Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[DannyD]

Harv,

Are you saying you are done with this project? Any possible way to get an arial or overall view of it. Just how big is this pond anyway. If I was talented enough, I would work for you anyday. You treat your crew very well. You are definetly a very professional and personable leader. I can tell you I always look forward to your projects.

 

[HuckBB62]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I didn't take any pictures today, again. It was after six and my tail was tucked so firmly between my legs I plumb forgot about pictures until I was sucking a/c in the truck.

We got most of the remainder of the beam dug out and the iron placed today. We also got about half of what was left to do formed up and ready for concrete.

I ordered the rest of the block for the wall today. I have two pallets (sixty blocks of twelve by eight by sixteen per pallet) on hand. I ordered nine hundred and sixty more. Have four pallets of eight by eight by sixteens on hand (90 per pallet). I ordered six hundred and fifty more. I also put another pallet of type S masonary cement on the trucks. Yup, two ten wheeler loads.

Today I did the ultimate no-no for a man. I was driving in a piece of half inch rebar into an existing piece of concrete we're tying on to. It was a full length, twenty feet, and the hole was about four inches deep. Half inch rebar really complains and fights fitting into a half inch hole.

I was using my three pound hammer.

I was in full down stroke when one of the laborers came up and got my attention. Being a single focus individual I looked up at him and forgot about the three pounder two thirds through it's down stroke.

A millisecond or so later the hammer got my full attention.

There are places on a man that can take a three pounder impacting and it's just a thing.

It didn't land on any of those places.

Now there's one place on a man where a three pounded can hit and a man will just double over and cry big tears.

Yup.

You guessed it.

Laborer disappeared for awhile.

I'm not sure if it was the sight of me crying that got his legs moving or if it was the bad words bouncing off of everything around and about the skeered him.

When he came back the look on his face reflected a lot of concern. I accepted it was for me and not his job.

Since ya'll like pictures here's one of Iris in about as much pain as her daddy was today. )</font>

Harv, it's been awhile since I checked in here. Just wanted to give you a big tip here. I use it for just what you were doing and installing ground rods. I have a big Milwaukee impact rotohammer. 1/2" stuff fits it perfectly. Put it on the end of the rebar or grounding rod and watch it disappear itself into the ground. Saves a zillion work hours.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The rotary hammer idea I'll have to remember.

And no, the job isn't done. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

But one of the last things we did last week was concrete in the old space between the greenhouse and the old wall.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It was drizzling this morning when we started. But it turned out to be a great day for working. We decided to go ahead and excavate and pour the upper terrace of the double terrace on the south side.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

As you can see, we use entirely too much concrete. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We started the pour after five. It was over seven yards. We finished up by tractor lights.

If you want to have fun run over your new cell phone. I wasn't sure if I had insurance and I didn't want to wait until Wednesday or so for them to mail me a new one. It took six stops and more patience than I'll ever have to finally find a
cingular vendor who would just sell me a phone. I'm glad the new ones have those sims cards where you just swap the card into the new phone and you're back in the world.

It was a hundred and forty dollars. That's only two tanks of diesel in my truck. A bargain.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

There are good days and there are great days. This wasn't a great day.

But we got a lot done in spite of ourselves.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This started out as a single terrace or patio. Then it evolved into a double terrace-patio.

Circumstances requested a modification. She did it ever so politely, but firmly. Facing and either or we decided to accomodate her.

This will now become a tri-deckta.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I know it seems a little lite in the britches for such a stretch but that Takeuchi with only sixteen horsepower does a fine job of transfering road tailings up and over the wall to become topsoil fill.

It is a fine tractor. It'll do a lot more than you'd think and moving it over uneven terrain is better than a shot in the dark for your blood pressure.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We got the third level of the tri-deckta poured this morning and laid the line of block behind it this afternoon.

As you can see it's coming right along.