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Anybody had a pond filled?
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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1157582" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>I have a couple of those 'mud streams' on my place, but they aren't red clay, they're a whitish or pale gray looking muck. Solid looking on top, always evidenced by palmetto growth, it's actually an unconsolidated aluvial clay and fine silt mix laid down over the eons by flood waters leaving a very thin layer when the the water recedes--it's all fines--very very fine. We just call that area Palmetto Flat. Our red clay and bluish clays are further down, are impermeable and that layer is what causes the upper area to remain treacherous all year except in extreme drought periods. </p><p>A neighbor allowed a sheep to get out once, it wandered onto my place sick and died 2 days later. I (always worried about anthrax with any sheep death didn't want it laying around, so I took the Case 480 over to what I thought was solid ground and dug a deep hole, went back, scooped up the dead stinking pasture maggot, and dumped it in the hole. Turned around set the stabilizers back down and proceeded to fill the hole. When I got ready to raise the stabilizers, found they had sunk down to the cylinder barrel, and as soon as I raised them, the rear wheels sunk too. Took two tractors and a long cable tied to a pine tree and other end on my front bucket to get me out a few feet at a time. Pushing with the backhoe bucket was useless--nothing down there solid enough to push against. I stayed with the undercariage dragging in the muck for about 50'--and I had just drove over the same area. Once you break thru, you're done. My property is very flat, so I don't think a french drain would help--no where of lower elevation to drain to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1157582, member: 18945"] I have a couple of those 'mud streams' on my place, but they aren't red clay, they're a whitish or pale gray looking muck. Solid looking on top, always evidenced by palmetto growth, it's actually an unconsolidated aluvial clay and fine silt mix laid down over the eons by flood waters leaving a very thin layer when the the water recedes--it's all fines--very very fine. We just call that area Palmetto Flat. Our red clay and bluish clays are further down, are impermeable and that layer is what causes the upper area to remain treacherous all year except in extreme drought periods. A neighbor allowed a sheep to get out once, it wandered onto my place sick and died 2 days later. I (always worried about anthrax with any sheep death didn't want it laying around, so I took the Case 480 over to what I thought was solid ground and dug a deep hole, went back, scooped up the dead stinking pasture maggot, and dumped it in the hole. Turned around set the stabilizers back down and proceeded to fill the hole. When I got ready to raise the stabilizers, found they had sunk down to the cylinder barrel, and as soon as I raised them, the rear wheels sunk too. Took two tractors and a long cable tied to a pine tree and other end on my front bucket to get me out a few feet at a time. Pushing with the backhoe bucket was useless--nothing down there solid enough to push against. I stayed with the undercariage dragging in the muck for about 50'--and I had just drove over the same area. Once you break thru, you're done. My property is very flat, so I don't think a french drain would help--no where of lower elevation to drain to. [/QUOTE]
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