I need a pond dug in my back yard 8' x 8' x 4' - approximate

[MRM]

I'd be real tempted to purchase an above ground pool.
If you already have a decent air compressor, you can shotcrete the sides to keep them from caving in over time.

 

[Ringleader]

I'd be real tempted to purchase an above ground pool.
If you already have a decent air compressor, you can shotcrete the sides to keep them from caving in over time.

"shotcrete" Damn, learn something new everyday and wasn't even trying.

 

[Plinker66]

You can build a wooden box in place also out of pressure treated lumber if you lag the boards. After digging that hole the box will be a breeze.

 

[JamesG]

If you dig some whenever the rain has the soil soft you will get there but that is a very large hole to dig by hand in any soil.

Many hands make for light work.

But don't hire these guys.

 

[biker_bill]

That was one of many of my Dad's line - Many hands make light work.
It took us years to figure out that's why he had 5 kids, lol.

 

[mtnsmith]

If you dig some whenever the rain has the soil soft you will get there but that is a very large hole to dig by hand in any soil.

I don't think that is too big a dig. My house is a split level with the one story part about 900 sq ft and it sat about 3 feet off the ground. Many years ago, I dug it out another 4 1/2 feet and pouedr concrete walls up to the footings for a basement. It was very clay type soil and I not only had to use a mattock, but a pick to dig it out. Didn't want to use any water for fear it would be absorbed by the soil under the footings. Sloping back yard got leveled out a lot.

 

[biker_bill]

The last time I dug that much dirt by hand it was for a foxhole, lol.

 

[Bagos]

The last time I dug that much dirt by hand it was for a foxhole, lol.

HERE HERE. I second that one!!!!!!!

 

[Bagos]

I think we just showed our age lol I think fox holes are hard as hell to dig in sand!!!!

 

[biker_bill]

I think we just showed our age lol I think fox holes are hard as hell to dig in sand!!!!

Yea right, that would be a nightmare, lol.