Earth Ponds by Tim Matson

Author:Tim Matson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Countryman Press
Published: 2012-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Contractors

Booking an earth-moving machine is like booking a fishing trip: it’s the captain’s ship but your charter. Choose an experienced contractor you trust, with equipment that suits your plans and budget. Don’t let the intimidating roar of the bulldozer drown out your questions or suggestions.

If you are planning to build a small dugout, a backhoe makes a thrifty precision digger. This hydraulic scoop is about the cheapest power shovel available. Because of its short reach, the backhoe is most efficient at carving ponds ten to twenty feet in diameter or long, narrow lagoons or raceways.

A circular dugout of larger storage capacity requires larger equipment. In a site that is not swamped, the best all-around machine is a bulldozer. Unlike other heavy equipment, a bulldozer is capable of making a pond from start to finish: clearing topsoil, cuffing out rocks and roots, carving the basin, installing pipe, and spreading earth over the shore. Bulldozers can excavate up to 1,200 cubic yards of earth in a day.

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