Silt Happens!

[radair]

Best wishes on your recovery! I've been silently following your thread and am looking forward to seeing the ponds full of water.

Take care!

 

[mudcat]

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" I had a little "silt" problem of my own and just got back home from a short stay in the hospital with a heart attack and pneumonia. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif "<font color="blue"> </font>

/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Terrible news <font color="black"> </font>

<font color="blue"> </font>" Anyhow, the doctor has cleared me to do normal activity. "<font color="blue"> </font>

/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gifGREAT NEWS <font color="black"> </font>

<font color="blue"> </font>" I'll be back soon, finishing the job the dozer already almost completed. By this weekend I hope to post the completion of this project. ...that is...the completion of the dry work. Hopefully soon we'll get a nice 3" rain and I'll have a real finished pond. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif")</font> <font color="blue"> </font>

/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gifAWESOME NEWS <font color="black"> </font>

I really enjoy your posts JINMAN, wouldn't be TBN without ya! Take care.

 

[Cormac]

Jinman, glad you're back and healthy. Lets see some pics of the future Sunset ocean.

 

[JerryG]

Jim,
Sorry to hear about the heart trouble. I am glad to hear that they got you fixed up and back with us and your wife.

 

[Louisiana_John]

Sorry to here about your pump trouble. It is a good think it was caught soon. Stay well it will be time to buy fish in the spring.
John

 

[jinman]

Well, after the holiday delays and my little "heart anomaly," dust is flyin' again on my pond silt cleaning project. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The dozer spend 27 hours hauling out the silt and I've been back for about 10 hours on my tractor, smoothing out and finishing the project. I don't have all the pictures yet and with dialup, I don't know how many I'll get posted, but I'll start posting pictures to show just how the project is coming. I'll continue posting over the next couple of days and into the coming weekend when I hope to have most of this project finished. There's no rain forcasted for another week, so I should have plenty of time to get this done. I guess that's the good and bad news. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Here's a picture of the dozer cutting a ramp down into the silt. Because he was so heavy, he had to start well back out of the pond to keep from sinking when he filled his 3-1/2 yard bucket.

 

[jinman]

Here is what happens when the ground is soft under the track loader. With a full bucket, the nose takes a dive instead of the raising the bucket. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[jinman]

Finally! A solid ramp and a bucket full of "pudge" is being hauled away. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[jinman]

This silt is deep! At the deepest point, we estimated 10'.

 

[jinman]

Starting to make some real progress.