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dirtworksequip
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- 2006 JD 3520 w/cab & 300CX loader. 1995 JD 870 w/440 loader & 8b backhoe.JD 455 w/54" mower deck.
Eddie, I tried taking some action shots the other day of my son digging a ditch for some culvert pipe with the Cat 308ccr. They look the same as a machine just sitting there. I guess you could boom up real high and dump the bucket. You might see some dirt falling.
The way I tied the new dam into the old dam was to strip off the top soil from the original dam where the new met the old. Then just started making a fill that abutted the old dam. Cut into the old dam about 2 feet to tie the new fill together with the old dam.
Sorry these are the only shots I have of where the new and old come together.
Eddie, in this shot you can just see a little grass, that is the top of the original dam with the new part tied in.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/dirtworksequip/P5090008.jpg
pic: Roughed in back slope on new part of dam. The topsoil you see is from stripping the original dam where they tied together.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/dirtworksequip/P5310076.jpg
Eddie, hope this helps you visualize what has to come out yet. Blue line is projected water line. Red line is cut. After the new dam gets to grade I can drain the original one and remove the dirt that is now holding back the water between new and old.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/...S POND ROAD BUILDING AND OTHER/P5310074-1.jpg
Heres one more. Shot from the opposite side. Red cut -Blue approx. water line.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/...S POND ROAD BUILDING AND OTHER/P5310067-2.jpg
The old pond was sort of oval shape. The new one will be like two over lapping ovals or a fat figure 8. We are also raising the original dam two feet.
The way I tied the new dam into the old dam was to strip off the top soil from the original dam where the new met the old. Then just started making a fill that abutted the old dam. Cut into the old dam about 2 feet to tie the new fill together with the old dam.
Sorry these are the only shots I have of where the new and old come together.
Eddie, in this shot you can just see a little grass, that is the top of the original dam with the new part tied in.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/dirtworksequip/P5090008.jpg
pic: Roughed in back slope on new part of dam. The topsoil you see is from stripping the original dam where they tied together.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q259/dirtworksequip/P5310076.jpg
Eddie, hope this helps you visualize what has to come out yet. Blue line is projected water line. Red line is cut. After the new dam gets to grade I can drain the original one and remove the dirt that is now holding back the water between new and old.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/...S POND ROAD BUILDING AND OTHER/P5310074-1.jpg
Heres one more. Shot from the opposite side. Red cut -Blue approx. water line.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/...S POND ROAD BUILDING AND OTHER/P5310067-2.jpg
The old pond was sort of oval shape. The new one will be like two over lapping ovals or a fat figure 8. We are also raising the original dam two feet.
