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Now i am building 3 lakes, building all the roads and clearing a lot of brush. Easy work for the JD 9620 R and D6 though.

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When you say lakes, how many acres each?


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I hope you post pics when it’s completed


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Originally Posted by Stub
When you say lakes, how many acres each?



Originally was going to be 2 a 7 and a 20. Now it is a 5,7,20 acre.


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Pure greatness. Do you plan to return some of the big tree trunks for structure?


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This could be a cool thread to follow!


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Here is the start of the 7 acre lake. Long ways to go


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This road will tie the upper and lower pastures on the west fence line


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Got a little work done today. Got busy on other projects this week so just getting back to the dirt work.


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That is some greasy looking caliche. Did you run a water truck? Do you think you'll hit clay?

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gonna need some clay to hold water I believe - work looks great though

speaking from experience - the deeper the better


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I am bringing in bentonite and a whole lot of it.


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guessing you already know this but bentonite takes awhile to seal - best of luck to you


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I am going for a minimum 10’ depth and there is good clay but with what has been dug it doesn’t hold water very long so betonite looks to be are only option or a liner.


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I have a pond that leaks. I'm curious about cost, how much product you use, and how you apply the bentonite.

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Nice project. I will tell you, like some others, build it deeper than you think you need to. You will most likely get sediment influx that, over the years, will reduce the depth. And if you use a liner, or even bentonite, dredging it out with an excavator gets tricky.
I’m mulling building a 2 acre lake on my place. I have 5 stock tanks and they are all chocolate milk color. The soil up here is so clay-rich it’s what most all the tanks end up looking like. I will have to line mine to get clearer water, and haul all the excavated dirt off because the dam will feed clay back into the lake every time it rains.
How much fetch area do you have for the lake?


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Originally Posted by TX_LT230FH
Nice project. I will tell you, like some others, build it deeper than you think you need to. You will most likely get sediment influx that, over the years, will reduce the depth. And if you use a liner, or even bentonite, dredging it out with an excavator gets tricky.
I’m mulling building a 2 acre lake on my place. I have 5 stock tanks and they are all chocolate milk color. The soil up here is so clay-rich it’s what most all the tanks end up looking like. I will have to line mine to get clearer water, and haul all the excavated dirt off because the dam will feed clay back into the lake every time it rains.
How much fetch area do you have for the lake?


I have a place tha will do soil samples to see if the clay is useable so may just go tat way and save a ton of money. The big pond/tank/lake is approx 30 acres and the other 2 are 5&7 acres. I am building road at the same time. I will dig caliche our of the big lake and bring it down below for the road And pad site around the 7 acre lake. Then grab dirt out of the 7 acre lake and take it up top for the berm/dam on the 30 are lake. Wash and repeat


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This is one of 4 entrance/exits for the river bottom where the cabana’s and tent camp sites will be.


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Fun project, for about a week!!! then it will turn into work, and then a marathon of pain and suffering. At least that's how it went for me when I dug my 4 1/2 acre pond. One thing that I think is really helpful when digging is to remember that fish like an ugly pond. The worse thing you can do is make it all nice and smooth. You want drop offs, humps, ridges, holes and lots of places for your fingerlings to hide. After burning all my trees, I piles up the stumps and what didn't burn into several lines that the fish use, but are hidden under water. I also dug a huge pit at the bottom of the pond that goes down another 12 feet with my backhoe. A couple years after finishing it, we had a bad draught and I lost about 8 feet of water that summer. My depth ranged from 6 feet down to 16 feet, and then deeper in that pit. A couple years later I poured a concrete dam across my spillway that gave me another 2 feet of water. That has made a huge difference in how much water evaporates in the summer. At one point I had a yardstick in the water and I could measure how much it dropped per week. I think it was about 2 inches a week from evaporation.

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Fun project, for about a week!!! then it will turn into work, and then a marathon of pain and suffering. At least that's how it went for me when I dug my 4 1/2 acre pond. One thing that I think is really helpful when digging is to remember that fish like an ugly pond. The worse thing you can do is make it all nice and smooth. You want drop offs, humps, ridges, holes and lots of places for your fingerlings to hide. After burning all my trees, I piles up the stumps and what didn't burn into several lines that the fish use, but are hidden under water. I also dug a huge pit at the bottom of the pond that goes down another 12 feet with my backhoe. A couple years after finishing it, we had a bad draught and I lost about 8 feet of water that summer. My depth ranged from 6 feet down to 16 feet, and then deeper in that pit. A couple years later I poured a concrete dam across my spillway that gave me another 2 feet of water. That has made a huge difference in how much water evaporates in the summer. At one point I had a yardstick in the water and I could measure how much it dropped per week. I think it was about 2 inches a week from evaporation.


2” a week wow.This is a huge project, basically developing 155 acres with lakes, road system, RV slips, and clearing out river bottom for river front cabana’s and picnic tables.


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If you are going to do that much work it looks to me that you are going to need way more heavy equipment than what you are using now. Good luck, that is a big project that is going to keep you busy for a while.

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