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I have a 3-5 acre pond that is silted in.
It gets low in the summer but never completely dry.
Is there a way to clean it out ?
 
An excavator will do the trick. Or you good cut a ditch through the dam and then you could use a dozer, rubber tired backhoe, dirt pan, or whatever you have access too. No problem to recore the dam when finished, and I'd probably install a drain pipe while I was going.
 
JMJ Farms":2l0jz46e said:
An excavator will do the trick. Or you good cut a ditch through the dam and then you could use a dozer, rubber tired backhoe, dirt pan, or whatever you have access too. No problem to recore the dam when finished, and I'd probably install a drain pipe while I was going.
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There really isn't a dam to speak of, it just a low spot so really no place for it to drain.
I don't see how a excavator could reach far enough

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Cross-7":26jc3fbz said:
JMJ Farms":26jc3fbz said:
What time of year can you "get by without it" for a month or so?
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Anytime, there are two more for livestock water
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If you've got access to an irrigation pumping unit you could pump it dry pretty quick, especially n summer, and then get in there and excavate the dirt.
 
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That will cost some serious coin. Cleaning tanks can get real pricey depending on the bottom. I've seen them take a trackhoe and cut a ditch or dig a pit. That draws the water to it and out of the other area. Then they go to work making the rest of the area the same debth as the ditch or pit. At the end they bust the wall that was created around the ditch or pit.

You'll be looking at a trackhoe and possibly a dozer or two. They start sticking them in that tank and it can become a real nightmare.
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Brute 23":3ail176q said:
That will cost some serious coin. Cleaning tanks can get real pricey depending on the bottom. I've seen them take a trackhoe and cut a ditch or dig a pit. That draws the water to it and out of the other area. Then they go to work making the rest of the area the same debth as the ditch or pit. At the end they bust the wall that was created around the ditch or pit.

You'll be looking at a trackhoe and possibly a dozer or two. They start sticking them in that tank and it can become a real nightmare.
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When I'm in Oklahoma and say tank they don't understand what I'm talking about, they think I'm talking and a metal water trough :D
 
I don't know of a cheap way. Unless you wait for a drought and use a tractor and dirt pan. Everything just costs so much these days. You can rent equipment by the month here pretty reasonably. Some only rent by the hour. But you've got to run it hard while you have it.
 
It'll have to be somewhat affordable or I won't do it.
I just wanted it deep enough for bass, so it's not worth spending a bunch on it
 
Personally, If you have a decent size tractor, I'd pump that thing dry and buy one of those good scrapers. That's the fastest way to move dirt and you can make it look pretty at the same time. When you get done with it you can probably sell it for close to what you payed for it.
 
On option I have used is to buy the equipment (if you have enough work to justify it) and use it on the farm, then resell it when finished with your projects or let the project pay for the machine (if you can buy it for around the same $ that you were gonna pay someone else to do it) Just a thought.
 
If you just want it for fish an extended boom excavator will do a lot of it, but will leave a shallower area in the center. Heck of a lot cheaper than getting the whole thing cleaned out though. Around here they put them on barges for cleaning out harbour entrances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anq7I_tjGhQ

And Ive never seen these but they came up in the related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6A4wSrOTMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNEY_d9SNw0

the pump one makes more sense, since you'd need a barge or something with the other to set the material on.
 
I would hire someone with a dragline but like someone said if the main goal is a fishing hole just dig the edges with a excavator one that's not even a extended boom can do a lot of good. I have a pond that has been cleaned like that.
 

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