11' x 16' Pond?

[steve in Pa.]

Whats the average man hours you have in a 11 x 16 pond with a small streambed running about 10' with falls? I know the more ponds you do the faster your time but i'm looking for an average. Thanks for any info.

[jd boy]

we bought a small kubota backhoe to speed up excevation. so we can have an 11 x 16 built in 40hrs or so.

[kb&a]

40hrs??? how many guys working on it ?how deep? stream?waterfall?

[jd boy]

typically we will have 3 men on a job. I don't buy in to the aquascape 5 men in a day. We've tried it but always feel like we are tripping over each other.

usually we will go 3' deep, and we usually will have some where around a 10' stream.
I'm telling you, mechanizing the digging process makes it go quick because the crew is fresh to place rock material. Traditionally by the time we would dig a pond out everyone was about spent.