Cutting a contour with a bulldozer
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roo friend
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Cutting a contour with a bulldozer
Hi...I'm just about to divide a paddock into 3 using nsf principles, and using a bulldozer. This is my plan: push up the contours from below using a swewed blade to a height of about half a metre. Also I'm planning to redirect a lower dam feeder drain gently uphill in about 3 places so that its overflow goes into the next one along, creating shallow crescent-shaped ponds that will eventually hold weeds, rubble, logs and so on. They will still drain to the dam, but much slower and recharge everything below them at the same time. Any comments are very welcome.
Roo Friend
Can I call you Skip??
Skip
Can you draw what you have and are wanting and then put it up here so we can all get a look and then can comment??
Not sure how you
A contour is just that....all on the one level.
A drain is a drain...it runs water away.
The Australian landscape because it is SO flat ran its water system on contours.
That is a KEY principle of our natural landscape and Peter's NSF principles.
Having a drawing would help greatly.
Skip
Can you draw what you have and are wanting and then put it up here so we can all get a look and then can comment??
Not sure how you
get water to run uphill?redirect a lower dam feeder drain gently uphill
A contour is just that....all on the one level.
A drain is a drain...it runs water away.
The Australian landscape because it is SO flat ran its water system on contours.
That is a KEY principle of our natural landscape and Peter's NSF principles.
Having a drawing would help greatly.
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roo friend
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- Joined: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:41 pm
Hi Duane...
skip here (aka roo) thanks for the reply mate and the reminder of the theory. Yeah the drain's bank will be led uphill, and the water will follow that new bank uphill as it backs up, so I guess water can run uphill if you look at it that way,creating a soak, but that isn't the point really, I'm after anyone whom has experience building a contour with a bulldozer. Working from the bottom seems to be the go. Anyone out there?
cheers
skip here (aka roo) thanks for the reply mate and the reminder of the theory. Yeah the drain's bank will be led uphill, and the water will follow that new bank uphill as it backs up, so I guess water can run uphill if you look at it that way,creating a soak, but that isn't the point really, I'm after anyone whom has experience building a contour with a bulldozer. Working from the bottom seems to be the go. Anyone out there?
cheers
Roo Friend