Building a Farm Pond, Site Prep. Part 1/7
2023 ж. 20 Шіл.
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A new massive project is underway! I'm building a farm pond and start with clearing and preparing the site, pushing off topsoil and getting down to clay. I'm ready to roll on this project, but I think there are some challenges in store...
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I loved all 8 videos. Sitting in hospital for days on end bored to tears and farmcraft101 really helped me. In the Pond build it was like I was there. I could smell the soil being moved, the fire burning, the aroma after a rain and yes diesel fuel to. Love the highs and the lows of your videos. You are a blessed man.
"Once you're up on the wood, you should be fine". Now that would be a great T Shirt
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More better. Once your up with a wood, you should be fine.
You can hook a chain to the top of each ramp and drive on them, it's not a perfect solution but it does add traction
@@amosbackstrom5366 you are on a farm, clearing trees. Wood you know a limb from a tree. Put wood on the ramp. Look around they are every where. You are loading a trailer, throw the wood on the trailer then you can unload. Really easy don’t need chain, old tire, snowmobile belt. Just what nature gives you. Oh 1 more thing you need a brain 🧠
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I have the same dozer. That screen is constantly getting junk in it. I put an automotive inline fuel filter in that rubber part of the hose. No more trouble
John when I couldn’t think you where living my dream any more you go and build a pond. The farm, heavy machinery, woodworking, metal casting, mechanical work, family life, giving back to the community, forestry work and livestock husbandry. Please never stop, an inspiration to us all.
Push your brush piles in second gear. The extra speed helps keep the pile in a ball and sliding across the ground. When you go slow it catches on everything.
Not if you’re charging by the hour!😂
Good advice sir 👍
@@nayBobb 🤔😂😂😂
Oh yeah, we need more farm craft videos. Stay safe and do not get hurt. Please.
I'm new to this farming techniques, there are really trying there best its really help full
I'd love to know more about you that's only if you don't mind leaving me a reply.
Jon, you said you think you are being overly cautious about the dozer when you are clearing out the brush, rest assured you are not. The young man you setup with the car a few months back, Christopher, his Grandfather he never met, died September (9th I think) 2001 after a loading accident with a dozer, very close to where you are working. Keep doing the right thing and stay safe! Great content as always!
How's the car doing?
How's the dozer doing?
My retirement dream is to buy some land and a D4, then push dirt piles around all day like a kid in a sand box. Now that something like that is cost prohibitive, I bought an IPad and watch KZhead videos of guys doing it! Thank you!
Nothing like the algorithm keeping me away from your channel JUST long enough so I can binge watch your pond series!😅 1:35
You could always buy a couple sticks of 3/8” x 1” flatbar and weld it to the grousers. Simple cheap fix for worn out grouser pads. I would use 7018 or dual shield fluxcore to weld them on though. Stay safe and Keep up the good work John.
A much easier and enjoyable video to watch, than an hour of Let's dig 18 doing the same thing in real time over and over and over and over and over.. 😎
Trailer held up like a champ on that dozer nice Jon @FarmCraft101
ohhhh this is going to be epic. longer videos john please.
33:46 No idea why, but this dozer push is just so satisfying to watch!
That was satisfying to do. The excavator couldn’t begin to push that whole pile. The dozer barely flinched!
I think it’s time you invest in a skid steer with a grappling attachment. It will become your best friend. And it has lots of seals lol😂
What a coincidence, I have been watching pond building videos for the past week or so for some reason and now you are building one too. :)
I've been watching one over the last year. bamabass, it's degenerated into a nature watching show now though. Looking forward to see what Jon comes up with here
@@RULERofSTARS I have been watching that one as well, that is a really nice pond and like you said, a zoo at this point lol
Letsdig18 does it all the time good videos
@@RULERofSTARSsame here. I’ve pretty much quit watching bamabass now too
7 hours To move all the trees and Brush and get the top soil Moved That is actually excellent Time Jon Good work as always @FarmCraft101
"You Want Me To Just Chop It Off, Lady?" 😂
Jon, i feel cheated with only a 35 minute video. Lol, can’t wait for the rest of them to come.
No sir…, you are not being “overly cautious”.., I think you are being “properly” cautious… You “just know, what you don’t know”, on that property. Looking forward to the videos on this project. Thank you sir. P.S., I think I see a video in your future regarding a shop fabricated “root rake” for the dozer…
All I can do is stare at that old fireplace and chimney in the background and wonder what stories it would tell if it could. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's probably pretty old. Anyhow, boy, that's a lot of work. Very neat though.
Ha wait till you hit a few hornet nests with that open cab! LOL 🐝🐝
Nobody I’ve seen Farmcraft but you are documenting the the amount of time it takes to do a job start to finish. I like it👍
Farm craft is building a pond, how exciting 👏
yeah - I see you Irony: This episode was brutal!
"Warp Speed" is a good thing sometimes! Otherwise it gets kinds like watching Golf. Which can be a good thing too if your ready for your nap!
Or soccer...
Love the videos. The dry and well seasoned jokes are the best. Thank you.
Weather went from not bad to hugh winds in 5 minutes wow Jon @FarmCraft101
I haven't been getting notified, so now I've got 4 videos to catch up 👍
God, i’ve been waiting for another Farmcraft vid for way too long.
This job definitely proves why rental companies rent big equipment! Good luck
When you said that you thought you might be being a little too careful, all I could think of was that there is no such thing as being too careful on machinery. Every one of those pieces of equipment can take your life in a flash if you aren't paying attention.
Johnson Pond Digging Company . No hole’s too big, No hole’s too small!
34:57 the neat part about making a compost pit is you get the clay soil to build up the dam with. And it wont have decomposed materials in it just clay you can compact tightly you also need some big bolders to put under the clay soil
NOT FIRST (but still very happy to be here!) FarmCraft101 has become a part of the rhythm of my life. 😊☺️
This is the 2nd pond building video series I've seen in recent months, and I love seeing it done! Doing good so far, and always love your explanations on things. :)
You can add bentonite to your clay layer to waterproof it, this is often done to improve dams and artificial lakes
1:55 I spy new content
Same
Way to sell the boom lift to the kids on side. Genius.
Happy to be able to help ;)
Hail storm? This too shall pass. Better those hail balls than a kidney stone. 😆
7/21/23; mighty fine video 2day Jon, beautiful day, except for a brief Hail Storm! Excellent awareness for we viewers re: speed of video while filming your dozer back-&-forth.; your voice over & FF was much appreciated. Continuing to watch, as we loyal viewers do- no matter the forgotten fuel filter checks- I watch thru all surface scrapping, new brush excavating till final words..."more to come" on this project! Yea! Stay safe & carry on!👍👍👏👏🍺🤗
Glad to see you back, Jon! This looks like the start of a good series.
Jhon dig a couple test holes try to make sides smoother get to see wats in there
You could stick a ring of small cheap magnets on the fuel tank around the outlet. it may catch a lot of the loose rust
You could weld a vertical plate to every third segment of your track to give yourself more traction. Nothing too massive but just enough to give you that little bit of extra you are needing.
Time to do a video on adding steel to the track pads. I’ve gotta do mine right off too
Jon, you had that dozer loaded like a pro!
Throw some planks on the ramps for bite.
It's a start !! When you get into this farther along, you will amazed how much you are accomplishing over time. Then you can breathe easier as the pond takes shape ! Good job John !
We missed you for two weeks. I wonder, if in that time span, is when the crawler loader came home with you.
Jon, youtuber”Let’s Dig”. The farm pond expert.
Now that is a lot of work!
Would love to see a restore video on that screwdriver. Your tool resto videos are great!
Nobody ever said regular work like Using equipment and clearing land was Fun to watch But i say it is Fun and entertaining 15:33 Jon @FarmCraft101
Put some old tires under your tracks keeps you from sliding on steel and protects your deck and concrete pad those growsers raise havoc with those surfaces 😁😁👍👍
Time to go back to the shop and have a couple of pounders,I mean get a couple of filters. FARMERS! .
I use old snowmobile tracks. Lay em down and drive my dozer up em. Prior to that, I just used old tires thrown on the ramps.
Let's dig craft 101. Love it. Lol
Mr John, hey man, I been missing you, needed a video of yours to watch and you came through. One thing I noticed with the dozer, when you go to push, always go in straight lines. Try to line up with the ground that is as level as can be that way you aren't having to tilt the blade side to side. You may already know these things, just trying to help you anyway I can.
I see grease gins and fueling, lots of fueling. That looks like so much fun.
What's the abandoned structure? That would be fun to check out...
We will... ;-)
You mean the one seen on the left at 1:55 ?
@@davidetondini94 Yeah, I was wondering about that one too. He tends to leave little clues about future projects in his videos...
You may or may not have dozer skills, but you are pretty darn good with that excavator.
Lol I remember when Jon posted a farmer hack video about pulling weed with your feet… oh how far he has come since then: pulling weeds with an excavator. Congrats.
John, I was concerned because you were missing for three weeks. Glad you're okay.
Thats a hell of a project.
John we were beginning to get worried! Can’t wait to see more on this series!
Dont 'bull' your dozer. smaller bites and work your edges less stress on the machine and less scalloping on your base.Good luck with your pond!!
Looks like you are off to a good start good luck 👍👋🇨🇦
Lmao I just rewatched your old pond videos yesterday and was thinking if only you had been doing more detailed/in depth videos back then.
Fun building ponds for sure, I've built a number of them
All the topsoil "washed down in the wash" it's mother nature. And bring your portable welder with you and weld on some new growlers at the site.
That is a huge project Jon. Your equipment will be tested thoroughly by the end of it. Imagine how a wee filter cripples a large engine as that. All the best with that ambitious project and I know you will make it look simple enough. Thanks for keeping us posted on the progress and looking forward to Part II.
Just for future reference seek assistance from the local NRS office or one of their engineering technical advisors to do a pond design layout for you. If you do that you will thank them for making the construction much easier with elevations, bench marks etc.
Hey John if you want to make your ramp safer find a couple old truck tire cut the side walls off then cut the tread into strips and mount on the ramps. you will have traction going up or down, hey we all need to recycle our old rubber on the farm any way you can.
Check The fuel return line that goes back to the tank, if it's clogged then it will spit and sputter like it's running out of fuel, but in fact it's actually flooding. Also blow air through the main fuel line back to the tank to blow any debris out of the line. I have a 1985 D3B that was doing that and when I found the return line by following the lines all the way back and blew air through it I could feel the line dislodge debris and now the dozer runs great. I also installed an inline filter to catch any debris prior to the injector pump.
What a totally awesome way to relax on a Sunday morning.
Keep a few old tires & place them on the ramps
John, I feel sorry for those little machines. That seems like too much of a job for them to tackle. Good luck though. 👍🔧🇬🇧
thanks for bringing sanity back in my life murphy does hit you too lol what would we do without good ole murph. great photos I get depth and grade.
Your next purchase articulating 555 JD loader with root rake. much easier for cleaning up vegetation for burn.
Big project Jon Thanks .
Progress! Very cool to see you from purchase, repair to productivity to profit...the American way! Johnson!
Next, Farmcraft buys a front end loader cheap, repairs it, uses it to load topsoil in the dump truck he repaired, etc.
Hey John its really good to see the dozer in operation, all your hard work is paying off. Looking forward to the next installment of the pond build. Great video thumbs up.
John, Luv your videos, always look forward to them. keep up the great content and thanks
As I shared with Hometown Acres, think "French Drain(s)". Your several hills lend themselves to that kind of system. Mine filled a 2500 cistern (after a rain) and ran 4" gushing of water out for days. Research it well. There are lesser types of "French Drains"! Easy to make, no maintenance - efficient, low cost!
Getting it done!💪🏼
You did a swale job here.
LetsDig18 is shedding a tear of joy right now...
Maybe find a rake for the blade to help. I'm sure there's a used rake out there and it will be a cleaner bush pile. Good video!
Lay some old tires or a piece of stall mat on the ramps
Great video! Helpful Hint: Be careful using those ratcheting box wrenches in tight spaces, you can back a bolt out to the point where you can't get the wrench off and can't turn the bolt back in with your fingers (BTDT!). Dumb question: why not dozer a fire break around the area and burn it off first? Then you can see the ground you're working with.
1:56 - I see a restoration project standing at the side of your driveway!
I'm impressed that the fuel shut off valve on the dozer still works 😆
Excited! I've been waiting for the next big project. I'm gonna tell my dad to start watching so we can compare notes over a beer on the weekends
Phew was getting worried about my fave channel going quiet!
Ok, gonna try to be helpful here, about 17 min in when you're pushing the top soil, there are some camera angles where it looks like you've got the blade so far down that the dozer is balanced on only the rear of the tracks and the blade. to be fair, it appears that its happening because your in the bottom of the valley and just haven't leveled back out. Seems like you'd move the soil around easier if you had the tracks level. Im betting you knew this, but its something that is way obvious from the camera and you might not have realized while driving. Also, i would love to see you restore that old screwdriver.
Yep, still learning the dozer. It's hard to tell when the tracks are tipping up like that.
You might try cleaning the fuel tank and then adding a filter in the fuel line that comes out of the tank. If you clean & flush the fuel tank that will take care of 99% of your problems. You will still have dirty fuel from the supplier, but not as bad. I had a few older machines and didn't solve the problem until I did the flush.
Wow even your topsoil has a reddish tinge to it. You're lucky this wasn't done in new England you'd have a pile of rocks the size of that farmhouse 19:44
I wasnt expecting a video today. Thanks alot!
Had the same issues on my dads '79 f250 crew cab back in the day, sat for over 10 years, and we had to take off the filter at the mechanical fuel pump every two or three miles and blow it out with carb cleaner for about a week or two and then all of the loose rust had finally been filtered out.