Daughters pond

[nytrapper23]

well the guy came on Monday to start my daughters pond. He brought a dozer,excavator and a mini excavator. He took off the topsoil and started in. It's about 18' deep. He also graded off some of the property and took up some of the old barn foundation. We knew there was blue stone there as the neighbor had told us the used to take the stone out of there for basement foundations years ago,well he hit that so that is a awesome base. He finished today other than some more rough grading .

[nytrapper23]

BackSide of the dyke, and the inside. Sorry about the dark pic.

[nytrapper23]

Heres a couple pics from before.its not the exact spot but you can see the difference . The one pic you can see the out building roof in the back ground . The other pic is where the dyke starts and you can see the tops to the fruit trees.

[thedeerfarm]

very nice pond....I am sure it full by now. What type fish is she stocking in there?? Beautiful property!!!

[nytrapper23]

It's almost full. Just looking at panfish for now. I learned the hardway to let these fish get established BEFORE you put in the predator fish (bass ,catfish etc)

[bk]

Very nice.  Thanks for posting the pics.  Maybe someday I can become a pond owner - if I live long enough.

[nytrapper23]

This is a pic from Easter Sunday of my daughters pond that she had dug last fall,it's filling up pretty good,but not much movement in the last month. There is a spring over bluestone at the bottom, when the guy built it I had drawings and explained what she wanted,well this was her husbands family friend and he did it for free for them,and I hate to complain , but he went way deeper than we had drawn and kinda did his own thing,now I'm afraid what happened is its so deep and created so much pressure that it has pretty muched negated the spring or atleast equalized the pressure and won't fill anymore,I hope I'm wrong because it's 5' from the overflow and going to be a ton of work to lower.

[Deleted]

Man Wade, you still have a lot of snow there. Lets hope the deep dig and spring will level out. Would suck to re-do

[nytrapper23]

Man I hope so,it's to far to reach with a backhoe , would have to rent an excavator .

[nytrapper23]

Well a little update on the pond,it doesn't seem to be filling at all,my son put his kayak in on fri and measured it in a few spots,61/2' was the deepest he came up with. So we had a different guy come look at it on sat . He thinks it's leaking out of the back corner,he found a section where they didn't push off the topsoil so he thinks it's leaching out there,said he could try and fix it it and grade it off a little better but can't guarantee anything . He will get a price to them.

[nytrapper23]

Also have been working on grading their garage to pour concrete,got it all graded and poured it on sat,ended being just under ten yds,went down really nice the guy had it finished by noon,we started at 7am, put the sealer on sat night,removed forms today,came out really nice. We have a 13' x 30' section left in the garage, a 6' x 50' apron out in front of the garage,a10 x 30' patron and sidewalk left to do.



All poured.

[nytrapper23]

Well the guy came to straighten out the pond today, what a difference , this is more like it was supposed to be . He should finish tomorrow .

[bk]

The only thing I see wrong with the pond, nytrapper23, is that it isn't at my place. I like it. Thanks for sharing the progress.

[hunt4it]

nytrapper....I long for a pond as shown.  Have my 13' x 8' and 8' stream but still not the same.  Koi, frogs, dragonflies, deer, squirrels, birds, etc. enjoy it as do we

[nytrapper23]

It is amazing how fast the critters take up residence. It is loaded with tadpoles, coon tracks all over the banks. We are going to add some panfish shortly maybe a month or so.

[rendezvous]

Beautiful piece of property...

[hunt4it]

Jul 21, 2015 9:36:05 GMT -5 nytrapper23 said:

It is amazing how fast the critters take up residence. It is loaded with tadpoles, coon tracks all over the banks. We are going to add some panfish shortly maybe a month or so.

It truly is amazing how a water feature, no matter how large or small, brings in a whole new variety of wildlife...to which the sounds of Mother Nature are also amplified. 

[nytrapper23]

Ok got the pond all graded , now we are working on the old barn foundation and just an overall grading of their property.

[nytrapper23]

Few more pics.







And we now have a huge back stop to shoot into.

[nytrapper23]

Little update on my daughters pond and land , started laying rocks around the inside of the pond today got about half of what they want done .



Also graded seeded and rolled about 3/4 of an acre of grass seed.




This is a view from their deck tonight , and that's the moon coming up .

[rendezvous]

Looks nice!  

Is that a Fur Shed or a Trapline Cabin in the background there? 

[nytrapper23]

That's funny rondy , it would make a nice fur shed. I think that's the next project fixing up that old shed

[nytrapper23]

Well we ended up catching 88 crayfish a few minnows and some hellgrammites and put them in the pond. I caught two nice perch while bass fishing today so I kept them and put them in there to.

Here is a pic of the full moon the other night with the reflection in the pond .

[nytrapper23]

Started working on my daughters upper deck off their spare bedroom today , the framing was ok but railings and floor boards needed to be replaced.

[nytrapper23]

The pay for doing all this work isn't much, actually it's nothing ? But they always feed me well , that all I need and a couple cold ones when I'm done.

[bckev]

What a gorgeous place. Do you have a lot of regulations there about putting in a pond? Here in B.C. we are regulated to death. I have a small drainage ditch running through my property and want to do some work on it to spruce it up a bit but the rules are outrageous.

[nytrapper23]

As long as we keep it under an acre they are pretty loose with restrictions other than the local permits for the set back from property lines.

[nytrapper23]

Started grading and forming a patio at my daughters , got a good start on it today , needed a ton of backfill.

This is the other end and the sidewalk we poured last week.

This will be the view from the patio, we are also going to build a pergula but not until next year.


Also getting the apron ready in the front of the garage.

[bckev]

You are welcome to come work at my place any time you feel like it. Looking good.

[bk]

Nice job, nytrapper23.  Have enjoyed watching the progress.  Thanks for sharing.