Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[wroughtn_harv]

And yes, I've probably been stuck more often than anyone else on TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The big deck was a challenge. Sorta like the difference between changing a diaper on a newborn versus fifty year old.

 

[txdon]

<font color="blue"> "Then we're going to make it a covered bridge, a kinda sorta New England covered bridge. But with our touch." </font>

Yes I do remember the bridge. If I remember right it was a flat metal bridge made with large salvaged metal. I don't remember any sides to it. The cover is a good idea. Once the road next to his place is open up for traffic it will block out the traffic. Most people just build a fence but a New England Bridge in Dallas, How cool is that???? That will turn some heads! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif WOW!

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( And yes, I've probably been stuck more often than anyone else on TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif )</font>

Harvey, lately I've been trying to dig out some of the silt in one of my ponds and I've been stuck more times than I care to admit. My definition of "stuck" is when the front wheels drop down in soft mud and I have to dump my FEL and use it to get unstuck. I haven't had to give away any pictures of dead presidents, but the pictures of Iris wallowing in the mud look awfully familiar. It just goes with the territory. The only way to prevent it is to leave the tractor in the barn. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I guess I'd better update everything.

We're done on the pond for now. We'll continue where we've left off next spring.

We sent the guys home each with a DVD with about thirty two hundred pictures between mine and the client's.

Here's some a picture of the finished rock deck.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Of course we didn't want the beams to show so our deck got herself a skirt.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Here's another shot of the rock deck with her skirt in place.

The way we did it was we drilled through the skirt stones and then up through the deck. The holes were countersunk and we used all thread. After we grouted in the holes it's hard to figure out what we did.

I like that hard to figure part best I believe.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It's as solid as the slab to walk out on. And the look while not a finished one, fits the rest of the construction I believe.

Hanging those puppies was interesting, not fun, not easy, but interesting.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We needed to raise the forty foot bridge one foot.

It was only eighteen inch I beam so it wasn't a big thing, but still a thing.

The first thing was to jack it up.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

At the other end we decided to add some concrete, just cause, you know cause, cause we could and we felt we should.