I'M BUILDING A POND!! So i can swim with my aquarium fisH - part 2

We're getting there running into a couple problems here I Guess first and foremost I pushed most of the dirt back there. I'll be able to level it off I decided I'm gonna level off that entire side of the yard I've been wanting to do that anyways if you can see I don't even cut the grass way back there. It's just too dangerous I think I'm going to just level it and then break it and seed it and I'll be fine I did hit a drainage pipe, but not the type you'd think it was for rain one runoff It starts here, and then it goes to right there, and that's just a plastic pipe not even it like Like a flexible pipe. I knew it was here somewheres because it comes from over there and goes around but anyways Back to work. I gotta get this done Whoo so there we have it it The hardest work is out of the way. Well. It's not hard to drive this thing, but It's got to go back in a couple hours. It's only a rental The majority is dug out you can see that it's like a lot of soft soil in there I'm gonna be using that to pad the bottom. I still need to shape the sides with a proper spade shovel Or I'm sorry a flat shovel And I've dug it five and a half feet deep to allow me to shave off the sides Nice and smooth and then smooth out the bottom and then drop in some protective things and the liner etc Right now I have got to fix my yard. You can see it so many dips in my yard I'm going to level out my whole yard. I don't care. I've got a couple hours. I figured I'll go level it out I'm telling you right now look at this I'm constantly literally replacing lawnmower blades. I think that's the third set this week or sorry this this season So it'll be nice to have a nice smooth lawn so that You Day two hey, it's not gonna be a good day today. I got a level out this whole yard luckily. I've got enough dirt to do it If you can't see it now But like if we come back here And you'll see the reason why I wanted to do this in the first place as well as extra dirt from the pond like This is about two and two feet of dirt And it's still not level with the rest of the air like I lost so much of my yard back here because it wasn't low I'm gonna flatten this out then flatten out the rest and Get to work on the actual pond here Take a look at it now Flattened out the bottom a little bit raked it out It is looking good, but I do have a plan for it. Let me show you I went out and picked up a bunch of Pressure treated lumber You got some two by fours because I'm gonna frame up the walls and some three eighths pressure treated plywood this stuff will be good for About 40 years the plan here is to basically build walls on the inside so we have completely flat walls This way I don't got to mess with the rocks or worry about anything or nothing like that the bottom. I'm going to Soften it with probably sand and drop that liner in but today. I hope to get the whole yard leveled out tomorrow I'll get this in and then backfill the the walls Well, I still have this little dingo thing But that's where we're at now pond is sitting at six feet deep And be a good one I also want to tell you some other plans that I have This deck I built I'm going to build it out four feet wide until Well, I guess what I'm gonna start by doing is building a four foot wide deck all the way around it Identical to this and then I'm gonna connect the two right here with like a four foot like walkway It'll be pretty cool if I go four feet on each side though it's gonna be 18 feet wide total and this deck is only 16, but Should be okay. I got a lot of work to do guys. Let's get started Yeah way more work than I thought it was gonna be if you ever want to dig a pond to have a plan for all this dirt Yeah, I love the dough as much as I can for today. I got to get running my son's birthday and and stuff like that, but Right under this little pile. There's a tree stump. I don't know if I'm gonna rip that tree stump out or not Or just level it out here. I know another big deck. I'm gonna put over here. I'm gonna connect it to the pond That's for another Future thing I hate this it's an eyesore, but I need some words to put you know the toys and the yard works Because I don't have a garage anymore cuz I decided I wanted a gallery Now I got tiny little shed Like that, but yeah, she's looking good back here I don't know about this area back in that corner if I'm gonna keep it sloped or maybe I'll level it off But I have a feeling that's way more dirt than what was in the pond I don't know if you can even see it on the camera right now, but all right A lot of raking to do get all these big rocks out of here. I'm gonna level it out more I'll probably start that in the next day or so, but You guys are gonna see all this done and the inside framed up. I think I don't know give me time I'm only one man doing it all all right, so this is what I was thinking Building an internal frame Just so I have completely flat sides. This is essentially the rough draft though Lots more to do here Shortly of course I've got to level out all the dirt in here flatten it put some underlay down Anyways as for the external structure It's just exactly how you construct a wall in your house with studs 16 inches apart The top is braced, and this is all pressure treated wood. It's good for about 30 years in the ground. It'll be fine This is two by sixes on the top just to brace it I've also as you can see raised it a foot out of the ground This is so that when I build the deck around it It's gonna be level with the deck or you know right below it But we still have six or sorry five feet of depth Into the pond into the ground and a foot above it so it's six feet deep So it did go a little bit bigger than initially I had planned but I Will have to backfill it a little bit, and that's why the plywoods on there completely flat sides. It's gonna Good turn out well. I just got to keep getting more work done to it so you guys can understand it I'll get we'll come back in a few seconds here. This is where we're at with it so far It's been a lot of work, and I regret doing this by myself it It's been incredibly Time-consuming I'm used to building a tank in a day or a couple hours, and this is taking me Well, we've also had a lot of rain, so that hasn't been the greatest, but I do have the pond liner here now Weighs over 300 pounds so that's gonna be difficult to get in here, but I'm sure I'll figure it out All right Went ahead and flattened her all out It's not perfect and it's still kind of wet But like I said when this hardens it's gonna be hard as a rock It's very similar to you know cement once mud hardens Anyways once it does dry up a bit. I'm still sinking into it by a couple inches. I don't like it So I'm gonna let this dry out then I'll rake it get any more rocks or anything else, but I can find in it and We're gonna put the underlayment in and then of course the liner itself, which is here and waiting That's it for now guys. Hope he's enjoying this series so far. I wish I could get it all done in one video of course This is a pretty big job the most gallons I've ever built probably not the most difficult or the complex the 2000 was definitely that But I also don't recommend doing this alone. I probably wouldn't recommend building it as I am I Don't see why you couldn't but I wanted something very specific, and that's what I'm doing There's a there's more than one way to do this and keep that in mind When you're building yours if you do want to build one Anyways if you guys want to see any more of this you're not subscribed to my channel yet Make sure you do are you gonna miss the videos?