Thanks Guys,

If you have a good parts/scrap pile (the one my bride calls junk)
and a little time you can come up with a ton of stuff. Most of our projects are planned as you go while building. I know they make a lot of the stuff we build from scratch but we tend to overbuild most stuff so it will last as long as I need it to

I'll get some pictures of the heavy duty sycle bar cutter I use on the cattails and really thick stuff. Made from a old tow behind cutter and changed to a 3 point unit. It was impossible to back up the tow behind with all the trees and obsticals around the pond and you couldn"t raise the cutter bar without going into the water and lifting it by hand. Only did that once!

It reaches out 7 feet and the cutter bar raises and lowers from the tractor seat via electric winch off one of the ATV's. The cutter bar will drop a little bit below horizontal so I can cut the cattails off several inches below the water line.

I hope it gave some of you ideas to use as pond maintance shouldn't be a major chore. Takes too much time away from fishing.

Dan

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.


Dan