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A little comic releif. Here is my weed eater. 280 tons of stone and over 50 trees removed just to get these guys in here for a snack......... actually this is my little nest egg. Thanks to all of you I can now see water and fish. Before I had 100% heavy duckweed and no wanted fish could survive. I now have a healthy and loaded pond that will be ready for fishing in a few short years. This is the first year in my total renovation. no holds barred.

Here are a few of my spring stocking fish. The growth of these guys is amazing so far. Before my pond had crappie, bullhead, green sunfish. We fished it hard to remove all unwanted fish before stocking it. Now I see fish all over and they are the fish that I want to see..... Thanks to all so far for the overwhelming replies and keep um comin'

I started a post like this a few months back and got spanked by the pondboss, guess I'm not a LUNKER like you guys. I noticed BOB hasn't said anything so here goes again enjoy http://www.rockytoppers.com/the_pond.htm

You guys have some beauties

AaronhomeIN
I just noticed your weed-eaters….!
How are they working out?
Check my post: http://www.pondboss.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=000189

George Glazener

George,

They goats work really well for weeds and roughage. If you want them to mow the grass they will not. Sheep will though. I allow my goats to browse the banks for about 2 hours a day before I head off to work. The pond bank was entangled about 6 feet high with briars and saplings. You can see the end result. I burn my banks in the spring and let the goats trim it through the summer. I know manure run off with goats fenced around a pond would probably end up on the unwanted side. Although it would take quite a while to match the manure left by one cow mess. My pond is already to nutrient rich and very fertile so I did not fence them in there. I do not feed my goats until after they have done thier chores around the pond. They know excactly were to go and love it. They can mow down some serious vegetation in short time. I keep them penned all but the 2 hours to keep them safe for my goats are pygmy goats and can fall prey to the nice neighbor dog easily. The goats make easily cared for pets. The kids love them and they save me time on the trimming.

Robinson, The house is 1750 sq ft living space it is open from one end to the other, 3 stores, 27 foot high ceiling,double lofts, you can see it in detail on my home design pages of the rockytoppers site. It's not really an A frame it has vertical walls and wrap around porches. If all three floors spanned the entire foot print the shell could house 3000+ sq ft. As for cost I designed it and built 90% of it myself in 1996. less than 85k invested(excluding my labor) It was very labor intensive. I would estimate in todays dollars if you hired it all done it would be more costly than a conventional ranch style because of the added labor cost to roof it and work at the 27 foot heights, took lots of scfolding to build.

Aaron,

I've never been much on goats until I got to looking at the pygmies. Cute little critters, and looks like they're useful too. I'll talk to the Department of the Interior (my wife) and see what she thinks.

You said in an earlier post that your pond would be ready to fish in a few years. Well, I think 1 year would be a closer guess than 2 years until you have some good fishing.

NEDOC's pond!!

Hey Bruce, thanks a million. It is kinda hard to see as I took the pics at sunrise with steam coming off of the water(from on top of my roof). I will try to take some with a little better light.

Wow, I love this thread with all of these pictures. They have given me a million ideas. I guess my wife will have to start working harder so that I can afford some more pond amenities.

DUUUDE! SMOKE ON THE WATER!

Here's to Theo lettin' his freak flag fly!

Man, were you at Bhudokhan in '71?

Uhh, I don't remember. Was that where the brown acid was bad? :p

Here is a pic of my pond :

I cant believe this is the first time I have seen bruce dressed in his cowboy stripper outfit WITH hat!!!

Have you seen him dressed in his cowboy stripper outfit WITHOUT hat or something?

I happen to know for a fact that he knows all the letters in "Y-M-C-A".

you must have missed the PB convention AFTERparty...