You ARE my diddy! I can tell because those conglomerated forms in post #15 look just like mine.
You ARE my diddy! I can tell because those conglomerated forms in post #15 look just like mine.
I was looking (and laughing) at those forms too. They are great!!! They worked, didn't they? that's all that counts!!! It's going to be a great pond!Originally Posted by luke-gr
Thanks Son and CG Cindy .
BTW for some reason the pictures are not in the order I uploaded them. Oh well, you get the idea.
In one of the pictures in post #15, it looks like the forms are filled with rocks. Did you just pour the concrete over them?
Yes Mark, I used some actual concrete test cylinders we break in testing where I work and some gabion sized limestone pieces in a few places for filler, because the concrete would have to be 18-24 inches thick. I used #8 gravel mix and left gaps in the stones for the mix to flow around it all and make it a solid mass, I also used some wire and old chain link fence in there.Originally Posted by Mark_NoVA
Good heavens Lee....if the police ever have to dig that up they are going to swear you've got a body in there!!!!!!
I love it!!!
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I was wondering what that white, PVC-pipe-looking stuff was...
Those are the 6"x12" concrete test cylinders. Or what is left of them after we make them explode in a pressure machine, some just split and others shatter in tiny pieces depending on what type of concrete mix they are made of.Originally Posted by Mark_NoVA
MJ ssshhh ( ever heard of Jimmy Hoffa from my area)Originally Posted by Mommajoan
Thats alot of hand digging Lee. I feel for you with the rainfall, it sure does hinder a project.
Yes and I was so sad to see what the rain did to your own project , we will beat it in the long run Gail.Originally Posted by emmalou
LOL.it is pouring out as you say that Lee! But there is summer weather coming upOriginally Posted by Leekinneykoi
Well of course we are expecting a thunderstorm rains, lightening,hail this evening here since I formed a spot for a concrete pad for one sediment chamber last evening , I just knew good ole mother nature would have to turn it all to muck for a few days to hold me up, What ever did I do wrong.Originally Posted by emmalou
The rain is so heavy it looks like snow here.lol.but thats ok.saves me filling up the goose pond! And figures that the pond bottom was finally dry before this rainOriginally Posted by Leekinneykoi
I guess we just grin and bear it , well maybe I can get the thread caught up this evening if it is raining, to last nights pictures.Originally Posted by emmalou
In March of 2006 it started to warm up enough that I would go out and walk around the yard and pond and get disgusted at the mess. It took quite a while to get motivated to start things. And of course the rains were back.
The one good thing was I took the lid of of the soft tub and found green plants instead of dead from freezing ones that I was worried I would find. It is insulated well.
There was just clutter everywhere, and tons of leaves in the garden I saved and ended up pushing them in the dirt pile (in May) since I decided on no Vegetable Garden this year , more time for the pond.
Lots of nothing pictures, somewhere in there is a dirt/scrap concrete/block/bricks pile from re-doing my garage 2 years ago it will be loaded and hauled away in May to make a shallow lily pond that will also catch my filter flushing water/fish poo
Time to get busy, I started by draining the liner and cleaning the mess out of it and pressure washed it all and folded.
I also used some of these pictures to demonstrate to new ponders what will happen in a pond without a skimmer and Bottom Drains. https://www.koiphen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39858
I had decided over the winter to use that liner for the upper pond and get a 30x30 and raise my pond above ground a few blocks high. Well I will still get the bigger liner but the blocks are out because of cost and/or time consumption. I have lots of huge sandstone from my family home I tore down to build my house behind its old foundation. I even considered using them in mortared layers to raise the pond for sitting but they are so huge and different thicknesses, it would be very hard to keep a nice level water line, and probably kill me anyhoo lifting and mortaring it all. So back to ground level and a sandstone cap.
After the draining and from what I learned over winter I decided all the plant shelves were going, the only thing I would leave was some small steps to escape if (I ) someone falls in. So back to the old spud bar and rock quarry I went. I was now throwing all the dirt in the upper pond, and not a wheel barrel because the one shelf on the left and the huge rock near the steps mentioned earlier, warranted another day of Trac Hoe rental Woo Hoo
An amazingly mostly rain free month for April. ( someone is just holding it till May )
Oh Lee that was alot of rock!
LEE TAKE NOTE always resize all your pictures the same size to keep them in the same order when they post as they were uploaded. I just learned why they are not in order.