beautiful pond, nice tall dam, great work

this is one of the few things on my bucket list that I would really like to accomplish before I die. I desperately want to harvest catfish from my own designed and constructed, healthy catfish pond. you got some serious equipment out there

Another first class job done by your crew! If I was in the market for a new pond on my property, your company would be the first phone call I made.

@letsdig18

7 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@arkansas1313

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Slak...I've used car bodies, irregular shapes of concrete debris, stumps and trees/large brush. Nature has many things.

@edwardwhite221

7 жыл бұрын

We call it structure and it needs to be put in beneath the bottom grade if you plan on swimming or fishing in here safely. Get on down there and punch in a hole and fill it with the junk tree trunks and cars or whatever the hell the one guy claims in in the wild in ponds. lol

@xAhzner

7 жыл бұрын

How much would something like this cost? I would love to do something like this to my future home, thanks!

@danieliosifnagy4440

7 жыл бұрын

Edward White

I'm really impressed with the Chris and his crew does. Thankfully in 2022 he now stretches his pond build like this one over several much longer videos so we get to see all that goes into building a new pond and even his pond tebuilds.

Very nice job and show us this pond filled later. Thanks for sharing my friend.

What a beautiful job you guys did on this project, working with the natural landscape and creating a very substantial deep end that will hold huge amounts of excess water. I would love to see how it looks today in 2019.

I spent a lot of time in Michigan where a lot of people have ponds. I love them, coming from Australia where water is hard to get at the best of times you just have to have a small lake in your back yard. The Great Lakes in Michigan is a must see, I went fishing with my brother-in-law we went out so far that we couldn't the USA or Canada and this is all fresh water. Fantastic

You should be proud of the work you have done.....this looks just great. Please, be sure to show us this when the water fills it, and the grass has grown.

@colinkennedy7542

7 жыл бұрын

Reg Sparkes n

@snoopu2601

5 жыл бұрын

Is he going to lone it with rock's?

@billrobbins5874

3 жыл бұрын

Can they swim in the ponds too?

wow that's a great project. It looks great good work.

I enjoyed your video very much!.....engineered nicely! Greetz from Australia.

Very good job! I made one like this in africa couple of months ago using only CAT D6, Went well, its now filled with water!

@officialbadboypage1643

7 жыл бұрын

where in africa? which country? i want one of these there

Awesome job, not to tedious and very entertaining to watch how you took an open field and dug out a really nice pond to stock with fish.

Don't know why but I always like seeing ponds and dams being built :) might have something to do with growing up with a stream running through the garden and trying to dam it up with my brother when I was a kid.

@treggwoodard201

6 жыл бұрын

Beavers are pretty cool when they live in your area!

@snoopu2601

5 жыл бұрын

As kids me and my brothers would dig a good size whole in the yard and fill it so we could get into it in the summer it was just big enough to get all four of us in.

@mansoorkhan6908

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

Man I enjoy watching ya'll work

That is the size pond I want to put on my place, currently have one just a 1/4 acre stock pond on the property now and will be looking into hiring someone to do a job just like this one. Great work.

You gave me a good idea I'm going to put my old Concrete Culverts in the bottom of my pond good idea thanks Chris fish habitat they'll love that

New machine is a beauty brother, it deserves a owner like you my friend! I love it! Take care Mr Smooth Operator! KEEP ON DIGGING CHRIS! Always waiting for your next video brother! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Hi letsdig, Have spent hours watching your videos,very entertaining,thankyou. Regards juls

Looks great as always!

you do awesome work looks good not that any of us really wanted but now is when we need that heavy rain the pond will look awesome when it is finally full of water

This pond looks badass brother, dam good job brother! You the Man! 👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This was nice thank you for sharing.

Beautiful. Looks amazing.

Good job bro love to go fishing when you get finished !!!

Chis! as a old guy that has never done your kind of work! I have worked on the railway on heavy equipment for many years but not in your habitant LOL.

I can tell your proud of your work at the end of each day and that's what makes a man good at what he does and you should be proud looks great that's the same philosophy I try to live by when you look back at the end of the day be proud of what you did!

Would you Please start showing all the equipment used on ur projects. Awesome job as usual and great videos too!!!

Nice job! I see some happy fish in the future.

Pretty Cool, I helped build a big point in north Florida first of 2008. I ran the D5 dozer and 935 loader, also a home made end dump... 👍😜😎

Awesome man!!!! Wish I could land work like that.

Teamwork makes the dream work. Thank you for this.

That is one helluva nice job!

Great job Chris, I would love to do pond work like that. Would satisfy the earthmover & fisherman in me !

AWESOME! come build me one!

Great work!

another awesome video could you make a video about digging core trenches?

Thats a really, really nice looking berm !

that looks cool AF great job your good sir !

How porous is the soil? I have always thought that pond buiders lay some kind of insulation material at the bottom of the pond to prevent water from sinking into the ground. How do you survey to see if there are any massive rocks several feet under the top soil? If found, do you just work around them or do you blast them with explosives?

Did I hear correctly, the three gravel patches (one near dock) are for fish beds?

that is a partty good size pond. good job of making it.

I am trying to get estimates for a pond now. Can you give me any ideas as for what kind of questions or things to look for do I need to know to pick out a good pond builder??

I know every job is different, but what would you estimate the average cost per yard moved on a pond project? Great video. Thanks.

Good work . Great channel. One thing on advise get your self a drone. It would help 1000× in showing your work. You do a lot of work and from the ground its hard to show it all the top angle would open worlds to you.

super gorgeous, though you could probably save the trees cut down, put them in a shallow trench with soil and manure make a giant hugelbed as a visual feature near the pond.

Wow...!!! Great Job :) Could you please tell me how long will it take to dig 2.5 acre (12 depth) land? Thanks.

Love to see it filled in

Great video. Learned a lot. I wish I could hire you and tour team.

Great work looks great tidy job

Is there a video showing the completion of this pond including water?

Where are you located? The dirt in this video looks a lot like the red clay of central Georgia. I'd like a fishing pond about this size. How much does one this size cost?

Man you are a pond specialist...I need some instructions, I can clean one out no problem...but cutting the core and ratio slopes is what I have a question, also width of the top of the levee

I need you and your crew in kentucky to build a pond!! that looks great

Another great job..i love these pond jobs....Question- After you do the burn pits and borrow pits when you fill them back with old trashy dirt or the unburnt leftovers ..do you ever have problem with the pits settling over months or years and have to go back and touch them up??? Whats the best way to prevent burn pits and borrow bits from settling?? Is they a general rule of thumb when filling and fixing these back?? Just trying to learn from the best..Thanks

@awdken6

7 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same, if they settle a bunch more...

@letsdig18

7 жыл бұрын

I try to track them in as im pushing dirt back in, we even loaded up the haul truck and drove back and forth over it to pack it down. it may settle some but i tend to leave them a little high anyways so it ends up leveling out. most of the time sticks and stumped wont ever rot that far down in the ground because they cant get any oxygen

@kevinbouchard7685

7 жыл бұрын

Any problem with digging the pit in the pond? I guess it wasn't graded to depth at that point though...

When you build your dam, do you dig down a few feet to key it in?

Love your work

Somewhere in 6:12 O would weel that "OMG this dozer is gonna tip over" :D

@Hickman-qd4qo

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry dozier have an extremely low center of gravity

Hi Chris, I stumbled upon your channel and now I'm hooked to your videos. One suggestion as a new fan I have for you is if u make more than 1 video of the same project can you tag them as Part 1, part 2 and so on? It makes viewing of your complete quality job more appreciable. Also maybe after making these beautiful ponds...you happen to visit after t water is put in..you cld show us how it currently looks....will truly appreciate this effort if u do.

Hello good very fine work! which is what makes up the embankment? It is like wood chips?

curious what this one cost with some good heavy machines and they look like its not their first rodeo

great job chris

How big is the key way ? Does it run along the entire dam? I'm practicing permaculture. Someone help! Thank you !

Do you have to go through the state to build ponds in your area? Does your state consider rainwater public use? (like Oregon). Beautiful job.

Y’all sure do a great job

What state you build that in?

Do you work in Florida (Ft. McCoy) or know someone that would do a good job on a 3 acre pond build?

The pond looks good.

You guys have great equipment and surely get the job done, but I'm wondering why you don't use a drag pan on some of the big day projects? is it just a matter of not having one?

What stops the water from eroding the surrounding area? (If eroding is the right word) [turning the surrounding soil into mud

Just curious and a ball park would work what does a project like this run?

@casual257

5 жыл бұрын

you knw the sayin... if you have to ask.. you can't afford it.

@matt420740

5 жыл бұрын

In my area a rough estimate for equipment this size would be $100/hr per machine. Maybe a bit less for the articulating truck. Plus cost of whatever materials (dirt, stone, pipe, ect.) need to be brought in. Seeing this took about 10 days probably be between 30K - 40K, maybe even slightly higher.

@iluvmyeski

5 жыл бұрын

Thats a stupid saying. If someone has $20k to spend they have a lot of money but maybe this cost $50k? If you don't ask before doing something you're just stupid.

@sashasack

5 жыл бұрын

Donald Duck005 if it costs 50k you can’t afford. Saying spot in that situation

Been thinking of having a pond put in. What does a project of this size cost approximately. I'm in N.W Georgia. Do you guys travel 😊 how does the pond fill up.

what state are you out of?

Nice work!

good job I like that one

very professional. impressive.

Good work mate

How much did it cost to build this 1.5 acre pond?

We used JD 8400s & JD 9600s pulling 2 Reynolds pans to build ponds. Fun times, I miss the hell out of it!

Great job! And great video! What does a job like this cost?

nice job love ur work always looking good !

Nice looking pond, you are a pond building dude.

Looks Great.. But I don't see any WATER ..How are they going to fill that pond ? thanks for sharing.

I was going to rent a trackhoe to remove 15 acres of pine stumps average about 6-8 inch 20 year old been cut for a year. What size is the smallest trackhoe you think would pull those stumps up????

Good job Charlie Brown!!! LOL

Awesome 😎💯👍👍👍

Nice job 👍🏻

That is one tidy,smart job

I didn't see me no water no where! you gonna count on rain to fill it up?

@thorstensonis

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Sneed maybe they have a well.

@keithcook4537

3 жыл бұрын

It dried up if no spring comes out

How much would a pond this size cost to build

Great Job, could i ask you a question? I'm looking to do the same in my property and i would like to ask you how much did it cost you to build the Pond?

@brutusjb3814

4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing 30-50k, with all that machinery

doing a great job Chris the komatsu dozer looks like a nice operating machine would size of it be equal to a Cat D5 or D6 size and power ? i enjoy your videos watch them all the time .

@letsdig18

7 жыл бұрын

D5 size

@Shweezy1

7 жыл бұрын

letsdig18 is there gonna be a video with you filling the pond or it with water in it?

What was the two grey areas in the pond,looked like stone or concrete

@gimiesome

7 жыл бұрын

Gravel bed for the fish.

@anonymouse7074

7 жыл бұрын

Craig Jensen You think bluegill would nest that deep?

@gimiesome

7 жыл бұрын

Not sure.

it's been almost a year. Any updates? Has it filled in yet?

@Kev-england32

5 жыл бұрын

@Sparka lol 😂

@JustMe-999a

4 жыл бұрын

@Retired Marine Whine much, bitch?

big boy toys!!!

muy buen trabajo

how much does it cost to get one build. I got 4 acres and I won't to buy some cows and stock it with catfish?

How much does a project of this nature cost??!!

@adrenalinejunkie8374

7 жыл бұрын

Texas Bass Freak Canadian pennies 400,000,000,000,000,000

@TheHillbillyHybrid

6 жыл бұрын

Around 30,000

What kind of grass seed did you put along the dam? What was the process for the seeding? I just finished building a 1 acre pond and I am unsure about which grass seed to place for Southeast Oklahoma.

Follow up would be great to see the pond now

Just a simple question: Do you ever put a spillway in for the ponds you build? In case of heavy rain, to avoid dam overflow?

@letsdig18

7 жыл бұрын

yes they all have them, I just forgot to show it in this one. it wasnt big just a simple low area at the end of the dam at the field

@imoneixusa9742

6 жыл бұрын

7:10 says he got overflow put in