![]() Nothing yukier than walking across a sandy bottom and all of a sudden sinking barefoot into rotting leaves. Traditional methods like dredging, pond excavation or suction harvesting are expensive and can cause significant physical intrusion to aquatic systems and. Good luck and I hope you come up with a do-able plan. Others my disagree so I suppose it boils down to location like everything else. ![]() Ideally once the pond is drained out it is left to dry. Ponds definetly come in a close 2nd to swampy areas as the nastiest things to excavate. The process of dredging a pond begins by removing all wildlife and draining the water from the pond. Step 1: Open One Side of a Steel Drum Step 2: Drill Drainage Holes Step 3: Insert Eyebolts in the Barrel Step 4: Cut and Attach Steel Cables Step 5: Attach. (Neglecting this last step may lead to spreading rather than reducing the problem.) Many farmersus includedopt to drain the filled-in pond before dredging. I build bridges over all kinds of things in my line of work. Some pond owners keep cattails and vegetation at bay by dragging a rake, cutter bar or line along the pond bottom, then disposing of all vegetation and debris they dislodge. The down side is the tracks would tear up the banks of the pond and then there's the problem of disposing of all the gunky stuff that comes off the bottom of a pond. Any fairly good sized excavator could reach 1/2 way across your pond without getting it's tracks wet. But you’ll have difficulty with large ponds without machinery. Practical thought would suggest as others have to hire it out to a company that can do the work. Learning how to dredge a pond by hand is easy empty your pond and scoop up all the muck with your hands, shovel, and a bucket. ![]() If the pond is having fish then make sure you separate the fish from the pond. Suction hose though is nearly ridgid and in 4" size is fairly heavy in 10' length's. The absolute first thing that you need to do is to empty your pond first. ![]() Hi, Great imaginations or practical thought ? Imagination would suggest learning how to SCUBA dive and renting a trash pump from the local consruction company rental store ( they carry heavy duty as opposed to regular rental stores ), then building yourself a sluice from 1" screen from the local quarry, running the discharge hose to the top of the sluice and let it filter the leaves and logs and any thing you can pick up while swimming around with the suction end at the bottom. Re: how can i dredge my pond in reply to Dan from MI, 07-20-2005 18:23:29 ![]()
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