Bet You’ve NEVER Seen a TILLER Used Like THIS! Tilling STEEP SLOPED Pond Banks! Seeding Pond Rim!

Sowing Shoreline seed mix and tall type turf fescue around the upper pond bank for soil stabilization. Tractor Time with Tim and Dave use the Kubota U48-5 mini-excavator with a tiller mounted at 90 degrees to normal.

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[FelipeColby]

Slowly, with so much work...it just looks better and better. What a piece of art to get to look at every day. Very cool.

[Kcolby]

It just gets better and better. Gotta love the DDWD…and Christy’s follow-up😉 Blessings.

[RDJim]

I'm loving the pond series. Can't wait to see it in six months.

[jeffreycurrie]

Yeah I’m gunna have to cry foul on the DDWD. Definitely a pretty kooky stocking approach.

[guybloom]

Dropping or throwing the fish in is the correct way. When they are introduced with speed it forces them to swim getting oxygenated water over their gills increasing their survival rate. Cooler water means more oxygen and less stress on the fish. I have 30 years experience stocking fresh water fish and work as a Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer in PA.

[Treeplanter]

Can't wait to see some critters to go into that water.

[jkholley]

Worked out great.Pond it looking really nice.

[kevingebert]

Sweet! Almost forgot its Tractor Timmy Wednesday Time! Good thing you got lots of articulating mower types cuz I sure would hate weep whipping that shore line by hand. Luv the new one liner: It doesn't have a chair installed so not interested in doing it. :)

[RobertBrothersJr-dcnr]

Tim, great idea with the tiller and excavator and great job operating. I bet it wasn’t easy to navigate around the pond and keep the tiller at the proper angle and depth. Dave is a good worker and a nice addition to your channel. He shares some of Christy’s burden of keeping you on the straight and narrow. LOL

[Retroranger]

Need to do something similar to my pond. I have steep drop banks that are currently destroyed by muskrats. I think a tapered bank with a layer of riprap would help discourage this while making the edge safer to mow around.

[johnhelbig]

With your ingenuity, I’m certain you could make a frame to hold 3 or 4 garden rakes and mount it to the excavator. Dave would appreciate it!

[mikehouser]

Carnac the Magnificent “I see river rock in your future.” J K…. Looking good!

[Matt-kfbw]

So Tim, First- I really enjoy your channel…great job, keep it up. I, too, live in Indiana, and I’m consistently doing a lot of the same things you are working on g on, from clearing land, to building a pond. Most of which are with a JD 4700.
Second! I may have missed this somewhere, but….WHO is Dave? Family? Friend? Employee? And where did Dave Caine from? How did you all get “hooked up”, etc?

[kaytod]

You may have used the old seed horn and bag. It may have produced and easy way to seed the watergrass at the shoreline.

[cutlow]

Just think how nice a floating dock about 12 x 12 with a walkway to the center of "Lake Wobegon" would be.

[plainviewfarms]

I like the stone slopes they put around ponds

[paulweakley]

Down here in Southern Indiana we have a lot of limestone quarries that will sell huge blocks (old ones not good for carving / cutting) on the cheap. Tons of people build a limestone islands in the middle of their pond. Would look real good in yours.

[vietnamvet]

I would think a little loose soil running towards the waterline might help in seeding the grass seed close to waterline.

[Itsa_Mea]

Where will the duck blind be installed?
Pond and bank is looking great.

[HCH]

You need a tilt rotor on your excavator - it gives any attachment 360 degrees movement/rotation - that would take the pressure off your boom. Pond is looking great - looking forward to the grass growing in and the fish going in. I agree that you should definitely wait until autumn/winter before you put the fish in. Even with your two air stones, the oxygen holding capacity of warm water is much lower than cold water, and the fish will be stressed from transit - giving them cold water (and thus more oxygen) will assist in reducing that stress and mortalities.