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Post by Greenedog on Oct 12, 2011 19:13:19 GMT -5
The pond's pretty low with the drought we've had this summer, so Dad and me decided to dig out a low spot. This spot is usually filled with water in the spring and then dries up later in the year. We're hoping to keep water there all the time. The bad part was that it was too soft for the tractor to get down in the hole, so that hump of dirt in the middle had to be dug out by hand.
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Post by B-rad on Oct 12, 2011 19:17:04 GMT -5
hopefully you can hold some water/fish in there
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Post by strippitman on Oct 13, 2011 7:27:26 GMT -5
Nice addition to the ol' pond.
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Post by jsanders on Oct 13, 2011 16:33:47 GMT -5
Looks like a good bedding area for the spawn.
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Post by Greenedog on Oct 13, 2011 18:54:44 GMT -5
We've had over an inch of rain in the past 24 hours and she's starting to fill up.
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Post by Greenedog on Feb 2, 2012 19:27:56 GMT -5
Was casting my away around the pond this evening and on my first cast into the new "expansion area" I caught a bass. I did notice one thing that we should have thought of.....we didn't get grass planted before winter and now the dirt is starting to run back into the pond from all the rains.
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Post by Greenedog on Jul 13, 2012 17:04:56 GMT -5
The expansion area was totally dried up so dad's been doing a bunch of digging again with his tractor. If it ever rains again, this will probably be the deepest part of the pond!
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Post by jsanders on Jul 13, 2012 17:32:01 GMT -5
I noticed something in the left of the picture buried in the mud, hope its not a pipeline. Those go BOOM!!!!
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Post by Greenedog on Jul 13, 2012 19:09:49 GMT -5
I noticed something in the left of the picture buried in the mud, hope its not a pipeline. Those go BOOM!!!! It's a pipeline, but not the kind that go boom. This is part of the reason this pond was built. The Peabody Coal tipple was a 1/2 mile behind my grandpa's house. Peabody wanted to run a water pipeline across Pa's property....so in exchange for letting them do it...they had to build him a pond. The sad part was that the water was being pumped out of pits to the tipple where it was used to clean coal and then the sludge, or slurry, was pumped back into the pits. There's still huge sludge pits around our property here that were once beautiful clear strip pits full of fish. There's one a 100 yards out my back door that Pa had a dock on and my dad and aunt swam and fished in when they were kids. It's now an ugly sludge pit that is on the list to be reclaimed someday. Here's a couple pics of the tipple from 1971....probably about the same year the pond was built. Now there's nothing left back there to even tell it was a coal mine....other than the slurry pits..and some of those are old enough to have some vegetation and trees growing on them.
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Post by jsanders on Jul 13, 2012 21:58:33 GMT -5
That is an interesting little story. Even better, you have pictures of it. Now we should all do a rain dance so you have water, your pond looks a couple feet low.
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Post by z7bowhunter on Jul 14, 2012 13:57:06 GMT -5
I have been diggin around in the pond too.. it is a really shallow pond and it is taken over by some kind of little lily pads, but most of the pond is dried up now(which hopefully killed most of the lilypads). So i decided to dig out a deeper part around the edge. Ive just been using the old shovel and standing on a board to keep from sinking deep in the muck.I am gonna try to get the tractor down there and use a grater blade type thing to scrape off the muck in other parts of the pond and get down to the clay bottom. I need to knock down all the cattails growin around the pond too.I really need to look into some herbicide for the pond.. The lily pads in there are THICK, and they arent normal lily pads. The ducks show up to the pond in the fall and they bring all kinds of hydrilla etc. to the pond.
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Post by Greenedog on Aug 1, 2012 20:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by jsanders on Aug 1, 2012 21:00:21 GMT -5
Wow, that's a lot more pond. Gona need help stocking?
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Post by strippitman on Aug 2, 2012 14:48:42 GMT -5
Lookin' good!
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Post by jonboy on Sept 16, 2012 17:38:45 GMT -5
This past winter we had our old hog finishing building torn down and since we had an excavator on sight thought we would do a little work on the pond. Willow trees and cat tails had practically taken the pond over making it hard to fish. The pond was pretty shallow as well so we decided to take out most of the trees. Unfortunatly it left the pond in pretty rough shape. Since the water was so low this summer and we had some other work needing done, this past week with the track hoe and a dozer on sight we decided to do a little expansion. We think this will probably double the amount of water in the pond. We also had the track hoe set a couple post from the old building to build a dock.
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