Using the LS Tractor to Fix Seven Year Old Flood Damage and Create a Jewel in the Hill Country!!!

[@davepartlow6430]

Ray, heard about all the tornadoes going through Texas this morning, 01/25/23. Hope they haven't affected you and those in your area. Stay and be safe. Oh, and you can always send that gravel my way.🤙

[@tastiger91]

Nice rehabilitation project.

[@PawPawMountain]

Look forward to seeing the completed job!

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

With water and fish!

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, that's gone be a lot of work good you have this machine to help you

[@jonhaas4132]

Such a cool project. Thanks for making the video.

[@SyberPrepper]

Loved the video and the project. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us!

[@dangoras9152]

That's gonna be awesome and it will be another back up to ur water supply.... We always try to have a back up to our raincatchment system always good even back up to our solar system. U never know what will happen especially now with who we have running our country can't never trust them...... Keep it up brother

[@fordilac]

Or who is running tEXAS.

[@dangoras9152]

Yeah no joke

[@thomasmoore4576]

That's going to be a nice swimming hole again

[@fldutch]

Thx for the video. If i would do sth like this in Germany i might go to jail for doing so ;). Nice project. I would like to see more :).

[@ciciedee5474]

The sharing success comment, and just what I have seen in your videos, I think I could work for you. I'm retired now and wish I had learned the lesson of pay should be 3 or 4 on the priority list, not first.

[@0livelanette859]

I'd love to see it when it all done !! I'm wondering how does he do it without the creek water coming in while he 's digging? You Don't want the heavy equipment getting stuck !! Yep, Restoring a creek is a cool project. Nice thing your doing. 😊 ❤ 👍

[@ToddLarsen]

I liked saying we too lol

[@typxxilps]

We is the nicer kind of I since Gaius Julius Caesar wrote De bello gallico or over the gallic war in that pluralis majestatis - so 'We' will always fit cause sometimes it is you and a dog or whoever supports you like your wife ad so on. Tough work to get a road fixed - looks so easy but it takes time and time to get it safe and also better prepared for another flood - and cleaned the cree bed from the gravel. But still long way to go I guess, but I like these adventures a lot too and now was the opportunity due to the dryness of the creek. Battery can wait cause you had done a lot already.

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

Thanks for the insight and yes we are close enough now that if the grid goes down, I can get something running pretty quick.

[@CET675]

hope this comment helps your algorithm

[@jasondrummond9451]

If you want deep fish pools - maybe import a pair of beavers?

[@fduran6993]

You could use batteries banks to power an electric pump.

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

I would love to take one of my batteries over there but there is so much rain in the forecast. It isn't worth taking the risk. I could use a 12 volt that is more sealed up but I would need to get a different and large pump and protect the inverter from the potential rain.

[@sh839c]

Very good video. How much land do you have there?

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

This isn’t my land. I’m working on it.

[@ciciedee5474]

After being in Amarillo, west Texas, and Dallas, north Texas. Where is central Texas?

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

Around and west and south of Austin

[@absolute___zero]

is there gold in this creek ?

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

😂

[@450kman]

Public service announcement. In some locations, removing gravel from a creek bottom is illegal. Also, recently heard an add from our conservation department stating how it is illegal to disturb a creek bottom with a motorized vehicle.

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

Here in Texas, we could probably get a grant to do the work. Seriously, there are D9 dozers and excavators working up and down the creeks right now cleaning them up. What state are you in?

[@450kman]

@@RayBuildsCoolStuff Missouri. If the DNR catches you here riding an atv/utv/off road or other vehicle down the creek, you will get a ticket. Friend of mine has a lot of heavy equipment, they have to get a permit to remove gravel from the creek down the hill from their house.

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

@@450kman I wonder what kind of problems they had that would have gotten the legislation passed. Maybe people were mining the gravel and creating problems. Here, I have heard of people paying for their cleanup by selling the gravel but that sounds like a pain.

[@450kman]

@@RayBuildsCoolStuff Removing gravel from a section of creek, or river, causes an increase in upstream erosion. Disturbing a creek bottom destroys small aquatic animals, which can be a vital part of the food chain, while the sediment kicked up in the water can settle on fish beds causing the eggs to die. I will be honest, our DNR can be overzealous as they are one of the few government agencies that does not have to answer to the public.

[@RayBuildsCoolStuff]

I understand but the way I see it, the flood destroyed incalculable amounts of habitat and the drought did the same. What we create will be a net positive by a large margin for future habitat and diversity. Here in Texas, you can build a dam without a permit if it doesn't impound more than 200 acre feet of water on average in a 12 month period. Above that, you need a permit. Mining sand and gravel requires a permit if it is on state owned land. What is an important law is that the public has a right to unimpeded use of navigable waterways. This creek doesn't qualify but I did leave an opening for fish and swimmers. I'm sure your DNR answers to the public but indirectly, through the governor and the legislature.