Some pictures to enjoy from my creek.

http://4x4shots.com/yard-12-29-2010/

This is the first year I've seen it more than a very slight trickle. This year it's pretty much a full-on creek

My pond as you can see filled up with run off silt, (and water, ha) it wasn't done, but now I have to remove even more dirt

The deep hole that's green is one I dug about 8' with the backhoe for fun. At the 4' depth I hit some ground water and it rushed in very fast.

All around the pond ground water is coming in from the mountains that surround it too.

Should be a great pond once I get it deeper and down to the clay hard pack.

The pond has no dam, and will never have a dam.

Nice. Thanks for sharing. I also have a pond project, except in reverse.

Looks like you are going to be having fun with the Kubota.

That's a Lovely Chunk of Earth,to Live on!Have you ever Panned that creek or Surrounding area's?

Oh yeah!

Got it stuck a few times other day when it was not flowing at all but full.. then I dug that 8' hole for fun

It's around 8'

Was getting near bottoming out the backhoe, so maybe a little more.

I checked with that long limb in it, it is about 4-5' of water and 2'+ of really sloppy muck that fell back in

I`m glad the area I selected will be a great pond site, and can't wait to finish out the pond to 10' deep (then settle w/silt)

Careful with the digging around mud, friend of mine stuck his john deere TLB while digging out a pond recently. Tractor slid back while using the backhoe. The backhoe kept pushing into the mud and he could not self extract. Wound up needing another tractor to pull it out. Fortunately he also has a Kubota.

But keep having fun with the tractor

Luckily I can lift the entire tractor off the ground with the backhoe to place boards/etc under the tires to drive out if i was in a VERY bad position. I was able to use the backhoe to lift and reposition though for self-recovery when I got stuck.

Trust me I was thinking about how I was going to pull out a 9k pound tractor, even with my F250 Diesel 9k pounds of dead weight + mud suction would be tricky!


The creek slowed a bit today for sure, but is still flowing, and I can really hear it flow on my deck.