Creating a Lake

[Holzster]

still looing great!!

I was thinking about your dam the other day - I thought you put it onhold for you new house - so I was right (I guess right every other year)

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks Holzster, I have a bad habbit of not finishing a project before starting another one. True to form, the house isn't done yet either. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Not allot of change, just more open dirt and fewer trees.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

We kind of started in the back corner of where the lake is going to be, and cleared enough room to start the fire. Then it's been a matter of clearing in a bigger circle working our way out.

As the opeing gets bigger, so does the fire. I'm trying to keep the fire long, thin and low to keep it under control.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Too many suprises today. This tree should have pushed right over after I cut the roots, but it snapped instead. Something I'd prefer didn't happen. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

While digging out a stump and some brush, a possum tumbled out of the bucket. I was so suprised to see it fall out that I didn't even reckognize it. I thought is was a white bunny rabbit at first with a weird tail and no ears. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

While pushing over a tree, a rat ran out from the roots to another tree that I'd already pushed over.

While cutting the roots of a tree, I pulled up the body of a small snake out, minus it's head. It was black with a white belly. Pretty sure it was a cotton mouth. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Plus an untold number of roots that snap out and fling a shower of dirt clods in my face. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Things were going good for too long. Murphy decided to make an apperance.

One of the pins that hold the rake on the dozer fell out. The rake came off the blade and twisted. The steel on the rake is an inch and a half thick, so it don't give much. The brackets holding it on are one inch thick. They broke off.

After looking around for a couple hours, my Dad found the missing pin.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

This in one of the brackets to hold the rake on. I've ground off the old welds and smoothed it out.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Here I am grinding the welds smooth on the dozer blade.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Ready to weld.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

All welded up.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Since it broke, I decided to strengthen it some . I found this piece of 3/4 inch scrap lying around. I cut it in half and put each piece on the inside bracket. The outside bracket will just have to survive on it's own. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Eddie