Building Lake Corona

[EddieWalker]

How are you going to compact the soil? The very worse machine for that will be something with tracks. For my place, I use my backhoe with a full load of dirt in the front bucket and go over each layer with the tires. My dozer weighs 40,000 pounds and after spreading dirt with it, the tires of my tractor will sink an inch or two when compacting it.

 

[jk96]

How are you going to compact the soil? The very worse machine for that will be something with tracks. For my place, I use my backhoe with a full load of dirt in the front bucket and go over each layer with the tires. My dozer weighs 40,000 pounds and after spreading dirt with it, the tires of my tractor will sink an inch or two when compacting it.

Trying to locate a vibratory padfoot roller to rent for the CTL. Hard to find. I've found one at a rental yard about an hour away. Waiting for the manager to call back and let me know if he will rent it to me. Was told I am outside of their service area.

 

[jk96]

They will rent the padfoot roller to me, just won't deliver to my location so that is the plan.

 

[ponytug]

They will rent the padfoot roller to me, just won't deliver to my location so that is the plan.

Good luck! I will be curious to hear how this works out for you. I'm on the fence about buying one to use on a few projects here.

Do you have a compaction plan in terms of how you will decide that a lift has been compacted enough? (And what is your plane for the lift height?)

All the best,

Peter

 

[jk96]

Good luck! I will be curious to hear how this works out for you. I'm on the fence about buying one to use on a few projects here.

Do you have a compaction plan in terms of how you will decide that a lift has been compacted enough? (And what is your plane for the lift height?)

All the best,

Peter

The one I am renting is an 84" Bradco. My plan is the bull in a China shop approach. Pushed dirt for about an hour today. Just eyeballing it. Trying to keep the first lift at about 6 to 8" before compacting. This is kind of a hail Mary approach to see if I can make it work. I really only have the one hillside to pull dirt from, no way to get trucks in with clay, so hopefully there is enough clay content in the dirt and the combo of cover, compaction, and adding bentonite will be enough.

 

[bindian]

Sounds workable to me.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Hope it works out, thanks for sharing with us.

 

[jk96]

I've only been working an hour or two here and there do to being busy at work. Jumped on the loader again this morning for an hour and made a cut into and down the hillside I'm hoping to pull clay from. I wanted to see what the dirt before removing trees around the top of the hill and all of the topsoil. No use doing that if there wasn't usable dirt. So far what I'm seeing looks good.

Getting into some of what my un-trained eye says looks good about 4 feet under the topsoil. Pretty smooth on the cuts with the bucket and not seeing a lot of sand mixed in. Regardless of good or bad this is the dirt I have to work with.

 

[dodge man]

It looks good to me. Keep in mind there is a moisture content of the soil that gives the best compaction. My guess would be that’s to wet but hard to say.

 

[jk96]

It looks good to me. Keep in mind there is a moisture content of the soil that gives the best compaction. My guess would be that’s to wet but hard to say.

Not seeing any signs of excess moisture at the moment anyway. Grading out well and packing tight under the weight of the tracks without gumming them up. Everything is rolling off the bucket fairly well. Undercarriage is staying clean while working.