Soil Compactor

[bx24]

The land where I'll be using this compactor is very sandy. The pond area has marginal clay mix. It held water reasonable well before the original dam broke and it was never compacted during the original construction so I'm hoping as I reconstruct the dam and deepen the pond using the compactor will help things out a little more.

I guess if you do have clay the compactor would help, but I would think the water dissolving the loose fill would settle it more than the compactor would (unless like you said there is enough clay to get things to bind up)

Good luck. I wonder how much it would cost to rent a much bigger compactor vs building your own "light one"

Either way, building things is always half the fun

 

[BrentD]

I guess if you do have clay the compactor would help, but I would think the water dissolving the loose fill would settle it more than the compactor would (unless like you said there is enough clay to get things to bind up)

Good luck. I wonder how much it would cost to rent a much bigger compactor vs building your own "light one"

Either way, building things is always half the fun

Time is my biggest factor on renting versus building. I'm working on the pond project as I have time on the weekends and it seems like it's taking forever.

 

[bx24]

Time is my biggest factor on renting versus building. I'm working on the pond project as I have time on the weekends and it seems like it's taking forever.

Unfortunately I know that feeling all too well, I have the time on weekends and such, but I feel like I am going get stalked by the grim reaper before I finish all of the projects!

 

[BrentD]

Made it to the scrap dealer on Friday. This was my first experience buying "Secondaries" as they call it there. I selected two pieces of roughly 8'x4"(square)x 3/16" tubing that should make a nice frame. Not sure what I was expecting to pay given that my last experience buying metal was paying nearly $23 fora 3-foot long piece of 1/4"x 1.5" flat stock at Lowes, but I was totally shocked when the total for these two pieces of tubing was $12.50 (50 pounds at $0.25/pound)

I may have to make one more trip to the scrap yard with the trailer to pick up some angle iron and possibly a piece of plate to seal off the bottom of the old pressure tank. The way it's made there is a circular port about 4" in diameter on the bottom with a plastic flange bolted around it. I guess it somehow separated the water chamber from the air pressure chamber... Need to figure out how to seal that up pretty good if I want the drum to hold water.

Also looks like I'll be going with just a standard flat surface drum rather than putting any feet on it. The scrap yard had already sold all of the bar stock I was planning on using for feet.