Thanks for the support fellas.
Pondsforfun
No doubt the vast majority of ponds in my part of the country (watershed impoundments)are constructed using nothing but a dozer to tromp the dirt in and in a lot of situations that is all that's needed and works out fine. But in a case where you have marginal soil or problem areas in the rock underneath you need more compaction in the liner, and a tracked vehicle just can't provide it. No doubt that if I run over a high spot with the dozer it gets a lot more pressure than if the tracks are on level ground. Problem is that the soil on either side of the high spot received virtually no pressure, therefore no compaction. Once the high spot is down I can apply no more pressure than the distributed load of the dozer. Hope you get your pond fixed up. Take care.
