That looks more like a toy, than a carjack. Get a real one, bigger one that takes a lot more weight/pressure with a longer arm for more leverage. Also don't use a wood log underneath... use stone/metal so all the force gets directed upwards!
I suggested citric acid, the comment received 177 upvotes as of Nov. 15th but you didn't try it, instead you chose 0, 0, 5, 4 upvotes - that's not how you're supposed to crowd-source.
I'm surprised you folks didn't add a precious plastic sleeve between the guides/gate rails & the door (or at the very paint & fill those rails with grease to keep it from rusting solid again).... it would make it a bit more water tight though so it can really hold water during dry summers. That said, I'm glad you were able to finally get it working. Oh, also surprised you didn't use ropes to help pull out dirt & debris from the well (or make it deeper)...
The first thing that comes to my mind is a future project where you setup a hydroelectric energy plant. This could provide clean energy during the rainy seasons where sun is limited. A lot of pottential this land ! PS, The youtuber Kris Harbour has videos about similar setups !
@@DaDunge that depends on the height difference, diameter of the pipe, i think Kris and Marty both have around 4 bar of pressure at the turbine, which could, depending of your wheel setup, give you 1-2 KW
You really should get 2 goats to help you clear the brush. It is unbelievable how much they can do in a short time. And they love all those mimosa trees!
This. People actually hire out small herds of goats here to clean up blackberry brambles on homesteads, meanwhile our local Councils still go around poisoning blackberries instead of just hiring the goats... So we end up with blackberries you can't harvest and eat, herbicides everywhere, and a bunch of hungry goats - going hungry...
Not goats, pigs... They'll eat everything goats will, plus you only need one electric wire to keep them penned in. Pigs will respect an electric fence. Goats? no... Plus, a pig doesn't stink like a goat does. And bacon tastes a hell of a lot better than goat... Side note, with pigs, you DO have to provide them with regular feed as well...
Goats and pigs for vegetation management is a no brainer. Really good suggestion. All of the acia stumps will be sprouting like crazy and the goats will happily browse off that new growth. As they eat, they will also poop and build your soil. Much better than stacking up mountains of leafy tree tops.
the spirit of those who labored long and hard to build that farm have given you and your audience the joy of understanding cooperation with nature. well done.
I really think that leak in the rock wall of the dam should be fixed. This will cause tons of erosion and make it more unstable in time. My suggestion would be to lay a clay blanket in the reservoir, this will stop the water leaking through the soil and out the wall. (Knowledge of this can be found when searching for custom pond claybed) And if you wanted to fix the leaking at the side of the gate, use silicone kit in the corner of the gate rail. Also the bottom could be fixed by using an angle grinder on the gate or make a custom concrete ridge on the outside, should also stop bowing out of the gate. Also the leaking of the plastic roof could be fixed with tar or liquid rubber. Hope this helps you in any way. :)
Another great video guys! I love how you wait for results before publishing a video. Watching the whole dam gate redo process and immediately testifying the results was awesome! Hope you're liking Portugal :)
I can tell I've become emotionally invested in Project Kamp with how excited I got to see a random well discovered and cleaned. Finally started supporting on Patreon, just as the season is wrapping. I'll keep supporting thru winter and onward to make up for all the weeks of enjoyment I've gotten this year from this wonderful endeavor. And I suppose a thanks is in order to the youtube algorithm for spreading your 1 year update video enough that I saw it and got to experience this all with you guys. With love from California
Oh my word, seeing the joy on Dave’s face after fixing the floodgate and watching the lagoon fill up made my day!😂 so sad that Project Kamp S2 is ending next week😭
For the future, remember to clear the vegetation out before you let the lagoon area flood. Otherwise the water kill the plants and they rot. When the water level drops, and the rotting plants are exposed, the smell is horrible. Also, a lot of the soil in the lagoon area looks like dead or rotted wood. Probably be a good idea to dig that stuff up and flush it out. Also, for cleaning out that other well, take a couple saw-horses, a bar, and some rope... Lay the bar across the saw horses, toss the rope over it, and tie it to the bucket. Pull the rope to raise the bucket. Lot easier than using a person and a ladder.
Great to see the dam filling up, you might be able to block the leak on the sluice with a sandbag or a tarp from the back to make the water last longer, not looking forward to winter without a Monday project-camp video every week, please do a Christmas special and let us know how you are doing, enjoy the break and thanks for a great season 2
Guys, watched this with tears in my eyes! This is how we regenerate this jewel of a planet. Feels like the water returning to your lands will open up many new possibilities. All the best of luck for your project :)
For your plastic roof. You can get roofing screws for metal roofs they come with a washer that seals itself so any holes you make get sealed too, they come in many lengths so they are suited to a number of jobs. With rusty items that are stuck, use old brake fluid. Pour it onto and into an gaps, leave it a day or so then take a blowtorch to it and it should break the seal. Get some underwater grease that is environmentally friendly that should help seal the gate. Cut a channel under the gate so it can sit into and next summer clean out the pond and you will find the holes. Mix some concrete and fill them and that will stop some of the leaks. If you can get teflon strips and apply them onto the gate and that will help it glide.
Absolutely cracked me up in the bonus round with the giggle and comment ‘it’s kind of flooding everything’ as the creak is cascading out. Great episode guys!
Grease those rails mate! Also - you could calculate the volume of the reservoir and the amount of water needed to keep the creek in healthy order to do a controlled release of water every week or so.
Seems to me you could build a second lagoon below the first, possibly adding small weirs downstream that would keep the stream full for longer next year (or the year after) but you need to clean out the top pond more so that you can hold more water but also get to the dam walls and seal them
Yeah, seeing the rivulets washing your road away is one of those scary design things, you need to put in swales to capture more water upslope, there's bare rock above you and every rain event is washing your soil away, line of earthworks to slow the water and get it soak onto the ground will help not only you but your downslope neighbors as well.
Hey guys, great video as always. I love watching the progrees you all make, and specially when you clean the mimosas and invasive species in general. Im from Galicia, NW Spain, and we have very similar -if not the same- ecological problems that you guys have down there in Portugal. About the plastic roof, I was surprised you guys decided to use that solution way back when. You all have a huge body of knowledge and practical experience with plastic and its nature, and you should know that most plastics and the Sun dont mix well. The light and the heat warps and degrades the plastic, as you can see with the roof. Plastic can be a wonderful material if used sustainably and in the correct way, and I dont think this is the case. Not only the material is degrading super fast, it basically cant do the work it was designed to, and thats without talking about the very possible microplastics it must be leaking into the ground. If I were you, I would change it as soon as possible for a traditional clay roof. The concept was intriguing and the experiment wss interesting, but after all tjis time is pretty obvious by the result that this roof is not meant to be. Anyways, I wish you guys a good winter season down there. See you next season! :)
By opening the gate and draining the lagoon (as you called it) you've reduced the amount of water available to recharge your aquifer. Basic rules of watershed management in arid seasons dictate storing water high so you continue to feed your aquifer. When the aquifer is recharged, the stream that dried up this summer (became seasonal) will flow year round. You've got to get that gate closed or build a new one. Get out the WD 40 or the like and saturate ALL of the rusted together surfaces. Once you get it released you need to sand and paint the gate and the tracks. The gate is a very important piece of infrastructure. It is so important it's repair can not be held back by principals. Once you've got the rusted areas saturated with a petroleum based product, start working the joints with dental picks and scrape away the iron scale. Never hammer on one side. You are further binding the gate in the opening. Always hammer in the middle and lift from the bottom with a hydraulic jack -a big one in the middle. Your farmer neighbor likely has one he can lend you. I'm thinking 10 tons to give you a sense of scale.
You can use the old beautiful wooden stump at the water source to build a device to lower a bucket with a rope or chain in order to retrieve water a little easier. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
This video was amazing! Your video making skills are so much better and you have covered so much more content in this video. By the way, you have enough water to build dams and use it for hydroelectric. It's much easier than you might think! Also I would reinforce the wall for the dam, it's pretty easy but you can't do it when it's wet as you know, cement needs time to cure. You can reinforce it with stainless steel drilled directly onto the stone (On the inner side would be fine, as it won't look so pretty). It will take some preparation and you might need a bit of help from an engineer and a landscaper/brickie. But you can get this online! There's so many people willing to help on youtube. Good luck lads/lasses! I'll miss you through the winter. There's also compounds you can use to seal the roof! Look into sealants, I know harsh chemicals aren't ideal but it's better than using wayyyy more recycled stuff that has taken energy to produce. It's a small amount of sealant vs massive amounts of energy potentially.
You could make another damn under this one, just build a wall similar in shape like the first one, then the extra water that will overflow from first dam will be collected into second reservoir, and unused water will flow in previous natural path. you could get 2 awesome ponds where to cool off on hot days and more water storage. also, can you cover the well so the animals do not fall and drown. also also, idea for episode, make bird nest boxes, you have so many trees and not only are birds singing amazing, they will mask highway sounds and are beneficial to nature! overall loved the episode, loved the people and loved the editing!
you could use the thin bramble and mimosa branches to make a wattle fence around the new well for better protection. it would be easy and a lot better than some bark strips and string.
If you need to fix the roof again, it might be a good idea to join the sheets via a guttering section between the flats . Water ideally needs a path to flow and typically isnt great on flat planes.... Grab a cheap winch for the well next time to spare your backs climbing up and down the ladder with heavy materials. I noticed the tree trunk could have acted as a handy place to attach a winch system!
I wouldnt use that tree trunk to lift anything. The forces applied, combined with the leverage effect could loosen the rocks in the wall and that would be bad. I would have used a rope to lift the buckets out instead of the human chain hand lifting process. In the event of a more major clean out, I would build a tripod over the top of the well and place a single pulley or perhaps a 2:1 reduction pulley system. In the event of that happening it's best to pull the rope from directly below the tripod ie; in the well, so as to not risk toppling the tripod.
@@Paul_Au Agreed- anything that could loosen the stones creates a big risk. They could use the time-tested method of building a frame above the well and attaching pulleys.
Take a cold chisel down the gap that the door rides in on both sides spreading it open a little then remove rust with a thin grinder wheel and try beating the gate then. Also build some small channels to route the water to the well when it does rain
I love watching all these different amazing people making their own videos that all get put together in the weekly updates! Incredible work team! And Incredible video editor for making it look so good! Keep it up!!
So for the metal door, instead of just slamming on it with a large hammer and in fact damaging it as you might be afraid to do, placing a board of wood on top and having someone else hold it will have an effect that allows the inertia from the hammer to travel through the wood into the metal plate below, the wood will act as a buffer between the metals as well, helping prevent damage. I do it frequently on other repairs.
Remembering the video of Dave's first arrival at arrival; as I recall is seems cold and rainy and Dave was feet were clad in holey fabric tennis shoes or trainers. You all have come along way on many paths. Love you all.
If you ever have the opportunity to redo the dam, I’d recommend using thick wooden planks rather than the sheet metal. Wood does not rust and swells when wet, giving it a better seal. When it dries out it shrinks, making it easier to remove. Yes, it will rot but wood is sustainable and can be reasonably replaced.
Any idea if olive oil might work to waterproof such a gate and also keep it sliding well? I suppose any oil/grease but oilve oil would be a local renewwable resource...
Glad you got the gate open. The only other thing I could think of to try would have been a hydraulic tire jack from below and see if you could break it free by lifting up on it. If you've never tried a hydraulic ram pump you should check it out, they're great for moving water uphill with out needing electricity too!
For the lagoon/ dam I have one suggestion that will help one with the leaking problem and increasing the capacity of the lagoon aswell, dig up some of the dirt in the lagoon untill you get to a more rocky or solid base instead of just mud and dirt. After that if it is rocky fill it in using concrete or some other alternative, if it’s mud underneath, I would either recommend putting down rocks with concrete or for a more environmentally friendly version use mud and wood ( make sure the wood has been dry out fully before use) to create a bed on the bottom to keep it from leaking aswell as keeping it solid . Love the vids keep it up 👍
I was thinking instead of big plastic sheets that warp in the sun, maybe it's better to use small "plastic shingles"? Maybe for a next design. Also you want the angle of the roof to have a bit more gradient so that the water can't pool and slide in-between in case the tape doesn't hold. Good luck 🤞
Your waterfall area looks pretty all around. The yellow is a good color for the gate stuff. But I would maybe follow the creek and define the path you want the water to take, more. Find all the paths it current takes, maybe clean out anything in it's way so it can't get catch branches and dam up.
If at some point better water tightness is needed on the dam gate, swap the rails for a larger c-channel and add a HDPE rail set inside of the c-channel. Plastic will seal better.
It's amazing to see the lagoon being full of water. Let's see if you can keep it full during summer so you can cool down in it. Also I hope you've found the other Gopro 😉
It's always very satisfying to watch your videos ! Just a word about the creek. I have a similar stream on my land here in Spain, and it's been a few years since we try to give it a proper riverbed. You probably lose the water between the lagoon and the other creek you cleared because of those bushes you mention 15:16 . Some plants like brambles can literally absorb a small stream. Also, check up on the madroños ! they should be ripe by now.
Hey guys i just wanna say that I really love what everybody at Project Kamp is doing you guys are just amazing ! Thank you for doing what you do. I really hope that when I'll finish my studies in 2 years this stays an on going process so that I could join in on the team. Love from Switzerland (Ps: you should weld some metal bars to the thing you turn to open the waterfall, you'll have much more force to turn it with some lever.)
Great content Thank you .... try keeping the gate mechanism well greased / lubricated ... also try a rubber seal along the bottom of the gate or even cut a deeper channel for the door to sit in .
That lagoon has the potential to really change your life at camp. Take a watering hose and place it somewhere in the lagoon off the floor (so mud and sticks don’t get pulled into it clogging it) and run the hose back to camp. If you have to attach more than one hose together just make sure the connections are leak proof. Attach the hose to the rock walls and stuff so plants roots don’t grow through the hose anywhere along the way. Once the hose reaches camp attach it to sump pump that can run off your generator. Have the sump pump empty into a 55gallon drum that’s filled with water filtering materials to remove anything harmful. Then attach a pvc pipe from the drum, to like a big 2500 gallon plastic water container. I’d bury it though so sunlight didn’t get to it, if sunlight hits it it’ll grow algae inside. Or build a weather proof building around it with no sunlight coming inside. With that 2500 gallon container filled you can use it to shower, rinse food before you boil it or cook it, use it to water your garden, you can use it to raise chickens or goat or pigs or something, fill up your own hot tub to relax or bathe in for the cold months, you can even try to run a separate hose to your outhouse to make an actual functioning toilet! Or drink it if you’re brave lol.. but the possibilities are endless!
And for next dry season, if the lagoon walls hold I suggest that you fix the leaks and holes in the lagoon walls and deepen the lagoon by removing the silt to enlarge the water holding capacity of the lagoon all the best you are so positive and encouraging and bit by bit fixing up the land
You should consider asking Silky Saws to send you guys a bunch of hand saws and Silky seems to send every TH-cam channel free ones. They are the best hand saws. Love your channel!
For safety you need to build a structure around the old well to prevent people from falling in. If you determine that the water is unfit for drinking, then it would be best to fill in the well.
Another great video! Id suggest greasing the rails to aid opening and closing the gate. It would also be worth using the angle grinder with a brick cutter attachment to create a groove for the gate to sit into. Might help with the loss underneath. Also an screw type hydro would work well here and provide power in the winter
Awesome video guys( the way you all have put individual efforts from taking camera angle shots to repairing the Gate). I could already imagine sitting near lagoon and meditating. Love from India🇮🇳 Will surely visit once ❤
Pro tip on the containers. The only part that need support is usually (provided the floor is in good shape) is the corners. Just eve the 4 corners and leave the bushes under it to die off. Easier to clear it later when is dried and dead anyways.
This is one of my favourite videos ❤😀 I was really hoping that you was going to mend that release gate for the water.. it’s great 👍🏻 you are making a lot of progress with different projects 👏🏻
The ketchup, I'm sure it would work. You just need to build a watertight box around the whole gate, all of it. Then pour in like 100 to 200 litres of ketchup. Let it soak for an hour. Then attach a couple of sanders to the large plate and run them for an hour straight (the vibration breaks the rust up over time), then try lifting the gate with that carjack again (which would require storing all the ketchup). If that doesn't work, repeat the prior steps until the gate is unstuck. I'd be surprised if it didn't work after about a week, maybe just a few days! Of course, taking the easy way out that you did also works. But you'll never be able to say you used ketchup to fix your gate, sadly.
Yellow brick road, yellow submarine and now…the yellow floodgate 😅 that water will be gold in midsummer if you can hold onto some. You’re so well organized, always such a positive feel to the videos, but yes, winter is pretty miserable in a place not designed for the wet and cold. Best wishes to everyone
Love everything yall do. From the concept to each project. I want to make my own community like this one day. 💜 Getting a lot of information from your videos and your website 😁
I would really recommend here to empty the lagoon again completly, and fix the leaks. In a dry season, i believe the lagoon will run empty, because of the leaks. Also you have a really nice water head there - it looks perfect for a large top-loaded waterwheel for power generation. Especially that path that the water takes under the wall and through the rocks on the other side is worrying, because it erodes the foundation of the wall.
Suggest you build a series of downstream stone weirs from the lagoon to capture the lost water from the lagoon - the lagoon now becomes your dam feeding new down stream smaller lagoons. Just follow the natural fall and swales of the land to create a series of smaller ponds to irrigate the fields along the creek path and bring the water closer to your camp.
Just get more roof tiles for the kitchen roof 😉😂😉😂😉😂 In the meantime, put the yellow tarp over it. Your older neighbors are such a valuable resource for you 👍🏻❤️👍🏻❤️
Nice episode! Let's hope the lagoon walls don't break. Please place some thin tree trunks with sone branches in the new well for animals to be able to climb out. Also use some rope to tie go pro's to a tree when filming mini floods ;-)
A/ Get some marine grease on the slides and screw mechanism of the water gate. B/ Have a regular routine schedule of opening and closing it to keep it free moving
I will add my vote to the bandwagon suggesting Hydroelectric. Good steady and clean energy during the coldest season for heat and hot water would go a long way toward making the kamp more livable.
You should dig out the mud and debris from the top reservoir there looks like a lot of stuff, it could hold a lot more water and be a better pool for summer when it comes back around and also To find the leaks in the wall cut some squares out of blue tarp and put them under the water near where you think they will be, the tarp should get sucked into the crack and be easy to see
Toffe ploeg, heerlijk om te kijken!!! Thanks. Beetje mosterd na de maaltijd maar als je op metaal gaat timmeren,... doe er dan met een paar klemmen een balkje hout op, beter voor je metaal, beter voor je hamer en je hebt meer oppervlak op op te meppen!
There's something so soothing about the lagoon slowly filling up. And that old well looks so... pretty, I just want to clean the rocks and the dirt around just because I like the old stones :P Oh god next week is the final video! I'm happy by all you did this year, and anxious about the year ending xD
Might be worth getting some really really thick grease for that gate. Will help with water sealing it, protecting it from wear and lubricating it for easier use in a few months time.
In the next summer time when you want to elaborate on the watergate it would probably be helpfull to install an (only in german eine Gummilippe) a rubberseal. For cheap a bicicletire but there are some for that kind of application. So it is not sooo important to have a level floor of the watergate. And for more (hebel) and less force a metalbar to stick in the circular turn thing so u can use less force for thw same movement. Enjoy the rain
Excellent results all around! The floodgate I'd wait until end of summer next year and maybe grind to fit the bottom of the gate to the floor? But it's a great result all the same, and the leaks may be able to be fixed (if you can find the apertures inside the lagoon) with drizzling some sealing cement and concrete slurry down there? You could maybe pump some water backwards up those spaces to see where they come up. Sorry you lost one of the gopros, it'll probably turn up in the next year and still be perfectly fine after charging. Tough little things they are. Also loved the new well, it'll be useful for agriculture. And stoked that the recycled plastic roof is now dry - and you also have one of the ruins livable. You've achieved so much in a few years!
If you want to avoid the same issue next year apply a layer of grease to any moving parts such as the sides of the door and the central rod. I see some other people suggested looking at Kris Harbours channel if you are thinking about using it for hydro power. Otherwise great work, very inspiring to see to your troubleshooting process. :)
Really entertaining video. Couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Sad about the end of the season approaching but super happy with the new water-storing methods! Keep up the good work :)
For those suggesting a carjack. We tried. Episode #60 at 12:10 th-cam.com/video/ZrBCIwTMqCs/w-d-xo.html
That looks more like a toy, than a carjack. Get a real one, bigger one that takes a lot more weight/pressure with a longer arm for more leverage. Also don't use a wood log underneath... use stone/metal so all the force gets directed upwards!
@@alxplx and should have heaten it up much more. Oil it up, heat it up and let some wedging power do the work..
I suggested citric acid, the comment received 177 upvotes as of Nov. 15th but you didn't try it, instead you chose 0, 0, 5, 4 upvotes - that's not how you're supposed to crowd-source.
I'm surprised you folks didn't add a precious plastic sleeve between the guides/gate rails & the door (or at the very paint & fill those rails with grease to keep it from rusting solid again).... it would make it a bit more water tight though so it can really hold water during dry summers.
That said, I'm glad you were able to finally get it working.
Oh, also surprised you didn't use ropes to help pull out dirt & debris from the well (or make it deeper)...
Je had moeten wachten tot het koud werd ... De metalen plaat krimpt dan en dan gaat het vanzelf
The first thing that comes to my mind is a future project where you setup a hydroelectric energy plant. This could provide clean energy during the rainy seasons where sun is limited. A lot of pottential this land ! PS, The youtuber Kris Harbour has videos about similar setups !
Thought the same thing. Kris Harbour, great guy, very in detail hydro stuff.
Really neat idea
Exactly my thought ;)
How much wattage can you get out of such a small reservoire?
@@DaDunge that depends on the height difference, diameter of the pipe, i think Kris and Marty both have around 4 bar of pressure at the turbine, which could, depending of your wheel setup, give you 1-2 KW
You really should get 2 goats to help you clear the brush. It is unbelievable how much they can do in a short time. And they love all those mimosa trees!
This. People actually hire out small herds of goats here to clean up blackberry brambles on homesteads, meanwhile our local Councils still go around poisoning blackberries instead of just hiring the goats... So we end up with blackberries you can't harvest and eat, herbicides everywhere, and a bunch of hungry goats - going hungry...
Not goats, pigs... They'll eat everything goats will, plus you only need one electric wire to keep them penned in. Pigs will respect an electric fence. Goats? no... Plus, a pig doesn't stink like a goat does. And bacon tastes a hell of a lot better than goat... Side note, with pigs, you DO have to provide them with regular feed as well...
Goats and pigs for vegetation management is a no brainer. Really good suggestion. All of the acia stumps will be sprouting like crazy and the goats will happily browse off that new growth. As they eat, they will also poop and build your soil. Much better than stacking up mountains of leafy tree tops.
Opening the dam was so satisfying! Thanks for that bonus part, much appreciated. Would love to see the impact it had on the rest of the creek.
That reservoir could be doug out rearwards to increase the capacity greatly. Definitely also needs a lot of clay to line it to fix all the leaks !
@@chrisharvie-smith486 I just made a similar post. You beat me to it Chris :)
Somewhere downstream from that gate opening test, the nazgul were washed away in the flood and kept from capturing the One Ring. Good job!
the spirit of those who labored long and hard to build that farm have given you and your audience the joy of understanding cooperation with nature. well done.
Well said brother
I really think that leak in the rock wall of the dam should be fixed. This will cause tons of erosion and make it more unstable in time. My suggestion would be to lay a clay blanket in the reservoir, this will stop the water leaking through the soil and out the wall.
(Knowledge of this can be found when searching for custom pond claybed)
And if you wanted to fix the leaking at the side of the gate, use silicone kit in the corner of the gate rail. Also the bottom could be fixed by using an angle grinder on the gate or make a custom concrete ridge on the outside, should also stop bowing out of the gate.
Also the leaking of the plastic roof could be fixed with tar or liquid rubber.
Hope this helps you in any way. :)
Another great video guys!
I love how you wait for results before publishing a video. Watching the whole dam gate redo process and immediately testifying the results was awesome!
Hope you're liking Portugal :)
I can tell I've become emotionally invested in Project Kamp with how excited I got to see a random well discovered and cleaned.
Finally started supporting on Patreon, just as the season is wrapping. I'll keep supporting thru winter and onward to make up for all the weeks of enjoyment I've gotten this year from this wonderful endeavor. And I suppose a thanks is in order to the youtube algorithm for spreading your 1 year update video enough that I saw it and got to experience this all with you guys. With love from California
Oh my word, seeing the joy on Dave’s face after fixing the floodgate and watching the lagoon fill up made my day!😂 so sad that Project Kamp S2 is ending next week😭
For the future, remember to clear the vegetation out before you let the lagoon area flood. Otherwise the water kill the plants and they rot. When the water level drops, and the rotting plants are exposed, the smell is horrible. Also, a lot of the soil in the lagoon area looks like dead or rotted wood. Probably be a good idea to dig that stuff up and flush it out. Also, for cleaning out that other well, take a couple saw-horses, a bar, and some rope... Lay the bar across the saw horses, toss the rope over it, and tie it to the bucket. Pull the rope to raise the bucket. Lot easier than using a person and a ladder.
Great to see the dam filling up, you might be able to block the leak on the sluice with a sandbag or a tarp from the back to make the water last longer, not looking forward to winter without a Monday project-camp video every week, please do a Christmas special and let us know how you are doing, enjoy the break and thanks for a great season 2
Guys, watched this with tears in my eyes! This is how we regenerate this jewel of a planet. Feels like the water returning to your lands will open up many new possibilities. All the best of luck for your project :)
For your plastic roof. You can get roofing screws for metal roofs they come with a washer that seals itself so any holes you make get sealed too, they come in many lengths so they are suited to a number of jobs.
With rusty items that are stuck, use old brake fluid. Pour it onto and into an gaps, leave it a day or so then take a blowtorch to it and it should break the seal. Get some underwater grease that is environmentally friendly that should help seal the gate. Cut a channel under the gate so it can sit into and next summer clean out the pond and you will find the holes. Mix some concrete and fill them and that will stop some of the leaks. If you can get teflon strips and apply them onto the gate and that will help it glide.
Absolutely cracked me up in the bonus round with the giggle and comment ‘it’s kind of flooding everything’ as the creak is cascading out. Great episode guys!
Grease those rails mate! Also - you could calculate the volume of the reservoir and the amount of water needed to keep the creek in healthy order to do a controlled release of water every week or so.
Seems to me you could build a second lagoon below the first, possibly adding small weirs downstream that would keep the stream full for longer next year (or the year after) but you need to clean out the top pond more so that you can hold more water but also get to the dam walls and seal them
Yeah, seeing the rivulets washing your road away is one of those scary design things, you need to put in swales to capture more water upslope, there's bare rock above you and every rain event is washing your soil away, line of earthworks to slow the water and get it soak onto the ground will help not only you but your downslope neighbors as well.
The filming and editing of this episode was particularly excellent! Well done!
Hey guys, great video as always. I love watching the progrees you all make, and specially when you clean the mimosas and invasive species in general. Im from Galicia, NW Spain, and we have very similar -if not the same- ecological problems that you guys have down there in Portugal.
About the plastic roof, I was surprised you guys decided to use that solution way back when. You all have a huge body of knowledge and practical experience with plastic and its nature, and you should know that most plastics and the Sun dont mix well. The light and the heat warps and degrades the plastic, as you can see with the roof. Plastic can be a wonderful material if used sustainably and in the correct way, and I dont think this is the case. Not only the material is degrading super fast, it basically cant do the work it was designed to, and thats without talking about the very possible microplastics it must be leaking into the ground. If I were you, I would change it as soon as possible for a traditional clay roof.
The concept was intriguing and the experiment wss interesting, but after all tjis time is pretty obvious by the result that this roof is not meant to be.
Anyways, I wish you guys a good winter season down there. See you next season! :)
By opening the gate and draining the lagoon (as you called it) you've reduced the amount of water available to recharge your aquifer. Basic rules of watershed management in arid seasons dictate storing water high so you continue to feed your aquifer. When the aquifer is recharged, the stream that dried up this summer (became seasonal) will flow year round. You've got to get that gate closed or build a new one. Get out the WD 40 or the like and saturate ALL of the rusted together surfaces. Once you get it released you need to sand and paint the gate and the tracks. The gate is a very important piece of infrastructure. It is so important it's repair can not be held back by principals. Once you've got the rusted areas saturated with a petroleum based product, start working the joints with dental picks and scrape away the iron scale. Never hammer on one side. You are further binding the gate in the opening. Always hammer in the middle and lift from the bottom with a hydraulic jack -a big one in the middle. Your farmer neighbor likely has one he can lend you. I'm thinking 10 tons to give you a sense of scale.
Whoa the Lagoon-Fillup-Timelapse was awesome! Nice Work!
You can use the old beautiful wooden stump at the water source to build a device to lower a bucket with a rope or chain in order to retrieve water a little easier. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
This video was amazing! Your video making skills are so much better and you have covered so much more content in this video. By the way, you have enough water to build dams and use it for hydroelectric. It's much easier than you might think! Also I would reinforce the wall for the dam, it's pretty easy but you can't do it when it's wet as you know, cement needs time to cure. You can reinforce it with stainless steel drilled directly onto the stone (On the inner side would be fine, as it won't look so pretty). It will take some preparation and you might need a bit of help from an engineer and a landscaper/brickie. But you can get this online! There's so many people willing to help on youtube. Good luck lads/lasses! I'll miss you through the winter.
There's also compounds you can use to seal the roof! Look into sealants, I know harsh chemicals aren't ideal but it's better than using wayyyy more recycled stuff that has taken energy to produce. It's a small amount of sealant vs massive amounts of energy potentially.
You could make another damn under this one, just build a wall similar in shape like the first one, then the extra water that will overflow from first dam will be collected into second reservoir, and unused water will flow in previous natural path.
you could get 2 awesome ponds where to cool off on hot days and more water storage.
also, can you cover the well so the animals do not fall and drown.
also also, idea for episode, make bird nest boxes, you have so many trees and not only are birds singing amazing, they will mask highway sounds and are beneficial to nature!
overall loved the episode, loved the people and loved the editing!
LOVE all these suggestions!
@@PTEC3D ayee! thank you my boy, hope they see these.
This is exactly what I was getting ready to comment. It's almost a perfect circle below the waterfall. Would make an awesome pool.
you could use the thin bramble and mimosa branches to make a wattle fence around the new well for better protection. it would be easy and a lot better than some bark strips and string.
If you need to fix the roof again, it might be a good idea to join the sheets via a guttering section between the flats . Water ideally needs a path to flow and typically isnt great on flat planes....
Grab a cheap winch for the well next time to spare your backs climbing up and down the ladder with heavy materials. I noticed the tree trunk could have acted as a handy place to attach a winch system!
I wouldnt use that tree trunk to lift anything.
The forces applied, combined with the leverage effect could loosen the rocks in the wall and that would be bad.
I would have used a rope to lift the buckets out instead of the human chain hand lifting process.
In the event of a more major clean out, I would build a tripod over the top of the well and place a single pulley or perhaps a 2:1 reduction pulley system.
In the event of that happening it's best to pull the rope from directly below the tripod ie; in the well, so as to not risk toppling the tripod.
@@Paul_Au for a bucket of mud? I saw one of the team leaning on it heavily and it didn't seem a problem. Either way a winch would be of use 🤷🏻♂️
The winch comment is smart! That can also be used in the future
@@Paul_Au Agreed- anything that could loosen the stones creates a big risk. They could use the time-tested method of building a frame above the well and attaching pulleys.
Take a cold chisel down the gap that the door rides in on both sides spreading it open a little then remove rust with a thin grinder wheel and try beating the gate then. Also build some small channels to route the water to the well when it does rain
yeah that was frustrating to watch
Loved the waterfall! Finding the old well and seeing it start to fill with water is promising for future use.
I love watching all these different amazing people making their own videos that all get put together in the weekly updates! Incredible work team! And Incredible video editor for making it look so good! Keep it up!!
So for the metal door, instead of just slamming on it with a large hammer and in fact damaging it as you might be afraid to do, placing a board of wood on top and having someone else hold it will have an effect that allows the inertia from the hammer to travel through the wood into the metal plate below, the wood will act as a buffer between the metals as well, helping prevent damage. I do it frequently on other repairs.
Remembering the video of Dave's first arrival at arrival; as I recall is seems cold and rainy and Dave was feet were clad in holey fabric tennis shoes or trainers. You all have come along way on many paths. Love you all.
I think this was my favorite video. So much of your hard work has paid off!
If you ever have the opportunity to redo the dam, I’d recommend using thick wooden planks rather than the sheet metal. Wood does not rust and swells when wet, giving it a better seal. When it dries out it shrinks, making it easier to remove. Yes, it will rot but wood is sustainable and can be reasonably replaced.
Any idea if olive oil might work to waterproof such a gate and also keep it sliding well? I suppose any oil/grease but oilve oil would be a local renewwable resource...
@@PTEC3D I think olive oil is too watery for that. It’s greasy, but doesn’t really stick. A kind of tar would be preferable.
Glad you got the gate open. The only other thing I could think of to try would have been a hydraulic tire jack from below and see if you could break it free by lifting up on it. If you've never tried a hydraulic ram pump you should check it out, they're great for moving water uphill with out needing electricity too!
tried it before.. th-cam.com/video/ZrBCIwTMqCs/w-d-xo.html
For the lagoon/ dam I have one suggestion that will help one with the leaking problem and increasing the capacity of the lagoon aswell, dig up some of the dirt in the lagoon untill you get to a more rocky or solid base instead of just mud and dirt. After that if it is rocky fill it in using concrete or some other alternative, if it’s mud underneath, I would either recommend putting down rocks with concrete or for a more environmentally friendly version use mud and wood ( make sure the wood has been dry out fully before use) to create a bed on the bottom to keep it from leaking aswell as keeping it solid . Love the vids keep it up 👍
I was thinking instead of big plastic sheets that warp in the sun, maybe it's better to use small "plastic shingles"? Maybe for a next design. Also you want the angle of the roof to have a bit more gradient so that the water can't pool and slide in-between in case the tape doesn't hold. Good luck 🤞
Yes perhaps build a mold for plastic shingles with tabs such as those made by @PrimitiveTechnology?
Better off to be corrugated and a steeper gradient
Good job guys, you know what needs to be done and how to do it! I’m impressed and in awe❤️🎶🤗🇨🇦
Your waterfall area looks pretty all around. The yellow is a good color for the gate stuff. But I would maybe follow the creek and define the path you want the water to take, more. Find all the paths it current takes, maybe clean out anything in it's way so it can't get catch branches and dam up.
You guys are living part of one of my dreams.
Love your videos. This one was really quite a treat.
Thank you and greetings from the Algarve.
If at some point better water tightness is needed on the dam gate, swap the rails for a larger c-channel and add a HDPE rail set inside of the c-channel. Plastic will seal better.
It's amazing to see the lagoon being full of water. Let's see if you can keep it full during summer so you can cool down in it.
Also I hope you've found the other Gopro 😉
This place is amazing, it looks so peaceful. I’d love to take my camper van on a trip from Ireland to project kamp
Nice work with all that recovery! To get the dirt out of the well, a bucket with a rope has worked for me.
The wonder of water in such dry climates is always fantastic to see. Well done for all that hard work. As always a great video
It's always very satisfying to watch your videos !
Just a word about the creek. I have a similar stream on my land here in Spain, and it's been a few years since we try to give it a proper riverbed. You probably lose the water between the lagoon and the other creek you cleared because of those bushes you mention 15:16 . Some plants like brambles can literally absorb a small stream.
Also, check up on the madroños ! they should be ripe by now.
Awesome job capturing those timelapses of the lagoon filling up! Very cool to watch.
The footage of the lagoon filling up was really cool
Hey guys i just wanna say that I really love what everybody at Project Kamp is doing you guys are just amazing ! Thank you for doing what you do. I really hope that when I'll finish my studies in 2 years this stays an on going process so that I could join in on the team.
Love from Switzerland
(Ps: you should weld some metal bars to the thing you turn to open the waterfall, you'll have much more force to turn it with some lever.)
Great content Thank you .... try keeping the gate mechanism well greased / lubricated ... also try a rubber seal along the bottom of the gate or even cut a deeper channel for the door to sit in .
You should build a communal lounge / activity space to sit around in during the rainy season - a few comfy chairs, some tables for working at, etc
There's the Sketchy Ruin now...
"Imagine you're a fish, going down the stream on a Sunday, and then it suddenly stops.. I dunno, it's kinda weird"
Best moment of my day so far
Just amazing to see the water fill up and flow! Yay! Great content this week.
I was hoping to get to see you fix the gate and test out the lagoon. Thanks for a great summer everyone.
That lagoon has the potential to really change your life at camp. Take a watering hose and place it somewhere in the lagoon off the floor (so mud and sticks don’t get pulled into it clogging it) and run the hose back to camp. If you have to attach more than one hose together just make sure the connections are leak proof. Attach the hose to the rock walls and stuff so plants roots don’t grow through the hose anywhere along the way. Once the hose reaches camp attach it to sump pump that can run off your generator. Have the sump pump empty into a 55gallon drum that’s filled with water filtering materials to remove anything harmful. Then attach a pvc pipe from the drum, to like a big 2500 gallon plastic water container. I’d bury it though so sunlight didn’t get to it, if sunlight hits it it’ll grow algae inside. Or build a weather proof building around it with no sunlight coming inside. With that 2500 gallon container filled you can use it to shower, rinse food before you boil it or cook it, use it to water your garden, you can use it to raise chickens or goat or pigs or something, fill up your own hot tub to relax or bathe in for the cold months, you can even try to run a separate hose to your outhouse to make an actual functioning toilet! Or drink it if you’re brave lol.. but the possibilities are endless!
And for next dry season, if the lagoon walls hold I suggest that you fix the leaks and holes in the lagoon walls and deepen the lagoon by removing the silt to enlarge the water holding capacity of the lagoon all the best you are so positive and encouraging and bit by bit fixing up the land
EACH EVERY ONE IN THE CAMP IS A PROFESSIONAL!!!!! 👌
You should consider asking Silky Saws to send you guys a bunch of hand saws and Silky seems to send every TH-cam channel free ones. They are the best hand saws. Love your channel!
For safety you need to build a structure around the old well to prevent people from falling in. If you determine that the water is unfit for drinking, then it would be best to fill in the well.
this documentation is incredible! I've lived in a big city my whole life and everything you guys/gals do is so interesting
Another great video! Id suggest greasing the rails to aid opening and closing the gate. It would also be worth using the angle grinder with a brick cutter attachment to create a groove for the gate to sit into. Might help with the loss underneath.
Also an screw type hydro would work well here and provide power in the winter
Love these videos and watching your progress. Going to miss you this winter.
You should definatly grease the sluice Gate rails to keep them protected from Rusting Up again .great Work on everything keep IT Up
I watch these videos to learn and I support all your efforts, the video this week was great, loved the roof fixing section, it was so funny. 😀
Awesome video guys( the way you all have put individual efforts from taking camera angle shots to repairing the Gate). I could already imagine sitting near lagoon and meditating.
Love from India🇮🇳
Will surely visit once ❤
Pro tip on the containers. The only part that need support is usually (provided the floor is in good shape) is the corners. Just eve the 4 corners and leave the bushes under it to die off. Easier to clear it later when is dried and dead anyways.
Love watching this series.
So relaxing
Same. Soothing and relaxing
This is one of my favourite videos ❤😀 I was really hoping that you was going to mend that release gate for the water.. it’s great 👍🏻 you are making a lot of progress with different projects 👏🏻
The ketchup, I'm sure it would work. You just need to build a watertight box around the whole gate, all of it. Then pour in like 100 to 200 litres of ketchup. Let it soak for an hour. Then attach a couple of sanders to the large plate and run them for an hour straight (the vibration breaks the rust up over time), then try lifting the gate with that carjack again (which would require storing all the ketchup). If that doesn't work, repeat the prior steps until the gate is unstuck.
I'd be surprised if it didn't work after about a week, maybe just a few days! Of course, taking the easy way out that you did also works. But you'll never be able to say you used ketchup to fix your gate, sadly.
Yellow brick road, yellow submarine and now…the yellow floodgate 😅 that water will be gold in midsummer if you can hold onto some. You’re so well organized, always such a positive feel to the videos, but yes, winter is pretty miserable in a place not designed for the wet and cold. Best wishes to everyone
It's really good to see you back in the videos. Love the new format and videographer. Great work so far on the land.
Love everything yall do. From the concept to each project. I want to make my own community like this one day. 💜 Getting a lot of information from your videos and your website 😁
It's so sad this season is ending. I've been following along since this year and I'm definitely gonna miss my monday kamp videos!
I would really recommend here to empty the lagoon again completly, and fix the leaks. In a dry season, i believe the lagoon will run empty, because of the leaks.
Also you have a really nice water head there - it looks perfect for a large top-loaded waterwheel for power generation.
Especially that path that the water takes under the wall and through the rocks on the other side is worrying, because it erodes the foundation of the wall.
Good work to all of the neighborhoods of this area
Suggest you build a series of downstream stone weirs from the lagoon to capture the lost water from the lagoon - the lagoon now becomes your dam feeding new down stream smaller lagoons. Just follow the natural fall and swales of the land to create a series of smaller ponds to irrigate the fields along the creek path and bring the water closer to your camp.
Rita is just an angel! I'm so smitten!
She's definitely one of the core members of the community.
Just get more roof tiles for the kitchen roof 😉😂😉😂😉😂 In the meantime, put the yellow tarp over it.
Your older neighbors are such a valuable resource for you 👍🏻❤️👍🏻❤️
Nice episode! Let's hope the lagoon walls don't break.
Please place some thin tree trunks with sone branches in the new well for animals to be able to climb out.
Also use some rope to tie go pro's to a tree when filming mini floods ;-)
Brilliant! So proud of you guys and I am sure so are your neigbhors. Fantástico trabalho! 😍🙏🤞🌹❤️🇵🇹
A/ Get some marine grease on the slides and screw mechanism of the water gate. B/ Have a regular routine schedule of opening and closing it to keep it free moving
I will add my vote to the bandwagon suggesting Hydroelectric. Good steady and clean energy during the coldest season for heat and hot water would go a long way toward making the kamp more livable.
Great team efforts guys..Love you guys, hope yours success. Go ahead 💜💜💜💜💜❤️❤️
You should dig out the mud and debris from the top reservoir there looks like a lot of stuff, it could hold a lot more water and be a better pool for summer when it comes back around and also To find the leaks in the wall cut some squares out of blue tarp and put them under the water near where you think they will be, the tarp should get sucked into the crack and be easy to see
Goats ❤. Great to clear your land and they have amazing personalities.
A next year project could be to clear the lagoon area, then line the basin and stone damn with a hard clay layer to minimize water loss.
Agree and fix all the leaks and make a rubber seal under the steel door ( I believe a used truck tire could be useful for it...) ...
so many good moments in this video. It's going to be a long winter.
Toffe ploeg, heerlijk om te kijken!!! Thanks. Beetje mosterd na de maaltijd maar als je op metaal gaat timmeren,... doe er dan met een paar klemmen een balkje hout op, beter voor je metaal, beter voor je hamer en je hebt meer oppervlak op op te meppen!
I love how they guarded the well so no one sleep walking 🚶♀️ could fall into it 😊😊😂😂
Great job with dam 🎉 i love watching you guys 😊can’t wait next episode
There's something so soothing about the lagoon slowly filling up. And that old well looks so... pretty, I just want to clean the rocks and the dirt around just because I like the old stones :P Oh god next week is the final video! I'm happy by all you did this year, and anxious about the year ending xD
Be sure to weld in 3 or 4 horizontal steel pieces to reinforce the gate as the water pressure might break the new welds. Great job.
I thought I saw some horizintal bracing welded on there already?
@@PTEC3D Yeah, I got ahead of myself. He did in fact weld horitz.braces .
Might be worth getting some really really thick grease for that gate. Will help with water sealing it, protecting it from wear and lubricating it for easier use in a few months time.
I'd get grease on all the moving parts and parts in contact with moving parts
In the next summer time when you want to elaborate on the watergate it would probably be helpfull to install an (only in german eine Gummilippe) a rubberseal.
For cheap a bicicletire but there are some for that kind of application.
So it is not sooo important to have a level floor of the watergate.
And for more (hebel) and less force a metalbar to stick in the circular turn thing so u can use less force for thw same movement.
Enjoy the rain
Excellent results all around! The floodgate I'd wait until end of summer next year and maybe grind to fit the bottom of the gate to the floor? But it's a great result all the same, and the leaks may be able to be fixed (if you can find the apertures inside the lagoon) with drizzling some sealing cement and concrete slurry down there? You could maybe pump some water backwards up those spaces to see where they come up. Sorry you lost one of the gopros, it'll probably turn up in the next year and still be perfectly fine after charging. Tough little things they are.
Also loved the new well, it'll be useful for agriculture. And stoked that the recycled plastic roof is now dry - and you also have one of the ruins livable. You've achieved so much in a few years!
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Wet episode 🙂.
Thanks for the video and stay safe ✌️
If you want to avoid the same issue next year apply a layer of grease to any moving parts such as the sides of the door and the central rod. I see some other people suggested looking at Kris Harbours channel if you are thinking about using it for hydro power. Otherwise great work, very inspiring to see to your troubleshooting process. :)
That well should have the best compost ever. Im actually envious.
Really entertaining video. Couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Sad about the end of the season approaching but super happy with the new water-storing methods! Keep up the good work :)
Congratulations on slaying the metal gate beast! Cheers!