Backhoe Backhoe for pond cleaning

[sticky]

Check on renting an excavator for a week or pay a small owner operator to do your digging. He will do all the work in 3days. I think you should buy the piece of equipement for fun , but it will take you about a year to complete since you will always be waiting for thing to dry out before you can continue and yout reach is about 1/3 of 27 feet and 15 feet down. I have considered your options for a while on my pond.

 

[plaindave]

Your best bet is to hire the job out. I worked for CAT and have a fair amount of time in different pieces of equipment. While I'm the first to admit it's fun to play on the big toys, it's not cheap, and the cost of delivery and pickup of equipment will easily pay for the operator.

Get someone to come out with an excavator with a long stick and they will get the work done in no time. If you think you can do it just know that operating an excavator is like walking, chewing gum, patting your head, and rubbing your stomach all at the same time. You can do just one of those things at a time, but it takes longer, and at several hundred dollars a day to rent it, you don't want to waste too much time.

 

[Buck]

All,

I love the fact that most all of you support my backhoe purchase despite your unanimous agreement of its impracticality in pond maintenance.

Thanks... I am sure I will find many, many more uses
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[Volfandt]

Can't cost justify all things in life, sometimes the "want to's" has gotta over ride the "need to's" /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I needed to dig out my small semi dried out pond and also do some shore maintenance to it a few yrs ago so instead of paying someone to dig it out, I went and rented one of those small Terra-mite TLBs. Spent the entire week working that little thang cause it didn't have the reach nor capacity to do it quickly. But that was fine cause I enjoyed the seat time emmencely and it was after all, working!

I deposited the pond dirt on my garden and had an outstanding corn, watermellon & pumpkin crop that season.

It also planted a seed in the ole brain housing group thats also finally grown to fruitation.

I really don't need a BH and I really can't cost justify having one either but what the hey, I gots a little one now and I'm sure, down the road somewhere, sometime, that little digger will earn it's keep /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

In the mean time, it sure looks impressive hanging on the back of that little tractor /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Go for it!

Volfandt