazing what you done in 70 hours!
You are the pond man for sure nice job Chris
Total transformation! Going to be great place to chill on a warm summer day. Add a outdoor grilling area, a fire pit with log seating. Yup great back yard addition. Beautiful job Chris.
I like the before and after at the end. It’s easy to lose track of the projects and just how big they can be
That's got to nerve-wracking being so steep I know my butt would be puckering. Great job as always Chris.
This has been a great series of videos and I really like that you included Day 1 at the end. You dis SUCH a great job on this (as with all you do) and really got tested with the breakdowns. Well done… I think I hear a huge stadium of us fans giving you a standing ovation!!
👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏
Wow that’s insane to only have 70-75 hrs in that entire project. That goes so much faster than I thought it would have. Suppose that’s why you stay so busy. Work very efficiently in which keeps the cost down and in return, more customers.
I appreciate the before and after video and photos.
I'm so glad you went and patted down the soil at the back of the dam. I was so worried when you were digging the overflow, the soil was so loose. Fantastic job, Chris. Thanks for the video.
Chris, You are the MASTER. Great Job.
Lil Red Tool Box to the rescue. Man that was a great purchase...
Great to see the results, and thanks for the first visit review as well. Hope we can see it some time with water in it, but that may be more work than is worth it.
Not bad for one man and 70 hrs, that's a quality job right there....you had to remove a large swath of bush and trees and then fix up someone else's mistakes all the while continually throwing dirt in front of you to move it then the equipment breaking down twice and you still did a good job. I say you did good brother👍👍
Fantastic water slide you have made for some lucky beavers ,!.
Awesome pond restoration! Such a huge difference before and after!
fantastic, really enjoyed how this pond turned out..
What an incredible transformation. Your commitment to quality work is really something to be proud of 👏👍
"Might have to take down a couple trees but I'm pretty good at doing that." Understand of the week right there.
GREAT video Chris!! Those before and after shots really bring it home.
Talking about fish hotels in ponds. I came to mind about just stacking - no cement - cinder blocks with the holes to the side and make it several high and have another stack a brick away and so forth for a major. The gritty surface is good an the little ledges are and plenty of bendy edges for fry to hide from bigger fish. Just a thought and it might be a good one. Martin
Looking good would love to see it full and grass grown .
Hay Chris, think you might return to this one when it fills up..? Like the before and after with the drone on the jobs puts things into perspective. Job well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome job and video, would love to see it when it's full of water and grass all around it.
I watched every part of this project.
I really enjoyed it and look forward to seeing the pond full.
Cant wait to see it full…. Please do a follow up… awesome work… sure wish I could get ya out to Hiddenite for some pond and grading work…we have 90 acres to work on…
I agree - take a weekend off and spend the time to visit and film all the ponds done like a then and now :-)
Please come back after the pond is full. I would love to see the follow up.
Would love to see a compilation of the before & after of ponds that you've done! Huh huh huh....pretty please! 🤩😁🤩
Couldn't ask for a better result! Kudos Chris! 👍
You made a very complicated job look easy even with your troubles with equipment. You are beginning to set a bench mark. Great video and outstanding skill.
Great video Chris. The pond looks great, a job well done..