A Tanksinker

[D2Cat]

Ever heard of such a phrase? I know in some regions a pond is called a tank. This guy is in Australia.

Colin Garraway Correct, the original "proper" name for a dam was "excavated earth tank". The Britstand company produced a range of books on how to excavate "tanks". Their books referred to the job as "tanksinking". These books are the gold standard for earthmoving techniques and skills, even today. I was a damsinking contractor for over 20 years, I sank at least 5,000 dams over that 20 years. Went back to damsinking in the late 1990's, and sank a few more over several months!

 

[hedgerow]

Over the years I have built and cleaned out a few what we call farm ponds in this area. Around here we call the bank system that holds the water back a dam. Can't say I have ever head the term tanksinkers. Most dams, farm ponds in this area usually only affect five or less acres. I have spent many an hour on a old D7 Cat with a cable scraper behind it. The last one I cleaned out two years ago I had a contractor with a long arm trackhoe dredge it out and I moved the dirt with my Cat 941B loader and a farm tractor with a 10 yard pull behind scraper.

 

[Botamon]

I know in some regions a pond is called a tank. This guy is in Australia.

Ponds are called "tanks" all over northern Arizona. I'd never heard them called that until I started exploring the Arizona Strip.

 

[jaxs]

Somalis in Minneapolis call them biyo-xireen.

 

[jyoutz]

Ponds are called "tanks" all over northern Arizona. I'd never heard them called that until I started exploring the Arizona Strip.

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All constructed livestock drinkers (metal or earthen ponds) are called tanks in northern Arizona.

 

[D2Cat]

I always heard and considered a relative small cut out or damned area that held water a pond. When someone says "tank" I think of a container usually holding fuel. When I first read about tanks was from guys in Texas talking about building tanks, then eventually discovered they used tanks to water their cattle.

Different regions just have different descriptions!

 

[Speed25]

When I see "damsinking", I think of a cofferdam where you're literally sinking sheet metal panels into the bed below to create a water-tight enclosure which is then usually pumped dry. I'd done some drafting for an Army Corp of Engineers cofferdam project decades ago. Pretty fascinating stuff.

 

[jaxs]

I always heard and considered a relative small cut out or damned area that held water a pond. When someone says "tank" I think of a container usually holding fuel. When I first read about tanks was from guys in Texas talking about building tanks, then eventually discovered they used tanks to water their cattle.

Different regions just have different descriptions!

Depending on who you ask in Texas, it's called stock tank or tanque de granado.

 

[D2Cat]

Depending on who you ask in Texas, it's called stock tank or tanque de granado.

Do you guys have anything called a pond?

 

[Russell King]

If it is a small thing that a landscaper installed in a yard it is generally called a pond in Texas.

Tanks cover steel things with a top and bottom that store liquid, stock water tanks in the ground and naturally occurring large “ponds”.

Lakes are larger bodies of water that are usually man made in Texas (we do have a few naturally occurring lakes also but not many). Most lakes are flood control and reservoirs for towns (or power plants).

Troughs cover about anything above ground for animals to drink water out of.

Water heaters are usually called hot water tanks.

Some people call a tank a fishing pond - if that it solely what it is used for. But we probably snicker about that especially if they are from out of state!

Texas is complex!

 

[jaxs]

If it is a small thing that a landscaper installed in a yard it is generally called a pond in Texas.

Tanks cover steel things with a top and bottom that store liquid, stock water tanks in the ground and naturally occurring large “ponds”.

Lakes are larger bodies of water that are usually man made in Texas (we do have a few naturally occurring lakes also but not many). Most lakes are flood control and reservoirs for towns (or power plants).

Troughs cover about anything above ground for animals to drink water out of.

Water heaters are usually called hot water tanks.

Some people call a tank a fishing pond - if that it solely what it is used for. But we probably snicker about that especially if they are from out of state!

Texas is complex!

That's true Russel. Diversity is a talking point in some places, it's a way of life in Texas. Diversity doesn't mean adherence and emulation in lockstep with a leader. To the contrary it's acting with individuality. Language police are always new in town but soon get over it.