What A Mess I've Gotten Into: Failing Pond Overflow Replacement

Greetings from Newfoundland up in Canada. As I watch you work, I cant help but notice and admire how you are constantly thinking. You think about the people around you, the equipment , the little details. It's impressive. I teach engineering at at university. Watching you is an education. Thanks for letting us ride along.

Love how clean and tidy you guys left the site at the end . Shows great pride in your work . Great job !

Unbelieveable.. one of the best dam repair videos to date watching you figure things out. I'm glad I came back and watched it all the way through

Another amazing demonstration of operator skills! Catching that chunk of rolling concrete before it got into the pond made me smile. :)

We fixed a pond one time that was using 4 old fuel tanks welded together end to end for an overflow. They had welded a big gate on the end of the pipe in the pond to cutoff the overflow. Of course when the pond filled the tanks/pipe floated. So they dug it out , placed it again and poured 96 yards of concrete around it for a seep collar. It still floated the pipe enough to leak and the seeping water cut a gully through the pond dam. When we got the call, I couldn't believe what I saw. Like to never got all that concrete busted up. We cut the gate off the pipe and welded it to the end of the pipe outside the pond and it has never leaked again. That job sucked. Love your videos.

Fantastic work. You and John are the best team. Moving that concrete made my toes curl when your machine looked like it was going to tip. But the skill you showed saved the day. What a clean and peaceful scene you left. Thanks for sharing. Be safe.

Tracked, seeded & strawed. Picked up on the satisfaction you have in saying those three words, another 'pond crisis' dispatched in fine style, well done Chris & John! 👍

You work that like it is an extension of your own body! Excellent work! I wish I learned that 50 years ago.

Thought John was going down for a minute but the shovel saved the day! Sad,other contractors failures are terrible for homeowners but great for you…..looks great Chris,you and John are a great team!

You do good work. Thanks for taking us along for the job.

that operator is a true professional..the ease by which he did this work demonstrates how familiar and comfortable he is with his mechine..He worked at a cautious pace and kept a constant eye out for safety excellent...excellent..workmanship

Beautiful job.I love to watch a job being done by a professional.

Good one! When pouring concrete on or up to existing concrete your must soak the existing concrete with water first or the old concrete will pull out the water and it will not adhere and it will crack apart every time. Good example of this is the way the pipe came out of the poured so easy. If you wet it first it will be as one piece.

So glad that final look back to see the dead tree gone out of the water! I'm not OCD but that one was driving me crazy! Chris always leaves the work site looking fantastic. Thank you for your time and talent.

Talk about "over engineered". This takes the biscuit! Tough you cracked the small window in the process. That's life!. Many thanks for another first class presentation. Stay safe and well.

As a retired remodeling contractor, one of my greatest pet peeves was good materials used poorly. This is a great example of that.

Brilliant job as usual. Well done Chris and John. There was enough concrete there to make a nuclear bunker !

Heck of a fine job guys. Started with a big mess and finished smelling like roses.

'Lord have mercy' alright! Brain rattling, body shaking and taking life in hands excavation. Thank goodness no one was injured. This is one great video with a neat finish. Keep safe out there.

Once upon a time, the street i lived on had a culvert for a small stream. being young, my brother and i crawled through it. the culvert was made of two different sizes of concrete pipe, a section of an old boiler, and two different sizes of corrugated steel pipe. when they finally replaced it, i told the foreman what he would find, he laughed, as that is exactly what they had dug up