![]() The problem with the dual machine usage is that you get charged for delivery and that can really add up. You can rent an excavator for about $600 a day or $2000 a week in the 30,000 pound range (don't consider anything smaller, it will actually cost you more money), and a bulldozer (John Deere 450 size) for around $450 per day or $1500 per week. I built a pond about the size you are looking at last year in a couple of days. Ponds dug with an excavator look great when they are full, but as the water leaves, steep sides, pockets and pock marks give the pond an ugly look. You can tell a pond dug only with an excavator then. This is huge if the pond loses water in the middle of the summer. It is impossible to flip a bulldozer over so you can do some nice work and make things look great on some steep slopes that no other tractor would work on, much less make look nice. As I stated before the tracks ensure stability and the smooth cutting edge of the blade gives the pond slope a nice look. Then you can come in with a bulldozer.a small one is fine.and shape the banks. With its 28 foot reach, you can easily build a 60 foot diameter pond without moving material twice. The perfect situation for pond building is an excavator in the 30,000 pound class or higher, with a 3/4 to 1 cubic yard bucket so that you can quickly scoop the inside of the pond out and cast it to the outside. It allows them to cross paved roads, but lacks the ability to let rocks get between the grousers and really lock the pond sides in for stability. On an excavator they are 1/2 an inch long and there are 3 of them per track pad. On a dozer these are 3 inches long or so and spaced one per track pad. The bulldozers tracks also have larger grousers (bars on the tracks) that help lock in rock and compact the soil. An excavator bucket has teeth that break into the soil, perfect for digging, but for a pond lining you want a smooth shape and slope. You can use an excavator to hog out the majority of the material in the pond and bring it to the outside, but the pond lining is actually best done with a bulldozer. However, if you chose to proceed with the project, the machine to use is actually a bulldozer. I am not talking big agriculture here, but something as simple as putting compost on crops and fields nearby. Since it is opening up the aquifer to potential contamination, there are many laws that do not permit forms of farming to be done near a pond. There is actually some liability with them as well. And the hoof rats obviously but they are more after my crops than me.Īs Robert says, first determine if it is water retaining, and if you really want a pond. Mosquitos are my biggest enemy (apart from the odd bear or cougar sightings). We have several natural sloughs south of that and I hope we can increase bio diversity there too eventually. There are some ducks stopping by and i would like to help them too with an island in the middle or something so they can nest and be safer. This place is already buzzing with frogs which we were super happy to find out as you can imaging. Modeled after Sepp's ponds with good habitat. The more the better.ĭaniel that's great to hear. ![]() Plan ahead for stocking with fish? or introducing diverse aquatic plants. I have several ponds but zero mosquitoes because of the number of frogs that live there. Look at a lot of photos of natural pond, look at Sepp's ponds and create lots of space for insect predators to live. Although, if you are wanting a large size of pond yo umight be better off hiring someone who knows what they are doing they will be able to dig twice as quickly. You can rent an excavator for digging yourself which is loads of fun and you can limit the damage area to exactly what you want. Daniel Ray wrote:We have a similar wet area from a seep spring.
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