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Thx seann. Well, my brothers and I had the county soil engineer come out and take a look. We showed him the location, and gave him a rough size & depth estimate. He said we will have absolutely no problems with the pond holding water. He did say the area we selected according to his soil maps showed sandy-loam about 3-6 feet down, then its all clay. So we will have to build up the banks with a good couple feet of clay. This is what I'm thinking I'll need a dozer for... There are tons of ponds out in this area, he told us it will be very easy to dig a pond that will hold water, as long as we go down a min of 8 ft, we'd like to go down to 20 ft in some areas... The lot is basically flat, the whole 63 acres only varies 5 ft in elevation. The drainage is pretty straight forward, so we know exactly where the spillway needs to go. I'm just more interested in finding out how I should excavate this thing. I plan to scrape the topsoil off, then start building up the bank around the outer perimeter of the pond with clay I scrape off, then start digging for depth, and shaping the banks. Just not sure if I can do all of that with my 575D... I'm just not experienced with it yet, have played wit it a little bit... Just looking for suggestions from experienced backhoe users on how they would do this.
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