The cracks are just an indicator of how far down the soil has dried out. My concern with using a FEL to dig it out is getting it stuck.....

Tractors with a FEL seem to go up a hill better in FWD than R. Even the ones with 4WD. If you take a scoop and load the bucket, will you back up to get out of the pond or continue forward and make a semi-circle to get out?

Since you are not changing the surface area (greatly) the amount of water evaporated won't change if the conditions are the same next year, BUT you might still have water in the pond, depending on how much deeper you dig and the evap rate in 2021.

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