Alien
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Yes he is a sizeable brute for sure
Building Lake Corona
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buckeyefarmer
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Figured, but just saw the shutoff at the other end.
I bought pipe and check valves to put a ram pump in my creek to pump water out. never did get it built.
I bought pipe and check valves to put a ram pump in my creek to pump water out. never did get it built.
Time for an update. I was able to get the pond drained and mucked out. Finally got a good full day of moving dirt in today. Made some really good progress. Unfortunately they are calling for 2-3" of rain tonight into tomorrow. Here's a few pics of where things stand at the moment. Dam is probably 7-8 feet right now. I have another 7-8 feet to go.
View from hillside I'm pulling dirt from toward the dam.
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Backside of dam looking back to hillside
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Side view
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Most likely another week or more before I'm moving dirt again if we get the rain they are calling for. On a positive note the dirt I'm scraping from the hillside couldn't be better for building the dam. Really high clay content. Here's what it looks like after a pass with the bucket.
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View from hillside I'm pulling dirt from toward the dam.
2020-06-08_05-36-27 Backside of dam looking back to hillside
2020-06-08_05-36-00 Side view
2020-06-08_05-36-09 Most likely another week or more before I'm moving dirt again if we get the rain they are calling for. On a positive note the dirt I'm scraping from the hillside couldn't be better for building the dam. Really high clay content. Here's what it looks like after a pass with the bucket.
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Kyle_in_Tex
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Nice progress!
Kyle_in_Tex
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Does it get cold enough, for long enough, up there to freeze a pond like this for ice skating?
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Very nice work
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Yuck, I hate clay! Is that the material all over on the bottom of your pond? I suppose that is good for holding water though. We only get streaks of mucky clay. Mostly around here it is glacial till. Lots of small round rocks in silty/sandy soil under the rich acidic topsoil composted over years of evergreen forest growth. Drains extremely well.
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One thing you DONT want as pond material is something that drains well!
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Making good progress jk96!
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This is awesome. I want a true pond so bad, by my 30 BHP tractor isn't going to dig me one. And I can't quite convince the wife to let us spend several thousand dollars contracting it out. Anyone in southeast Michigan want to rent me a proper excavator?
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An excavator would not be my machine of choice. You need to be able to push large quantities or haul large quantities.
I have a clamshell scraper that I pull behind my tractor but it would be cumbersome in the OP's location. Going by the pics, he's got the right piece of equipment.
I have a clamshell scraper that I pull behind my tractor but it would be cumbersome in the OP's location. Going by the pics, he's got the right piece of equipment.
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Well my topography is pretty well suited for just extracting scoop loads, turning around, and depositing. Repeat from 8 or 10 spots around the perimeter and you have a pretty nice hole. I'm only talking a 50x100 type pond, I suppose. The danger in a tracked or wheeled machine that you need to drive into and out of your pond hole is if it gets wet... and stays wet... you get stuck.
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The OP has offered us a perfect example of how you deal with a wet pond hole. I'm pretty sure he's drained his twice, maybe more, and still able to excavate with his CTL.
It will take a very large excavator to dig a pond 50ft across.
It will take a very large excavator to dig a pond 50ft across.
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Exactly why I can’t make the little pond I was aiming to do.
That’s what most people use up here. You can go a lot deeper that way. I know of ponds which have been dug 40 feet deep... hard doing that with a dozer.
You go down as far as you can, then move the excavator down to that level and keep digging. I have never seen it done but know people who have done it. It’s no different than a gravel pit or quarry which fills up with water.
