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#64004 09/06/06 10:14 AM
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Congratulations, Eddie.

This is the first time I have looked at wedding pictures and engine rebuild pictures back-to-back. I looks like you did a good job on both.


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I've said it before and its sure worth saying again...Eddie, you are the Man!

You do indeed turn ideas into reality and don't let minor ( ) things like engine overhauls stand in your way. You should consider writing a book about your project. It would be an inspiration to many. It is certainly an inspiration to me.

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What a great story. I hope you kept a day by day journal throughout the whole project so you can write the book! I built my own house from clearing the land to painting the walls. I religiously kept a journal and it's a hoot to read. BTW I just smoked the engine on my dozer. Needs a rebuild. I'll drop it off if you'll do her for me! That's right you just got married. Probably don't have the time. You got a great find there if your new wife shares you pond aspirations.


Gotta get back to fishin!
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Congrats Eddie!
I trust your new bride shares your enthusiasm for pond and engine builds? \:D
Great ongoing thread by the way.
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Thank you for the kind words and encouragment. While waiting on a part of the brakes of the dump truck, I decided to put a few culverts in.

The way my lake lays, the watershed comes down the hill along three low areas. The first one will be the biggest and it's along the property line. I'm leaving it open all the way to the lake. At a poing that lines up with the path around the lake, I'll build a small bridge.

The other two routes for the water to travel will be channeled through two culverts. One 18 inch and one 15 inch.

This picture shows my shoreline road.



First I had to figure out where the best spot for it was and lay it out.


Then I dig a hole, put the culvert in it and compact the soil.



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The dump truck is up and running. In fact, it's running VERY STRONG!!!! Kind of hard to even compare what it was like before and now. hahaha

I've started moving dirt now and it should be a day or two until I get all the dirt out.



I want to build up the top of the dam into a wide picnic area. It's not a strutural thing, just cosmetic with the benifit of creating a nice picnic area in the trees with a fantastic view of the water and trees.



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I've hauled the last of the dirt out of the lake that I'm gonna get, and now it's ready for some water!! I still have some logs that I want to burn, but will have to wait for the burn ban to be lifted.

I dragged the outside, top and part of the inside of teh dam with my log wraped in chain link fence, then threw out a bunch of unhulled bermuda seed. In time, it will be nice and green!!!

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very nice. very nice.


"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau
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Looks like the drought is over for winter and I'm getting rain about once a week. Nothging huge, just an inch or so at a time.

My grass is starting to grow everywhere I planted it, but it's slow and you have to look real close to tell. I'm hopeing we still have enough warm days for it to get established.

The storm that came through about two weeks ago did some damage to one of my culverts. The water came at it hard and fast, which caused some erosion around my pipe. I was hopeful that this would't happen, but after it did, I had to fix it.

I like 40 pound sacks of readi mix with rebar hammered through it. It's cheap, effective and even looks good.

In front of the entrance, I dig a pit to collect silt. Last night I got an inch and a half in 20 minutes, which just about filled up my silt pit.

There is about 4 feet of water in the lake right now. I need about 8 more feet to fill it up.

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Awesome, Eddie. Gotta make ya smile, I bet. Tune me up a little. Do I remember correctly that you have major league drainage coming into your project...right? Does it all funnel down & go in through the pipe in the above pic? Oh yeah, is that the famous Walker .25 mile-long dam in the background?

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Hey Brettski,

There are two culverts. This one is 15 inches and the small one. It doesn't get very much runnoff, but the speed of the water coming to it is pretty severe.

The other culvert is 18 inches and it gets about ten to 12 acres, give or take. It's kind of tricky guessing which way the water will go and how much my roads will divert to this culvert. The water comes through a wooded area and kind of snakes around some good sized trees before it gets to this culver, so even though it gets allot more water, it's comeing at the culvert allot slower.

The main water source is from an open trench, dry creekbed that runs along my Western boundry. This gets the runnoff that breaks away from the 10 or so acres that feeds the large culvert, plus the land on the other side of the property line and then the land above my property.

This could be getting anywhere from 20 to 40 acres. It's heavily wooded and dificult to tell where the water changes directions on it's way to the drainage.

The drainage, or dry creekbed, has been there forever. It's one of the reasons that I based my size of the lake and it's location.

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It's not how many ideas you have, but how many you make happen.

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We haven't had any rain to speak of this month, but I've been pumping water into the lake almost 24/7. If I run low on oil, or it gets dirty, the engine stops, but otherwise, it's running non-stop.

The first picture shows the water level shortly after I started pumping on November 9th.



This picture shows what it looks like a few days ago. You can see the rise of the water on the log. It's sort of my guage to measure progress.



Here's a view of the lake from Wednesday.



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Ed-man...you're kickin' my butt. It is comin' on good. You are sure gettin' your money's worth outta that Ebay pump, eh?
Another very cool pool comin' atcha! Good show, Eddie.
What does your bride think about this project? Does she have any special plans for stuff like a diving raft, small pontoon boat, or picnic shelter big enough for Eddie to sleep in when he's been a bad boy? \:\) :p

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Here's the latest pics of my lake.

This is on November 9, just shortly after I started pumping water in.



This is today, December 6th. The log is just about under water now, and the water line is climbing up the stump. The submerged island is actually submerged!!!!



This was taken today as well to give an idea of the overall look of it. Some of my logs came loose and are floating around, but mostly what you see sticking up though the water is the remains of my islands and structure.



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I'm really getting jealous looking at these big new ponds filling up. I'm getting tired of looking at my two 1/2 acre ponds and I'm thinking I need to start planning my 4 acre pond.
Hey Brettski, where's the latest picture of your pond with more water? I really can't wait to see yours next spring when it's full.


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C'mon, now bz....this is Eddie's thread. He's worked pretty dang hard to create 10 pages (so far) \:\)
(FWIW, spring '08 might be closer for me; I don't have a substantial watershed. Updates on Pond Growth thread )
Eddie, I owe ya a link. ;\)

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Sorry, didn't mean to hijack!


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I gave up on the pump awhile ago. After about 80 hours, it wouldn't keep running for very long. I got quite a bit of water from it, so it wasn't a total bust.

Christmas eve I received over 2 inches of rain and right now I figure I'm close to 3 feet from being full. Rainy season is still a few months away, but I'm sure I'll get another foot or so before then.

This picture was taken yesterday.

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Eddie,

Your lake looks great. I'm really envious of the surface area you and Brettski have. Mine will amount to an acre at most, but that's the limitation of my terrain. Pumping water gives a great appreciation of the power of the sun to lift all that moisture into the air thousands of feet and drop it back as rain. Keep the good pics coming.

Hillbilly

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What happened to the pump? Did the engine stop running or did the pump stop pumping? Just curious because I was contemplating buying one similar to yours.

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Hillbilly,

Thanks. I am amazed by the size of it every day when I go look at it. Rain or not, I have to see what it looks like. I saw my first duck swimming in it the other day!!!

Keith,

The pump still works, but due to a combination of errors on my part, I didn't get near the water out of it that I could have. First, I didn't realize how often I had to change the oil and it would die on me for half a day. I'd change the oil and it would run non stop for two days, but then it would die on me. It only holds half a quart of oil, so it wasn't a money thing, just ignorance on my part. Once I figured out to change the oil every other day, it ran great for over a month.

Then I started to have other problems. It would die on me without an apperant reason. I thougth it was a short or a wireing problem, then I thought it was a fuel dilivery problem. Finally I changed the spark plug and it ran good again for awhile.

It seemed to have less power and I made a big mistake thinking I was losing power from usage. Then a guy over at TractorByNet suggested that my intake might be clogged. I moved the pump to pull the intake up about four feet and the volume coming out of the hose doubled. OOOPS. hahaha

Being a little smarter now, I think I could have filled it up if I didn't make all those mistakes and take so long to fix them.

If you want all the details, I did a very detailed account of the whole process at http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/52101-creating-lake.html

It's 36 pages long with 714 posts as of now, so you might not want to go there without plenty of time to kill. hahaha

Thanks,
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How big was the lake suppose to be when full? Probably was said somewhere in the posts, but I get lost easily. :rolleyes:


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Lance,

When I laid out the location of the dam, I figured five acres. Once I started building up the dam, it got thicker and thicker to the point that I'll end up with 4.3 acres when full.

Just a note on the pictures with my wife in it. The angle is kind of deceiving. When full, the water will be up to her waist.

She's in camoflage since we'd been out hunting all morning.

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Eddie,

I just finished reading the entire thread on TBN. A truly immense project with many hours of work. Congrats on your diligence in research, design, and construction.

Any timeline on completion of the RV resort? Would love to come up and spend a weekend checking everything out once it is completed.

Once again, congrats and can't wait to hear about the progression of your fish population.

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Keith,

If you really have some time to kill, read Eddie's thread on building his own house. I used to think of myself as being handy. Quite humbling.

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