Dredging Equipment For Small Jobs

If you own a pond that needs to be dredged every year or so then you may want to consider purchasing your own dredging equipment to keep on hand to do the job yourself. If this is the case, then you have the option of buying or building your own dredging equipment.

Small Portable Dredging Equipment

Small portable dredges such as you can find on smaller non commercial private gold dredges come as small as one and a half inch openings that are powered by a conventional lawn mower type engine. While this might seem small it may be just what you need if your pond is a smaller decorative pond.

Small Decorative Fish Ponds

Often times smaller Koy ponds can become overly charged with excess nutrients due to the continuous introduction of fish food, which of course is directly converted to fish waste. In these smaller ponds with excess nutrient scenarios, a small personal dredge is all that is needed.

Larger Dredging Equipment For Larger Ponds

For removing larger amounts of earth and substrate, such as sand and gravel, larger dredging equipment is definitely in order. Once again there is larger more heavy duty dredging equipment that can be purchased complete or incrementally and constructed on your site.

Large Commercial Dredging Equipment

The larger of these types of hydraulic dredges will have up to eight inch suction lines and be powered by a small car motor. However they are fully capable of vacuuming up and removing tens of yards of pond sediment per hour. Also while smaller dredges can contained on a back pack, larger dredges will have to be built and floated on larger pontoons

By: Mark Avendido

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