desilting dams

.RC. · Dec 8, 2014

I do not think you can point to a machine and say it is perfect for de-silting a dam... Every situation is going to be different, and yet to see a machine, wheels or tracks that likes working slippery muddy banks..

Probably if you are working in mud, the best machine will be one that does not have to get into it..

Big dragline bucket and you winch it across, filling it up as it goes....

d9e · Dec 8, 2014

grandson in front d9 blade
blade ploughing in june
mum an I in front d9e

d9e · Dec 8, 2014

sorry for the photo post size, anyway that's the tractor I was dreaming desilting with , however had a quote from a contractor using loader which seems reasonable, with me pushing away the muck ,so if it don't rain before he arrives its a go

Scrub Puller · Dec 8, 2014

Yair . . . Goodone d9e, there is nothing like some pictures . . . picture size looks good to me.

What's the go with the seat on the Nine, something there looks different, lifted for vision maybe?

Are you sticking the blade in to loosen up and seed the country or is just that there were no suckers where you took the pics?

Hope you are getting some of this rain.

Cheers.

d9e · Dec 8, 2014

yes scub the seat has been lifted by an earlier owner by about a foot, it does help some with vision forward, and yes in that area of the paddock the regrowth was a bit thin, but we do also use it open up the soil again and reseed. just had 30 mm a day ago on this country, but need an awfull lot more

Queenslander · Dec 9, 2014

Looks like a good ole ploughing tractor d9e.
Using the dozer will certainly speed things up for the loader.
A good size loader in the right mud will keep you reasonably busy.
When he gets on the floor with enough room to turn around, the mud will flow pretty quickly.
Cheers, Greg

d9e · Dec 9, 2014

yeah qlder mud sure might be be flowing by the wkend with 20-40 mm each forecast for fri an sat, knowing forecasts though we'll wait an see

Queenslander · Dec 16, 2014

Hope you're watching the grass grow d9e, not desilting dams.

Aussie Leroy · Dec 16, 2014

d9e; Good looking tractor mate cheers Leroy

d9e · Dec 16, 2014

well we need more rain yet, the grass has just got a pick,making it hard on the cattle at the moment, boy some people have even missed this opening rain, lotta hardship about . desilting starting is on hold just at the present, as the dams are a bit damp again. the tractor aint as good as the other half though, she kinda keeps me sane when I go off the handle at some problem or other, kept me going to fix it coupla years back when the pinion ground itself to 1/2 its diameter (stripped off all the teeth) now THATS a BIG story on itself, getting it going again, could write a book about the fun of getting parts an installing them, but its going again an can thank the misses for keeping me at it.(see I told you , youd sort it out)

Queenslander · Dec 16, 2014

You are indeed a lucky man d9e.:notworthy
Not many women would happily accept an old D9 in the relationship, especially when things go pear shaped.
Cheers, Greg

Queenslander · Jan 26, 2015

The reason we put the D11 into the first dam was not so much to shift the mud, but to rebuild the wall which was swept away during 1 in 100 year flood in 2010.
During the flood the dam filled normally from the catchment above and was bywashing nicely with plenty of freeboard but was completely overwhelmed from below by nearby river.
Normally takes a 1 in 10 year rainfall event to fill, which we had last night , only two months after repairing it.

d9e · Jan 28, 2015

well qldr got a contractor to clean 1 dam (rain started stopped the rest) and left the d9 in the shed, wasn't game to put it in the silt. well now the waters begun to flow an dams are filling (I hope) didn't get any photos unfortunately , we've had near 100ml at westmar block and same at dalby home block, so looks like desilting the rest will have to wait until the next inevitable big dry. had hoped to sell some cull for age cows this week but too wet for the trucks. your photos look good ,what area are you?

Queenslander · Jan 28, 2015

We've certainly been extremely lucky here, on a map, about half way between Taroom and Mundubbera on the Auburn River.
Over Sun. Mon. Tues. nights we had 223mm, about 9inches.
Average annual rainfall for this area is 26 inches, since Dec.6 we've had 24 inches.
We have another place only 10km up the river that has only had half as much, still very good rain.
I know I should be shot for saying it, but we could use a dry spell just now.
Cheers, Greg

Shimmy1 · Jan 28, 2015

The guys that farm down there have kind of had a rough go last couple years not? Not been a lot of crops?

Queenslander · Jan 28, 2015

It's been tough enough here but lots have had it much tougher for longer and still haven't had a decent break in the season.
Most of the worst affected areas are cattle and sheep grazing only, but crop farmers have had a rough trot too.
The thing is, the weather now seems a series of extremes, big floods followed by long droughts..
I see parts of the US are enduring a record cold snap now.
Cheers, Greg

d9e · Jan 29, 2015

well i'll be qldr, one of our son in laws, gary used to be at narrane research station until a couple yrs ago. resigned an moved onto our block at westmar full of dreams, (oh to be young an full of dreams again)had about 6" in the last 14 days now, the grass an pasture an crops are growing and the butterflies are flying, like the monsoon seasons of old, just caught and boxed another bee swarm yesterday, so we'll soon be in the land of milk and honey. you're right though about the patchy break, one fella about 15 km x/country from us at westmar had had only 8ml up till last week, his dams were dry an not a stick of grass, waiting to hear from gary if that long suffering bloke got any last week. hope so .

wbvs58 · Jan 29, 2015

You should do well with those cull cows d9e whenever you get them to market. For the immediate future I can only see prices going one way and that is up. I think there are a lot of buyers sitting on the side expecting prices to fall but I think their hand will be forced to buy at the autumn weaner sales and that will force the prices higher still.
Ken

Cam85 · Jan 30, 2015

I hope prices sky rocket then the cow cocky might spend some money and pull some country , push a fence line or 3 and maybe even build a dam or 2.

I also hope it rains like hell and washes roads out and makes a real mess outa everything then there might b some work around the place.

wbvs58 · Jan 30, 2015

If Labor get in there won't be much scrub pulling.
Ken

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