MASSIVE Earthmoving For A BIG Dam Project

[@billroach2393]

G'day from Leeton NSW Australia Aaron. I'm one of the descendants of the Roach clan, after whom this new reservoir is being named. My great grandparents had a farm in the immediate vicinity of the new facility and Google maps still shows the site of the locale where a small platform existed beside the railway line with the usual heavy cast iron nameplate "ROACH". Thanks for the excellent video explaining how it all comes together.

[@AaronWitt]

that's fantastic!!

[@colinabell3672]

Oh dude those lenses rolling in the sand. Breaks my heart

[@thefalsegod1480]

Love seeing the straya content and even more so of the west of my home state ❤

[@roberthogarth6777]

Great how you let us all understand how you are building the dam , farmers be happy 😊

[@calanmacleod3948]

The evaporation on an area that big is crazy. Deep is good.

[@rogerclough8800]

My immediate thought also.

[@50NewEyes]

@@rogerclough8800 ditto

[@jimsvideos7201]

Maybe they'll do the ping-pong ball thing I saw in Los Angeles.

[@calanmacleod3948]

@@jimsvideos7201 that is a good idea.

[@GeeROO]

Deep is expensive. high risk of failure and not practical

[@cameronclarke7028]

As somebody who is doing Heavy equipment and graduating in Nov your videos are priceless for me thanks so much Aaron bro you rock 💯🪨🤘🏻

[@avenheavner108]

Can’t wait to see a watch me work episode of Turner Mining Groups Hitachi 1200 loading A60’s. I am dreaming of the day and hopefully it comes soon enough. Hopefully you guys will make a watch me work episode of that because we haven’t seen one of those for a long long time!

[@laurier3348]

Thanks, interesting, me now gonna build a water reservoir. Nice.

[@shaneleonard190]

Are you gonna visit the pilbara western Australia? Some huge mines up here would make great footage some 800 ton excavators !

[@bradleymincey6905]

Love the blue collar life and being a diesel mechanic, i Love your videos bro. Love heavy equipment and watching it work. Love the podcast too! Stay safe brother

[@chuckmaddison2924]

Trust me you will get fed up with it of it will f you. I started heavy went light then quit at start of year due to injury. Plenty of jobs in office but could not do as they don't like blue collar moving into office even though qualified. Angry is a nice way of putting it. But yes heavy was fun, working on toys, part swapping is boring.

[@domtweed7323]

Genuine question since your a diesel mechanic: There's an academic saying that heavy equipment will always need diesel, and can't run on petrol (cause higher revs and lower talk), and hence moving to electric cars won't cut oil demand, just create a petrol glut. As a mechanic, is he right about petrol engines in heavy machinery? Could you switch to petrol if it got cheaper?

[@chuckmaddison2924]

@domtweed7323 Having worked in the industry it's not entirely accurate. Back in 80's I got the pleasure of working on a 50's or 60's fire department ladder truck. It had gasoline engine. Reason.... Diesel at the time could not give the acceleration in an emergency. Think was a Dennis and .motor may have been Rolls Royce ( could be wrong on motor name ) Electric? Here in Australia, when the fire crews are out in the bush for days chasing a massive fire, I don't believe is practical at the moment.

[@domtweed7323]

@@chuckmaddison2924 That makes sense. With very heavy equipment that needs a lot of talk would be petrol engine be workable? I've heard people say petrol engines just can't match the talk of a diesel, but that sounds like something gearing could solve? But alas, as a mere humanities student, I don't know.

[@domtweed7323]

tach*

[@HTBuckley-m8y]

Onya Mate... love earthmoving and big machines. Had know idea big dams were being built in Oz... we need more dams, more dams = more water, more water= $$$ in the peoples pocket. Thanks for showing us, I'm so impressed I've subscribed. SE Queensland.

[@jimbeam2705]

Worked with clay material in Florida for years . Nasty stuff LOL 😂. Another fine video.

[@altheastortz8038]

I agree I worked around clay a lot in the phosphate mines in central Florida and when it was wet it was some nasty stuff. Thanks for the comment.

[@SLlandscape]

Perfect timing. Sit down for some ice cream and find a new video from Aaron

[@guyneeser2029]

Thank you so much for Explaining all of this we don't see any explaining on most

[@bradconway5611]

Sweet. An American speaking metric!

[@johnnymurff4137]

Excellent commentary as with all your products

[@jtg2737]

Question? So is this a dam or more like a reservoir as it is walled in?

[@davidgrowsdragonfruit5301]

In Australia we normally call them 'ring tanks' although this is the first hexagonal one I've seen, normally they are smaller and circular. Good for flood harvesting and storage 👌

[@hamishbracey5411]

Some other people call them turkeys nests too

[@ajc5479]

It is a reservoir and they are building inverted dykes to hold the water in.

[@GeeROO]

@@davidgrowsdragonfruit5301 Most on farm dams in Australian irrigation areas are rectangular to fit in with farm layout.

[@rockkitty100]

Funny seeing everyone with jackets on in July when it's 103 where I live. Another great video!

[@-PORK-CHOP-]

We are soft here, anything less than 20C and it's jacket time 😂😂🤣🤣

[@TheJttv]

Wait till y'all learn about the word reservoir

[@moose5.9]

Just a little pond😂

[@Sambardown]

Wait until y’all learn petrol not gas Oh yeah the metric system as well😂

[@1stinenergylimitedmdevelop533]

@@winahhtaylahh1433 And called a liquid a gas

[@Healthliving1967]

Wait until you learn how to write a sentence properly.

[@raymondlogan7807]

What a wonderful project, everyone benefits from water. It's a pity the useless government in New Zealand won't do projects like this.

[@warrenjones5077]

I really hope this is an old video, I bet the people down stream just love seeing videos of yet another dam dumped In the Murray Darling basin. It’s worth looking into who owns the water and where the money is coming from and definitely who gave it the go ahead . Thanks for the heads up.

[@darylephillips6778]

This is interesting to see it is like New South Wales thinks they are not part of Australia

[@logical_volcel]

lmao you dont know shit if you think a ringtank is damning a river

[@billroach2393]

Mate, this water is taken off the Murrumbidgee River at Berembed Weir, between Wagga and Narrandera. This canal system has been in place for over 100 years. The new reservoir (being named after my ancestors) is not ripping any more water from the 'bidgee...it's just acting as a storage facility that will mean the farmers will be able to get their water almost immediately, rather than waiting for 7 days for the water to travel from Berembed.

[@HaydenAussieBuckets]

Love the videos Aaron, the funny skinny bucket is typically called a banana bucket, they're particularly good for digging where you need a deep trench that would be narrower than the hitch to avoid a collision event, or having to dig too wide and backfill.

[@edwingooderham5521]

If the dam is not very deep there will be a huge water loss by evaporation!

[@andrewradford3953]

It gets used in a day or so after filling it on order. I've seen cotton farm dams being dug out Diamantina way that look like a bottomless open cut mine during construction. New 20*20m dam on my hobby farm is 7m deep and clay lined to reduce some evaporation. Their budget my not have covered going down much. No lack of clay though.

[@Wolf-yw7en]

Like he said in the video. It’s more a temporary distributor than permanent water storage.

[@kevinkelly7078]

Was the 600mm 2ft of clay removed from the bed all used to build the bank? I think they wanted to gravity drain out all the water back onto the downstream side of the Regulator.

[@MrSuperflydude]

Damn, that's a damn big dam

[@UncleManuel]

Dam, that is A LOT of earth! 😮😮😁😁🤘🤘

[@davidwindsor4632]

Well that is a reasonable size but would not say massive. 👍

[@antonhuman8446]

Great presentation. Thanks!

[@joshuatingle4288]

I’d like to know more specifics on the drain and how to move water on demand for the farmers without the concern of erosion. Seems like there are a lot of fluid dynamics at play where I’m used to seeing more of head gates that open and close based on demand.

[@qbi4614]

The sand is only a seepage drain in the wall, NOT the water discharge

[@masterthelens]

My big question is how many lenses does Aaron get through in a year haha.

[@aussiegmr3088]

I love seeing this especially when i live 1 hour away

[@chrissknutson]

Great job

[@NickJones-n5y]

From watching these videos I must work at the only company that expects and will fire you if you don’t get full buckets when loading trucks.

[@kevinkelly7078]

Did you notice that in some of the shots, the cutting is trimming to final grade with GPS Machine Control, as filling the bucket?

[@NickJones-n5y]

@@kevinkelly7078 I cut grade all day but it’s me running the machine. We don’t have the one that runs it just tells me where I’m at.

[@sw5315]

Nice line up

[@geraldstahlman7036]

The earth is going to wobble!

[@julianagenovez8737]

Such a nice Brazilian meme lol loved !!!!

[@jascollinscork]

Great video…. But what their building I would call a pond or a lagoon 🤔oooh right a reservoir so…. Seems Aaron learned that at the end of video like us watching 😂😂

[@camion__]

like antenas to heaven.....

[@Balleater48]

Truly a *war without reason*

[@Josh-h65]

Literally *No sound* and *No memory*

[@XxSnom16]

i think ultrakill brainrot is gonna be the new lobotomy corp brainrot lol

[@kurtpenning6620]

Hope u got cultural heritage approval

[@SecureLemons]

7 day water delay wow, and im here thinking my plants wont make it another 7 minutes unless i turn the water hose on

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

When I was a kid traveling Aust, I got to a town and the only job going was a backhoe driver. "Can you drive a backhoe?" Sure(lol). I worked my arse off on the first day. At the end of the day the grumpy boss said "you've never driven a **** hoe", I said sheepishly "No, how did I go"? "See you tomorrow but you'll need to keep working harder". Best boss I ever had. And, I did, eventually became his best driver and he was very sorry to see me go. Great skill to have when you're traveling.

[@thegreatsihle]

I love heavy equipment!! I myself operate ADT Dump truck, i wish to relocate to work in Australia

[@travismock4524]

Great vid

[@Jdigger4130]

very cool, I had no idea anyone could retain water in sand. dudes figuring it out. I am here in Cali n be willing to bet there's a few west coasters investing heavily here. same crops n way less Sacramento in Australia..

[@kevinkelly7078]

His previous video shows that sand is a thin sand filter layer on the outside toe of the bank. This is designed to intercept hydrostatic pressure and help protect outside batter from slump.

[@simonkingston6976]

More like an evaporation pond !

[@bdubbs75]

thats a dam big project and lots of dam sand.

[@tylercousins7779]

Fyi, that’s a reservoir, not a dam and its a pentagon, not a circle.

[@johnokean8216]

Huh never knew I needed epic construction content with EDM dubbed over it. INSTANT SUBSCRIPTION!

[@Joe-jd4pn]

Great. More dams. Less water.

[@_Juke_]

Many different excavators, but we mostly see scrapers :(

[@corrieleatham296]

In Australia we actually call that a turkey nest.

[@edwingooderham5521]

also called a ring tank!

[@Golden-dog88]

this is a great project for us 🇦🇺 Im just wondering if the government has thought ahead n planned the forest that is needed to help save all the ground water thats guna seep in n disappear without a forest of Australian native trees to protect it

[@kevinkelly7078]

If the clay lining is done properly, the infiltration rate is less than 1mm per day. Less than 4 points of rain a day. That is 4 one hundredths of an inch a day. That is less than average annual rainfall of 14 inches in the area. That is not enough moisture to grow natural pasture to keep 50 merinos wethers alive on the 200 acres.

[@RenshawYT]

That's a lot of dam earth.

[@browndigity420]

Always wanting more content...

[@moose5.9]

Why not use a trencher instead of an excavator for that drain? Seems like it'd be much faster

[@langdons2848]

I’ve never seen a trencher as big as that banana bucket. They might exist else where in the world, but here in Australia we tend to have less options for machinery available. So my guess is the bucket was what was available and getting in a dedicated machine just for trenching would have been more expensive for them in the long run.

[@moose5.9]

@@langdons2848 got ya. Makes sense, I have no idea what yall would have down under! I want to visit bad!

[@Sean.mac0699]

Bout time you come kick it with us down under

[@roberthumberston8803]

digging love it

[@dannyinaus]

2:14 lol cut 400 mm = 15.7 inches. That really is a shallow pond lol - Maybe he meant 4 metres (4,000 mm)

[@michaelchapman9375]

He said the walls would be 8 metres high. The dirt to fill the walls will come from a 400mm cut, also called the borrow pit.

[@vwatohd]

Every dam like this is just another nail in the coffin of the Murray darling baisin. Cash crop greed at the expense of Australias largest river system, our unique flora and fauna that rely on that water in dry years, come next drought there will be an even larger fish kill than 2019

[@glenlaughlin6547]

Was the clay,sand & materials close by.

[@boomerang379]

Aussies call them Turkey nest reservoirs. I do ag land levelling in Mississippi and have several friends in Australia that do the same.

[@christopherstone6483]

The kid, playing in the sand. LMAO

[@111jacare]

A silly question: Are they going to be looking at some sort of hydro electricity system with this dam? Both on the inbound and outbound sides??? Yes, it is realised that there is not much fall / head, but, engineering can be done on the generation side to get some value from the water flow.

[@lancer2204]

I think you meant 4000mm or 4 metres. 400 millimetres is only about knee deep.

[@markfryer9880]

Ah thanks, that's where he had me confused.

[@michaelchapman9375]

The walls are 8metres high, borrow pit will be excavated 400mm to build the wall

[@ronniewilliz153]

Fl has a bunch of these

[@Th3_Butcher_]

I swear, i'm taking your cam lens away permanently lol 6:33

[@nycsox987]

Was this the one that was taken down a couple of weeks or so ago??

[@SagittarianArrows]

Nation-building schemes gained a new impetus in 1910 when the Labor Party was elected to power at the federal level on 13 April and in New South Wales on 21 October. The new state government gave added momentum to the MIA Scheme with the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Act 1910 which also provided for the handing over and vesting of the works, when completed, to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust for administration and the collection of revenue. The Minister for Public Works, Arthur Hill Griffith, was appointed as the first chairman of the Trust in 1911. It soon became apparent that the vastness of the scheme was beyond the competency of the Trust, and so the Irrigation Act 1912 saw the Trust superseded by a Commissioner for Water Conservation and Irrigation (the WC&IC). The Commissioner was granted the power of control over all of the water conservation and irrigation works for the state of New South Wales. The first Commissioner, Leslie Augustus Burton Wade, was appointed from 1 January 1913. Born at Singleton in June 1864, Wade was a civil engineer with the Department of Works and had been appointed as executive officer and secretary to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust in 1911. He was now at the height of his career, with the power to fulfil his grand vision of creating a huge oasis of prosperous, intensive farms operated by energetic families recruited through a world-wide campaign. Wade’s vision went beyond the physical infrastructure and the farms. He was looking to new railways to service the area, new business enterprises to handle and market the produce, processing facilities, power generation, and domestic water supplies and commercial service centres to support the expected population. The crowning glory would be new cities and towns that reflected the grandeur of the scheme and the prosperity it would bring to inland Australia. www.griffinsociety.org/australia-leeton-griffith.

[@williamcrossan9333]

So this is what people are doing in Australia! I thought Australia only had real estate agents, buyers agents, mortgage brokers and Uber drivers. And some working in mining.

[@FINISHOperator88]

Thats called a reservoir

[@Leftyintollerable]

Lucky you're not building the reservoir in Western Australia!!

[@alexanderrad3458]

Feels like their just grown children making a big hole.

[@davidrhodes7655]

Are they pre conditioning ?

[@bentheguru4986]

Hate to rain on your parade but the dam is not that big. Its what is called a Turkey Nest dam and in this case, only 5GL (5,000ML) and is a surge reservoir.

[@adriandocherty778]

So where’s the source of this extra water coming from??

[@fyrman9092]

I wonder how much of this equipment is having industrial repairs by Cutting edge engineering?

[@fredfred4086]

Kurtis does first class work.👍

[@markfryer9880]

This is in NSW and Kurtis is on the Gold Coast of Queensland, so I doubt that anything will end up with Kurtis. He has more than enough local clients with operators busy breaking stuff. 😂 Mark from Melbourne Australia

[@Shaadk11]

❤❤❤

[@robbiecooke8910]

Intro music made me think my computer was acting up

[@Balleater48]

Ultrakill

[@r.ccustomtruckingsydneyaus4632]

this os small Aaron. in my country Australia we have cotton dams that are way bigger and deeper just for growth of cotton. but bigger . Walgett mate. come visit us.. ill give you a better dam bigger to talk about.

[@premierattachments6333]

This is in Australia

[@ReallyWhy123]

can you actually call it a dam?

[@johntomasini3916]

In the 1980's I lived adjacent to an Evaporation Basin, you can see it on Google Maps on Morrison Road between the Towns of Stanhope and Girgarre, East of Watson Road in Northern Victoria. This dam was built to evaporate water and contain salt pumped from underground thus lowering the water table and protecting farms from surface Salinity. I have issues with this dams construction. It will have a very high Evaporation rate, possibly Mega-liters per day in hot weather, Evaporation Basin 3 Mega-liters per day over 45 Hectare area. Compaction of the base in the Evaporation was topsoil compacted with a forty ton Sheeps Foot Roller, the silt from muddy water sealed the basin very well. Having to pump water into this dam will ad costs that will raise the cost of delivery, water delivery must be monitored to asses cost of production. Water costs will affect viability of the surrounding farms. Another issue is the Hydraulic pressure on the land underneath the Dam itself, it is recommended that water be stored below ground level, this would mean less seepage and evaporation, of course pumps would be needed to extract the water. Turkey nest dams are a no no, they might be cheaper to make but the environmental damage can be significant.

[@henrymahoney7072]

Hitachi is the best

[@golfhacker9051]

Why so wide and not deep evaporation will be horrendous! 3 months of the year hear is 30-38 degs C with 12 hrs of daylight per day in these months. 8000 liters per hour of evaporation.

[@666bruv]

So where does the water come from?

[@smartliving4464]

uhm......., same place as all water comes from, out of the sky 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@666bruv]

@@smartliving4464 fuck me, then it could take decades to fill in that desert, and years to evaporate

[@warrenjones5077]

It’s Magic in the Murray darling basin, just block it from going down stream.

[@666bruv]

@@warrenjones5077 too true, it's wasted otherwise

[@warrenjones5077]

@@666bruv that's right no one lives further down stream 👍

[@noname-nd8ec]

So it's not a dam it's a big pond. Australia is not allowed to build dams anymore!

[@giovanniricupero2608]

SALVE MI PIACEREBBE LAVORARE CON VOI SONO UN OPERATORE DI MEZZI MOVIMENTO TERRA

[@donaldo1954]

Did you say dig down just 400 millimeters? That's sounds awfully shallow.

[@GeeROO]

That is the borrow pit not the wall height

[@justinrice8509]

Australia is a dry county. We shouldn't be growing rice or cotton!

[@EmDee-gi5er]

You don’t know anything about farming your almond milks require way more water - we grow efficient dry land rice in terms of both fertiliser and water use and our cotton industry is set up within existing irrigation regions, with associated infrastructure we produce very green cotton better than China or India in terms of environmental impact

[@justinrice8509]

@@EmDee-gi5er there's two sides, to every story

[@EmDee-gi5er]

@@justinrice8509 you forgot to mention the water use efficiency gains the growers realised since the 70s and the biggest reason why cotton is actually better is where do you think nylon and polyester come from? From oil

[@GeeROO]

Cotton does not use significantly more water per Ha than other crops. Over a year Almonds and Oranges will have higher use. Sugarcane is around 2x cotton in terms of annual use

[@justinrice8509]

@@EmDee-gi5er that's truth

[@alanrainey5022]

Need a lot of balls to offset the evaporation.

[@MUCKFOOT399]

Dam

[@kirkchapman80]

Cane toads camels rabbits cats huge dams

[@RisingRainbow]

Why tf are they growing rice in NSW?!?! Australia has an arid hot climate. What a waste of water!

[@benjaminbauer4883]

News flash rice needs hot weather. I'm from that area we genuinely have concerns if the weather doesn't get hot enough as it effects yields. We're also the most efficient growers of rice in the world for water consumption per tonne grown.

[@RisingRainbow]

@@benjaminbauer4883 Congratulations on your efficiency! It is still a waste of water.

[@lesroberts2244]

Not really a dam, more a pond.

[@chrisstaylor8377]

Go away mate

[@dejupp]

wrong category. go to the category "music"

[@jonlowe8727]

Cheap 🇨🇺 heels

[@Nudnik1]

Anyone calculate how much cost per cubic yard moved? Fuel per hour ? Thank you for making such informative videos. Perhaps you could be an inspector or estimator in future.

[@PeteRyan-fi1qy]

Quite funny about there safety on site allowing Aaron on site all that time and not even wearing safety glasses, what a joke

[@ianbermingham9047]

Do you need a tissue

[@tambangofficial1108]

My job oprator

[@ap8409]

Where can I get some DAM bait? take all the DAM pictures you want.

[@brendanwilson8977]

What about some dam beer?

[@timgannon2993]

I dont think you have any idea about the size of the dozers ...i strongly recommend you research the sizes before you make another video