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Bring in the heavy civil trade, this is a pretty cool project. Use to deal with Hanson all the time as well which is now Forterra. Best of luck!!
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Looks like it is getting deep!
yes we had to cut a ditch to the dam and through the dam to de-water the silt. We were digging 12' deep in the silt we still were not hitting a hard bottom. so we had to lay a clay road to get a cut to the dam. that will make that area over 20' deep. ( we will not move all this dirt, we will move what we can afford and have room for on the dam end. it is already close to 10' deep.
That is dam impressive :). How long do you think it will take to clear it. Pretty amazing to take this on.
Amazing to pay some to take the soil and they will have someone pay them to deliver it. You should be able to connect with someone and split the costs.
It sounded like he was working around a companies' schedule to do exactly that?
Sounds like your wife schedule expectation to husband schedule expectation ratio is exactly the way it is at my house! Good luck on this awesome project. Are you anywhere close to those Herman brothers I see on TV's "Lake Life" ? You could probably be on TV yourself with this project.....but may not be on your interest list.
The rail road contractor is suppose to dig and hall the dirt away but they just want clay. So we are cleaning out the silt on the south end of the lake they are digging the north 600' of the lake for the dirt. and I got to finish digging and do final grades. I still will need to move around 100,000 yards of dirt myself to make everything work.
we have Calculated if the weather would stay clear and have good conditions it would take 50 to 60 8hrs days to dig the lake. We have log in about 15 true 8 hr days so far but the biggest problem is we dig for two days than it rains and than we spend 4 to 6 hour cleaning up the mess the rain makes and get to dig for another day or two. I know I could make real progress if I can work at least a week straight. (I get 3 weeks vacation form my regular job but this summer and fall I could not string more the 3 days off to dig mainly because of weather.
Keep up the good work!
Just thought I would give an update Not much digging this winter. We did tare down and clean up a couple building and a bunch of trees that need to go.
The rail road keeps dropping there numbers on the amount of dirt they need. and in about another month or two there project is going to be done. On the Plus side I got some of the silt dirt sold to another contractor for a couple of crossing for the rail over and under the local highways.
I went to an auction Friday that I should of not went to and end up with another toy to help on the lake build I could not pass it up for the price.
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this will make the third haul truck for the project.
You ARE one-of-a-kind! Amazing project and equally amazing toys! Looking forward to more pics and updates. Thanks for posting.
Such an incredible journey so far! You have amassed a pretty impressive fleet of toys. Hope you have continued progress and look forward to the updates.
Been doing a little more digging. I am currently have a second track hoe out at the place. thing are starting to come together.
We tore out a bunch of trees.
We been building roads around the property with clay off the edges.
The silt in the existing pond is starting to get dry enough we can push it with the dozer. (just need a bigger one now)
The equipment been holding up for the most part only minor repairs so far.
The Railroad contractor fell through on the dirt they were going to take they missed there estimates by 80,000 yards. (the wrong way)
But I have picked up another contractor who's digging 10,000 yards for a bridge project. I also have a second contract needing 10,000 for a project he bid but is waiting on getting start. (Got to love the IL budget these are state projects taking the dirt so everything is shut down till the finalize a budget)
Here is some pics hope you enjoy
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few more pics my wife been taking better pics with her camera these are just the quick ones I snapped off my phone.
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Such an amazing project! How far off do you think you are?
Thats a S*(&t Ton of work. Cant wait to see the final product.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop.
By the way, might have to come stay a week with you to enjoy! gonna build a guest house?
My wife want to turn the grain bin into a studio apartment/ cabin for guest.
I would say we are about 30% on moving dirt but 10% done with the area for the boat path. We been working on what is considered the hard part moving the silt a majority of the boat path is more solid dirt to move.
Here is some more pics.
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time consuming process for sure. That's a lot of dirt to move.
Nice!! House I Liked it.
Bump. Haven't heard from you in a while. Hard to progress through the winter?
Nice lake, nice house. I have also this dreams of owning a private ski lake. But when? I am waiting for the day. :P
We Ran Clear up to the week before Christmas than it got to cold and we quit for the winter.
We got a lot to done in the last couple months.
if you are looking at the lake from north to south we have the 6' more to dig for the north most 400' that will incorporate a turn Island in it.
and we have from 400' mark to the 1800' mark 80 percent done. Then we have to shave 4' out of from the 1800' mark to the 2600' mark.
there is a lot left to do.
New lake completion goal is by the end of 2018. I think this is very doable depending on how wet of year we have.
I lost a bunch of pics because my computer crashed and I did not have them backed up on my external hard drive.
I did find a cool 5' tall sign about 6' under the dirt here is a picture of it it was folded in thirds when I unfolded it just has rust lines where it was folded
Here is a few more pics. I am hoping to borrow a friends drone this week and fly it over what I currently have cause a lot of people been asking for updates.
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How is the project coming along?
Well Lake building for 2018 did not go as plan. I took a new Engineering Job in march. This stop me from spending the extra time on the lake that I had planed. (Life got into the way of building the lake but it will happen with a wife and 3 kids at the age of 4, 5 and 8.) But we did a few cool thing around the project my 5 year old had a dirt birthday party and all the kids loved it
We got a lot done but still have a lot more to go.
We put in 3 silt ponds and 3 dry dams to contain the water flow into the lake.
New goal is the end of 2019 and hopefully wakeboarding on it in 2020.
I did add a 2008 case lx350b trackhoe and a drivable compactor to the construction fleet this year.
We came up with a potential name for the lake this year.
WTF - (Wolff's Training Farm or Wakeboard Training Facility) or it could just be what my wife and neighbors ask me all the time What The F are you doing.
Here is some pics through the year.
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Jesus that’s legit. Good luck with the project. How many acres will it end up being?
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end of December we got a 2" rain and we had about 4' of water flowing through the lake bed.
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It should be around 18 acres when done.
That is so awesome glad to hear its still rolling forward. I'm sure the kids love it.
Awesome that we can follow the updates and get know how such a things are going on.
That's very curious.
Just a little update.
We had a rough year on digging with all the rain through out the year. I had to install floater tires on one of the off road trucks because it been so wet(every time we tired to dig it was just too wet).
On the plus side we just bought another 24 acres (we closed in December on) that is attached to our property which allows us to push the dam back another 500'. This will give us a total of 3000' ( a 2000' straight away a slight kick and another 1000' straight away.) should make it a little nicer yet.
we are currently on hold due to the weather and cold. (I am able to still sale dirt every now and than) I was able to sale 100 loads last week.
I figure I have two to three weeks of moving dirt in the core part of the lake than most of the dirt is moved.
I got about 1000' of bank to finish shaping.
We got a lot of trees to remove on the new piece of ground we just got.
then it will be dam building time.
Our goal is to finish it this summer and be skiing on it the summer of 2021.
Sorry for no pictures my computer or phone will not load them to the site any more and I am not able to see what pics I posted on here anymore also.
Someone else was reporting the same thing in a different thread - unable to upload.Quote:
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