How to get rid of a beaver dam
Busting a Beaver Dam and Draining the Pond
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hey everybody welcome to my channel i'm
kevin today we're going to pull apart a
beaver dam
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oh i got my work cut out for me today
we're going to take apart this beaver
dam that i'm sitting on
it's about 10 feet high and very thick
uh this beaver pond has got to go
it is uh flooded right across my
property i can't access the back of my
property at all
and it's also threatening my septic
system so
even though we have numerous beaver
ponds on our property this one
has absolutely got to go
so this is what the beavers have done
back here
flooded right across our whole property
actually
which isn't the end of the world but
it's really close to our home and our
septic system
so we got to get rid of this beaver
lodge so uh today i'm going to pull it
apart
um i've done this before it's a lot of
work it's probably a multi-day
multi-day task multi-week task actually
hopefully
the beavers are gone because if they're
still here they will rebuild the dam at
night
um so anyway gotta get to work
so this is the spot where i'm gonna do
my work
it's probably the highest drop about 10
feet and i'm going to slowly pull the
dam apart from the top
and use the water as it flows out
to erode the dam wish me luck
so
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this is working really well
a couple hours later we have still a
torrent going through here but the
water's really gone down
we did see a beaver here earlier so i
brought my rifle with me
good morning everyone i'm at the beaver
pond froze last night so there's a thin
sheet of ice on it
if you look over my shoulder you'll see
where i broke the dam yesterday
and uh the water has uh gone down a lot
but last night the beavers fixed it a
little bit
they can't fix it all in one night so
i'm gonna go this morning and break what
they
did last night and uh by this afternoon
the water should be really really low
and i'll be ready to put in some pipes
wish me luck
seeing the mud the tracks from last
night the beavers were up here getting
material for the dam
i'm so impressed with what the beavers
can do in one night
they jam that right up water's still
flowing through but
they've got a good a good first patch
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here we are that beaver lodge is
starting to look pretty dry
i've been draining water most of the day
and i've come back and installed three
pipes
okay i didn't film the process because
this was a lot of work
but i've got three pipes in the hole
and here's the outflow
if you look down here you'll see i put a
couple of t-bars in there to
hold those pipes in place i've wired the
pipes to the t-bar
and i've hammered that right down below
water level
so the beavers are likely to come back
tonight and plug this hole
but hopefully the pipes will trick them
and water will still flow
and they might build up a bit of water
but as summer moves on and things dry
out
um i'm pretty sure that those three
pipes are going to be more than what
comes in here so
it should should drain all summer long
the water has really come down
looking good out here look over here you
see a shelf of ice from uh
the first water level and the water's
come down about three and a half four
feet
really good and here's the
breech and the dam with the
pipes installed that should work pretty
well
so there's my intake pipes there's three
of them there one is a bit higher than
the other one
i think it's broken free of the mounting
that i hammered into the bottom of the
pond
and the beavers have tried to dam the
ends but
water is still flowing very well the
beavers have certainly damned
right here where the pipes are
and there's the breech and there's the
outflow
so we've really been able to keep the
pond low which i'm really happy about um
that protects my septic system and we've
had a lot of rain over the last couple
of days
so uh i'm going to call this a success i
might
i might even put some fittings on the
end just to make it more confusing for
the beavers
some y fittings or t fittings will
reduce the current
and give them more holes to plug all
right
thanks for watching
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you
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