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Episode 17

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E017 - They are going down!

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Episode 18

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E018 - What a mess!

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Episode 19

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E019 - How to make massive trees into woodchips

In todays episode, you can see how the contractor made woodchips of all the trees, twigs and sprigs. BRUKS mobile chippers are an impressive sight when they chew up big threes. In one day, they removed more than 200 m3 of woodchips. It would have taken me all summer to do it by hand. Despite rain and mist, I was able to get some cool drone videos. Unfortunately, I had to leave for work when the "Chipper" took care of the largest trees. When I got back home 10 hours later, it was all gone.

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Episode 20:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E20 - What the Mobile Chipper left behind

In todays episode, you can see what the chipper had left behind. The chipper removed more than 200 m3, witch was a big improvement. But the chipper left behind a lot of twigs and sprigs. He did not want to remove them because the contractor was worried he would get stones into the chipper. Luckily I had another contractor lined up who could fix the problem.

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Episode 21:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E21 - Excavator to the rescue

In todays episode, you can see the excavator which helps me take this project a quantum leap forward. It was a big job to remove all of the branches and sprig. It was an even bigger job to remove all the major roots that were left behind.

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Episode 22:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E22 - The rescuemisson continues

In todays episode, you can see the excavator continue its rescuemission .

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Episode 23:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E023 - Stones, stones and more stones

As the excavator continues its work, I understand the hard facts: I will dream about stones for a long time. Worst part? A lot of it will have to be removed by hand next summer ...

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Episode 24

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E24 - What 3 excavators + 5 tractors can do ...

In this episode, you can see what 3 excavators and 5 tractors can do in a a couple of days. There are two more episodes of this upgrade, before the focus of the channel changes to to "realtime". This spring 50+ tosai will arrive from Japan. We will follow the preparation before the arrival, picking them up at the airport, QT - periode, and releasing them into the pond. Will everything go better this time?

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Episode 25:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E25 - The excavator finish the landscaping job

In this episode, the excavator finish the landscaping job. There are one more episode of this upgrade, before the focus of the channel changes to to "realtime". This spring 50+ tosai will arrive from Japan. We will follow the preparation before the arrival, picking them up at the airport, QT - periode, and releasing them into the pond

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Episode 26:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E026 - Finishing the 2016 upgrade

In this video, we finish the 2016 upgrade. The excavator leaves, and a new a new fence will come in place. To knock down hundreds of fence posts, Is a heavy manual job! In the next video, the focus changes to 2017. This spring 80 small Yamabuki (Marudo) tosai will arrive from Japan. We will follow the preparation before the arrival, QT - periode, and releasing them into the pond. In the summer, the 2017 upgrade begins.

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Episode 27:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E27 - The arrival of 80 new koi

In this episode, we start a new serie! Follow the arrival of 80 new koi from Marudo in Japan. On April 13, I picked up 80 small Yamabuki tosai at the airport . In this episode we will see them for the first time. In this serie, we will follow the preparations, the quarantine prosess, the growing of this small koi, and of course, the release of them all into the big pond this summer.

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Episode 28:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E28 - Caring for 80 tosai


In this episode, we can see the changes in the behavior of the 80 tosai as the temperatur raises. When they arrived the the temperatur was 12 C. At that temperatur they where not moving more than they had to. As the temperatur slowly raises to 21 C the tosai wakes up.

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Episode 29:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E29 - A new beginning

In this episode, the spring wakes up the pond. Will the first koi show up?

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Episode 30:

The 1.000.000 Gallon Koipond - E30 - The hunt for koi continues

As the surroundings (and the pond!) starts to get green, and the sun heats the pond, the hunt for my five koi continues. Have they survived the long winter, and the long and cold spring?

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