Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 41 minutes ago
Why such a short haul? The floor of the pond had to be undercut and flopped back in as lifts. Doing this ensures that the liner material is engineered to spec, and there isn't any large pockets of loose dirt, or large rocks in what would of been the original ground at the finished grade elevation. On most pond jobs this is standard practice when using a clay liner, it basically ensures the floor won't leak and the pond will hold a certain volume of water.
So in this video I am in a D8T and am working with 3 trucks to fill the undercut back up to grade. At this point of the backfill process my lift is quite close to the cut, which made it tight for the trucks and a very short haul. Since I had to do roughly 3 one foot lifts to get back up to the a meter, I had to create lifts in benches and hop back at forth to different areas to keep working with the trucks while my last lift got tested for compaction.
Hopefully that explains what we're up to in this video.
Why such a short haul? The floor of the pond had to be undercut and flopped back in as lifts. Doing this ensures that the liner material is engineered to spec, and there isn't any large pockets of loose dirt, or large rocks in what would of been the original ground at the finished grade elevation. On most pond jobs this is standard practice when using a clay liner, it basically ensures the floor won't leak and the pond will hold a certain volume of water.
So in this video I am in a D8T and am working with 3 trucks to fill the undercut back up to grade. At this point of the backfill process my lift is quite close to the cut, which made it tight for the trucks and a very short haul. Since I had to do roughly 3 one foot lifts to get back up to the a meter, I had to create lifts in benches and hop back at forth to different areas to keep working with the trucks while my last lift got tested for compaction.
Hopefully that explains what we're up to in this video.
