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Pond Pipe is Busted! We May Lose the Farm Pond! #farming #farm #fishing

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Video by Stoney Ridge Farmer

Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This video details an attempt to seal a significant pond leak caused by a broken ductile iron pipe. The method involves applying bentonite clay, specifically 'Enviroplug Medium,' directly into the broken pipe from a kayak. The bentonite is intended to swell and plug the leak, though the video ends with the leak still present, suggesting further intervention might be necessary.

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But it is worse than I thought. The pipe broke off right there and it's just dumping water out. We're on I don't know day 45 of this pond issue right here. I have a product called bentonite. This is envirro plug medium. How many pounds per foot you need to put in to plug a hole. And this is envirro envirro plug. I'm gonna drop these little bentonite rocks in here and see what they do. I don't know what they're going to do. Let's see what bento knight does. Well, it swells up. And yeah, I'm going just drop it in and see what happens. Man, if it flips me, it flips me. Yeah. All right, man. This thing is ductal iron. That's what it's called. Ductal iron. All I'm going to do is just start the dumping. So, here goes nothing. Yeah, I can hear it. [Music] See, I can't. Let me look down. Let's all look down in here and see what we got. I don't know that's going to do me any dag on good. Wonder if that paddle will fit down in there. I need to make me a stick a job down in there. How deep is it? It's right there back. That's weird. Here's what's going to happen. I'm gonna do all this work and then we're gonna end up having to uh dig the pipe out. Quite full. But check it out. There's proof positive this pipe was not working right. It's leaking out the side right there.

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