Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam Installing PVC liner in just the dam

To cover with a skid loader, you dump the dirt on top of the liner as you drive onto it. So you are always driving on the dirt, not on the liner. Don't turn and "skid" the tracks on the liner, in and out, in and out, if done with equipment. If an excavator is on site, that can be used to put the dirt on the liner and the skid steer can be used to smooth it after the excavator places it. If the bucket on the excavator is smooth (no teeth) the operator can smooth it as far as they can reach.

BTL liners have a woven fabric liner that is very lightweight compared to PVC liners and it is VERY tough. It's hard to get a knife into it to cut it. A client made a small wildlife watering hole with it, maybe 30 feet across. He did everything with a Kubota compact tractor with FEL, I believe it had around 30 hp. It's been in place (in Arkansas) for IIRC 5-7 years and still no holes in it, even though the hogs have been rooting around in the wet edges. Him and his wife installed it, and they were in their late 60's when they installed it.