Keeping character, or restoring a pond

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Did I mention there was only one way in and one way out?

Yup.

And the new access was it.

 

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Access reroute complete.

It was interesting at times. There wasn't much time for packing the material so venturing close to the side could induce heart stoppage if not downright swallowing.

 

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The new footing was dug to tie in the south wall to the old wall. We also dug our pier hole.

 

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It was about this time when it was threatening rain big time. In fact there was one lighting strike that was blinding and the thunder blasted us at the same time we saw the flash.

So needless to say we were trucking.

 

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About the time the sprinkles started it happened.

No pictues, just a happening.

I was trying to finish the grade a little bit in the basin so I wouldn't have mudholes if it rained much.

So I pushed the spoilage or tailings or excess off into the edge of the pond by the bottom of the ramp.

When I was just about done I pushed one time too many about, oh that far, too much.

We sunk like a rock.

It was threatening rain. I'd put the minihoe up on top in case the weather really went south on us. So I got it back down, hooked up a chain, locked the tracks into positraction.

It couldn't pull me. But it could hold what I had. So I put a laborer on it and I jumped in Iris. After the bucket went out of sight it found something firm to push against. We backed up a little bit. We did this over and over and then again and again until we were back on the tierra firma.

I was too busy to take pictures. But here's where we were.

 

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We had a good day.

And we had a lot of fun having a good day.

It doesn't get much better than that.

 

[Bird]

That does look like fun. I just wish some of those "scattered thunderstorms" would come my way. I heard thunder for awhile yesterday, but that was as close to rain as we got. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

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The job site picked up an inch and a half over the weekend.

Then this afternoon one of those scattered showers Bird talked about laid down another inch and a half in twenty minutes.

This morning I had to go down first with the excavator (mini-hoe) and scrape off a couple of inches of goo before the skid steer could be allowed in the basin.

It was a bugger bear, good day before the rain hit, but a bugger bear.

 

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Saturday I went by Pearson Stone and grabbed some slabs for a staircase that I'm going to do above the wall going over to the north side pathway.

 

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Here's where they are going to go. These two were just put there for a test fit. They're not placed.