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how can i dredge my pond

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Dan from MI

07-20-2005 18:23:29




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I am looking for someone with a great imagination. I have ford 971 with a one arm bandit loader and a operating pto and 3 point on the tail. Given those items what could I rig up to my tractor to dredge the nasty leaves and such that are on the bottom of my pond. The pond is 10 ft deep and about 65 ft in diameter with a sand bottom. I can approach it from all sides. I have tried doing the first few feet with a rake and a strong back but it is a tough job to do that way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Randy-IA

07-22-2005 18:39:27




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29  
Hi , Great imaginations or practical thought ? Imagination would suggest learning how to SCUBA dive and renting a trash pump from the local consruction company rental store ( they carry heavy duty as opposed to regular rental stores ) , then building yourself a sluice from 1" screen from the local quarry , running the discharge hose to the top of the sluice and let it filter the leaves and logs and any thing you can pick up while swimming around with the suction end at the bottom . Suction hose though is nearly ridgid and in 4" size is fairly heavy in 10' length's .

Practical thought would suggest as others have to hire it out to a company that can do the work . Any fairly good sized excavator could reach 1/2 way across your pond without getting it's tracks wet . The down side is the tracks would tear up the banks of the pond and then there's the problem of disposing of all the gunky stuff that comes off the bottom of a pond . It stinks !!! Been there done that . I build bridges over all kinds of things in my line of work . Ponds definetly come in a close 2nd to swampy areas as the nastiest things to excavate . Others my disagree so I suppose it boils down to location like everything else . Good luck and I hope you come up with a do-able plan . Nothing yukier than walking across a sandy bottom and all of a sudden sinking barefoot into rotting leaves . ...Randy

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FrenzFarms

07-21-2005 12:01:24




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29  
If my high school math has not failed me, you're talking about 33,183 cubic feet of water or approximately 248,226 gallons, or approximately 2,071,511 lbs of water. Thats formidable competition for your little tractor. All kidding aside, if you had something that would serve as a rake or drag of sorts... but would not hold water... like an old box spring....and a long chain or piece of heavy cable... about 80 feet long.... you could start the drag on one side and then circumvent the pond... and then pull straight across and away from the pond... this would be the safest way to avoid the risk of dumping your tractor and yourself into the drink. You would just keep doing this in a criss-cross pattern until you stopped hauling nasty pond gunk out of the water.

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Delbert from Lincoln

07-21-2005 07:47:18




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29  
I can recomend a dredging co.



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BobMo

07-21-2005 06:06:55




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29  
If your pond is 10 ft deep as you say and only 65ft dia. I don't think you want to get near it with your tractor..... ....



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dan from mi

07-21-2005 07:44:19




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to BobMo, 07-21-2005 06:06:55  
Bob, How about water wings?? :)



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txgrn

07-21-2005 05:02:36




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29  
Having been in your shoes some 25 years ago my advice is to get (hire) an old fashioned drag line or "Gradall" type bucket machine.

The tractor is too small to get any quantity going and once you drag the first "goop" out you just made your bank SLICK and on your next trip to the waters edge, guess where your tractor is going..... in de H2O.

Mark



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old

07-20-2005 19:22:08




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29  
Best thing would be a good old drag line. Ya cost to much etc. but you might be able to rig something like it and pull it from one side of the pond to the other side and then flip it over to empty.



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edchainsaw

07-20-2005 20:12:52




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to old, 07-20-2005 19:22:08  
one neighbor tried ( didnt tell me if it worked)
an old sicle bar from a mower... cabled at both ends and drag it across---



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Roper6365

07-22-2005 04:22:15




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to edchainsaw, 07-20-2005 20:12:52  
A bale of barley straw and a few sterile grass carp. Cleaned my pond up nice in a few months.



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dan from mi

07-22-2005 20:00:14




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 Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Roper6365, 07-22-2005 04:22:15  
What does the barley do?



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