Best way to dredge a pond w/out draining it.

[Ken45101]

I know of a couple of operators whose excavators have slid into the pond doing work like that! It gets slippery and wet when you are digging out all that muck.

You might want to search youtube for videos of "stuck excavator" to give you something to worry about, LOL.

 

[keegs]

My dad tells me that if you throw a bale of barley straw into the dugout/pond that it will keep the algae away. I had one in my dugout last summer and no algae, but it was only the second year of the dugout and I don't know if it would have grown algae without it.

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http://www.btny.purdue.edu/pubs/apm/apm-1-w.pdf Thanks Kevin...I found this from Purdue:

 

[Larry Caldwell]

It doesn't look like that even with the extension boom the excavator can get too far into the pond. Was that your experience? How much deeper were you able to go? I also thought it might be about a days work with the excavator.

Wrong tool. Look for a crane with a drag line bucket.