Backhoe rental?

[Regalblue]

Where is your sense of adventure!

Lol it'll be in jail with me.

[mightieskeeper]

Blair can you drive it up 23 to me! Lol.  We can bury things in the yard.

[Regalblue]

Blair can you drive it up 23 to me! Lol.  We can bury things in the yard.

I bury enough "things"....

[four_by_ken]

Blair can you drive it up 23 to me! Lol.  We can bury things in the yard.

I bury enough "things"....

I dont want you to bury anything... UNBURY is all I need.

[Steve]

So how big is the pond Ken? You already have it and are thinking of making it bigger? Sounds pretty cool lets hear more.

[RichE]

ok Kids, a backhoe is not what you want for this type of job.

You need to rent a excavator and if you rent it I will dig for you. I have experience using them and they are not hard to use but can scare the day lights out of you.

No one is going to rent one except a rental company and there is one on 22 mile rd in shelby twp, they will deliver and pick up, IIRC it would run around $500 for a weekend inc delivery

If you supply the Ice tea with lemon and lunch I will dig till I run out of fuel or daylight and even then there are flashlights

If you want I can look up what you are going to need

[four_by_ken]

So how big is the pond Ken? You already have it and are thinking of making it bigger? Sounds pretty cool lets hear more.

I am horrible at this, but it is about 40'x20'?

I want at a minimum to just rejuvenate the pond.  Reshape the sides, get some crap weeds out and dig out the muck that has built up at the bottom. 

Ideally I want to make it more kidney shape also... which would also make it a little bigger.  Any depth gained would be a plus.

[four_by_ken]

ok Kids, a backhoe is not what you want for this type of job.

You need to rent a excavator and if you rent it I will dig for you. I have experience using them and they are not hard to use but can scare the day lights out of you.

No one is going to rent one except a rental company and there is one on 22 mile rd in shelby twp, they will deliver and pick up, IIRC it would run around $500 for a weekend inc delivery

If you supply the Ice tea with lemon and lunch I will dig till I run out of fuel or daylight and even then there are flashlights

If you want I can look up what you are going to need

Excavators are even harder to find to "barrow" and even more expensive to rent.  But they do work the best.  That's what all the "pond companies" use.

But if one really is $500... I better start saving returnables!