Plenty of blokes dig a hole, take your money, and walk off before the first rain. We follow the fall of the land, build a proper clay core, and stand behind it.
Chase will call you back personally, usually same day, to talk through what you're after.
A dam is not a hole. It is a piece of earthwork that has to sit on your land and do its job through wet years and dry ones. We read the contours, test the soil, and key the wall into ground that wants to hold. Every load of clay is placed and compacted with intent, because what goes in the wall now is what stops it leaking in twenty years.
You bought this block for a reason. Maybe it was the view across the gully, maybe it was the dream of running stock through a dry summer without watching the trough empty. A proper dam earns its keep every season. It waters the cattle, fills the pump, mirrors the sky in the morning, and quietly does the one thing a dam is meant to do. It holds.
The best dams we build do not look built. Twelve months on, the batter has softened, the reeds have come up at the shallow end, the wall sits low against the ridge like it grew there. Stock track down to drink on a path they chose themselves. That is the mark we work to. Earthwork that turns a paddock into a landmark.
Cowboys fight the country and lose. They scrape topsoil, dig where it suits the truck, and leave you a leaker. We follow the fall, the soil, and the seasons.
We walk the block with you, check the fall, dig test holes, and find where the clay sits. The site picks itself when you actually look.
Proper key trench. Clean clay core. Compacted in lifts, not dumped and hoped. The right batter for your soil so the wall stays where we put it.
Topsoil back, batters shaped, spillway tied into the natural fall. In a year it looks like nature formed it, not like a machine was ever there.
That fear is fair, most leakers come down to two things. The wrong soil and a wall that was never properly keyed and compacted. We test your clay before we quote, key the wall into solid ground, and build it up in compacted lifts. If the soil on site won't hold, we tell you straight before a machine turns up.
It might be. Cheap quotes usually mean a hole dug fast with whatever's there. We price the proper build. Key trench, clay core, spillway, batters, topsoil back. You pay once for a dam that holds, instead of twice for one that doesn't.
No. We plan the access track before we start, work off existing tracks where we can, and put the topsoil back when we leave. Stock are usually back on it within a season. The whole point is the finished job looks like it was always meant to be there.
Most farm dams take one to three weeks on site, depending on size, soil, and weather. We give you a fixed price and a realistic window before we start. If the weather turns we tell you, we don't push muddy work and pretend it's fine.
Yes. Every dam we build comes with our workmanship guarantee in writing. If something we built isn't sitting right, we come back and sort it. We live and work in Gippsland, we're not disappearing after the cheque clears.
I run TASK Elite Dams out of Newborough and we build right across Gippsland. I grew up around machines and around country, and I've seen too many landowners get burned by blokes who dig fast, get paid, and vanish before the first proper rain.
Every dam I take on, I'm on site. I walk the ground with you, I plan the build, and I'm in the seat for the key trench and the core. That's not a sales line, that's just how I run it. My name is on the job and on the guarantee.
If you've got a block in Gippsland and you want a dam built properly the first time, by someone who actually gives a stuff about how it looks in ten years, have a yarn with me.
Get A QuoteEvery dam we build is backed by our written workmanship guarantee. If something we constructed isn't holding or sitting as it should, we come back and fix it. No arguments, no chasing. That's the deal.
Fixed price in writing. No pressure, no sales pitch. Just a straight answer on whether the build stacks up.