Instant Pond

[bindian]

Have you ever figured out a water source? I too have been working on my embankment this past summer.....Yours is looking fine, but I have at least another years worth of work....Like you, I enjoy it....Tony

Tony, I just have rain and surface runoff feeding the pond.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Brett,
How much is that Excavator costing you, if you don't mind me asking?
hugs, Brandi

 

[EddieWalker]

You sure have the best luck and timing with filling your ponds!!!!!

Eddie

 

[dave1949]

You sure have the best luck and timing with filling your ponds!!!!!

Eddie

That's what I was thinking too. IIRC when Brandi originally dug the pond, it filled that night with a big rain.

Looks nice Brandi.

 

[farmgirl19]

Looks really good, bindian! I'm sure Booger's "supervision" was most welcome too!

 

[jinman]

Dear Brandi, please come dig out my pond so I can get some rain. Your friend, Jim.

How lucky can you get? I've been waiting on rains for over a year and can't get a good downpour. We've only had one 3-inch rain in a whole year.

 

[bindian]

Thanks Y'all. Last year when I built the pond, I was about 90 percent finished when an afternoon downpour dumped 2.5 inches in it. The ground was wetter then than last week. It took a lot of silt in the bottom then. As of yesterday, I still needed to put a bulkhead in to the right of my Mahindra in this photo. That half of the dam over to the overflow pipe still needed some cleanup grading and packing. The area where my tractor is sitting had not been packed, except where I kept running back and forth moving dirt. So that area of the dam had over 3 inches of unpacked dirt.

So I still need to finish fine grading in that area, round the dam crown to the left of the tractor where a little pile of dirt is.


I have some 6-8 inch cedar posts and treated 2x12s for the bulkhead for the tree near the dam. Just need time to install them. I also need to move drainage for runoff water from behind the dam to the other side of the tree just to the right of the Big RED Beast in the photo. Right now the water drains between the dam and tree.........but with widening the dam a little, it needs a bulkhead and a new slope to runoff over. This photo below shows the tree and where I want to put the bulkhead. I move drainage from the right of the tree in this photo to the left side of the tree. Which is a lot more dirt digging.
hugs, Brandi

 

[MotorSeven]

Excellent idea to grade with your BH bucket.....:thumbsup:

 

[bindian]

Dear Brandi, please come dig out my pond so I can get some rain. Your friend, Jim.

How lucky can you get? I've been waiting on rains for over a year and can't get a good downpour. We've only had one 3-inch rain in a whole year.

I'll give you a quote after I dig out FG's pond. But I think her's will need a dozer.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Excellent idea to grade with your BH bucket.....:thumbsup:

Thanks Rick. I've had the idea for years and have kept putting it off. I liked how you can reclamp the thumb on an extreme angle. So the mounting chain to the back of the bucket will have slack built into it so the blade will settle on the prevailing angle......and grade that angle..........I hope.
It's all apart now. Tomorrow morning it all goes to the welding shop. The beauty of the mount design is it should fit any 24 inch or narrower bucket, as long as you secure the chain. So it could also fit an excavator.
hugs, Brandi