In today's Vidja Currin1776 is gonna move some water. If you ever run into a need to move or redirect a lot of water this technique could help you out.
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@a.s.73863 жыл бұрын
The first job I had out of high school, before getting drafted, was working for a landscaper. One of the properties we maintained had a pool that the owner wanted drained. My boss was going to rent a pump and huge hoses. I told him I could save him a bunch of money and he wouldn't have to monitor the whole situation. The house was on a hill. With two garden hoses syphoning, I drained that pool overnight. My boss was amazed and heaped praise on me. I told him, "Don't compliment me, compensate me." That didn't happen.
@Dingsrud Жыл бұрын
Some suggestions: If you drop the output into a (grate) bucket of water, air will not enter from the output. You may as an alternativ add a bend at the output so the flow goes upwards. If you add an output bucket and place that with the rim exactly at the level you want the pond to be, then you have an autosrestarting siphon. Never runs dry, starts by itself in the next rain shower. In dry periods the bucket may dry out tough.
@07kstephen Жыл бұрын
Niceeee
@eloymarquez4783 Жыл бұрын
Double niceeeeee
@jvkjhvklugliuh9 ай бұрын
Triple Nice!!!
@happyrecluse28492 ай бұрын
Gonna quad that.....
@happyrecluse28492 ай бұрын
This is the same method for leveling. Couple of UK millwrights taught me this trick for leveling conveyors. Today it's lasers.
@bimron39102 жыл бұрын
Dude, you really taught me something! I love DIY projects! Thanks for putting an update in the same video!
@rotza4434 жыл бұрын
Super glad you saved your damn. Best battlbox video I've seen in a long time. Instructional and to the point. Gotta love PVC. Glad you dont have to rebuild the dam.
@carabs38233 жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great and clear vid. I have watched a lot of construction folks say "our siphon dropped the water blah blah", but never show how they start it. This really helped. Thanks again.
@TheBrushcutter3 жыл бұрын
You must not have ever watched many of Letsdig18's vidjas.
@carabs38233 жыл бұрын
@@TheBrushcutter I have been watching him for years. In fact, he is the one that got me curious how they do it. I have just never seen him actually do it.
@TheBrushcutter3 жыл бұрын
@@carabs3823 we used to use these when possible for draining pools and puddles and the like on construction jobs. I've seen him start them several times. The amazing thing is just how small of an air leak can cause them to not work.
@laurabrenphotography79484 жыл бұрын
Battlbox :) .... Mate it just goes to show that you learn something new every day .... great video and full of information and I hit all the bells and buttons looking forward to the lastest learning sessions cheers Brenden your new Aussie fan
@lesliemergenthal753 жыл бұрын
I love it. It worked just like you said. Genius in a primitive way. Good video.
@shouldibehere4 жыл бұрын
Nice. This will help me with my pond overflowing. Thanks!
@rickybritton72124 жыл бұрын
Rick Britton, Brother, I love your videos , and products you use in your Battle box, if that was my beautiful pond, I might use 10 inch pipe , I pray that the rain will slow down
@davidwinters25524 жыл бұрын
👍enjoyed watching this. Learned something I can put to use. We getting a lot of rain in Alabama too. I just hit a catfish in my jeep!
@janetlahm32073 жыл бұрын
You did a good job and showed us a great way to deal with that issue. May I suggest you build an emergency overflow that’ll work easy .
@davekirby77904 жыл бұрын
I am glad that it worked for you..we are not having rain this year in Northern California it summer like already here...sunny skies with temps in the 70's
@RichardMellott2 жыл бұрын
I used your video as the blueprint for my siphon, and it worked out, so far.
@joseph323803 жыл бұрын
I thought you did an excellent job!!! I wanted to mention a few things that may make it easier for you and improve flow. I am currently studying for an exam that involves water flow in pipes. First, if you made the intake more of a funnel shape (maybe by using a coupler to go up a size) this will reduce the water turbulence at the pipe intake and will increase flow. Second, you could eliminate the one way valve on the intake and instead use a shop vac (possibly two in series) to create a vacuum in the pipe which will suck the water up from the pond and fill the whole siphon (you will need to connect the shop vac where you were using a bucket to fill with water). Keep up the great work!
@albertovarelacamberos74792 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@thedaileyhomestead2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! My pond is “silted in” and would cost $15-20k to cut the damn and drain and clean out. We have dry summers so now next summer I can siphon it out and do it myself with my tractor.
@niltomega29782 жыл бұрын
nice video and thx for not over describing which makes a simple process seem complicated.
@michaelpurdy11163 жыл бұрын
That was fantastic! Reminded me of draining our water beds with a hose out the second story bedroom window. I had no idea about using the T cap. and end cap to creat the flow. Thanks for sharing.
@benterwellen4 жыл бұрын
Its Great when a plan comes together..........Well Done.
@daleval21824 жыл бұрын
Check valve at intake will never loose suction
@brianogram51944 жыл бұрын
Battlbox: Not just great gear, we give physics lessons!
@Battlbox4 жыл бұрын
All about the good stuffs! 😂
@belliott60423 жыл бұрын
Good video
@rhegafd4 жыл бұрын
Pro Tip for the PVC Glue, you should put the purple stuff on first then IMMEDIATELY apply the blue stuff while they are both sopping wet. Its a chemical bond and you are not making as strong a connection when you let the purple stuff dry first. Learnt that bit of genius from a Master Plumber
@Battlbox4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that great pro tip Patrick!
@nsmith4733 жыл бұрын
If you build one of these and cant get it working, the problem is likely that you can't fully fill it. Water runs from the filling tee at the top back into the pond, filling the pipe with air. Put a foot valve or check valve on the pond end to keep water from going back into the pond while filling. The valve will automatically open when flow starts. Also, the whirlpool sucking air into the pipe can get too big and allow the pipe to fill with air. (been there, done that)
@allantaylor6063 жыл бұрын
I've seen someone put a tennis ball into the whirlpool to stop air getting into the pipe.
@loafandjug3213 жыл бұрын
Awesome! You need another 10ft pipe on the output side to keep the running water from eroding the backside of the dam. Good job.
@kevinschmith93794 жыл бұрын
Thank you it helps to learn new things
@robertocorradi75714 жыл бұрын
Great job . . . Thank you sir . Excellent information .
@cutdr3 жыл бұрын
Just what I needed. Thanks sir!!!!
@zaccorter782 жыл бұрын
Will somebody please think of the turtles!!! Great video, brother.
@nashvilleoutlaw2 жыл бұрын
I bought 2/3rds of the pipe needed to do this on mine a couple years ago and just got around to draining the pond. Had to get one more 20ft section and it was more for that one section than it was for the two 20ft sections and all of the elbows and end cap 2 years ago.
@carlleach71623 жыл бұрын
Thank You I'm going to dredge our 1 acre pond. I'll wait till mid summer to get it dried up.
@headshotzwillhappen3 жыл бұрын
Im a amputee and military vet and well ... You sir just gave the solution so i salute ya and crack a cold budweiser .... now that the pump solution to my large scale mmj aquaplonics system is figured out ill be set up.... im trying to make my meds 100% free as its a cost that is unbelievably high no pun intended. I think the sump tank on a small stand with a mesh covered bottom drain with a gravityfeed to the fish pond then a 8 inch maybe 10 inch siphon from the pond into filter and split it to the ladies hanging in vertical above for a drink return catch trough for the now nitrate free water takes it back to the sump tank thus it continues....fried fish and fried me ... so to that one sir i salute XD
@artanddebearickson9729 Жыл бұрын
Hey , thanks a lot. That's very useful piece of info. Good job !
@annettealviar61684 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing it was great and educational. 😊
@harvegrant79274 жыл бұрын
That was awesome! Thank you very much.
@Battlbox4 жыл бұрын
All good! 👍
@stanelywilliams13924 жыл бұрын
That was great! Thanks for sharing.
@heartstonecampground10813 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great video! Watching in March, 2021 =)
@VideoAddict4 жыл бұрын
I really Liked this Video!!!
@Battlbox4 жыл бұрын
Thanks man!! 👋
@wastbs4 жыл бұрын
That is genius. My uncle lost a pond because of the same problem. If we only knew.
@captainharris8980 Жыл бұрын
Sheer genius. Well done.
@happyrecluse28492 ай бұрын
Awesome vid....am trying to figure a way to use this setup to circulate the water back into the pond. Level is good just want to circulate the water. Then I need to evict the pond rats (muskrats) to repair the banks. Oh, then remove the willow trees around the pond which keep shedding leaves. Then comes the fish stocking...wish me luck, better yet come give me a hand lol.
@Battlbox2 ай бұрын
Best of luck! thanks for dropping by! 🤝
@jdright11574 жыл бұрын
Life coming at ya ain't always funny, brother. This is the kind of thing that separates the men from the clowns!
@stevecapps63322 жыл бұрын
Great video, a lot of good information thanks
@JC-bu8zd10 ай бұрын
Feb 2020. Back when you could just buy 60 feet of 4 inch PVC without having to refinance your house!!!
@michaelmullins12902 жыл бұрын
Letsdig18 does this all the time. He uses the rubber sleeve connectors to easily store. No glue at all. Also, people are making electricity with syphons. You could have one installed to drain the pond and make power!
@OhioPrepperOne4 жыл бұрын
Nice information.
@glyshorts9107 Жыл бұрын
Thinking about trying this with corrugated pipe by putting a wieght on the pond end. Then submerge the pipe in pond to fill it. Seal the outlet end somehow, Then swiftly pulling the outlet end to the low side/drainage area. Quickly pull off the sealing mechanism. I'm thinking this will work, providing there are no air leaks in piping. Thought? Great vid btw!!
@joemc1113 жыл бұрын
Wow it’s been a year, I hope the job went well. I am thinking all those trees on your dam should be removed, when they die,and someday they will, the roots will rot leaving a path for water to go through the dam. I just think you should never have trees growing on a pond dam.
@KatherineUribe-13 жыл бұрын
Brother, I live in Central California. Wish you could send some of your rain our way!
@MegaTapdog3 жыл бұрын
nice work buddy, thanks for the help with my similar problem.
@michiganpathways78722 жыл бұрын
Hello from Michigan pathways
@williamjackson57673 жыл бұрын
Well done son .Thanks , great video.
@dialtone3924 жыл бұрын
Great video, well done brother
@Battlbox4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 😀
@opieson49824 жыл бұрын
a 4' line can move 260 gallons per min
@OceanSky-hq1mn6 ай бұрын
Problem 3 is that the pressure of the pond will not hold back a dam thing. If you had 2 valves, one at the surface of the pond and one at the end of the siphon this would work 1st time every time.
@nehemiahstewart2 жыл бұрын
Is the area the water is going over on your dam not a vegetated emergency spillway? You may want to raise that dam up and add some riprap on the spillway to avoid further erosion. Or you could upsize your outfall pipe so the water elevation doesn't reach your spillway anymore. I would stabilize the outfall channel before I do with some gabion or riprap while I'm at it. that's some decent flow going out that outfall pipe. Great video! Your hilarious to 😂
@spot_of_tea533 жыл бұрын
Only those that have experienced fire ants know the pain this things give.
@Dennis-dk4ir4 жыл бұрын
Getter Done lol! I hope it works brother!
@roncryderman4 жыл бұрын
Nice country living video. What is your pond used for?
@CURRIN17764 жыл бұрын
Catch'n monster Bass
@atrivedi743 жыл бұрын
Nice . Which place/City/country?
@redgum1340 Жыл бұрын
Nicely done 😉
@mathusvaiaoga97872 жыл бұрын
Great vid man. That erosion on that damn was pretty bad. I would look into some gabion structures to help prevent that from happening. You may be able to use it for other applications as well. Best of luck man.
@MC-pg2ko3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your technique Battlbox. My pond is overgrown with water lilies, iris and other pond plants.which are beginning to "bunch up"; its a large and fairly deep pond, it needs to be drained completely before I can get in there to thin the growth. Just wondering if it's possible to drain the pond completely, i.e. right to the bottom, using your method?
@BeckyKeating-g1pАй бұрын
Any suggestions for what might be wrong? Can’t seem to get the pipe to fill. We have the cap on the outlet end. The buckets of water seem to be flowing back into the pond.
@tanishqrawat56542 жыл бұрын
Idk...but you could have used a single big flexible pipe with no extra pvc thing, it would have worked the same ... Btw we learnt alot ....thanks man
@davidmanning63212 жыл бұрын
Smart guy
@juliemaddux98334 жыл бұрын
Nice job!
@ogsvideos64234 жыл бұрын
Great Vid Bro
@Death-Sticks3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks man!
@Naturecallz Жыл бұрын
Does it matter if the pvc is for non pressure, like sewer pipe?
@leoramirez89772 күн бұрын
or what you could do is get a 1 foot pipe and I need degree elbow and place it in your pond at a height that you wanted to not pass you set that pipe right at that level and connect to exit on the side of your bond and it will never pass that hight of the pipe
@jondano82493 жыл бұрын
Great Work!
@justinphillip911 Жыл бұрын
Would a fire hose work for this or would it just collapse itself?
@JoeSmith-vs5sy Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@commonsenseprojects Жыл бұрын
I have a distance of 300’. Will this work with flexible fire hose?
@mr.doctorevilphdmd55464 жыл бұрын
Hay Currin did here the one I was DOD contractor and hunted in Ukraine it was in the DNC debate last night
@alwayssearching18823 жыл бұрын
Nice job sir.
@Edward-turtle3 жыл бұрын
great job .never seen that before
@zmay85334 жыл бұрын
Really good video and helpful! That's amazing how that worked! But where is all that water going now?
@rhaskins176923418204 жыл бұрын
Not his problem
@wayned58724 жыл бұрын
Nice job
@Battlbox4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! 🙏
@tony764844 жыл бұрын
So this summer when water goes down put in a proper drain
@TheBrushcutter3 жыл бұрын
Well done!
@jaywatts333 Жыл бұрын
that pipe will sink anyway ! put a float on the end of it. pipe staying a 1'+ below the water level. rise and lower with the water level.
@joek67912 жыл бұрын
You might try pond liner on your spillway
@streetpunk994 жыл бұрын
If you did that in Pennsylvania DCNR would have an aneurism
@lovelin1134 жыл бұрын
$250 in and I still can’t get this shit to work!
@jimdomoradzki4833 жыл бұрын
You need to put a check valve on the intake side so the pipe is completely full when you put the top cap on. You can use pvc valves at the fill point and discharge. When the pipe is completely full close the fill valve. Now go open the discharge valve. The discharge must always be lower than the intake
@whodatr3 жыл бұрын
It worked!!! Thanks
@terrybest89733 жыл бұрын
put a cap on that and then drill 1 inch holes all over that screaned part before you put the screan on it problems sovled yeh boy
@jimdozier94214 жыл бұрын
Might be time for some boulders on the backside of the dam...
@gizmo99873 жыл бұрын
I feel your excitement.
@alancox26382 ай бұрын
Get you a bottle of bottom 1oz to 1gal mix drinch for the ants
@Greatgiant19 Жыл бұрын
finagling YEE HAW
@cdotsbot3898 Жыл бұрын
I wish I could do this but I’m not able to get the outlet below the intake :(
@jaysonwallker16482 жыл бұрын
Why don't you put a concrete culvert in it? Make it a foot or two in diameter
@ggesdsdsdsd3 жыл бұрын
You could probably turn a large water turbine with a few of these going!!
@jasonkneller71023 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir
@VAMobMember4 жыл бұрын
Pump out “half the pond” dig down a few feet and install an overflow discharge pipe. Make sure to run the discharge pipe down to the lower level and we’ll down stream from the damn Oh, the pipe goes IN the damn
@jimdepaulful4 жыл бұрын
Well done, Currin.
@ogsvideos64234 жыл бұрын
Where is the water running off to?
@cyclingvideosandmore2 жыл бұрын
Your pond is missing a spillway. A spillway is essentially a ditch set lower than your damn height so high water situations spill water out of the pond not over your banks or damn.