Pond Build

[EddieWalker]

Working on that now!!! I'll call these the Eddie ditches lol

I am digging whatever 6 hours with a Kubota U35 gets me.... then I have 2 hours of work for a friend and the rental goes back.

Maybe I can convince my wife I need to rent a skid steer with a cab to move all this loose dirt

That's a really nice looking trench!!!! Add some stumps to it, maybe a few logs, and whatever else you can think of to make it look as nasty as possible. The fish will concentrate in that area!!!!! You will also have more fish because it will allow them to hide and escape the predators.

 

[Doorman63]

That's a really nice looking trench!!!! Add some stumps to it, maybe a few logs, and whatever else you can think of to make it look as nasty as possible. The fish will concentrate in that area!!!!! You will also have more fish because it will allow them to hide and escape the predators.

And lose more lures………

 

[ultrarunner]

You could build an Island with a lot of dirt…

 

[workinonit]

That's a pretty decent track hoe you have rented. Around here you can't rent a decent hoe. They are all a piece of crap. It was a sad day when I loaded my old Komatsu PC220 on the lowboy. I just couldn't keep it and get a new tractor and I needed the tractor worse.

 

[fishdrivel]

None required, I talked to local resources and none required for this size of a pond. It has to get pretty large before an engineer type permit is required
I'm nowhere near that size.

I believe I saved the documents I can find them again if you are interested let me know.

Some states are quite restrictive. In North Carolina, there is a fee for everything. I think you have to have review if it is over 1 acre? Then they will tell you how you must construct the dam.

 

[ddgood]

Our family property has a 12 acre lake that was built in the early 1950s. There are still logpiles in it that were big stacks of red cedar. Makes excellent structure if you can get some 12-16” butt diameter logs.

You can also use tires. Drill 3 holes with a hole saw on the tread at 10, 12 and 2 o’Clock position and fill with 15lbs of concrete at 6. Big pile of them work great.

How big of a watershed will flow into the pond? What does your spillway look like? Are you using a siphon style setup?

 

[walker450]

Some states are quite restrictive. In North Carolina, there is a fee for everything. I think you have to have review if it is over 1 acre? Then they will tell you how you must construct the dam.

I believe it depended on the amount of acres that ran into the pond exceeding a certain amount or the height of the dam exceeding a certain height. I was well below both requirements.

 

[walker450]

Our family property has a 12 acre lake that was built in the early 1950s. There are still logpiles in it that were big stacks of red cedar. Makes excellent structure if you can get some 12-16” butt diameter logs.

You can also use tires. Drill 3 holes with a hole saw on the tread at 10, 12 and 2 o’Clock position and fill with 15lbs of concrete at 6. Big pile of them work great.

How big of a watershed will flow into the pond? What does your spillway look like? Are you using a siphon style setup?

Approximately 12 acres drains to the pond. This is a guesstimate only I haven't performed any measurements. Grade can be very deceiving and part of this is on my neighbors so I didn't walk around his field with a laser checking grade lol

The spillway is a 40' long flat area at the end of the dam, about 4' below the top of the dam. It then transitions to the native grade going back uphill. We built a small terrace to keep the water away from the dam and divert it well past it to native ground.

I do not know what a siphon style setup is, please elaborate.

 

[walker450]

The pond still has 27" to go before spilling over. I am working on cuttong and trimming trees to improve the view of the pond. Also number 1 priority is getting some grass to take hold!!

I'll post a video later if I get time.

Picture I took yesterday:

 

[deezler]

Excellent! I want one of those. Were you ever able to, or interested in estimating how many gallons of diesel went into building it?