Akita Pool

[EddieWalker]

Yes, my wife loves the. She has been trying to save them with some better rechargeable batteries, but with little success. They last a few months and then they are junk. We've tried other brands on Amazon and found some great ones, but then they get discontinued and we can't get any more of them.

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie.

What is with the pool, as you have a real pond(s) on your property?

I hope you will use the pool, besides the dogs.

My dog for whatever reason heads for our muddy swamp or tiny frog pond, vs. our small ponds. He drinks that crappy water too?
Maybe he just does not want to go in the pasture with the cows?

Our hope is that they will all walk down at least two steps, but in all reality, they will probably continue to favor a mud puddle when given the choice. My wife does take them for walks down to the pond, but with so many distractions, she can only handle one at a time.

She is also armed on these walks because of the high number of snakes that we have here. This year alone, I've killed 11 snakes and she's killed 7. More have gotten away then we have killed!!! Our oldest female has been bitten twice in the last 9 months by copperhead snakes.

Wild hogs are all over the place. Last night they tore up the grass by our front gate. Just about every inch of our fence around our yard is tore up. We know when the hogs are out there because the dogs go wild at the fence. The good thing about the hogs is that they make great dog food in the crock pot!!!!

 

[s219]

is there going to be a stone flat on the ground? that first step looks much taller

You got a good eye! Yes, I put two 24x24" stones at ground level. A few weeks later we had some heavy rain that "grouted" them down with runoff sand/clay, and you'd think they had been mortared in they are so solid.

 

[mike69440]

Our hope is that they will all walk down at least two steps, but in all reality, they will probably continue to favor a mud puddle when given the choice. My wife does take them for walks down to the pond, but with so many distractions, she can only handle one at a time.

She is also armed on these walks because of the high number of snakes that we have here. This year alone, I've killed 11 snakes and she's killed 7. More have gotten away then we have killed!!! Our oldest female has been bitten twice in the last 9 months by copperhead snakes.

Wild hogs are all over the place. Last night they tore up the grass by our front gate. Just about every inch of our fence around our yard is tore up. We know when the hogs are out there because the dogs go wild at the fence. The good thing about the hogs is that they make great dog food in the crock pot!!!!

Nothing says love like a Cabela's Carnivore Meat Grinder. (I.e my wife's Birthday Present!)

Most snakes in NH don't kill you if they bite.

No hogs and Scottish Highlanders and our other feral acting cows have little tolerance of coyotes, dogs, etc.

My mutt Dobie/Swissy Dog "Jake" does not have a high prey drive, so screaming "Leave it" with the skunks and porcupines usually works. Her pure breds may not be as smart, but I let them on the trails anyway.
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[17 Oaks]

Snakes, its a Texas thing, some may not understand. Every species of poisonous snake is the US is found in Texas.

Folks from Oho moved to S Tx, I worked with him so invited over to see Cowboys game one Sunday. Out from under the couch goes a snake. I reach over on lamp stand next to chair, pull out .22 pistol, bam, head shot solves it. Their eyes bigger than dinner plates. He asked if I was going to get the dead snake out of the living room....Yea, at half-time...

That was it, suddenly they had to go. He quit the job and him and wife went back to Ohio, he never said another word to me.

 

[mapper]

It does my heart good to see pictures of you down in a pit laying block Eddie, since I am happy it's not me.

I had to make a small set of stairs for the patio I built, and ended up building a form and pouring concrete. I had a certain size blue-stone treads to work with, and a range of desired step/tread height, and it was going to take a lot of block cutting and fiddling to make it work with blocks. I quickly realized it would be faster to design and construct a form and pour it. That said, the form design wasn't easy, just because there were a lot of things to take into account (think about cutting stair stringers and then also compensate for mortar and stone height on steps, and scratch coat, mortar, and veneer thickness on the risers, and of course form size considerations too). It came out OK but I learned many things that would make it a lot better if I ever have to do it again. Actually, if I had to do it again I might let standard block sizes dictate the step rise/run so I could use block, and then get the blue-stone cut to size.

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It looks like the brain sweat was worth it, very nice result.:thumbsup:

 

[clemsonfor]

I am pretty sure we have them all but the W. Diamondback. I have run across them all at least once in the woods, luckily not often, up here in the piedmont there not as many period, but most of them are copperheads.

Last year at the farm I was pulling back in the yard at the farm (our second property) when I saw a snake slither in front of the tractor from over by the riding mower. Looked at it saw it was a copperhead, was 50 ft or less from the hose, I had the wife dog and 2.5 year old. got off the tractor, put my headlamp on and pulled out my 9mm. braced on the hood and one shot to the base of the head with defensive hollow point ammo basically severed the head.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Kinda wandering of topic here. Any updates on the akita pool ?

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Kinda wandering of topic here. Any updates on the akita pool ?

What's an Akita???:laughing: This is the snake forum... Oh, wait...

 

[EddieWalker]

What's an Akita???:laughing: This is the snake forum... Oh, wait...

I'm still stacking block. The humidity has gone to levels I've never experienced before and by noon on Saturday, I was struggling to breath. My wife thought she was sick with the flu!!! On a good day, I'm able to set around 50 blocks without killing myself. I might have gotten that many over both days, this weekend, and it was a struggle. The forecast is for Tropical Storm Harvey to hit this weekend and lower the temps considerably. Once the heat index hits 110, I'm hurting!!!!