Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[EddieWalker]

Don,

Thats too cool. It looks better in your picture then I imagined it would. Better not let Harvey's client see it, or he just might have to make another one.

Eddie

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Ya'll are dangerous. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I believe it was when we, the customer and me, were looking at Don's bridge online that he became inspired to have me look at his pond.

Yesterday was a great day. The day laborers who've been working with me never cease to surprise me with their ability to work and the pride they have in their work.

We started the mixer at eight thirty yesterday morning. By noon we, they had, mixed and placed twenty two mixer loads, seven and a third yards.

 

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One of them stayed up by the shop working the concrete into a rough shape of what we wanted.

The other one kept the mixer going. The mixer is about a hundred yards from the slab location. I would take the load from the mixer to the slab. Empty it where he wanted it. Then I would go back to the mixer and help the one feeding it with the next load.

 

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In no time at all we went from formed to filled.

 

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Then they started finishing it out. I think they worked as hard on that as we had on the mixing. It was hot and it seemed the whole slab wanted to go dry at the same time. It was tough.

We ended up using more concrete than I'd planned. The slab ended up a six incher instead of a four incher.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I wish I could claim the same kind of success with the rock staircase as they had with finishing out the slab.

So this morning while they are removing the forms and cleaning up the area by the shop I'll be removing rocks and getting ready to start over again.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We had an exceptional day today. I know I must sound like I'm on drugs or live in a gaga land. But we do have good days and then we have exceptional ones.

I wasn't comfortable with the idea I was using for the rock stairs. So I removed the rocks and got out the lil Hilti.

The first thing was to drill a bushel basket of holes into the wall face and then drive in pieces of half inch rebar.

 

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Next I tied rebar to the epoxied in place rebar studs in the wall.

 

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I then tied rebar to rebar. Can we say that on TBN?

 

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Since the plan is to have rocks in concrete I had to figure out how to hang flat rocks in concrete that was about fifteen degrees out of plumb. Going out into space has a tendancy to increase gravity's pull or power.

So I got out the lil Hilti and the expoxy again.