Instant Pond

[Western]

WOW Brandi, Turned out great after your "flood"!! I understand your fun with the Bobcat too, much "funner" when it'sa project like that vs using it on a real job:laughing: I bet you could get a bald cypress to grow well on your island, I understand they tolerate water well, but not sure, they are nice looking tree though.

 

[JohninCT]

Wow nice trailer Brandi. Great work with the bobcat too :thumbsup:

 

[Biggreenavalanche]

Don't plant cypress ! The **** things will go crazy when they get mature and you'll have them everywhere ! They are a major pain in the At my pond....lol !

Rich

 

[bindian]

WOW Brandi, Turned out great after your "flood"!! I understand your fun with the Bobcat too, much "funner" when it'sa project like that vs using it on a real job:laughing: I bet you could get a bald cypress to grow well on your island, I understand they tolerate water well, but not sure, they are nice looking tree though.

Thanks Dennis. Only having the Bobcat for 8 hours and watching the hour meter is like working. No time to stop and pet Booger either! I went with the pine tree as they have deep tap roots. Should help anchor that sandhill I am calling an island.:laughing:
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Wow nice trailer Brandi. Great work with the bobcat too :thumbsup:

Thanks John! I got to use it alot today pulling the Big RED Beast to Baytown and back. About a 2.5 hour round trip!
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Well, we have been getting little rain showers here and there. The $90 of Bermuda Grass Seed is coming up. But it won't be enough and high enough to help out if that hurricane comes this way with 10 inches of rain. I am thinking of cutting several small pine trees and laying them in the inlet sides to the pond to cut down on silting.
Any ideas besides spending bokou bucks on hay bales or straw?
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Well, we have been getting little rain showers here and there. The $90 of Bermuda Grass Seed is coming up. But it won't be enough and high enough to help out if that hurricane comes this way with 10 inches of rain. I am thinking of cutting several small pine trees and laying them in the inlet sides to the pond to cut down on silting.
Any ideas besides spending bokou bucks on hay bales or straw?
hugs, Brandi

 

[Western]

Brandi, if you can find some type of material to make those long "spaghetti" looking sand bags the DOT uses to control silt, that may be cheaper than hay bales, not easier though

 

[pacerron]

Well, we have been getting little rain showers here and there. The $90 of Bermuda Grass Seed is coming up. But it won't be enough and high enough to help out if that hurricane comes this way with 10 inches of rain. I am thinking of cutting several small pine trees and laying them in the inlet sides to the pond to cut down on silting.
Any ideas besides spending bokou bucks on hay bales or straw?
hugs, Brandi

Brandi,
Hay or straw probably wouldn't work anyway with fast runoff water. I did that on a shallow swale I dug a few years ago to protect new grass seed. After 4 hours work of putting a nice layer of hay down a heavy thunderstorm 2 days later swept the hay away in a few minutes
and lodged most of it in a 2 foot culvert pipe under my lane. That created another 4 hours work cleaning out the culvert.
I guess that's where the expression, " Your just making more work for yourself" came from.

The swale did divert the water just as planned though.

I think your idea of a few small pine trees might help. Did you have to clear some trees for the new pond?
I am still a little confused after looking at a lot of your pictures as to where your new pond is located? It must be NW of your old pond and close to the white fence poles. The picture of the neighbor's house in the background in some pictures confuses me.
Could you take a picture of the new pond from the front of your barn sometime with your lens zoom set at 50 mm equivalent and post it?
That will give a more realistic depth distance.
Lot's of luck on the wash out.
Ron

 

[Dozernut]

Brandi get some straw or hay bales, leave them whole and place them in your runoff channel. Pin them in place with some metal rod or wood stakes. This will slow down the water flow and cut down your errosion.