Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[wroughtn_harv]

Look at a our material pile right after we started.

That's four ten yard dump truck loads of sand and gravel mix.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This is that same series of dump loads after we were done for the day.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It was a good day.

One of our important objectives was realized.

There will be no erosion where the water comes in the forseeable future.

Now we have to just make it pretty as well as functional.

BTW, this is week seven.

 

[Larstan]

I'm thinkin you need a new handle, hmmmm, lets see 'HooverdamHarv' /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I wish we were closer Harv, I'd come work for ya just to be able to tell the grankids I once worked for the true "IronMan" /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Its looking great.....

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Are you referring to this? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This is the old spillway. We're modifying it.

I know.

You're surprised.

But our plans for it required us removing the observation deck.

If you look close you can see the old footer didn't go down very deep. The dam leaked.

We're going deeper and hopefully we'll not have a leak there anymore.

This particular feature is going to be pretty interesting when we're done with it.

It'll still be a spillway.

But it will also be the head of a unique and different waterfall. And it'll have a sandstone slab bridge similar but different than the one up by the greenhouse.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Today we powerwashed the old wall.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It made a difference.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Since the observation deck was out of the way I went ahead and excavated for the wall to the spillway we're remodeling.

Then about four thirty this evening we decided to dig three pier holes and of course fill them with concrete.

I only had one helper today. Made lunch cheaper and more simple. But it sure made my share of the work appear more. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

There are only a couple of things I know for sure.

One of them is some days are diamonds, others are closer to being rocks.

Today was shiney, just not pretty.

The other thing I know for sure is I'm not your middle of the road kind of guy. It's tough to be in the middle while riding the edge.

The bad thing about riding the edge is.............