I had access to a John Deere 450G dozer and tried to dig it with that, but the clay was too hard for it to cut it. My pond is five feet deep when full with two areas that I dug out deeper with the backhoe to create holes in the bottome that are another 4 to 5 feet deeper. Just going back and forth, over and over again, hauling one yard at a time. It wasn't fun, but it wasn't hard either. Once I was on solid ground, I just scooped up the mud and silt in the front bucket and hauled it to the cliff area. This was really a terrible experience and might be a deal breaker. For about a week, I just worked on digging down through the silt until I found a solid bottom.

I got stuck right away and had to pull myself back out with the hoestick. I wanted to build a ramp that I could drive up and down from the cliffs, and clean up the the look of the place by creating a nice slope from the cliffs.Īfter draining it, I waited about a month before driving into it. The guys who were taking the dirt from the land before me had left some very ugly cliffs. Then I dug a ramp to get in and out close to were I wanted to put the dirt. I rented a pump and drained it the best I could. I could walk across most of it, but there were plenty of areas that I would also sink into. It was originally a low spot from a dirt quary and was about 2 feet deep in places, but mostly, just a mud puddle.

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