Building Wildlife Pond, Core trench & dam, Start to finish! Kapper Outdoors real estate

If you've ever wondered what it would take to dig a small pond, a deer watering hole or wildlife pond, then this is the video for you. Join me for an afternoon at our Illinois investment farm, which is mostly enrolled in the CRP program, as I take you through the entire process of building a pond. While I did not use my Branson Tractor, I did use our Bobcat e42 mini excavator, which is an incredible all around land management tool! Starting from stripping the 'black dirt' sod off of the top and storing it behind the dam for the soon to be pond dam, to digging the pond dam core trench, aka keyway trench, and building up the entire pond dam. Then we'll dig out the depth of the pond so that once it fills up it will remain a year round water source not only for deer, but for all kinds of wildlife. This will improve the homestead real estate value, as well as improve the hunting land aspects and increase the value of our land investment. Then we'll get a look at how it turned out a few weeks after, and then of course we'll get to see it when it was fully filled up a few months later. This is our Illinois 'Project 211' hunting land (aka investment land) and this is just one of several ponds that we installed to increase the value of this land as well as the wildlife habitat improvement. If you enjoyed this video don't forget to hit the Like button and consider sharing it on social media so that others can join in our land management adventures, hunting land improvements, food plots, tractor projects, excavator projects and country living adventures. Thank you. Kapper Outdoors, living the dream, one acre at a time.