Pond Build
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05/24/19 01:54 PM
05/24/19 01:54 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 72 Pennsylvania
boneheadjaz
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Getting ready to take on a small pond build this holiday weekend. It should be about a quarter acre in surface are and a planned depth of 15'. I will be installing a bottom draw siphon overflow as well as an emergency spillway. The pond will be well fed as well as run off. My immediate neighbor has a new machine shop (10,00 SQ ft). I will be installing a catch basin on thier property to which they will run thier downspouts. From the basin I am running 12" double wall culvert under my driveway to the pond. I will also be cutting the slope of the roadside ditch back and placing fabric. The wife will be bucketing decorative rock with the tractor to cover the bank. Should be an interesting weekend!
Fisher 0/1 Bobcat 0/1 Mink 0/5 Canines 0/10
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: boneheadjaz]
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05/24/19 02:12 PM
05/24/19 02:12 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 2,943 South Dakota
Hydropillar
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roughly 5000 yards of material to remove .. by the dimensions you described.. might take a cpl wk ends if ya had a 657g and a d 10 pushcat.
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: boneheadjaz]
#6543239
05/24/19 02:26 PM
05/24/19 02:26 PM
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Posts: 3,141 Michigan
Ditchdiver
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Big project for one weekend! Good luck!
When life gets me down..... you know hunting/trapping season is closed.
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: boneheadjaz]
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05/24/19 06:33 PM
05/24/19 06:33 PM
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Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 6,518 MB
Jurassic Park
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Sounds like quite the project! Try to make it enjoyable, sounds like work to me lol.
Cold as ice!
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: boneheadjaz]
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05/25/19 07:30 PM
05/25/19 07:30 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 19,930 SEPA
Lugnut
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You got a lot of work done in one day!
Eh...wot?
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: KeithC]
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05/25/19 07:58 PM
05/25/19 07:58 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 72 Pennsylvania
boneheadjaz
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I rented a Cat 314 excavator with a clean up bucket (42") and a 2 foot ditching bucket. It was a low lying area so the only digging was about 500 yards of topsoil(4' thick shallowest spot was a foot) and then cutting the key for the dike. Without any digging I had 7 foot of depth already. Basically all I had to do was strip topsoil and then dig whatever clay I need for the dyke. Otherwise it would not be a weekend project.
Fisher 0/1 Bobcat 0/1 Mink 0/5 Canines 0/10
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: boneheadjaz]
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05/27/19 08:39 AM
05/27/19 08:39 AM
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Posts: 829 NE NE
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34 years as a Civil Eng. Specialist with USDA. I was a 1 man show that surveyed. designed, drafted plans, inspected construction, and certified quantities for many, many farm ponds, wetlands, animal waste facilities, sediment basins etc.. Reviewed projects for technical adequacy for U.S. from all of the above categories from both public and private sources. Viewed lots of "farmer" failures when mother nature decided to "test" the design and installation techniques (none were mine luckily). Everyone pitches their 0.02 worth in but All I will say is,,,,,,, to work safely, within the confines of your State Regs and enjoy the water..... the mike - Retired USDA CET
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Re: Pond Build
[Re: boneheadjaz]
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05/27/19 08:49 AM
05/27/19 08:49 AM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 1,781 Mi, Mecosta
ambush32
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Now that’s a huge pond..looks like a cool project..
Thought I was a good trapper until I started trapping coyotes...... Thought I was a good bowhunter until I targeted mature bucks....
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