For those suggesting a carjack. We tried. Episode #60 at 12:10 https://youtu.be/ZrBCIwTMqCs

You’ll want to add a generous coat of grease to the rail and wheel threads for the water dam door.

If you want to avoid the same issue next year apply a layer of grease to any moving parts such as the sides of the door and the central rod. I see some other people suggested looking at Kris Harbours channel if you are thinking about using it for hydro power. Otherwise great work, very inspiring to see to your troubleshooting process. 🙂

You guys are living part of one of my dreams.
Love your videos. This one was really quite a treat.
Thank you and greetings from the Algarve.

love this

PB Blaster !!!

Add a rope to the ladder when going into the well. If it's deeper than the mud layer, water weight plus people may cause collapse and the ladder will go with it…making for a very scary situation

Next time you can use a blow torch to shrink the metal, it should give you enough movement so slide it down.

Gunite is your freind it will seal all those leaks ,the door will silt in at the bottom and the sides may seal up also give it time.

Is that little bottle of vinegar all you used for vinegar??? If that was, of course it didn't work! You would have needed a couple of gallons!! You said that the bottom was the problem, that just means that what you tried worked, but you didn't have enough get into the bottom part with enough power to work anymore. So you would have needed to top it up after the first round had gotten done.

The coke actually might have worked the best …if you had used a couple 2 liter bottles of it. I do believe there's a stronger acid in the soda than the vinegar.

The ketchup you used would never have worked, though. Too thick to get into the cracks.

All the soaking and hitting down. I would've gone first with a car jack and lifting the gate up.

i would have put a jack under the gate to lift it up and break the rust

When I see the water leaking out of that rock, my first though, doubly with seeing soil on the other side (Presumably) is that water has soaked the ground over many fill/drain cycles, and erroded away part of the section that the main concrete wall is rest on. I have my doubts about the structural integrity of the wall and worry that it's a potential collapse hazard down the road. But i'm not a civil engineer so I don't really know! Cracks in the foundation of the damn, leaking sub-structure, and lack of maintence fills me with dread!

U need to lub the tracks .so the gate will slide easily

Another great video! Id suggest greasing the rails to aid opening and closing the gate. It would also be worth using the angle grinder with a brick cutter attachment to create a groove for the gate to sit into. Might help with the loss underneath.
Also an screw type hydro would work well here and provide power in the winter

Hello, not seen your videos before and unsure how those roof panels are constructed etc. However If all you want is for it to be watertight you should simply space them apart by 2cm and put that same tape over them with slack in the tape to allow for expansion and contraction, you should also make the holes larger where they are affixed to the structure (again don't know the details but I assume you have just screwed them into that large frame (oversized and this is part of the problem because it is so rigid). So the screw sits in an over sized hole then have a metal then PE washer (PE very tight against plastic) this will further allow heat driven expansion and contraction which will stop the curling and leaks. What you have installed now will work for a time but eventually the tape will come off due to differential movement (which it will get pulled off because it is taught). I work in construction btw not just pulling this out my arse lad.

your friendship amazing. julie s voice so sweet. you have to clean reservoir and make little hidro electric system.

Carjack would be Best for the waterfall

I would use anti Rusty Spray for Cars and a carjack to fix the Door

I Would love to See Tippi Tent ⛺️

To level the welded plate you need to stretch the weld. Hitting it along the length of the weld with a plating hammer would make all the difference!

Gracias

That wasn’t ketchup…

Love what you are doing guys. Pls though, get some chainsaw lessons, some things is see here are really unsafe. Keep up the good work

Sla niet rechtstreeks op de rand zonder een houten blokje ertussen… (gezond verstand?)

Your dam is leeking. It will fail.

What a mess they made you do trying those things without telling you something else… The tricks like ketchup, cocacola and vinegar usually works submerging the piece in a bucket of the stuff (remember that trick about cleaning coins in Coke? pretty much the same). By just pouring it and letting rest you're actually helping to keep it stuck in there…

Funny enough, after i saw you hitting it with the big hammer i was hopping you where going for the anglegrinder next!

is suggested to use ketchup. uses tomato paste. ok.

You should use dye to find the leak

For safety you need to build a structure around the old well to prevent people from falling in. If you determine that the water is unfit for drinking, then it would be best to fill in the well.

Wait. So in Portugal ketchup comes in toothpaste tubes?

For the future, remember to clear the vegetation out before you let the lagoon area flood. Otherwise the water kill the plants and they rot. When the water level drops, and the rotting plants are exposed, the smell is horrible. Also, a lot of the soil in the lagoon area looks like dead or rotted wood. Probably be a good idea to dig that stuff up and flush it out. Also, for cleaning out that other well, take a couple saw-horses, a bar, and some rope… Lay the bar across the saw horses, toss the rope over it, and tie it to the bucket. Pull the rope to raise the bucket. Lot easier than using a person and a ladder.