Best Fix For A Leaking Pond...Maybe. 2 Months Since Damit Treatment.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- We treated this pond with Damit pond sealer in April of this year, and here's an update on the progress. I am 100% confident that it helped a lot, and probably sealed the area we applied it to completely. But the weather hasn't been cooperating so we still have some work to do to get this challenging pond to FILL...Damit!!!!
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We have our fingers crossed that the leak is solved, now we just need some rain to help fill this thing up. The ram pump and propane pump will be used to maintain its level, but to try and actually pump over half a million gallons of water is a tall order! We will let mother nature do that job... Cheers everybody! Have an awesome weekend!
Looking forward to the upcoming videos throughout the week that will fill out usual minutes.
My takeaway is that you either need a lot more reliable rain, or the pond needs to be on/near a creek.
The very long hose remind me of John Fogerty's "The old man down the road" with the longest guitar cord (video below if you don't remember)
th-cam.com/video/4cwS_db9DtY/w-d-xo.html
VA is been in a bad drought this year. Probably no fill until the fall when the rainfall jumps up.
One thing you could try if possible is to let cattle trample and pug up the berm. I haven't tried it, but I've seen it mentioned several times by people that have built dams.
Have you contacted Set(h?) from LandToHouse yet?
Rampumps are kind of his thing. He makes weekly videos about things you can change on the rampump-design he sells in his webshop or the way it's installed, most of time resulting in a less effective rampump.
So, to me, he's my expert on what to do and don't when building and installing a rampump.
I'm pretty sure he'd like to cooperate with you, if the travelling-distance is not a problem. (My geographic knowledge of the usa sucks, so I haven't got a clue how far apart you are.)
Btw:
Any plans for a micro-hydro?
He does those too.
The guy with the pump downstream was out of luck that day 😂
considering there's another feeder stream every few hundred yards into a a creek like that and the guy probably didn't even notice.
@@Fetch049 You have no proof about anything you said.
@@techmarine83 look at any topo map of Virginia. There's all the proof you need.
Killed the fish down stream maybe.
@@techmarine83 If you know what you are looking for you can easily see what he said is true about the other feeder.
Honestly the whole ecosystem you pumped in from the creek is probably what that pond really needed. Looking good!
Lookin' forward to the RAM pump video!
It's actually gonna be an old Dodge truck retrofitted into a pump haha
Yes!
Ram Pump yes, that will be interesting. I like the mechanics of them. Would be cool to see what it chould do in this situation.
@@arcrad We had one like that at the farm I worked at back in my youth. It was the irrigation pump for the strawberries.
@@arcradthat wouldn't work , it would have electrical issues a cracked dash and be broken down all the time 😂😂
That timelapse of the pond over a long time was super cool! Thanks for doing that.
That button on the regulator is supposed to be held down for a few seconds with the hose connected to the carb, and then try starting. I converted my generator to dual fuel and that is what the instruction booklet said.
I dont know much but I laughed when you guys thought it would get halfway up. That's a big area to fill with a small pump! Thanks for sharing the update on the pond. Looking forward to seeing the ram pump. Those things are very cool.
I have a 2hp sumnersible pump in a 200' well. The pump produces 100 gpm. It will raise water 1" per acre in 24 hrs. It cost about $ 160.00 per month to run pump.
“Good job number 50. I’m not going to hurt your calf.” I just named him hamburger because he’s cute…
5:08 remember kids, it's always good to ask for consent before pulling another man's hose
hahaha
This joke definitely belongs here
And before turning on his Johnson.
Can't wait for the ram pump video. When I first learned about them, it kinda blew my mind. Innertia is quite the powerhouse, it turns out.
Alternatively - if creek is at least somewhat deep - one can use spiral hose pump, its much more easy to build and tune, but takes twice as much space than ram pump
FarmCraft videos are like your favorite comfort food I swear
SAME!!!!!!
100% - the best!
Tip when you’re pumping water like that. The pump head that’s in the water and creates a swirl put a pop bottle or something in the water that floats and it will stay on top of the swirl keeping it from sucking air.
Moral of the story: when building a dam have a supply of water to keep it full. Great video, John. Good calculations on the water flow, they let us see how much water it really takes to fill a pond. Cool video on the Damit treatment, I didn't know such a product even exsisted.😃
Did you you know his name is Jon.... NO h ... ain't that right Jon ...
The pond was low when you treated it with Damit.....once it gets above that level the ground is not treated so i would expect to get heavy loss higher than that level. Just a thought.
The clay doesn't need to be treated, only the exposed cracked bedrock.
At the bottom of the pond when excavating he hit bedrock, that is the problem. The sides are clay rich and will be fine.
If I recall correctly, during your Damit treatment the water level was fairly low. Does this mean there’s a fairly large area on the sides, outside that initial treatment level where the soil has not been treated? Really looking forward to the ram pump project
I was wondering the same thing?
In my research you want to use Damit when the pond is full, and the flow of water will draw it into the cracks.
Repeat treatment is common in low ponds for this reason, but you don't have to cast to the center when retreating.
Thanks for the update on the pond, i enjoy seeing the struggles as much as i do the sucess lol.
Literally one of the most epic builds on youtube.
Been waiting for this followup! The timelapses are awesome
I eagerly await the next installment of this series.
G,day from Sydney Australia. I like the look of the clay in the dam now. It's got that crust about it.
I've spent a lot of time around farm dams and irrigation drains, yabbie catching and horizontal folk dancing.
🌏✝️
i liked seeing a little bit of your herd. I wouldn't mind seeing more bits of farming from time to time..
Nice dam update, good to see Big Mamma doing well.
I think using time-lapse type segments is a genuinely compelling editing device, because it implies a lot of work, on multiple levels. Which makes it interesting, narratively, raising questions like how "deep" is the time-lapse footage?, etc. It's cool. Wild to see those pond episodes (the dam building and whatnot) cut together like that. 👍
EDITED for ... clarity, I guess.
I Love when Jon said, "we thought"!!
Thanks Jon. Take care & stay safe.
I have been sooooo excited for this follow-up video! Looking forward to the RAM pump!
I once again love your perseverance! Digging a pond no big deal .. ya right ....every job seems simple enough until you need to make it actually perform and do what wanted to accomplish.....As an engineer I love that you gave time and fuel usage, calculated GPM ( so I didn't have to guesstimate it). You not only do great work but give great explanations as you do it!!!!! You and Diesel Creek = Best of TH-cam!!!!
Thanks John for the up date on the pool
Really interesting appreciate it 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Looks like a beautiful residential development for mosquitos :) love the videos btw
Fish love mosquitos. I have water gardens and use Betas and goldfish. They gobble those larvae down and I rarely feed them anything.
Thanks for the update Jon. I know you are busy with a lot going on and video editing takes a lot time. Glad we got something today. Have a great 4th week.
Frankly I'm impressed that 5hp pump was capable of enough head to get water up to the pond, but I think you're on the right track waiting for rain and having a self-sufficient maintenance pump. Would be interesting to see the difference between a solar pump (higher power daytime only) and ram pump (lower flow 24hr /day). Either way it would seem like keeping the prime is probably the biggest headache.
I was very surprised the pump done so well that far up hill to the pond myself!!
When I saw him walking up with the hose, I said that's a lot of head. But that pump did great!
Number 50 deserves a cookie 😭
Honestly I love when stuff goes wrong for John. Means we get more videos. Sorry but the needs of many out weight the John.
You should probably put some sort of solar fountain in it to keep the water from stagnating. Something that sprays up like a sprinkler and allow the water droplets to fall onto the surface.
Assuming it fills again :)
Thank you, please keep updating
Jon i learn something new every week great video!
What... really? Only 18 minutes this week? ... but I LOVE the hour long battles with the equipment... seeing you make big big progress every week. Well... thanks for thinking of us anyway. Nice job on this pond Dammit!
For those who are curious, I live about 50 miles from this place. They did the treatment in mid-April judging by the trees and we have had very little rain since the second week of May. It is now the last week of June and It has been hot (around 90F) every day of June. Hard to keep water in anything with those conditions.
Thank you for sharing, always a pleasure follow your project, i learn a lot, from Quebec,Canada 👍👍👍👍
Thanks for the update! At least it’s not leaking (as much). Will enjoy watching the ram pump episode!
Great update on the pond thanks Jon
Looking forward for the next updates! amazing job and for sure a lot to learn
can't wait for ram pump video! awesome project
You make uninteresting things interesting 🎉 good on you! love this video like ALL the rest!😊
Great video! Looking forward to your setting up a ram pump. They are indeed cool and I'd like to see what goes into one.
Great video! Hope to see it full one day!
Looking forward to the upcoming videos throughout the week that will fill out usual minutes.
Totally agree... Have the farmer move to the Amazon rain forest that has an increase rain fail and better geology to support a pond.
What you need there is a little beaver, they would build you a good dam in no time at all (i expect) all the best filling your reservoir from England.
It's a good start, they didn't build Rome on one day either. Keep up the good work and the videos comming. 👍
So the Damit pond needs a Ramit pump.
First Damit, then ramit.
Sounds like a very obscure porn title.
Enjoyed this one.
Thanks, helps a lot
Very informative. Thank you! I have a similar situation for a couple ponds I want to put in. I think I will save my pennies and invest in pond liners.
Thought you did a magnificent job building this pond!
8:50 Logical solution is dam the exit and let the pool fill up. Adjust the height of the out-flow dam until in-flow and pump flow are balanced.
I can’t believe there are people out there just like me. By that I mean, yes, I can afford to throw away and buy new, but if I can fix something, we’ll, that is sooo much more satisfying. I know this comment doesn’t relate to this video, but to the way you think. I love it.
This was an awesome Timelapse !!
It's good that the treatment worked. Would have been a shame spending all that time walking and floating around in that snotty slime for no result, lol. On another note, it was great you were able to get a bit of the story behind that ruined house. That was an incredibly interesting bit of history that I was grateful to learn. The curiosity would have driven me a bit loopy otherwise, lol...
Glad it worked for your setup. Treated mine twice with Damit and it failed after holding for about 2 weeks. Was disappointed.
Love it, John! Great video! I love ram pumps and can't wait to see the video on that one! Kinda missed the long video this week lol.
Wow. Congrats on the calves!
Farmcraft101 ur the man!
Thankyou 😊
Cool update! Perhaps some swales to increase the catchment, even from another drainage. Good use of precious fuel and time.
Funny world. Just this morning I was thinking about how your damit project turned out and whether I missed your video on the results. Well, looks like I did not miss it after all... 😉👍👍
It has worked well on one of my local commercial trout lakes here in the UK
I loved the pond construction series. Awesome to see another update, and looking forward to seeing this thing full!
Still so cool how there is that civil war era building and graves. Coming from a Canuck up in the Great White North - 'Merica sure has some really cool stuff. 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 😎👍
nice hopefully yall get as much rain as we are getting here in iowa.
Interesting to see sheep in your area..... run a few Romneys here in New Zealand myself......... look forward to seeing the ram pump in operation...
nice review
That is really cool 🤙
We built a small pond on our property in NC with similar looking soils. Our ponds’ seal seemed to improve after the first couple of years.
We didn’t run into any of that clay shale you were talking about though.
Lovely Angus cattle. We had an Angus stud on our family farm in the 60s, lovely quiet cows till you went to ear tag their new born calves and boy did they arc up then 😂
0:59 If you would only have a case 170B at that time...
Thank you for this dam update. I enjoyed this dam video, especially the dam time lapses.
It'll be nice to see it fill.
But I did giggle when you thought you'd get 24" of water in one day hahaha.
Keep cracking on, pal!
Holy c---. The actual pond time-lapse is awesome! Ironically(?), I'm commenting in real-time. 🤔
Thanks John, I like to Ram Pump thought, I did a small home test, but would need a creak to build one. :)
I think Jon will do his research, looks like not enough flow from feeder creek and too high of a lift is needed....Jon is a smart guy and will go to an alt method that is more effective and efficient.....Or Jon will just push the laws of physics to the limit and make it work while giving us great content!
Great video👍🇺🇸🔧
Place a windmill to pump water out of the creek and connect the overflow pipe back to the creek! This way the water refreshes all the time!
Good Stuff
WOW!
It was worth it just to see the pond get clear now I'm ready to see put the ram pump in
Cant wait for the ram pump build
We used a dye trace method to find out where the water was going. The farm pond was created during the Depression. The owner hired a digger to de-slim the bottom and remove all the weeds. The pond started leaking, and he hired us to find the missing water. Our results found that a brook about half a mile away was turning red. He then drained the pond and allowed it to dry for several weeks, after which he bought 100 tons of gray clay and relined it himself. The pond stayed viable through the 1980s and up until the farm was sold. There is a plat on the site today.
Ram pumps are nifty. Slow but persistent. I look forward to seeing how that goes.
Maybe you need some 'dammit' for the creek. Pun intended! I have been wondering how this worked. Thanks for the up date. AS ALWAYS, a good job videoing & explaining.
The ram pump is going to be all it needs to be a beautiful pond. It takes time for all the ground to seal and saturate. Sadly the runoff is just not quite enough on its own.
Congratulations on the new calves, and particularly well done to No. 50.
I'm sure there are even more by now 🙂
I'm sure Jon is well aware, being a well-experienced livestock farmer, but just for information for the less experienced:
Freshly-calved cattle are probably the most dangerous domestic livestock most people are ever likely to encounter.
At least here in Ireland, cattle account for 15-20% of farm-related deaths each year, with well over half of that being at or around calving time. The other deaths are mostly 'non-aggressive' incidents (people getting suffocated or trampled among closely penned cattle, etc), with bull attacks coming in third place with a few percent each year too.
Everyone, livestock farmer or otherwise, knows to treat a bull with utmost caution.
A freshly calved cow, and especially a freshly calved heifer however, can turn from a placid and calm animal into a frenzied and wildly dangerous beast when her protective-mothering instincts kick in.
A half-ton+ of angry beef will gore, stomp, and grind into the dirt anyone and anything she perceives to be a threat to her calf. Dogs in particular create a particular hazard as they'll try to hide behind their human if they can't run away, often leading to dire consequences for both human and dog.
Baby calves are super cute, and their mothers are 'mostly' pretty chill, but there's always a significant potential of death or disfigurement. Admiring from afar is probably the best policy.
To raise the water level one foot on a 1/2-acre pond requires roughly 163,000 gallons of water. If your pump is pumping 25 gpm, it will take a little more than 4 days to raise the level a foot. Saw the rest of the vieeo, and you figured out how much time it is going to take. A hydraulic ram pump is a good choice for a keep-fill pump. You'll have to tune the timing of the ram to get it to pump well.
Ponds are so simple… yet so difficult that it’s insane. So many variables that can make it not have any water. No intake is 1 big one.
Like I always say in software, it's that simple and also that complicated. It's easy to conceptualize but difficult to materialize.
@@theroboticscodedepot7736 True Dat! Ya ever notice every design works perfect on paper? lol
I used about 200" of 6" preforated pip, slightly curved to catch the download flow through the horizontal section of the pipes.. 6" on overflow and 2" on down to the house. Never without water!!!!
Soil is so important. Where we live if you dig a hole, it fills with water and doesnt leak. We take that for granted.
I have moved back to Virginia. I am at my forever home! Yay!
Since I've been here, the news says that we're having a flash drought. Very high temps and hardly any rain. Hopefully, it'll be over soon.
Yeah, this drought is brutal. Hope it ends soon. I need to grow some grass for my cattle! ;-)
HomeTown Acres did this a year or so ago - almost got it right! Could have used more horizontal pipe soaking up more underground flow - but it DID contribute to pond anyway!!1
Landtohouse is the master of the RAM pump...definitely check him out!
Constant trickle of water going into the pond will definitely offset the evaporation and the damit stuff seems to work well!
Keep em coming!!!!
just a thought the next time that you build a pond check with your local concrete company and see if you can get wash out from them. they will usually give it to you. once you line it with about 6 to 12 inches and compact it the pond will seal and the lime will balance the ph level.
4:43 Priming the Pump AND washing the shipping & storage dust off it...
It's a Twofer...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Funky 70's crime drama music to end the show. Fun times.
I was going to comment asking if the dammit actually worked to the other video. Thanks for reading my mind! Lol
9:45 YAY!