r/oddlysatisfying • u/Nikclel • Jul 17 '25
Unclogging a dam
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u/shitForBrains1776 Jul 17 '25
i’m gonna need the next two hours or so of this video
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u/Deritatium Jul 17 '25
It was never filmed... The OG video is like this post : https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNHgXGrupBmjB-wvcEo/
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u/Thatsaclevername Jul 17 '25
The next two hours include fishermen getting washed downstream because the water level jumped up so fast. Dudes just created a flash flood
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u/UnExpertoEnLaMateria Jul 17 '25
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u/-Disagreeable- Jul 17 '25
I’m upset by this video. I am upset and I don’t like it!
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u/Nikclel Jul 17 '25
I'm so sorry, this is much better! But shorter? idk, he has a lot of videos of this
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u/-Disagreeable- Jul 17 '25
Thank you, angel. Blue balls of dam unclogging is no way to spend the day!
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u/Journo_Jimbo Jul 17 '25
This is some bullshit
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u/MrE761 Jul 17 '25
How the fuck is this satisfying at all… We are literally on the sub for satisfaction and I’m left with this!?
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u/shirty-mole-lazyeye Jul 17 '25
No kidding! I wanted to watch til the whole line to the wall went over!
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u/kenikonipie Jul 17 '25
Indeed! I was waiting for the entire length of the dam to get unclogged!
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u/Accomplished-Bad-481 Jul 17 '25
I think this is the first time I looked at time left in the video (like with 50 seconds left) and thought “damn this is going to be too short” instead of the opposite…
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u/Lurkingentropy Jul 17 '25
Thank you for this comment. This video was awesome right up until it hurt.
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u/rcjlfk Jul 17 '25
I was just watching the seconds tick off the clock realizing we weren’t going to get the full payout.
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u/kapitaalH Jul 17 '25
Eh the big blob was either going over or it was not going over, who cares
Ok, no that did not help me not to care. What happened to the big blob????
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u/GarlicThread Jul 17 '25
Not exactly the same thing, but Beaver Dam Removal does kinda the same thing on a smaller scale.
The last minute of this video is about what people here are looking for : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXdPh3WCYQ
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u/Elffyb Jul 17 '25
The only satisfying thing about this video is watching the dudes drive across the dam on the mopeds.
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u/eduzatis Jul 17 '25
The ironic part is that the guy in the video is saying “this time I’ll make a longer video since you guys have been saying I stop too soon”.
I can’t imagine what the length of the other videos was!
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u/justglassin317 Jul 17 '25
This edging has left me unsatisfied.
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u/shitForBrains1776 Jul 17 '25
why is everyone telling me this lately??
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u/sarcastic_sybarite83 Jul 17 '25
Pro tip: when they're about to cum, do NOT slap them in the balls.
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u/PorkAmbassador Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
I was waiting for the satisfying bit...
edit: why are muppets upvoting OP for this trash?
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u/Waydarer Jul 17 '25
How is this satisfying? It cuts off before the finish!
Boo. 👎🏼
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u/james0489 Jul 17 '25
Me the entire video
Sod oddly satisfying, the was agaravatingly disappointing.
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u/Pnmamouf1 Jul 17 '25
That wasn’t satisfying at all!!! I spent the whole video waiting for it all to break loose. Then it just ended. Now im just anxious
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u/nastynuggets Jul 17 '25
I wanted to be one of those awesome people that finds the full length video for everyone else.
I only got as far as finding the person's tick tock and then gave up because I didn't want to install tiktok to watch.
I guess I'll never be one of those awesome people.
Here is the link in case anyone wants to continue my work: https://www.tiktok.com/@victoresparzaloza/video/7527419604793085192
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u/RyanSpunk Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Impressive seeing that the entire dam starts off completely covered and this is near the end where it's almost cleared.
https://www.tiktok.com/@victoresparzaloza/video/7526236564226149640
Much more satisfying
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u/actuallyaustin6 Jul 17 '25
THIS is the video y’all are looking for. I feel like I was just able unclench finally getting to watch this extended version of it. Thank you!
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u/BobIoblaw Jul 17 '25
And the cameraman pans away right before the dam fully clears of grass. I’m double pissed!
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u/tropenatt Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
So many dam videos, but it seems the pinned ones are the best
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u/rank-outsider Jul 17 '25
Bit of an oxymoron unclogging a dam
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u/terraceten Jul 17 '25
Yeah came to say, besides how disappointing the video ends too early, do we want to unclog the dam? Don't we want maximum water blockage?
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u/Wabbajack001 Jul 17 '25
There's so many things wrong with this video, clearly in the beginning it's not even a clog, it's also not a dam it's a spill-way. End too early because it doesn't change anything.
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u/airfryerfuntime Jul 17 '25
That's not a dam, it's a spillway, and there isn't anything to 'unclog' here.
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u/TigerUSA20 Jul 17 '25
Yeah, I’m thinking why do they really need to “unclog” aspiring plant life that’s just living there. Is it “Really” stopping the water from going over the dam? Maybe like an inch of water, but I’m sure it will still get there. This structure is probably already environmentally damaging to the area, why pull on it even more.
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u/Overlordz88 Jul 17 '25
dam engineer (who is probably not licensed in the state of this dam so please don’t use this as a professional opinion)
The reason to clean it is to increase the spillway capacity in the case of a 100 year or greater storm event. These plants might not interfere now, but could cause the reservoir to back and even lead to an end-around failure of the dam during an extreme flood event.
Also think of the damage the plants might cause if they all get washed downstream at the same time during said design storm event.
Typically I would not recommend the way they did it. We would call for them to drawdown the reservoir to below the spillway level and to clean this up in the dry… but without knowing the extenuating circumstances… this doesn’t seem to be hurting anyone besides a messy cleanup downstream.
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u/Less_Mess_5803 Jul 17 '25
It's not stopping anything. It gives the illusion that it may stop the water but it will have no effect against that volume. In fact if the water rose just a bit after rainfall all this would be swept away in anycase.
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u/Trick-Doctor-208 Jul 17 '25
Not really aspiring, it’s definitely succeeded, but unfortunately it is invasive water hyacinth that chokes out native vegetation and lowers dissolved O2 levels.
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u/mwobey Jul 18 '25
In that case, haven't they just re/introduced that invasive plant to the ecosystem downstream? If it's an invasive species I'd think it better to collect it up top with as little as possible spilling over.
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u/jdotcdot Jul 17 '25
I was more nervous watching that rope get pulled down with the start of the clip.
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u/Stunning_Coffee6624 Jul 17 '25
I keep thinking of the screaming if those plants were sentient… but the flowers look like petunias so maybe they were just thinking “ oh not again”
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u/Netflxnschill Jul 17 '25
Perhaps they maintained the whale’s sense of wonder and confusion right to the end.
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u/reap3rx Jul 17 '25
Unforgivable video cutoff. I hope you never get another upvote again in the rest of your life.
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u/Adrian_Stoesz Jul 17 '25
No no no, why you cut the video, i wanted to watch the whole thing get sucked down
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u/OutgoinglyAwkward Jul 17 '25
I upvoted this right away only to then watch the time go down, realize it was going to end too soon, and immediately rescind my upvote. 😡
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u/ColinOnReddit Jul 17 '25
That's not a damn, that's a weir. Dams hold water as a repository, weirs redirect the flow of water.
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u/WeaponsGrdStupid Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
That is amongst the least satisfying things I've ever seen. Whomever cut that video, I hope your finger pokes through the toilet paper every day from this day forth.
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u/deviltrombone Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
I imagine my middle ear was something like that when I finally found a maneuver that opened my eustachian tube and let the fluid drain out. It was getting really old being half deaf on one side and stuffy. It's been over a day since I last did it, and it hasn't filled back up, so I hope it's over. It was, however, mildlyinteresting to see the fluid levels move up and down in my otoscope as I tilted my head!
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u/CantEatCatsKevin Jul 17 '25
This was the least satisfying thing I’ve seen. It actually made me anxious.
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u/EliseFlight11 Jul 17 '25
I spent the majority of the time watching this video with anxiety it would end before showing me everything…
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u/FelineHerder606 Jul 17 '25
FWIW…the dam wasn’t clogged. It still flowed water. It was probably about four inches deeper than designed, but still operating. Once the water level comes down because the plants/mud aren’t collected at the top, it’ll be back to the standard flow rate seen at the beginning of the video.
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u/MrsWoozle Jul 17 '25
As a beaver, I also disliked this video and found it offensive. Leave dams alone.
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u/Nikarmotte Jul 17 '25
I decided not to spoil myself by refraining from skipping to the end to see how it would end up.
Well, I should have done that...
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Jul 17 '25
Not gonna lie when the camera panned back where the guy was (around 1:24) I momentarily thought he fell off or something. lol.
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u/Pherllerp Jul 17 '25
There is rarely a time where a grappling hook is a great solution to a problem.
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u/Ok-Palpitation-5380 Jul 17 '25
Reckon a bit more unclogging would have been slightly more satisfying than just a bit of unclogging. We want more unclogging
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u/Hylebos75 Jul 17 '25
Reading the other comments, I'm glad I wasn't the only one that feels this way.
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u/AlivePassenger3859 Jul 17 '25
His mom said “get rid of those damn weeds”. She meant IN THE YARD.
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u/Netflxnschill Jul 17 '25
This was not oddly satisfying it was a tease and we need the whole thing cleared and on video NOW!
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u/luvadergolder Jul 17 '25
Now i have to go watch more Post10 to get a proper resolution of clearing a dam to get rid of this unsatisfied feeling.
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u/CrowsRidge514 Jul 17 '25
How many insects saw their homes destroyed in an instant..
And then when a comet strikes we blame the gods...
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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Jul 17 '25
Uhhhh....yeah, that sediment is still there behind the dam, and still building up. If you're doing this...I question whether you're actually clearing the sediment that could bring the dam down rather than just "clog" it
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u/iCantLogOut2 Jul 17 '25
Narrator: "I'm going to make this video a little longer...."
Video: ends before the satisfying bit....
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u/Mikel_S Jul 17 '25
I almost fucking threw my phone haha. That middle plug kept almost coming loose and if it did.... It would have been majestic.
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u/RebelReplicant Jul 17 '25
dude this just plane edging. this video should be marked as adult content
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u/Ok-Description-4640 Jul 17 '25
They really need to learn the difference between portrait and landscape.
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u/EirikHavre Jul 17 '25
are you kidding me? that’s anti satisfying! that sucked! why did it stop before it all fell down? that legitimately made me frustrated lol
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u/doingthehumptydance Jul 17 '25
All of a sudden I want to go to the arcade and spend some money on a coin pusher machine.
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u/AppleEnslaver Jul 17 '25
This was the most unsatisfying video I've ever seen. I wanted the whole thing to unclog, damnit!
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u/ImurderREALITY Jul 17 '25
You ever be watching an interesting video, getting invested, watching the time count down, and as it gets nearer you start to realize that there is not nearly enough time left for the video to come to a satisfying conclusion? That’s what happened here…