Thanks for the nice pics boone. Is the tree behind your machine in the first pic part of the pond area?
The pictures of the pond turned our blurry for some reason so I didn't post them. In the first pic, the pond is actually straight ahead up over the rise as you look at the picture. The pond is "uphill" from where I took the pic...no wonder it's dry Actually, it was fed by run off from the hills around it and believe it or not use to hold quite a bit of water.
In the second pic, the loader is in the same spot as the first. The pond is just to right of the picture frame. You can see in the foreground where we've been pulling the banks down and weeds are growing back up. The fresh dirt is where we did some clearing of trees and is the remainder of the bank.
In the third and fourth pic, the loader is pointed straight for the pond.