Help with pond.

[wacmartin]

What kind of round up? You have a picture of the bottle?

This home made hippie, non harmful to the environment concoction I made up is terrible. Vinegar, baking soda, salt, and dish soap, it dried up the big weeds but not the little ones.
Screw the wife and her hippie ways, I need chemicals.

By the way it's looking way better. You ever going on to fish in there when you get the weeds out?

 

[alpinehyperlite]

I got this stuff.

http://www.scotts.com/smg/goprod/roundup-weed-grass-killer-concentrate-plus/prod70336/

6 oz per gal. Got a 2 gal sprayer. I'd have gone with the "super concentrate stuff" but they only had the big bottles of it for like $130.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Update: 7/15/13

Picked up two of these:

Chopped the head off of one of em, and mounted onto an 8ft - 16ft extendable pool cleaning pole. And went to work.
After around 5.5 - 6 hours in the rain I got this stacked about 2ft high half way around the pond:

Was able to dig out the fountain head and get the filters cleared out:

And got out 90% of the vegetation on the surface out of the pond and onto the bank. Still several feet of dead leaves/plants on the bottom, but progress is being made as I got all the big stuff out.

 

[SMaxxin]

That looks a lot better!

 

[Rolex]

Looking really good. Almost time for an RC boat.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

An air boat is definitely in the future.

 

[Phins Fan]

We use an old boxspring without any of the stuffing/fabric on it for dragging the bottom of our relatives beach house in lake Ontario. We throw it out about 20 feet and pull it out with an ATV. Doing this several times will get rid of the vegetation in the pond. As far as the overgrow - not a clue - sorry

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Gonna do the same thing with a section of chain link fence.

 

[hamz9561]

Videos or it didn't happen.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

That'll be a while down the road.

Pulled out another (easy) 1500 lbs of plant life today. Still got I'd estimate to be 2500 -3500 lbs before I'm gonna be comfortable.

 

[Childresshunt]

If i where you id just go ahead and go rent a small track hoe it would make easy work of that and you could dig it out a lil deeper. And you should be able to kill the green stuff on top of the water but id suggest going to the ag center or calling wildlife and fisheries to find out what will work best

 

[alpinehyperlite]

I've got access to a mini x for free, but I'm rather enjoying doing it manually. I've never been a really big guy (5'11 200lbs) but I'm down 19 lbs from working on it for the past few weeks.

 

[hotrodrob]

Shallow swampy bottom ponds is what causes this,also being shallow the water temperature will rise which in turn will cause rapid growth

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[hamz9561]

An aerator might help this out.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Shallow swampy bottom ponds is what causes this,also being shallow the water temperature will rise which in turn will cause rapid growth

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For the size of it, 8-9 ft is pretty frickin deep. But the duckweed is easily taken care of with a pool skimmer.

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An aerator might help this out.

aeration system for this size (plus power for it to run constantly) is out of budget for a lil while.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Its actually constantly fed from a small stream. Its very slowly fed, but its constantly moving.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Crap. Looks like another copperhead. 3-4 ft long.

 

[nikko508]

I would move. After i burn the house down, and destroy everything on the property.:whhooo::whhooo:

 

[Childresshunt]

 

[Alexander_0_1]

Just dam off the fresh water feeding your pond with some sand bags, let it dry enough for you to walk in there/or pump it out with a small pump, and then clean your pond hole, after your done open up the waterway again and you should have a lot cleaner pond...Algie will die when the pond I'd dried up

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As for the copperheads, I'd walk around with a flame thrower, fricken snakes!