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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: York

Posted: Wed May 30, 12 10:32 pm Post subject:
Not with our clay, but much deeper & it would have been perpetually self-filling. The reedbed is lined with a PVC liner covered with gravel, though.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu May 31, 12 12:58 am Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

You can make a large pond with a small spade if you have the time and energy.

Of course it is, but why would you want to?

Masochism?
Exercise?
Stupidity?

My point was that if you can do it with a small spade, then you can certainly do it with a large mechanical one... even if it is a relatively tiny large mechanical one.

Sally Too

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 2511
Location: N.Ireland

Posted: Thu May 31, 12 8:12 am Post subject:

We dug a pond last year. And it's amazing the wild life it has attracted.

However we have a problem with excessive duck weed. I'm not sure if the strawbale solution is suitable for this one? Anyone know?

Family have been raking it off from the side a bit.... it makes a good mulch for other projects but we have too much even for that!!

Ponds are such fun, even all green, I still have a seat down by it to sit and watch the goings on. Two duck landed while I was there the other day, and a cute little squirrel came out and sunned himself on a branch too.... (okay I know they are rats with tails really, but he did look cute!)

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu May 31, 12 12:38 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Rob R wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

You can make a large pond with a small spade if you have the time and energy.

Of course it is, but why would you want to?

Sorry, I misquoted, that wasn't meant to be in reply to you.

While we're on the subject though, this rather links in with the small farms thread - sustainability, perhaps? Think of all that diesel saved

Mutton

Joined: 09 May 2009
Posts: 1508

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 12 8:59 am Post subject:

1. Went to Hever Castle many years back. Enormous ornamental lake which was dug entirely by hand. I seem to remember it was 3 shifts of workers who dug 24 hours - working at night by the light of flares. Forgotten how many months it took.

2. Clay lining - the other year we dug down in a wet patch in a field hoping for a goose pond. It did fill in the rain and drain slowly over a few days so there was an intermittent pond, but then OH dug it deeper and its drained perfectly ever since

. So if we line it with clay, will geese wreck it? (They wreck most everything else....).

3. Also we have no clay here, so does anyone have any idea of the relative costs of clay liner to concrete liner? (Butyl is out, the geese will nibble through it.)

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 12 7:15 pm Post subject:

Mutton wrote:

Butyl is out, the geese will nibble through it.

Seriously??!

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