Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

[Paul Pless]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

I'll end up with something that is functionally similar Garret. Probably a bodge up. Something like that would be the ideal but I do just happen to have an old mussell farm buoy..............

or, you could put some pallets (mats) down to distribute the weight of your tractor and get out in there into the muck. . .

[JayInOz]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Or dig a drainage ditch and let it dry out a bit first.

[Ron Williamson]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Maybe take a lesson from Oak Island.
Go down t'pub,and after you buy a round ...or three, casually let on that you got a nasty cold and stuffy nose from digging in a muddy pit.
If you mumble carefully enough,it could sound like Money Pit and you would have no end of volunteers to help.
R

[L.W. Baxter]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

if you had an auger you could dig a hole and just let the water out the bottom

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[George Jung]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Just spit-ballin' here... but *couldn't you* add water, agitate to a 'slurry', and pump out to a disposal site? All that lifting..... pffffft!

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Best exercise you can get JB. I don’t have the photos to do it justice but I shifted at least 12 to15 cubic metres of soil and 2 of drainage gravel in rebuilding that bit of retaining wall over the last couple of weeks (though not saturated with the weight of water like yours)...... 'fit but slightly knackered

Thats a lot by hand Greg.
I'm not fit, but this is a pretty good strength workout fer sure .

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

If you want strong bones, dig holes!

I can see why. The navvys must have been a tough breed eh.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

or, you could put some pallets (mats) down to distribute the weight of your tractor and get out in there into the muck. . .

My first comment to my wife about this problem was along the lines of getting the tractor in there but I ain't gonna. Thats a good idea about the pallets to walk on though, I had thought I'd sling the stone boat in to get closer to the middle, its getting deep.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Or dig a drainage ditch and let it dry out a bit first.

I had dreamed I admit. The problem is its all quite nice around there and that really would turn it into a very messy project rather than a side job.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Maybe take a lesson from Oak Island.
Go down t'pub,and after you buy a round ...or three, casually let on that you got a nasty cold and stuffy nose from digging in a muddy pit.
If you mumble carefully enough,it could sound like Money Pit and you would have no end of volunteers to help.
R

Now there is a cunning plan.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

My pic was for illustration only. Of course you'll come up with something inventive!

Still at the hard graft stage, Garret. I need the heavy work anyway.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

if you had an auger you could dig a hole and just let the water out the bottom

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want auger. won't work on rock ( the rest of the place )but still want.

[John B]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Just spit-ballin' here... but *couldn't you* add water, agitate to a 'slurry', and pump out to a disposal site? All that lifting..... pffffft!

Plan A didn't work out quite as I'd hoped and you suggest, George. I'm not saying its over, but if you look at #853 you'll see a pump.
I discussed the issue with a couple or few pump/hire guys and had 2 differing opinions.
A Trash pump.
B. Flex pump.
The flex pump was available first so I took that. It shifted a lot of water fast but continually clogged due to the nature of the mud/ silt even when I liquified it by stomping/ raking etc.
It is an old ornamental pond and the sludge is full of weed / root and rotting sticks etc from the vegetation around it. So the flex pump was not a fail but not so great.
It was a trial and it did let me see whats actually there , and evaluate some options.
In the meantime ( Doc) I'm happy to use it for the exercise( recovery of strength after an illness)

Whats going to happen next is I'll keep shifting mud an hour or two a day until the pond gets too full, let it settle and self liquify, try the bucket drag idea when it has water back in it.

[hawkeye54]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Lemme freshen up my cuppa coffee and tell you a tale of moving stuff that's as true as can be (I swear ) - It were 36 years ago , as I'm a pup of 76 winters, but I recall it like yesterday ! I was coming up on 40 years old, and had some days off scheduled. So, as I needed to landscape where there was little sun, I called a place, and had 8 tons of 'rainbow rock' (multi colored rounded stone slightly larger than pebbles )dropped in my driveway. I had just started to move it, a wheelbarrow at a time, when my wife came home from her job, and said " you have to move all this away now ! " She then tells me she set up a surprise 40th birthday party , and 30 to 40 people will be showing up that evening - so I had to wheelbarrow all of it off the driveway, shower, dress up , and suffer all the slaps on the back at making years, when all I really wanted to do was fall face first into bed. (Moral of the tale : always double check with wife first ! ! )



Rick

[JayInOz]

Re: Eat yer heart out, tractor man.....

Dig a new pond- using fancy tractor- and dump the dirt in the old pond