1/27/2024 0 Comments Homemade dredge for pondWe stock them with bluegills and perch and have enjoyed a lot of fish dinners over the years. “The ponds are 1/4 and 1/2 acre in size and were made back in the 1960s. It’s an inexpensive way to make a pond deeper without having to hire someone to do the job for you,” says Kalnbach, who used his tire drag for the first time last summer. “I got the tire from my neighbor’s 4-WD backhoe. He pulls the tire drag behind his Kubota B 6100 14 hp. Koi or other fish.Michigan farmer Doug Kalnbach recently built a “tractor tire drag” to dredge out a couple of small ponds on his property that were partially filled with sediment. The seasonal creek would com into the plant half and exit the swimming half. What I envision, plan is a center depth about 24", EPDM liner, pond divided in half by sand bags within an inch or two of the surface, with 1/4" clear gravel in the half with plants, under the gravel some pvc piping to pull water through the roots and gravel with a small pump. ![]() I started digging a square-ish dish shaped pond 35'x35' in the line of the creek about 50yards from the big pond. As soon as I can get gutters on that water will go into the pond too. We built a new house and dump our open loop geo thermal into the pond. In the spring and wet times it overflows to create a small creek. We are on 10 acres in MN we have a man made pond with a mostly clay bottom, cattails and arrowhead plants, built by the previous owner for the wetland bank. ![]() I need help in designing a swimming pond, this is what I have, think so far.
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