But Wait!!! There's More!!! Once you get it done, you can snatch up a Traxxas 4WD Slash and do this: Yes-it's real... there seems to be a pause when you see "365 feet" but then there's another angle of the same run.
It looks like there is a natural depression which in my area = karst topography and never will hold water unless you line it! I'd say it's doable but you NEED a professionals advise. With that said if I wanted to do it I'd just do it and if it did not work I had no one to blame but myself! There is nothing more fun than running an excavator unless you have to run one for a living. I'd dig it just for the fun of digging it!!!
I do know that trout can be kind of tough to keep. They thrive best in cold water and need a constant flow of clean water. I know this because years back a friend of mine built a pond and stocked it with lots of trout. Within about a week or two they were all dead! So he decided to ask a specialist after the fact and that's what he told him about the trout. And that his pond needed to be deeper colder and cleaner. And asfor the other fish I think that they would do just fine.
I would think about running an electrical post/service near by. Air bubblers may be required to keep fish alive. Might as well add a fountain too
Biiiggg fountain!! At least a 50' spray height with lights! Make it look like a vegas show suppose it would aerate good too
The first thing you should do is rent, or preferably hire a backhoe, with an experienced operator who knows his dirt, and dig some test holes. I don't know your geology out there, but if you have a lot of sand and gravel your pond will never hold water. Dig as deep as you can and see if you can find any glacial clay. Maybe it's all clay and you won't have a problem.
So, J. Dirt if ya can get by the low rent way, these clamshells dig pretty deep- Or perhaps this young lady will drill you?
Well I've got some of them clamshells but I'd like to go with option two seems to be more along the lines of the experienced operator I'm looking for since she is wearing gloves
Trying to post a few pictures of a pond we built a couple years ago, not real good quality. First one is the core trench built up with good clay. Filling the back slope with mixed dirt. Finished front slope, ready to fill up.
Not that much really. Don't remember exact numbers, but I'm sure there was less than 10,000 yds in the structure. I had help one day to put the overflow pipe in, but other than that I was there alone for seven working days total, including opening and closing the borrow pit. It was a good setup, was able to haul both ways, cut in the borrow pit and had a good cut below water level in the pond itself.
That is a D6T, brand new, the day he was delivered on site. Trimble fully auto GPS controlled, that thing is the cat's pajama's. I've spent 30 years crawling in and out of machines checking grade my own grade, that machine is heaven sent! Quite a step up from the little D6M he replaced.
Thing of beauty right there! I was amazed the first time I got one with single hand hydro drive control .vs. having clutches and pedals and gear shifts haha
