Keeping character, or restoring a pond

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It was a good day.

After lunch we had a shower come through. As we were hunkering down under the eave of the greenhouse I had to wonder what a hundred percent chance shower would be like if a twenty percenter was a frog-strangler.

 

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I decided to cut in the terrace area along the north wall today.

It was interesting to say the least. The mini-hoe doesn't have the greatest reach so at first I tried doing it by going in straight down and putting down the blade as an anchor.

 

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The biggest problem doing it this way was my wussiness was running almost dead even with my machoiness.

 

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Common sense and pure fear ganged up on macho tendancies and I decided to cut in a level cut to facillitate digging out the terrace.

The Toro truckster is a hoss. We hauled about fifteen yards of spoil to an area we need to fill. It's got posi, dual range-three speed transmission and just enough umph to get you into trouble if you're not careful. And it dumps.

 

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Of course we didn't overload it.

 

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Without cutting in a road to the terrace I can't cut in the beam for the wall that's going in around it. However, since I'm cutting it to desired grade we'll hand dig the beam when we get to that aspect of the work.

I'll bring the concrete in from the bottom with Iris and deposit it in a wheelbarrow on the terrace. That way they can put it where it goes without too much trouble.

I'm about seventy percent done with the mini-hoe's part on this terrace.

 

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The guys worked on laying the base courses on the south wall by the old spillway while I was slaving in the weather with the mini-hoe.

 

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They're not too happy about me bringing in a bunch of masons to knock out the block work. But there's more than enough work for us to do without spending a week laying block.

We do want to lay the base course for sure though.

Hopefully when I get to the job in the morning my washout supplier will have dropped me off at least three loads on top under the trees.

The last thing this evening we had six yards of masonary sand come in. We should be set for the block laying aspect of this job.

 

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In a couple of weeks you'll be standing here on the south terrace looking across at the north side terrace.

Hopefully. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

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I didn't take any pictures yesterday. But we started putting in the rest of the twelve inch blocks.

We finished them up today.

Here's a shot from the front of the greenhouse looking out over the pond.