Building Lake Corona
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No. It filled about half way then slowly lost water down to about 2 feet. Currently at about 4 feet deep with about 5 feet to go. The water loss seems to have stopped. Dam is good. No leakage on it. I think the problem area is the 2nd untouched ravine. Rocky or sand bottom and losing water when the water pushes into it. I'm hoping to get some clay packed into the bottom of it to shore it up this spring. We also lost a lot of runoff area, probably 60%, when our neighbor terraced his hay pasture and diverted the runoff around me for some reason. Dry here as well. No decent rain for several months.
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All new structures "leak" for awhile until everything gets compressed and sealed. Got a neighbor that finished a large structure mid Summer. It's maybe 1/4 full. That sucks about your neighbor's terrace system. You'd have thought he'd direct it toward you. I was down in the timber yesterday with my 2wd TLB clearing some scrub brush. It's very dry. Makes digging stumps easier, very little dirt clings to them. Hoping we don't try to catch up in the next couple months with snow..... Merry Christmas Jeremy.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well. Enjoying the 60 degree weather here today.
Have made some progress cleaning up the timber around the pond. For the first time since we purchased the property you can walk this area now.
Here's a before pic of what the timber looks like.
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Couple of pics after a few days dropping and piling trees. This one looking uphill away from the pond.
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This one looking toward the pond. You can see the pond now in the background.
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Here's a before pic of what the timber looks like.
2021-12-24_11-07-40 Couple of pics after a few days dropping and piling trees. This one looking uphill away from the pond.
2021-12-24_11-08-18This one looking toward the pond. You can see the pond now in the background.
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Kyle_in_Tex
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Jeremy, my friend has a 70hp takeuchi and I told him how you put on new tracks, and said it made a huge difference. He got a new set in, and he's welding up the worn out rollers, and turning them down to size. In the meantime, he bought the biggest tracksteer takeuchi makes and says it's a beast.
Kyle_in_Tex
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And Merry Christmas!
I bet it is. That TL12 is a big machine at almost 13k lbs. About the only one bigger is the new Case TV620B which tops 16,000 lbs. Glad that helped him with his tracks. And Merry Christmas everyone. We are flying out day after Christmas for vacation if we don't get caught up in all the flight cancellations.
EddieWalker
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I bet you doubled your watershed by cleaning up all that brush from around those trees!!!