When they built the canals here in the UK they often used herds of cattle or sheep to puddle (compact) the clay.😮

@brianrizzi6321

11 ай бұрын

Interesting

@ebony5766

11 ай бұрын

Hello to our friends in the UK! Pennsylvania here. That is quite interesting, but makes a lot of sense. Work smarter, not harder.

@MitchellDowns

11 ай бұрын

Good point. That is why the roller Adam was using is called a "sheepsfoot roller" - they were specifically trying to replicate that effect with a machine.

@jason27swg

11 ай бұрын

As crazy as this sounds growing up we made two farm ponds to irrigate out of ... we also had a huge hog operation. We would put an electric fence up around the pond for a few months and allow the hogs to pack root and lay in the clay. Some 30 years later those ponds are still in use today

@paulprigge1209

11 ай бұрын

Forgive me but you didn’t do a core Test before you even brought equipment and to build upon?

PHEW! Big sigh of relief! Both for the fact that the pond seems to be nearing completion and that you didn't get the Sheep Head Roller stuck. Great video thumbs up.

I'm impressed with the amount of slope that pad foot roller can handle, as well as how well you operated it.

The subtle directions the excavator operator made to the truck drivers is impressive that they saw him. Those drivers are paying close attention!! 👍 I'm praying this all works so y'all can enjoy the pond stress free!! Oh, ye, of little faith, Neighbor Doug!! Adam is a professional!! Hope y'all have a blessed weekend! Thanks for another great video! God bless you and your family! 💞🙏💞

Nice progress, looks a lot better now. I bet when you were working as a Analyst you never thought that you’d be running a Sheep’s Foot compactor one day. 😊👍👍👍

That looks sooooooo good now! Can't wait to see it full and you get the pond you've been wanting!!! Tractor Hard! 🚜💪!

Great dirt work! That looks awesome!

Ralph is a skilled operator, made it look easy. Good job, hope it holds, glad the weather held up.

Fingers crossed and prayers your way that this seals the pond floor and good times and water retention are the new norm! Take care and God Bless you all!!!❤😊

Adam, it looks like you and Ralph did a nice job placing the 'new' clay in the bottom of the pond. I know it took some extra clay but it will be nice to see the pond full and not leaking. Blessings to you.

The whole subscriber list is praying for your ponds success! Looks very good from here!

Ralph seems like he run's a great business and is a very skillful operator! Hope this seals the pond for you!

I would definitely try to acquire abunch of old power poles and build a big pole barn. I know Down in Mississippi you can usually get the old power poles for free

Great job to you and Ralph in getting the clay ready for water retention and best of luck!!

Now there are men who know their machineries. What a great job, both loading trucks and leveling the clay. By the way I have noticed that you are getting pretty good on yours.

Hope you do a timelaps of it filling up now again!

Those last few seconds of the vid @Hometown Acres! CLASSIC !

Very nice! Love watching the progress of your repairs. Looking good! Can't wait to see your next update.

Thanks for sharing the experience and knowledge. It’s sucks but moving forward awesome

Love the ending, Roll On 😊

I spent most of last summer building a trash cell in a land fill. 3’ of clay layed down in 6” lifts. Myself and a second person both on sheep’s foot compactors compacted close to 8 acres of slopes daily. Took about 10-12 hours to make one circle. According to plans it had to have 10 passes. Only smooth drum a pass every 100’ for the inspector to do compaction test. Yes it was a challenge to get and keep material wet otherwise like you said no compaction. So I’m sure your past this at that point. But if it’s wet but not soup. Roll it in. After several passes. You’ll see the material change. Oh the amount of clay we hauled in on cat 745 dump trucks was insane. 2500 yards plus a day for months.

Nniiiccceee!! Can't wait to see it fill back up again

Great job with the camera placements and drone shots - really helps tell the story of the work going on

I just had to comment that the video editing was outstanding. With the time lapse footage and the whole process the clay took, from the source to your pond was amazing! I appreciate your effort and hope this will solve the pond leaking issues!! What software do you use for editing?

Nice job on compaction..

I still think you should have used pond liners from the start. They come in different lengths and widths and are heat sealed at the seams. Guaranteed leak proof. If your pond still leaks next year, you know I'll say "I told you so".

@darylhamann2310

11 ай бұрын

Thats what i said

Haha, I hope this solves the pond issues! Really enjoyed the dad joke close! Great job, Adam!

That pond is gonna be awesome, it looks like you are in good hands with rev. 2 thank you for the great content

Great drone footage! I don't know why.. but I have a craving for waffles. It's gotta feel nice to get the pond fixed.

Nice!

@HometownAcres

11 ай бұрын

Thank Neil. Can’t wait to see your pond when it is finished. Been a crazy impressive series so far

@digdrivediy

11 ай бұрын

@@HometownAcres Thanks Adam!

Tell Ralph his fleet of Autocars is awesome!

Big job Adam. Fingers crossed that all of your hard work pays off and this is the last of the pond repairs. Dave...PS - That was funny at the end. 😁

Looking good!

As 1 pond gets repaired, it looks like another gets dug

Great video! Please keep making them.

I love watching your journey. You've come a long way in a short amount of time. Never forget the family is your first priority. You only get one chance to raise your kids. Looks like you're doing a good job.

Rollin like a boss. Keep it up. We'll catch ya on the next one, thanks for posting!

Nice Job 👍🏻 Hoping & praying that this finally works & holds all the water you need. One heck of a project. Thanks for sharing.

Nice work mate, i really enjoy your time lapse and drone footage 👍

Third time is the charm. You have been through a lot with this pond. I hope this is the final fix. I've enjoyed watching you build it and all of your other projects.

Looks great cant wait to see it finally full! You need to have one heck of a party when it does.

Adam, I just watched Outdoor with the Morgans and he was talking about cutting some firewood into 12-inch lengths for people that have solo stoves or small fire pits. Mike thought it was a good idea to have at least a couple of cords on hand for people that have those and want to burn wood recreationally. Just passing this along in case you didn't see it. Bill H from Cranberry Township

Adam, I think most of us have been had by someone claiming to be something their weren't. When I was younger I would give them the benefit of the doubt, but the older I get the more likely I am to call out someones bullshit. I think it's safe to say that you've learned a very valuable and expensive lesson with this pond build. One day, you'll be sitting by that pond laughing about all of this.

This is awesome! I can’t imagine that not working. I can’t wait to see it fill up.

Great job, what a skill with the bulldozer. let the rain roll in and hope for fun family days in the pond 💞

Adam, nice job today 👍 Neighbor Doug was certainly hoping you’d get stuck so he could get on some equipment to pull you out 🤣 Now let’s hope your investment pays off, which I’m sure it will since you’ve got some good clay in the bottom. As for the extra 20 “loads” of clay, to be honest, those were partial loads he was hauling. I understand that was on purpose, though.

Great job on the pond. That man was one heck of an operator. Doug, I agree, you know luck runs out eventually!😂

The ending 😂😂😂😂😂 I was hoping for a good STUCK video and recovery.

Loved your humor at the end. Great job on the excavating and replacement with clay. Padfoot roller, perfect tool for this. I think you'll be quite happy with the outcome. Ed from Chicago 🙂

Adam your pond is looking good. Hope all goes well for you

Home town earth movers! Cool to see so much heavy machinery whipping around the property.

Looking good, Adam

Way out west here in Iowa, Its not uncommon for silt to become problematic. Every seven years or so farm ponds need to be drained and dug out.

Nicely done and expert level work on not getting the pad foot roller stuck.

Excellent job Adam, looking forward to seeing you and Doug doing a rain dance lol Bring on the water 💧 I also want an accountants best estimate of how long you think it will take to fill based on the spring water flow etc. Lets see how close you get !!

Hope it works for you Adam, but i was hoping for a better looking product of clay, good clay will dig out of the ground in a clump even dry, and will form the shape of the bucket while digging out, that was pretty loose looking stuff.

@Shawn_Richards

11 ай бұрын

Exactly, this was not even close to pond grade clay.

Good luck👍

As with everybody, waiting patiently to see if this is the fix! good luck to you Adam!!

Cool Video

They did a great job,looks good..can’t wait to see it full buddy!

Great video, it looks great, I hope it all turns out for you. It should be a beautiful pond.

I'm learning a lot about pond construction from letsdig18. Chris relies on clay to build beautiful dams. I used to wonder what he was doing when he would strip away a mountain of ground and dig up some other places and move the earth there then compact it. This is a very interesting subject and I really enjoy watching. I actually started watching this channel when you began construction work on your pond and I'm interested in how it has turned out but not in a negative way. Congratulations on the great channel and I love the way it is all growing in a very pleasant way. ❤

@snappingbear

11 ай бұрын

Chris, liked most pros digs test holes to find the clay on site next to the pond and then digs borrow pits to remove it to build dams and roads. He then fills in the pits with the substandard soil. This is far cheaper than hauling in the clay from a far. Of course, you can only do this if there is adequate clay on site.

For compacting sand, a vibrating smooth drum is the tool. Put fines in the soil, then you go to rubber tire rollers or padfoot rollers depending on the fines content. Pure clay, a true sheepsfoot is best. I haven’t tested or seen a compaction curve on that soil, but none of it looks wet enough to me for really good compaction for lowest permeability… walk those feet out til they ride pretty much on top!

@snappingbear

11 ай бұрын

The moisture content of the clay looked good to me. You don't want the clay wet, you want it just moist enough to stick together, but dry enough so it doesn't stick to the roller and fills in the gaps between the feet. When that happens, you should wait for the soil to dry out.

Looks great! This should fix your pond & give you some peace of mind. 👍 Doug loves to stir the pot! 😂🤣

The Dump truck loads looked very light to me. But I am not an expert.

There was no where on your property that had adequate clay subsoil so that a borrow pit couldn't have been dug rather than the much more expensive method of hauling in clay? Is there a video showing test holes being dug?

I agree, the sheep's foot is the best for building ponds

Hope this works, Adam 🙏 tho this has been a real learning experience for us out here who are contemplating a pond. Best wishes to you and your family ❤️

Good luck Adam. Wishing you the best. Thumbs Up.

Hope you found the lost gopro while the pond was empty. That would be epic.

@HometownAcres

11 ай бұрын

Haha I wish… that reference goes back years. Thanks for watching all this time

@bigjoesburgers

11 ай бұрын

@@HometownAcres great channel, great content.

Forget the steaks! Bring on the waffles! Like the way you roll Adam! 👍👍

Looks great Adam! Can’t wait to see it full and frozen! Us Louisiana guys don’t get to see skating and hockey on ponds!

I loved the footage that most people never get (sourcing and a transport). Thank your you use of time lapse on the transport and the multiple views on truck loading (also the count of buckets). A note about why the trucks were not fully loaded would have been good (expect that it was weight based road limits). Also, I bet that I’m not the only one who is wondering why the last bit of pond was not treated to clay and compression. Again…this was excellent coverage and professional level editing. Big kudos on utilization of the repurposed shale and both spots look amazing. When you were talking about the sheets when using the smooth surface roller, I wondered if there was a similar function created under the new clay. I’ve seen operators freshly scratch the last lift before starting the next one depending on temperate and other factor, when coming back the next day. Final comment…I figured that you would have done the clay seal in lifts to merge and seal twice. A mistake that operators that think it is just about putting dirt in position then sealing the top, is that you can only compress the soil 6-10 inches and everything under that serves as fill. This method would have cost you an extra day of rental on the sheeps foot roller but money well spent.

Looks GREAT, Adam!! Fingers crossed for you!

Those divets of the roller are creating thin spots in the liner. Need to blade it off one final time to have a consent liner thickness

Great video work with creative angles. Good luck with this project.

Wish you could of picked up pond liner with the clay. That’s how we do 80% of our ponds in north Texas.

Looks great👍

Looks amazing!

hi there good show , john

What about the hole you dug to drain with the pump? Looks like you guys just worked around it?

Those pad foot rollers are great. I’d like to build one to pull behind a good sized farm tractor with either a Pto or separate engine powered vibratory system

That is some beautiful work!

Another great video! Very in lightning! ❤

I know I'm not as excited as you are, but I'm stoked! Great job Adam. I think the King should at least start calling you prince mow.

All looks good to me, hope it all works out. thanks for bringing us this journey it is very enjoyable. You also pick the best music.

I’ll be watching and praying🤞

Good job. Praying it works for you.

Nice.

The most expensive pond in Pennsylvania.

Good luck with this project. Big investment for a redo. Stay safe.

Great job

It may be a geographic thing but where I'm at here in NH a tri axle of clay is $280 delivered and I'd be able to make pottery with it if I wanted to. Gray dense sticky CLAY, looks a lot different than what your getting.

@Shawn_Richards

11 ай бұрын

That was definitely not genuine pond grade clay. I've hauled plenty of clay into numerous brickyards here in Pennsylvania back in the day and it had the consistency of Play-Doh. Very dangerous to dump as it would stick in the bed. Good clay in Pennsylvania comes out of coal mines, as it lays in pockets deep below the surface. And yes, mostly gray in color. I hope this works out for him but not too sure. Especially on the area he let dry out before he started trying to compact it.

wonderful ken fro kent england

looks great man

Great progress

Have you considered using the compactor on the fill around the house and the wood area to help reduce bogging when you start working on that area.

Hate to say it Adam but those trucks with "clay" were only 3/4 full, that is OK if you are paying by the ton but not OK if you are paying by the truck load. The D5 was much too small of a machine to be doing that job, should have been at least a D6 or D7, They will do double the job at half again the price. You have a very nice location where the appreciative person would love to live and call it theirs.

Bummer that you had to keep doing the same project over again been there done that! I think you are good to go the clay and workmanship are in line together!

Were you able to place a layer of clay in that mudhole at the very bottom? Maybe I missed it, sorry if I did. Good luck Adam, I really enjoy your videos!