But your pond is looking good!I’m going back to work tomorrow, I need the rest.
Thank you sir. It has consumed me from dawn until dusk trying to get it done.But your pond is looking good!
Back in 2010 we had a really bad drought in Texas, and lots of people took advantage of it to do the same as you. Clean up and enlarge their stock ponds and such.Thank you sir. It has consumed me from dawn until dusk trying to get it done.
The drought has sucked, but you have to take advantage of the cards you are dealt. This pond will never go dry in my lifetime.
Awesome!And just like that, it’s full. It rose 10 foot in less than 5 hours.
Last night.
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In no way am I an expert but did you at least get to compacting the ground? If you did, it should be ok.A slower fill would have been better, I’ve got a lot of erosion. As long as my overflow pipe holds today, I’ll call it a win.
Looking good so far.A slower fill would have been better, I’ve got a lot of erosion. As long as my overflow pipe holds today, I’ll call it a win.
The only compacting was driving the tractor over it. I hadn’t even filled the trench all the way back in after setting the pipe.In no way am I an expert but did you at least get to compacting the ground? If you did, it should be ok.
Something similar to this!Back in 2010 we had a really bad drought in Texas, and lots of people took advantage of it to do the same as you. Clean up and enlarge their stock ponds and such.
One Saturday I had to take a trip to Sulphur Springs to pick up some parts for a truck I was working on, and outside of Emory on hiway 19, a guy was redoing his stock pond, and he mounted an old Ford 9N tractor on poles in the middle of the pond. I'm supposing that when the pond filled back up, it would look like the tractor was floating or driving across the pond.
I saw one like that up around Gilmer.
It already has turtles, lots of frogs, and some snakes.
But no fish.
Want crawfish? lol.It already has turtles, lots of frogs, and some snakes.
But no fish.
It already has turtles, lots of frogs, and some snakes.
But no fish.
I actually have two wells. A shallow one and a deep one.Amazon has all kinds of cheap fountains to oxygenate the water for the pond too.