What did you use to dig your pond?

Question

I would love to keep digging and work on my pond but it's taking FOREVER with a shovel, I'm 13 and I'm working on it alone I would like to find an easier way to dig a pond without so much phsyical work put into it. I can hardly find anything that is cheap and everything is very expensive I'm 1/4 done with it so far and it's three feet deep. It's summer time and very hot the ground is almost as hard as rock and It's hard to even get the shovel in the ground I only have a budget of 120 dollars and I would love any kind of suggestion. Thank you for reading!

Answer 1

A pickaxe will shift the hard ground so you can shovel it away. Otherwise keep on keeping on and you will get there eventually.

Answer 2

Hi!  me too! zero budget!

So like the other guy said, A pick ax, a pry bar, and a shovel.

  I ended up with a four foot deep by five foot wide pond.

  Then I went begging.

I begged a liner for a wall to wall carpet.

That will be put down first to protect the actual pond liner.

Pond liners are about $50.00 to $100.00 dollars for the soft liners in United States.

  Then I gathered large rocks to hold the liner in place while I filled and smoothed it.

  Then there are the filters and the pumps, and the U.V. lighting to keep the pond clean and clear.

     It was and still is, WAY MORE expensive than I ever dreamed that it would be!