Gotta say Adam you have much to be thankful for. You’ve come a long way since Mike Morgan introduced you. That new barn is beautiful. The ponds look great and the addition to your home we’ll like I said much to be thankful for. Thanks for sharing your journey. I always look forward to your videos. Stay safe
I didn’t know what it was called but I was thinking that is the way *I* would have wanted to do it. But since I’m less than a complete novice I had no idea how it was done.
Adam!!!! I’m so happy for you! The upper pond looks awesome!!! I can’t express how happy I am that everything is finally working out!!! Great job and congratulations!!!!!
I know we all like a tool and an attachment to play with, but there's a voice inside my head that saying "If you had a couple of sheep Adam, they'd eat all of that brush and weed for you - and make tasty 😋 eating afterwards"
Great episode Adam it illustrates the maintenance aspects of your operation facilitating a smooth seasonal transition and the improved work flow from lessons learned. Still love your storage building and how you are using solar energy to the benefit of your activities, it seems to work seamlessly. Now that the days are getting shorter you should see the fruits of you solar investment, keeping the lights on as it get darker and your being productive in the wood yard. 😀👍👍👍
Bruh, all I can see in the pond vids is the lower pond being a super cool fishing hole. Might not be in the budget, but it looks like it could be a perfect little scenic spot for kids to go throw some lines in. Dig around that little island a bit....
Not gonna lie the pond stuff intrigues me, why? I have three ponds I try to keep full on a labyrinth of pipes and wells and run sprinklers off the same to water food plots.
Glad tp see the pond pump project is working well for you...have you considered using the discharge piping in the upper pond to add a fountain to the center ? (as if you need more projects☺ )
@@harveymeadows6040 Actually, your grass should or "will likely be" be greener (or as green if your whole lawn is green) over your septic field, it just shouldn't be any "mushier" than the area around it!! Since the subsoil will be getting water from the septic, it will allow the soil above to retain more water longer than the ground around it, which will help the grass grow deeper roots and stay green longer than the ground around it. If that area is wet up to the surface often or stays that way, then you DO have an issue. If the grass is greener over the septic tank, your tank probably does have a problem though! The tank is meant to be watertight. And this comment was not meant to be directed negatively towards you HM, really more for anyone who happens to read it as there are misconceptions with septic systems. Anyways, have a good one!! 👍
Have you thought about putting in a Trench Drain or at a minimum a ditch at the bottom of the hill. You cleaned up the area to provide you with more work area. Won't the water coming off the hill collect at the bottom and turn that area into mud. A ditch or drain would keep excess water away from that area. I presume the work area will handle any rain that falls on the area. It doesn't need water runoff from the hill
I feel like you could mow most if not all of what is shown at the beginning with a 4wd X700 series riding mower from Deere. I have an x739 and it will mow up stuff I am unable to walk up. It will mow sideways on 30+ degrees slopes. I added "+" because 30 degrees is as high as the inclinometer I am using goes.
Pond is filling up nicely. Let me tell you from first hand experience that when it gets closer to full, the inches slow down. Ha. Ours is starting to look ridiculous. (In a good way)
If that tilt bucket was drilled for a cutting edge you could have one that had some teeth adapters welded to it and then swap it out when you really needed some bite. It'd be a bit of a chore but if the job really called for it, it'd be worth the effort to swap.
Do you have measurements to the cap from a slab and a building corner? Always a good idea and place a piece of steel over it to be found with a metal detector. Stitch in tome saves nine.
@@DanielDavis-jk2su they looked to be distinctly different ground level and the ground continued to slope down to the third pond when he dug the clay out in the earlier video. It's only because the hole filled with rain and groundwater that he realised he could make a pond out of it.
If you are going to be using the tilt bucket a lot, I would suggest getting a bolt-on, double sided cutting edge for it as soon as possible, even if you have to drill holes in the bucket for it. Otherwise you are going to wear the corners of the cutting edge on the bucket and it will end up a curved front edge, not nice and straight. Eventually you will have to cut to existing worn out edge off and weld a new one on to maintain the strength of the bucket, but keeping the front as straight as possible is going to be the more helpful thing from the bolt-on edge. It actually wouldn't be a terrible idea to put one on the front blade as well, though I do not know how easy that would be since it is not likely constructed in a way that would make that easy to do. I know the back of my front blade was constructed with a bunch of idiotic flat surfaces and recesses that love to gather dirt and rocks , especially if you back blade any, just does not make any sense to me. Should have been made solid if the designers thought it needed any stiffening/reinforcement, and setup to easily shed any material on it, after all, any additional weight in the undercarriage is nothing but helpful weight (assuming you aren't up against a trailer/towing weight limit. Just food for thought, have a good one!! 👍
Wow great idea. I never would have thought of it but from watching snow plow videos I know they use something similar to what you are describing on snow plows. Great suggestion!
I see a large, heavy, tire hitting that clean-out and causing some damage. I wonder what kind of visual obstacle would keep someone from hitting that pipe.
Not as long as the pump is in the water at a depth that doesn’t freeze. Even in a harsh winter here we won’t get more than about 6-8” of ice so as long as the pump is in deeper water than that we should be good. I do need to get the waterline trenched in the ground though. That could freeze
Make the lower pond deeper and please for the love of god remove those ugly pipes and doo hickies from the big pond. That looks so ugly. Maybe do another gel fix on the big pond?
You've become a better digger driver over the time I've watched your video's., to be honest, if you hadn't become better, you'd need a kick in the nuts.
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Gotta say Adam you have much to be thankful for. You’ve come a long way since Mike Morgan introduced you. That new barn is beautiful. The ponds look great and the addition to your home we’ll like I said much to be thankful for. Thanks for sharing your journey. I always look forward to your videos. Stay safe
I appreciate that! And yes we do have a lot to be thankful for. Thank you very much
Keep the pond updates coming!!
Look up "Monitoring Well Manholes" - you get one for your cleanout and customize it so you could have a steel cover flush with the ground.
I didn’t know what it was called but I was thinking that is the way *I* would have wanted to do it. But since I’m less than a complete novice I had no idea how it was done.
Adam!!!!
I’m so happy for you! The upper pond looks awesome!!!
I can’t express how happy I am that everything is finally working out!!!
Great job and congratulations!!!!!
I know we all like a tool and an attachment to play with, but there's a voice inside my head that saying "If you had a couple of sheep Adam, they'd eat all of that brush and weed for you - and make tasty 😋 eating afterwards"
Great vid. Might want to paint that cap a bright orange so you don't run over it with a tire.
Now that the lower pond is empty, why not take the time to clean out and perhaps make it deeper? contour it better also
Great episode Adam it illustrates the maintenance aspects of your operation facilitating a smooth seasonal transition and the improved work flow from lessons learned. Still love your storage building and how you are using solar energy to the benefit of your activities, it seems to work seamlessly. Now that the days are getting shorter you should see the fruits of you solar investment, keeping the lights on as it get darker and your being productive in the wood yard. 😀👍👍👍
Bruh, all I can see in the pond vids is the lower pond being a super cool fishing hole. Might not be in the budget, but it looks like it could be a perfect little scenic spot for kids to go throw some lines in. Dig around that little island a bit....
Gotta feel better about that pond with each passing day.
Seems like vertical drain pipe will work you. I'll be here to watch. Thanks for sharing
It would be interesting to also know how many inches it is to the full level when giving the depth of the water update.
Good point! He might not know exactly???? But yeah I’d be interested to hear that too!
Not gonna lie the pond stuff intrigues me, why? I have three ponds I try to keep full on a labyrinth of pipes and wells and run sprinklers off the same to water food plots.
Thanks for sharing!
Glad tp see the pond pump project is working well for you...have you considered
using the discharge piping in the upper pond to add a fountain to the center ?
(as if you need more projects☺ )
Look how Green that grass is around the pipe. Erma Bombeck wrote "The Grass Grows Greener Over The Septic Tank".
if the grass is greener over your septic field, you have a problem
@@harveymeadows6040 Actually, your grass should or "will likely be" be greener (or as green if your whole lawn is green) over your septic field, it just shouldn't be any "mushier" than the area around it!! Since the subsoil will be getting water from the septic, it will allow the soil above to retain more water longer than the ground around it, which will help the grass grow deeper roots and stay green longer than the ground around it. If that area is wet up to the surface often or stays that way, then you DO have an issue. If the grass is greener over the septic tank, your tank probably does have a problem though! The tank is meant to be watertight.
And this comment was not meant to be directed negatively towards you HM, really more for anyone who happens to read it as there are misconceptions with septic systems. Anyways, have a good one!! 👍
Adam, see hockey and ice skating ⛸️ in the future for the pond with s’more and hotdogs 😮😊❤
Have you thought about putting in a Trench Drain or at a minimum a ditch at the bottom of the hill. You cleaned up the area to provide you with more work area. Won't the water coming off the hill collect at the bottom and turn that area into mud. A ditch or drain would keep excess water away from that area. I presume the work area will handle any rain that falls on the area. It doesn't need water runoff from the hill
Not being negative or derogatory, just wondering of you noticed that clean out pipe you cut was loose.
I noticed it as well.
GOOD JOB!
Adam’s magic clay is working :)
I feel like you could mow most if not all of what is shown at the beginning with a 4wd X700 series riding mower from Deere. I have an x739 and it will mow up stuff I am unable to walk up. It will mow sideways on 30+ degrees slopes. I added "+" because 30 degrees is as high as the inclinometer I am using goes.
Pond is filling up nicely. Let me tell you from first hand experience that when it gets closer to full, the inches slow down. Ha. Ours is starting to look ridiculous. (In a good way)
18:50 Put a hose with a non-return valve in the overflow and the water flows into the upper reservoir overnight
If that tilt bucket was drilled for a cutting edge you could have one that had some teeth adapters welded to it and then swap it out when you really needed some bite. It'd be a bit of a chore but if the job really called for it, it'd be worth the effort to swap.
Why not put a pipe at low level from pond 3 to pond 2, then you don't have to pump water from 3 to 2 :-)
Do you have measurements to the cap from a slab and a building corner? Always a good idea and place a piece of steel over it to be found with a metal detector. Stitch in tome saves nine.
Have you thought about linking ponds 2 & 3 together, taking out the overflow pipe, and creating an arching earthen path to reach the shady spot?
@@DanielDavis-jk2su they looked to be distinctly different ground level and the ground continued to slope down to the third pond when he dug the clay out in the earlier video.
It's only because the hole filled with rain and groundwater that he realised he could make a pond out of it.
Dig that second pond deeper 😂
If you are going to be using the tilt bucket a lot, I would suggest getting a bolt-on, double sided cutting edge for it as soon as possible, even if you have to drill holes in the bucket for it. Otherwise you are going to wear the corners of the cutting edge on the bucket and it will end up a curved front edge, not nice and straight. Eventually you will have to cut to existing worn out edge off and weld a new one on to maintain the strength of the bucket, but keeping the front as straight as possible is going to be the more helpful thing from the bolt-on edge.
It actually wouldn't be a terrible idea to put one on the front blade as well, though I do not know how easy that would be since it is not likely constructed in a way that would make that easy to do. I know the back of my front blade was constructed with a bunch of idiotic flat surfaces and recesses that love to gather dirt and rocks , especially if you back blade any, just does not make any sense to me. Should have been made solid if the designers thought it needed any stiffening/reinforcement, and setup to easily shed any material on it, after all, any additional weight in the undercarriage is nothing but helpful weight (assuming you aren't up against a trailer/towing weight limit. Just food for thought, have a good one!! 👍
Wow great idea. I never would have thought of it but from watching snow plow videos I know they use something similar to what you are describing on snow plows.
Great suggestion!
I see a large, heavy, tire hitting that clean-out and causing some damage. I wonder what kind of visual obstacle would keep someone from hitting that pipe.
Wait, that cleanout pipe empties right by your new shop? Won't that cause an issue? What am I missing?
You drove all the way to Indiana to film your sponsor spot?? 😂
Why not connect Pond #2 with Pond #3 to avoid having an additional pump? Seems like more work and expense to be pumping water all over the place.
Is there any concern with the pond pump freezing?
Not as long as the pump is in the water at a depth that doesn’t freeze. Even in a harsh winter here we won’t get more than about 6-8” of ice so as long as the pump is in deeper water than that we should be good. I do need to get the waterline trenched in the ground though. That could freeze
Any plans on grazing your acreage in the future and fattening up some nice meat? Be a lot cheaper than the store that way with all the free grass!
What size dump trailer is that?
cleanout pipe looked loose
22,000lb $100k whipper snipper
Hi Adam, I see you using the chainsaw. But I don't see you wearing chainsaw pants. Is there a reason ?
Make the lower pond deeper and please for the love of god remove those ugly pipes and doo hickies from the big pond. That looks so ugly. Maybe do another gel fix on the big pond?
You've become a better digger driver over the time I've watched your video's., to be honest, if you hadn't become better, you'd need a kick in the nuts.