This is inspiring. Thanks a bunch for posting it!

Anyone else try to blow that speck off the screen 😅 Ya got me!

Gotta use the bottom of the bucket to make a smooth spot in the trench. Then the water flows more easily out of the trench.

That would be so beautiful to put in a bunch of rocks and make your own Creek/drainage

A French drain would let you use the land and keep the water running where it should.

Nature: I'm going to create a spring head and wetland here. Man: I need to dry this land up it's too wet for my liking.

May dig out the area to make a small pond. Use what you dig out to raise the surrounding area. It looks like it will naturally fill up and creat a spillover into the creek.

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

I talked about this with an uncle that does excavation. He advised I didn't without engineering and permits since he has had DNR encounters and had to fill back in some of the projects or the project manager had to pay up way more. But it sure was a thought to go ahead with a pond build.

What were those huge bugs crawling around in the mud

Ah so this is what "Draining the swamp" looks like

@deborahkutalik9422

Жыл бұрын

Yeasssssss

@helo4366

Жыл бұрын

GET RID OF DEMOCRRRATS

Kind of sad. Don’t things live there?

Does anyone know the approximate cost it would be to drain a half acre swamp area? I would imagine it's based on square footage or acreage. Thanks

That swing motor sounds weird. Never had a machine click like that on me

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The slew motor had a hydraulic leak at the seal and would basically wash the grease off. So very thin layer of hydraulic fuild made it so you hear the metal to metal contact between the gears.

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

@@duotronic6451 done sold it and looking into a bigger newer model atm

Look into LID, Low-Impact Development. You'll want swales (ditches with 6% or less side-slope) every 100ft. In America farmers use drain tile to avoid swales but you'll notice in Europe swales every 50-100 foot is very common for obtaining that perfect 12-18 inches of well-drained soil.

@SwiftOutdoors

4 жыл бұрын

The plan is to rework the whole area eventually and have the whole area slope to the creek vs puddle up. This was mainly a bandaid for time being to have much less standing water for mosquitoes. Summer time I'll probably do the dirt work for slope.

Nice video

Very satisfying to watch. I’ll subscribe and check out your channel. Thanks and good luck with the new hay field.

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It has kept it dry enough to drive on now so should work out to get some extra hay off of.

Good place for drainage tile.

Sometimes the swamp exists there to prevent the spread of forest fire

@SwiftOutdoors

Жыл бұрын

No forest fires where I'm located. It's not actually a swamp just a low laying spot on a farm.

What is going to stop the creek from going back the other way???

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Atm.... nothing. But with time I will keep filling the dip in and work my way to the creek. This was just step one to be able to get all the standing water out.

How do you keep it from filling up again?

that one spot of mud triggered me bro i hate OCD

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

One of those things you don't see while filming/ operating at the time lol

@deborahkutalik9422

Жыл бұрын

Meeeee toooooo 😂 😂

@kimaniwillis9466

Жыл бұрын

@@deborahkutalik9422 omg i felt like i watched this video a month ago i cant belive its been a yearRRR

are u or have dug that area up and placed drain tile in .?

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Priority isn't high enough to go into that expense.

side to side motion to smooth bottom then rock

are you sure that it's not a vernal pool?

let everybody downstream deal with your discharge, nadda.

What is this machine called?

Is that from a spring or just a low lying area ?

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

It's a low area just holding excess water. It use to be the creek bed before the creek took a different direction.

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Now video #49 though on the other side of the creek is a natural spring that never dries up that someone always gets stuck in at least once a year lol

GET OUT OF MY SWAMP!!! Shrek

@michaelsanders5233

3 жыл бұрын

Sound like it needs some grease

Could have made a pond

Anyone else try to wipe the mud off their screen?

@deborahkutalik9422

Жыл бұрын

Yep 😂 😂

Probaly not legal whats the update .

you need mr “mj works “ look him up brilliant work

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

All I see coming up is motorcycle stuff for mj works........

@johnmarshall6095

3 жыл бұрын

@@SwiftOutdoors sorry its “mr mj works” apologies

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh I found it. Mr AJ works. Looks like the city version of letsdig18. Wish I had the big toys to play with lol

I think trees taken out will be next..

Draining a wetland. God help you if the soil conservation folks see this.

@SwiftOutdoors

Жыл бұрын

It's not actually a swamp or wetlands 😆 just word play. Only wet during spring when trying to produce hay for animals.

That's Sound/noise is the most horrible 🤢

You could've move the piece of annoying mud from off the glass.

Using a toothed bucket? Oh man... Way to make a situation worse. Instead of a small berm you now have a pile of mini ditches going across your drainage area. Could have cleared it all really easy with a small manually-dug drainage channel. No need for heavy equipment. 48h and still having standing water is proof you didn't resolve the underlying issue of drainage.

@MrOmarimoe

2 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with using a tooth bucket just have to smooth it with the back of the bucket afterwards. Tilt grading bucket would have been ideal but you do what you can with what you have

Can you say French drain

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

I've done a few of those but this small project wasn't worthwhile of the cost of hauling in the gravel, pipe, and fabric to do a French drain. Was kinda just tracking by it and thought "Hey, lets knock this out real quick to dry this section up"

I hardly call that a swamp.

@SwiftOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

Well it's even more hardly a swamp 😆

This isn’t about Trump

@maxresdefault985

2 ай бұрын

Be quiet