I wouldn’t run that hill like that way either. I wouldn’t even run my riding lawn mower that direction considering it is much safer to go up/down the hill.
I think you are absolutely right! I am pretty sure with the extra weight I have so low, that I could do steeper slopes without issue. BUT my pucker factor will not let me...LOL.With my BX, I don’t think I’d have an issue mowing Henro’s spot. Doubt I’d take my old Moline on it.
Slopes are really hard to gauge in photos. I might have a different opinion in person.
RCW, I hear you and never meant to imply I thought I was doing something unsafe.Henro - you should NEVER do something with your tractor if you feel unsafe....period.
Don’t come here asking if “is this too much, or not enough?!?”
Even though I said I’d mow that doesn’t make it right for you... I can still hear my mother asking “if your friends were jumping off a cliff, would you do it too?!?”
If your pucker says this is enough, that’s all you need to know!!! I don’t care X-degrees or or X++-degrees.
It’s what you’re comfortable with. 5 degrees is okay, if that’s what works for you.
Not being derogatory at all. Just mean that as as friendly bit of advice.
Folks die on tractors doing stupid things. First indication of “stupid” is listening to that “pucker.”
I’ve driven old farm tractors for 50 years. Sometimes that familiarity is a prelude to recklessness.
I’m still very aware of the capabilities of my machine to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
I try to stay away from the pucker all together.
Best wishes, and stay safe my friend!!![]()
This is a bit off topic for the original thread but the original thread seems to have gone dormant and I’m actually a bit curious about the info in the pond liner link, which I did check out.And only two days ago I finished my pond with a small waterfall and fish. It turned out super, as there will be an opportunity, I will attach photos. While I was making the pond, I found the site https://mygardenzone.com/best-pond-liner/. Actually, thanks to the information I read, I made it much faster. I just wasn't sure what material to make the base seal.
That is not a pond. That is heaven!This is a bit off topic for the original thread but the original thread seems to have gone dormant and I’m actually a bit curious about the info in the pond liner link, which I did check out.
We live on family land my father purchased around 35 years ago. There was a pond on it when he bought it. No clue when the pond was built or who built it. It was stocked with large mouth bass, brim, and crappie sometime before he arrived. Only evident issues were overgrowth of aquatic vegetation and some moderate sized trees on the neglected dam so he introduced sterile grass carp and cleared the trees off the dam. We haven’t restocked the carp but aquatic vegetation hasn’t been a problem since and we still see a giant carp in the shallows once in a while. The pond still has good sized fish, soft shell turtles, snapping turtles, frogs, ducks, and geese. It is fed by a spring that originates about 50 yards up the natural cut that was dammed to create the pond. None of that fauna is credited to our stellar management as we do absolutely nothing other than repairing the drain pipe one time several years ago, skidding out a few trees that have fallen in it over the years, and keep trees off the dam to keep the state dam inspectors happy. Sometimes I wonder if we should be doing more to manage it but it seems to be going pretty well without our intervention.
Looking at the link, they seemed to be advocating the use of pond liners, and I may have missed it, but didn’t see any suggestion of size limitation beyond which a liner would be ill advised or impractical. Having a hard time imagining lining a pond of an acre or three.
Not that I’m pondering draining the pond and lining it; more a curiosity thing as I know little about aquaculture. No clue how big your pond is, so please don’t take this as a “that’s not a pond, this is a pond” kind of thing. For all I know, ours is a mud puddle compared to yours. Ours is below just as a point of clarity. I honestly can’t imagine the pile of paperwork it would take to build it today.
I really am curious if our pond was being built today would we really line it?
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From Google,This is a bit off topic for the original thread but the original thread seems to have gone dormant and I’m actually a bit curious about the info in the pond liner link, which I did check out.
We live on family land my father purchased around 35 years ago. There was a pond on it when he bought it. No clue when the pond was built or who built it. It was stocked with large mouth bass, brim, and crappie sometime before he arrived. Only evident issues were overgrowth of aquatic vegetation and some moderate sized trees on the neglected dam so he introduced sterile grass carp and cleared the trees off the dam. We haven’t restocked the carp but aquatic vegetation hasn’t been a problem since and we still see a giant carp in the shallows once in a while. The pond still has good sized fish, soft shell turtles, snapping turtles, frogs, ducks, and geese. It is fed by a spring that originates about 50 yards up the natural cut that was dammed to create the pond. None of that fauna is credited to our stellar management as we do absolutely nothing other than repairing the drain pipe one time several years ago, skidding out a few trees that have fallen in it over the years, and keep trees off the dam to keep the state dam inspectors happy. Sometimes I wonder if we should be doing more to manage it but it seems to be going pretty well without our intervention.
Looking at the link, they seemed to be advocating the use of pond liners, and I may have missed it, but didn’t see any suggestion of size limitation beyond which a liner would be ill advised or impractical. Having a hard time imagining lining a pond of an acre or three.
Not that I’m pondering draining the pond and lining it; more a curiosity thing as I know little about aquaculture. No clue how big your pond is, so please don’t take this as a “that’s not a pond, this is a pond” kind of thing. For all I know, ours is a mud puddle compared to yours. Ours is below just as a point of clarity. I honestly can’t imagine the pile of paperwork it would take to build it today.
I really am curious if our pond was being built today would we really line it?
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That is quite interesting. So by that definition, our pond at 20’ max depth (unless it has silted in some in the 15 or so years since I last checked) is technically a lake even though it’s only a few acres (really don’t know how many as I’ve never even tried to measure it’s surface area). I would think the photic zone stops somewhere above 20’ although I haven’t personally been to the bottom to check the light level. Lake Mattamuskeet in the Fairfield area of NC, which covers hundreds if not thousands of acres is technically a pond because it’s maximum depth is around 3’.From Google,
Ponds, according to limnology (the study of water bodies) are shallow enough where plants could conceivably grow across the entire surface. This area, where plants could grow is known as the “photic zone,” meaning where the sun’s rays can reach the bottom.
A lake, by contrast, has an “aphotic zone,” meaning there is an area deep enough that sunlight can’t reach the bottom.
As a result, there are some very small bodies of water, less than an acre that are deep enough to be called lakes. Conversely, there are some very large, but shallow water bodies, particularly in the south that are technically ponds, (though they’re called lakes) because their “photic zone” expands the entire length and width.
That is quite picturesque. Very nice!“I really am curious if our pond was being built today would we really line it?”
I think you only use a pond liner when you really need to. Over the years my little pond has had its depth decrease due to sediment dropping out from the spring that feeds it. A liner would just disappear under the sediment.
I think those of us that have ponds that didn’t need a liner should consider ourselves fortunate.
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