OK, I am new to tractors and am major league jealous of the equipment you folks have. I am buying my first tractor now. Just a grey market 2210 Yanmar 4x4 to play with on 175 acres in Idaho. I know nothing about tractor except that I need one and what I am buying is all I could currently afford.
I recently moved from Northern Nevada to my property in Idaho that I purchased over 9 years ago. Six or seven years ago I paid just over four grand for some local pond developers to build me a pond and do some heavy dirt work cutting the top off of a potential hill/ home site. My buddy from Nevada who does dirt work said he would have charged 10 times that for the 7 days work in all.
In any case this is part of what they did. This is my little pond. It approx 2 acres in size when it full in the spring. Its fed by run off but is also on a spring which helps keep it fed. Its approx 12 feet deep in the spring and maybe 7 or so when its a drought year like this year.
I have many many more spring on my property which need to be developed. I have one that I is developed and just runs of into the hillside and is wasted. I will remedy that soon. My plan is to put two higher ponds in my little canyon that will help feed this lower pond so water is not wasted as it runs off all spring like a small river.
However no little Yanmar will handle this and I will hire the pond guys again. Since we just moved I managed to get my shop up and am adding to it next spring. Hope to get a home built someday in front of the pond. All power, septic well, internet ect is in and works. Just need cash to build a home.
There are a few catfish in this pond now and more to come plus bass and blue gill. There are a couple thousand frogs and they are loud.
By the way, so its not confusing. The pond pics with the shop and trailer are the newest pics taken recently and thus the pond is at its lowest as you can see the outline for most of the year. It really drops off in late Sept. The pics with no buildings are the pond when new. The tall trees are actually a island designed for birds that works until September when the level drops and allow predators to access it. When I get the springs directed to it, this should help keep the level up some. Those trees are a good 40 feet high in spots and the island is full of thistle of birds. It always has ducks and geese on it. We get some cool visitors too! One pic shows the **** which is probably 20 feet high at the end and 120 yards around or so.
In any case I love this thread and wish I could afford the nice stuff but will have fun building my garden, greenhouse, chicken coupe and pheasant pens this spring and summer with the help of the little Yanmar.
RUMBLON
I recently moved from Northern Nevada to my property in Idaho that I purchased over 9 years ago. Six or seven years ago I paid just over four grand for some local pond developers to build me a pond and do some heavy dirt work cutting the top off of a potential hill/ home site. My buddy from Nevada who does dirt work said he would have charged 10 times that for the 7 days work in all.
In any case this is part of what they did. This is my little pond. It approx 2 acres in size when it full in the spring. Its fed by run off but is also on a spring which helps keep it fed. Its approx 12 feet deep in the spring and maybe 7 or so when its a drought year like this year.
I have many many more spring on my property which need to be developed. I have one that I is developed and just runs of into the hillside and is wasted. I will remedy that soon. My plan is to put two higher ponds in my little canyon that will help feed this lower pond so water is not wasted as it runs off all spring like a small river.
However no little Yanmar will handle this and I will hire the pond guys again. Since we just moved I managed to get my shop up and am adding to it next spring. Hope to get a home built someday in front of the pond. All power, septic well, internet ect is in and works. Just need cash to build a home.
There are a few catfish in this pond now and more to come plus bass and blue gill. There are a couple thousand frogs and they are loud.
By the way, so its not confusing. The pond pics with the shop and trailer are the newest pics taken recently and thus the pond is at its lowest as you can see the outline for most of the year. It really drops off in late Sept. The pics with no buildings are the pond when new. The tall trees are actually a island designed for birds that works until September when the level drops and allow predators to access it. When I get the springs directed to it, this should help keep the level up some. Those trees are a good 40 feet high in spots and the island is full of thistle of birds. It always has ducks and geese on it. We get some cool visitors too! One pic shows the **** which is probably 20 feet high at the end and 120 yards around or so.
In any case I love this thread and wish I could afford the nice stuff but will have fun building my garden, greenhouse, chicken coupe and pheasant pens this spring and summer with the help of the little Yanmar.
RUMBLON
