Building Lake Corona

[ovrszd]

Can you bring it down enough for an overflow into the other ravine, and not over your dam?

Very good idea!!!!

 

[deezler]

Yes that would be the plan if I go this route. Would give me plenty of extra dirt as well for any needed repairs on the overflow and doesn't damage the dam.

Whoa seriously? Hard to fully judge from your pics, but it looks like the ridges are at least 15-20 feet taller than your water line. You're going to carve a long, 20 foot deep canyon just to get an alternate overflow, vs building in an armored spillway on your dam?

 

[ovrszd]

Whoa seriously? Hard to fully judge from your pics, but it looks like the ridges are at least 15-20 feet taller than your water line. You're going to carve a long, 20 foot deep canyon just to get an alternate overflow, vs building in an armored spillway on your dam?

You might want to look at his last pic again. The top of the dam is in the foreground. Looks like maybe 6 ft of ridge? Sometimes hard to tell in pics. To get this far along I trust jk96's judgement that it's a good solution.

 

[jk96]

Whoa seriously? Hard to fully judge from your pics, but it looks like the ridges are at least 15-20 feet taller than your water line. You're going to carve a long, 20 foot deep canyon just to get an alternate overflow, vs building in an armored spillway on your dam?

Ridge would be much lower after pulling the rest of the dirt needed to finish the dam. That would be the main reason for pulling dirt from there. Right now it starts in the left side of the pic at about 10 feet higher than the water line and tapers down from left to right, ending only about 5 feet higher than the water line outside of the pic I posted. It would only be used for the overflow if enough dirt was pulled for the dam to make it doable. I have no intention of carving a trench for the overflow. I don't really like the idea of disturbing this area though so just an option at the moment.

 

[jk96]

Work has me busy until after July 4th so probably no work on the pond for a couple of weeks.

 

[ovrszd]

Work has me busy until after July 4th so probably no work on the pond for a couple of weeks.

We'll be here when you get back. Have a great 4th down there. Look Northwest just after dark on the 4th and you might see our fireworks display here at the farm!!!! I'll try to get some pics/video.

 

[jk96]

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We'll be here when you get back. Have a great 4th down there. Look Northwest just after dark on the 4th and you might see our fireworks display here at the farm!!!! I'll try to get some pics/video.

 

[bindian]

Youæ±*e still using the wrong tool for the job. I壇 be loading my dump truck if I was going any distance. My full size backhoe could carry dirt faster, cheaper, and spill less than the 95 Kubota I had at the time but the 95 would blow the backhoe away for general dirt work and the backhoe would blow a tractor away at dirt work. A tractor vs a 6 ton CTL at moving dirt is land slide victory at pretty much any task except moving a long ways. Put a dump truck on the job and the CTL is winning again. I could probably load loose dirt faster with my backhoe vs the 95 but only because the bucket was bigger. If itç—´ hard packed dirt or the area is too small to work the 25 foot long backhoe and the CTL is back to winning again.

It's not the wrong tool if you only have that one machine. I had a dump truck. If you have more than one person, a loader and dump is great. But for one machine and one person, digging and moving short distances (200-300 feet) a 4WD tractor is not the wrong machine. Also swapping between machines gets old fast. All that time swapping between machines adds up also. My 6520 4WD Mahindra excels at digging ( or pushing dirt) and hauling short distances. The 6520 dug all my pond basins with the loader and moved the dirt.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to own a CTL.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It's not the wrong tool if you only have that one machine. I had a dump truck. If you have more than one person, a loader and dump is great. But for one machine and one person, digging and moving short distances (200-300 feet) a 4WD tractor is not the wrong machine. Also swapping between machines gets old fast. All that time swapping between machines adds up also. My 6520 4WD Mahindra excels at digging ( or pushing dirt) and hauling short distances. The 6520 dug all my pond basins with the loader and moved the dirt.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to own a CTL.
hugs, Brandi
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[jk96]

Well I survived another 4th of July weekend with all 10 digits. In all seriousness it can be a pretty dangerous business and pretty proud that all of my crews as well as spectators for our shows are injury free after 22 years in this business.

That's me looking at the camera in this pic

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Here are a few more of the show I worked on the 4th with some of the best guys I know. These guys have been working with me for as long as I can remember.

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Started draining the pond for what I think was the 6th time today. Had it drained and a storm a few days back just about filled it up again. Hoping next week this project will get going again. At this point there is no doubt I will have a pond. Size is the only question now.

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