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Summer pic since it was -7F today

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Rick Kr

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Minus 7F on the thermostat this morning, figured a summer pic or two would warm things up.

My 3/4 acre pond. Used a Komatsu PC300, Case 450 dozer, and rented Moxy 26 yard 6x6 dump truck.

Pic 1 2006. Started digging in July, finished Sept 15. It started to fill with water and the kids wanted to swim. Deepest part is about 16 feet where the kids are standing, the shelf to the left is around 8 feet.
Pic 2 Aug 2011.
Pic 3 Summer 2007. Neighbor has a helicopter (instructor), I went for a ride and snapped a few pics.
In pic 3, the trench along the top of the picture is where we crushed the field tile with the off road dump truck we rented. You can see the path still dead where we hauled the fill to the front yard. Overflow pipe is on the lower right. Top of pond was a sump pump I was trying to build a fountain out of. Failed. Bought an aerator, much better.

Rick
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like the summer pic. how much of that water are you going to use for irrigation this coming summer . I hope none but what have you figured ?
 
I have a 3 inch pipe down to the bottom of the pond with a riser pipe and screens. I use a shallow well pump with pipe and a foot valve right now.

I only irrigate as needed because I am only a smaller timer, and I dont have the $$ to invest yet in a 3-4 inch PTO pump and all the aluminum pipe that goes with it.

In 2012 I lost close to 200 trees, and the pond was down 30 inches before I even started drawing water out.
 
I stocked it very late in 2006. Catfish, bass and hybrid bluegills.

Catfish were 12-14 inches last summer, bass around 10. Should be almost eating size this summer. I dont feed them, occasionally put in a bucket of minnows. The minnows seem to be reproducing fine on their own now.

Best thing I did was put an aerator in the bottom in Dec 2007. It has ran non-stop since then. In the winter I move the pump to a different pond to keep the water open for the ducks and geese, fenced in.

I trenched all the lines back to my barn and can move the pump around inside the barn and keep it out of the weather.

Rick
 
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