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Manually digging a fish pond.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...623#post209391
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...261#post227632
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...997#post217547
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...870#post217079
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...771#post213105

Can't argue with what works. A heck of a lot of work there! Looks like they are digging out an existing pond. I drove by hundreds of fish and shrimp ponds outsid eof Guangzhou China. Those people do not fool around!

Mark

When I was a kid my uncle, who lived a couple miles from us contacted some county guy, who brought out a few sticks of dynamite.to clean out a dried up very silted pond. Us kids were tasked with auguring small-bore holes spaced at several intervals to varying depths. The county guy then inserted the sticks of explosives in the holes, short pieces in the outer ring of holes and progressively longer pieces in the circles as they grew smaller and deeper until the middle much larger borehole. Everything was wired the holes were carefully repacked with at the fertilizer and soil, then connected to a rotary switch a good distance away from the pond. From our safe area He connected a large dry-cell battery to the switch then gave it a spin the charges went boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, The silt was blown out of the pond in all directions. Then us kids had to use shovels and wheelbarrows to finish cleaning out the remaining loose dirt We thought that was the best entertainment we had ever had even clearing out the rest of the dirt wasn't bad. There was an almost a perfect bowl-shaped pond from the blast.

Probably couldn't do something like that today.

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Originally Posted by Frank S

When I was a kid my uncle, who lived a couple miles from us contacted some county guy, who brought out a few sticks of dynamite.to clean out a dried up very silted pond. Us kids were tasked with auguring small-bore holes spaced at several intervals to varying depths. The county guy then inserted the sticks of explosives in the holes, short pieces in the outer ring of holes and progressively longer pieces in the circles as they grew smaller and deeper until the middle much larger borehole. Everything was wired the holes were carefully repacked with at the fertilizer and soil, then connected to a rotary switch a good distance away from the pond. From our safe area He connected a large dry-cell battery to the switch then gave it a spin the charges went boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, The silt was blown out of the pond in all directions. Then us kids had to use shovels and wheelbarrows to finish cleaning out the remaining loose dirt We thought that was the best entertainment we had ever had even clearing out the rest of the dirt wasn't bad. There was an almost a perfect bowl-shaped pond from the blast.

Probably couldn't do something like that today.

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Awesome story Frank. And you still remember it like yesterday!

Mark

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Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

Awesome story Frank. And you still remember it like yesterday!

Mark

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A lot of things we did as kids or were present when they were done are like indelible ink on vellum.