Pond Build

[EddieWalker]

Loved seeing them jump off of the dock. You might want to add a dock ladder to your list. In a year, you will have all sorts of weeds and water plants growing along the side of the dock that will be a pain to have to climb through. In two years, it will be even thicker!!!!

 

[walker450]

Well it finally spilled over last month. Here are some pictures. The one with the sunset is nearly full. The other is totally dull.

 

[deezler]

Beautiful. How did you spillway area hold up to the spillover?

 

[EddieWalker]

It will be fun to see all the grass fill in and then what Mother Nature adds to your shoreline. Birds will bring in all sorts of plants that you never imagined would be there!!!! You'll also find fish in there that you didn't put in there.

 

[walker450]

Beautiful. How did you spillway area hold up to the spillover?

Worked as good as I could imagine, had about a 15-20 foot wide area with a small amount of water flowing out.

 

[walker450]

Here is a video walking around the pond, audio is bad so hard to hear what I'm saying... if anyone's has questions let me know.

 

[EddieWalker]

When did you shoot the video? Your grass looks too green and lush for it to be August!!!

Have you mowed around it yet? That's when you learn if you made the dam too steep or not.

I like the dock. That's something I really should of done before mine filled up.

 

[walker450]

The video was taken July 12th, buuuuut you wouldn't believe how green it is now, we are looking good here!

The front of the dam is mowable with my 4wd F series Kubota. The back is easy easy. I made dang sure to push extra dirt so the back wouldn't be too steep. I have a video brush hogging the back side here:

 

[bindian]

You sure got it awesome looking. Down here my pond is down over 4 feet.
hugs, Brandi

 

[EddieWalker]

Good video. I never seen a pull behind mower like that before. It looks like it does a nice job!!!!