Opening up a spring with a track-hoe

[pacerron]

Ron, I see I'm going to have fun with the top.

Don,
I would suggest building the wishing well in a barn or garage where there is power if you have either available on your property.
Since your culvert is 32" you might use a piece of 48" as the main frame. You could lag or bolt 6 x 6 vertical posts for your roof to the inside of the 48" culvert and
still have plenty of room to slip it down over the 32". You could weld pins to the outside of the culvert for hanging cover material like you did on the bridge. Might need to use artificial stone for weight control. Be careful if you weld on galvanized to have plenty of air as the fumes could make you sick. You could probably just use bolts stuck out with the heads on the inside and have the nuts down in the low ribs of the culvert rather than weld, if you enjoy drilling holes in culvert steel. Having the outside diameter of the well being 4' plus whatever facing material you use, stone or wood, gives the opportunity for a higher roof to be in correct proportion. You could also hinge one side of the roof or both at the peak and use a couple of the little captive gas cylinders like they use on car hoods and lift gates, ( even on CNH tractor hoods ) so the roof would be out of the way if you wanted to get a bucket of water.
Sound like a winter project.
Ron

 

[txdon]

Good ideas Ron! I just might use a few of them.:thumbsup:

 

[txdon]

Won't that look funny with a wishing well top out in the water? Or am I seeing this all wrong?
hugs, Brandi

You are seeing it right Brandi. An overlapping culvert, or an extension, or pull the culvert up 2' is the only way it would work. I'm waiting for the water level to stabilize before I decide which way to go. I will also have to take in to account the added weight and if that will push the inside culvert further down. However, the second culvert is 42" so a 48" would rest on the rock. But if the water is overflowing out of the inner culvert, I'll want to utilize it for a feature. Hmmmmm..... I'll have to take phase II slowly.

 

[pacerron]

You are seeing it right Brandi. An overlapping culvert, or an extension, or pull the culvert up 2' is the only way it would work. I'm waiting for the water level to stabilize before I decide which way to go. I will also have to take in to account the added weight and if that will push the inside culvert further down. However, the second culvert is 42" so a 48" would rest on the rock. But if the water is overflowing out of the inner culvert, I'll want to utilize it for a feature. Hmmmmm..... I'll have to take phase II slowly.

Don,
I just saw your record report on the heat. That is not a record anyone would like to have.
Did you punch any holes in the sides of the 6' culvert before putting it in the hole? Waiting for the water level to stabilize and the disturbed ground to settle down is the smart way to go. You might have to do things over if you
get too anxious.
Ron

 

[bindian]

You are seeing it right Brandi. An overlapping culvert, or an extension, or pull the culvert up 2' is the only way it would work. I'm waiting for the water level to stabilize before I decide which way to go. I will also have to take in to account the added weight and if that will push the inside culvert further down. However, the second culvert is 42" so a 48" would rest on the rock. But if the water is overflowing out of the inner culvert, I'll want to utilize it for a feature. Hmmmmm..... I'll have to take phase II slowly.

Don,
Okay, let's up the ante. Wishing well theme with solar panel in the roof powering a pump that flows water out an old fashion hand pump.:licking:
hugs, Brandi

 

[txdon]

I actually removed the solar panel hours before the backhoe came and was thinking how I could use it on the wishing well roof facing south. I have a new pump that connects to the solar panel and it can pump the water to a raised tank and then It would be downhill to the field garden about 300 ft away......

I do like the projects to be functional, not just decorative.

So many projects so little time.........

 

[bindian]

So many projects so little time.........

Yep.
hugs, Brandi

 

[pacerron]

Neither Jim.
You see that square pond bottom center. Thats not it either but the berms divert surface water to that pond and it's about 1/2 inch northwest of it. There is a triangle (white) angling to the fence line that is the berm. All the ponds are down to the last 2-4 feet of water and drying fast. All the ponds were here during the bridge project. The big pond dam in the back is the one Eddiewalker took a group on a trailer ride. The "here" is a small "frog" pond that has dried up a month ago.

edit: The red square is the spring pond.

Is this the "ORTHIS" pond?
Now that's a pond!

Ron

 

[txdon]

I don't recognize that pond. However, if there is a grappling hook on the end of that rope then it has to be.

 

[pacerron]

I don't recognize that pond. However, if there is a grappling hook on the end of that rope then it has to be.

It is in a thread about welding that I came across. As I recall the text, you had made the hook in a hurry during a short last day of class. This site still has me confused about getting positive search results, or finding a thread I have been to before unless I keep a log of the exact thread name and page # of interest, which so far I have not done.
Is there a way to "bookmark" the threads within the TBN storage system?
There are many interesting and educational threads on TBN, even for an old duffer like me that knows it all, or used to think so anyway, but finding them without a lot of time consuming unrelated browsing is difficult. A lot is probably caused by the folks trying to give their threads a unique catchy name I suppose.
Ron