Coach, I still need to hook up with you and see your place, as well as show you mine. I met your dozier guy on a construction site one time. I was asking about ponds, as I was just getting done with mine, and he told me about one he had constructed. I put it all together and realized it was yours. He did seem like a class act.
My thoughts are this, and you know as well as I do, that we are in a record breaking earth cracking drought that old timers have not ever seen. That said it is good earthmoving weather.
1.0 If you want to go cheap, put pigs in and start feeding them.
2.0 If one is not an option, do what you are doing tempered by reading every single word TNHillbilly has written here. He is an engineer, if I recall. I spoke with him not that long ago. He's had some rains that we have not. Take care and good luck.
Send me a pm sometime and I'll give you a number. I've done what you are planning on doing. I got done about last November, right about the time it quit raining.
