Building a dam on our farm

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Building a dam on our farm

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We have just built a dam on our farm. Its going to be used for stock water and also for Olive, our Labrador to swim in. She has bad arthritis, so swimming is a great exercise for her.
See how to build the dam, the excavator that dug the dam and how we filled our dam with irrigation water.

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@timlewis5096 9 ай бұрын

Talk about thinking outside the square. Nothing like making a swimming hole for the old dog to exercise in, everything else is a bonus Loveit!!!

@WindellaFarm 9 ай бұрын

Cheers mate

@GaragePie22 16 күн бұрын

Do you not need a clay base to seal it? Surely it will just leak out....

@tebogomasike Ай бұрын

Do you order water each time the level goes down? how often ?

@brianhayes7108 10 ай бұрын

Buying water kinda blows my mind. Here in Michigan you can just pump it out of the ground essentially anywhere.

@WindellaFarm 10 ай бұрын

It has become a tradable commodity here. Its ridiculous mate.

@trizo1 3 ай бұрын

@@WindellaFarm do you have artesian wells like over 100m under ground? We dig them here in Serbia about 10-20m usually and there's water but if there's none at that level then we dig them very deep and there's always water...

@timrdude 8 ай бұрын

Cool idea...What's a Jetty?

@WindellaFarm 8 ай бұрын

Cheers mate, like a very small wharf.

@Greengrass1972 9 ай бұрын

Superb job, the dogs loved that 👌👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@WindellaFarm 9 ай бұрын

And still do mate

@GlennMartinPhotography Жыл бұрын

Lol that tail periscope on the little doggo

@WindellaFarm Жыл бұрын

Shes non-stop that one.

@ryddy2161 7 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@reginakotchanova4131 7 ай бұрын

Amazing this is. Great job. Love from Namibia

@Bennie32831 Жыл бұрын

Does it not rain were you live ?

@jonmatthews4254 9 ай бұрын

Isn't that a pond? Good luck with it.

@WindellaFarm 9 ай бұрын

No, its a dam. Cheers mate

@danielhalsey2679 23 күн бұрын

@@WindellaFarm Called a dam in Australia, Pond in USA.

@richardbird5697 Жыл бұрын

Put fish in dam stops mozzies.

@stevejohnstonbaugh9171 11 ай бұрын

What a great addition to the farm. Add a few fish to eat mosquitos (perch?) plant some water plants around the edges, get your grass growing and bring in a load of sand for a beach! It will be an oasis 😊 Then go shopping for some native trees that are a fair size, and plant them where you really would like to have shade. Then build out your forest from that start. A ring of 100' of canopy trees, understory trees and shrubs maybe even some fruit trees should do the job. Where ever your prevailing winds come from - make your planting dense so it acts as a windbreak to reduce evaporation. ♥

@WindellaFarm 11 ай бұрын

We are on the same page for sure mate. Thanks for watching!

@JohnDoe-ib3hr 9 ай бұрын

This is brilliant. Can't imagine having to order water though?! I'm in NW England and have to dig channels to get rid of the stuff. Confused as to why this is called a dam and not a pond? is it a cultural thing or is there actually a difference, Hope you guys and Olive get plenty of good memories out of it.

@WindellaFarm 9 ай бұрын

Not sure. Maybe a cultural thing. We would call a pond something in your yard with fish in it. We put dams into paddocks for livestock to drink.

@dundonrl 9 ай бұрын

That's a pond, at least to someone from the Pacific Northwest. A dam is what holds back the water you call a pond, at least according to everything I can read online. Like you, I can't imagine having to "order" water!

@s-c.. 6 ай бұрын

We’ve always called them dams here in Australia. Perhaps more officially “farm dams”. I guess technically a lot of them are formed by building a structural dam in a gully to retain water, but we generally refer to the area of water storage as the dam, even on flat ground, & the structural element is the dam wall. For us a pond refers to a shallow ornamental pool, so when I first saw an American getting out a huge excavator to build a “pond” I thought it was wild!

@JohnDoe-ib3hr 6 ай бұрын

@@s-c.. Don’t even get me started on Americans and their ‘ponds’ literally rowing a boat across a 3 Acre lake calling it a back yard fishing pond 🤣

@s-c.. 6 ай бұрын

@@JohnDoe-ib3hr Haha, can’t say I’m not jealous of that tho! Anywhere with a 3 acre “pond” over here would cost a fortune unless it was in a flood zone AND barely accessible! So are man-made farm dams for livestock & irrigation called ponds in the UK? (Or do you just wait for it to rain 😉)