Billy Malady seals a dry pond with Dammit polymer sealant, using four 250-dollar buckets to coat the bottom. He also assembles a cheap windmill from Temu, cleans a large rock to reposition, and fixes a frozen hose so animals can drink again.
Here we go. One of the tasks today is I am at the ponds. I know I've talked about the pond a lot and it is dry. So what I did, I tested the bentonite last week, so I have a bag of that. Bentonite's very expensive. Uh, well, it's expensive in the sense that you have to use a whole, whole lot. This product here is a polymer called Dammit. It's more expensive per application, but supposedly you don't have to use a whole lot. So that's what I'm going to try today. I'm going to put the bentonite in the bottom along with the dammit, and then I'm going to put, uh, the dammit all the way around. Just a little polymer. I'm gonna hope it works. That was the hardest freaking thing to open I've ever seen. That was crazy. All right, let's go try to do this. Pour it in there. Very fine powder. All right, that is 4 buckets of Dammit put down. Now, 4 buckets is supposed to cover 10,000 square feet. I've only got 5,500 square feet of pond space, so I put down almost double of what they said I needed. So I'm hoping that this works because those buckets are $250 each. So do the math, but that's still a whole lot cheaper than all the bentonite that I'd need. So at the bottom, the instruction said that in the flat spots, especially where at the deepest point, is where you should put the heaviest concentration because the pressure, and that's where it tends to leak. It doesn't leak as much on the sides. So if I put a pretty good, uh, I put a pretty good coating all the way around. So now it's just a matter of Rain. See if it holds water. All right, getting ready to move, uh, about a 20-foot long 8-inch PVC pipe. We're making progress, slow.
Oh, almost.
It's like playing, uh, you know, the little crane game.
Woo, I just barely got it.
All right, it's a beautiful Sunday and task number one is to clean this big rock that I brought up so I can place it somewhere. Just got a little dirt on it, that's all. All right, everything is all washed down now. That's good. Now we just got to figure out where we want to put this nice rock. All right, here's what's up. I've got this very inexpensive— $24 for an 8-foot windmill. I have a feeling this is going to be worth every bit of $24, so we're going to see what it's like to put it together. All right, well, I didn't film myself putting it together because it was $24. and I got it off of Temu. And you know how Chinese instructions are, and I figured it'd just be a video of me cursing a lot, but, um, and it was pretty sad instructions, but I was able to, uh, get it together in about 30 minutes. And I gotta tell you, for $24, I'm pretty happy with it. It looks pretty good and it works and it's smooth. So now I just got to figure out where to put it. All right, the freeze busted, uh, my hose and my little, uh, water valve here, so So I just put this together and we're going to try to get this back together.
Let's see if we can get this to work.
I don't think I need these pins. It's pretty tight, so let's go. Uh, always put a rock on it just to keep it down. Let's go check it out. Looks like we got it. Now the animals can have water again.
