Fuddyduddy1952
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On my place I have a really good spring. It's about 60 feet uphill from my creek. If I follow upstream along creek I put in a large culvert pipe and there's a road going through woods across it to another pasture. Also next to spring is a road I put in, RR ballast & gravet that crosses creek. Creek is on bedrock and that short road is very steep but ok (you can walk up it).
A few years ago I had a friend/neighbor put in a very small pond (about 30'x60') that WAS about 10ft deep. 6" PVC overflow pipe down 11ft, Y elbow, out 20ft.
I pump out of it to a tank when we had a drought, water trees, etc.
The problem is it's filling with dirt, the overflow pipe is leaking around it and since he trenched down to pipe it's washing out. At pond height my road branches off and it's washing out.
I had another excavator fix the homeplace driveway, then I had him look at this as I want to make pond bigger. He said it was never done right, he would dig down to bedrock and larger overflow done properly.
Then our area had a flood, washed out homeplace driveway, I paid all over again (not his fault)...but free tractor time. So now I've called a few times, never returns my calls, I think he's pixxed at me.
(Sorry so complicated).
So I'm faced with a few choices:
1) Probably get the guy eventually talk to me and small but better/larger pond will be $15K-$25K.
2) Friend/neighbor do it by my instructions (I know him...he'll do it but prefers "his way"
Probably $10K (? may be ok?)
3) I can buy a mini-Ex, do it myself, this one has a Kubota diesel motor...great reviews, $20K but will it do it?
4) I can buy a new Kubota at cost (another friend)...wife says who cares the price...it's always worth $$$.
My point is I can use the Ex for lots of other things. I have a tractor with FEL & 9.5' backhoe...but not like an Ex.
Thanks any thoughts.
A few years ago I had a friend/neighbor put in a very small pond (about 30'x60') that WAS about 10ft deep. 6" PVC overflow pipe down 11ft, Y elbow, out 20ft.
I pump out of it to a tank when we had a drought, water trees, etc.
The problem is it's filling with dirt, the overflow pipe is leaking around it and since he trenched down to pipe it's washing out. At pond height my road branches off and it's washing out.
I had another excavator fix the homeplace driveway, then I had him look at this as I want to make pond bigger. He said it was never done right, he would dig down to bedrock and larger overflow done properly.
Then our area had a flood, washed out homeplace driveway, I paid all over again (not his fault)...but free tractor time. So now I've called a few times, never returns my calls, I think he's pixxed at me.
(Sorry so complicated).
So I'm faced with a few choices:
1) Probably get the guy eventually talk to me and small but better/larger pond will be $15K-$25K.
2) Friend/neighbor do it by my instructions (I know him...he'll do it but prefers "his way"
Probably $10K (? may be ok?)
3) I can buy a mini-Ex, do it myself, this one has a Kubota diesel motor...great reviews, $20K but will it do it?
4) I can buy a new Kubota at cost (another friend)...wife says who cares the price...it's always worth $$$.
My point is I can use the Ex for lots of other things. I have a tractor with FEL & 9.5' backhoe...but not like an Ex.
Thanks any thoughts.
