Pictures of my work

[Dirtman2007]

Nice pics!!! Do you have alot of problems with building the pond in your state? Here there is so much red tape......especially if you're anywhere near any natural water. (i.e. river, stream, lake, pond, etc)

hymmmm... It's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. We build many many ponds a year and have never gotten a permit. One fellow went about it the right way a went through the permit process to build a pond. It took him 2 yrs to get the ok

Usually if you are building a pond where there is no perminent water flow there are no questions asked.
The main thing we have to do is keep the highest part of the dam under 15' anything over has to be approved by the state. you can did the pond 40' deep but the dam can't be over 15 ' tall.

We've only been shut down once in many years. Had a helicopter taking some very nice arial photos of the jobsite and the wetlands that we were in. the next day the nice white state truck came out a gave use a little pink sheet that said stop work!! Homeowner gave someone a nice check a we were back to work in a week

[Dirtman2007]

few more

digging up stumps in a yard so that it can be filled and leveled.

Before



Driving the machine down the road to the loading site


loading site. about 25 quad axle load will be hauled to the yard. Some very nice looking red clay!


After

[Dirtman2007]

After


Talked the owner of the loading site into building a pond

This morning
Before.


After
all cleared


I had to move it all with the skid steer

[Dirtman2007]

Just started the first cut, 3000 more yards to go...



5:00 somewhere

[BrianHay]

Great pics Dirtman! Looks like you get to do some interesting projects, nice work!

[BIGBEN2004]

It also looks like you take on some pretty large projects also. Do you usually bid them out or do it by the hour?

[12 Wyoming]

Awesome pics! Your job looks like fun. Nice, quite, and peaceful.

[Dirtman2007]

It also looks like you take on some pretty large projects also. Do you usually bid them out or do it by the hour?

Most of our work is done by the hour. Seems that once everyone sees what can be done I a short amount of time they awlays find more things to do, so we just do it by the our. I like doing these smaller jobs, 2-3 weeks at the max then move onto another project. This way you don't get bored (too often ).

[Lashlander]

Nice pics and work. Just shows yet another difference in location though. Around here home owners try to eliminate all ponds and standing water on their property. It brings on the mosquitoes and other unwanted pests. When I bought my house I must have hauled for a month to fill all the little ponds in.

[Dirtman2007]

Nice pics and work. Just shows yet another difference in location though. Around here home owners try to eliminate all ponds and standing water on their property. It brings on the mosquitoes and other unwanted pests. When I bought my house I must have hauled for a month to fill all the little ponds in.

I've only filled in one pond in my life, but have dug/ wroked on a couple hundred.

I probably worked on 40 ponds last year.

[637slayer]

great pics you do nice work, in some great locations, from the size of the house in the one pic, your clientel must be wealthy people? especially if they own property like in your pics. probably picky people to work for but you know their checks are good.

[Dirtman2007]

great pics you do nice work, in some great locations, from the size of the house in the one pic, your clientel must be wealthy people? especially if they own property like in your pics. probably picky people to work for but you know their checks are good.

"If ya wanna make money you gotta work for people that have money"
yeah are in the wealthy section of NC. Development sign said " quality homes starting at the low 750's to the 1.3 million"

Actually the people we are working for are not picky, just want the job done as if it was my own.

It is nice to get handed a check at the end of the job. sometimes you get a little cash folding money

[Dirtman2007]

pond construction day 2

[Dirtman2007]

few more for today

[CascadeScaper]

Great pics, as always. You have a helper or do you run the hoe and jump on the Tak as needed?