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To dig my recreational pond, I finally put an ad in the paper for "Free Dirt,,You Dig It, You Haul it". The response was pretty fair, then I got a call from the city recreational manager. He recently received a large endowment to build several parks and 9 softball fields. I was elated! 20,000+ cubic yards of soil are hard to get rid of down here! "Dirt cheap" is not just a metaphor down here. I had at least 4 people coming to dig Saturday. Well, Thursday and Friday the bottom fell out! Got 4 inches of rain within 24 hours! I lugged my heavy pump to the pond, and pumped about 8 hours yesterday. I left the 64,000 GPH gasoline engine pump running last night and went home. I bet most of the water is gone this morning when I go back. I should be able to finish it in an hour or 2. It will take 3-4 days to dry enough to get earth moving equipment into the pond. Weather looks good for at the next 6-7 days. No tropical storms, PLEASE! Last 5-6 years, there was virtually no rain during the Summer. Looks like digging a pond is as big a rain magnet as washing a fleet of cars. ~~~~~~~~~~ 2 feet and pumping! ~~~~~~~~~~ Bob |
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Bob,
Hopefully you aren't in the path of Isabel! You'd be pumping for a year! k30a and the watergardening labradors http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html |
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That was brilliant! So glad you posted it. DKat
"Bob Adkins" wrote in message ... To dig my recreational pond, I finally put an ad in the paper for "Free Dirt,,You Dig It, You Haul it". The response was pretty fair, then I got a call from the city recreational manager. He recently received a large endowment to build several parks and 9 softball fields. I was elated! 20,000+ cubic yards of soil are hard to get rid of down here! "Dirt cheap" is not just a metaphor down here. I had at least 4 people coming to dig Saturday. Well, Thursday and Friday the bottom fell out! Got 4 inches of rain within 24 hours! I lugged my heavy pump to the pond, and pumped about 8 hours yesterday. I left the 64,000 GPH gasoline engine pump running last night and went home. I bet most of the water is gone this morning when I go back. I should be able to finish it in an hour or 2. It will take 3-4 days to dry enough to get earth moving equipment into the pond. Weather looks good for at the next 6-7 days. No tropical storms, PLEASE! Last 5-6 years, there was virtually no rain during the Summer. Looks like digging a pond is as big a rain magnet as washing a fleet of cars. ~~~~~~~~~~ 2 feet and pumping! ~~~~~~~~~~ Bob |
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