Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[EddieWalker]

Harvey,

Steph and I were reading your post when we saw what happened. We're both very thankful nothing serious happened and all is well!!!

Steph & Eddie

 

[OkeeDon]

Harve, you gotta be more careful. You're in trouble, now. Even though Iris is upright again, she's gonna be upset with you for days. You're going to have to talk real nice to her, and maybe pat her every oncet in a while. Worst of all is that she feels humiliated in front of Betsy.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We appreciate the concern. And I will admit to an appearance of a cavalier attitude when it comes to moving around in Iris. It's an appearance of a cavalier attitude though. I know my limits.

Well, most of the time.

The past couple of days have been just work. We've put out almost twenty more yards of concrete. Most of them went into eighteen piers sixteen inches by nine feet.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The rest of it went into beam.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Last Thursday we had thirty more yards of good washout delivered after us pouring the floor of the pond.

This is what's left of that and the balance of what was there before.

It's been a good week.

Tough.

But a good week.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

There's over four yards in this short section of beam by the old spillway.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

This is from the area of the new spillway looking back to where the emphasis of our work has been up to this time.

We have eighteen new piers in. There's an additional seventeen to go. The piers are in ten foot spacing.

First we cut the road. Then we're placing the piers. After that we're cutting in and pouring the beam. Once the beam's done then hopefully we'll build the cinder block wall.

The fancy rock work will go on the last two feet of the wall. Then there's four hundred feet or so of coping we have to place on top of the wall.

We're also facing the reality that our normal rains come in about three weeks. Once they're here the pond will fill up.

It could get interesting.

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( We're also facing the reality that our normal rains come in about three weeks. Once they're here the pond will fill up.

It could get interesting. )</font>

RAIN IN THREE WEEKS! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I hope not. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif We gotta do a barn-raisin' in three weeks. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Glad to see things are progressing nicely. I was beginning to worry about you since we hadn't heard from you since you and Iris took a spill. I should have known you were just bizzy. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[8NTX]

Great looking project, as usual, Harv!

BTW, the mayor of New Orleans called. Something about advice on a levee ....

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Yesterday was a good one. We used up another pallet of Portland cement, I believe that's the hundred and one bags so far. And I picked up another seventy bags and we kept right on trucking.

We've only got two more piers to drill that I know about at this time. Those are the ones for the landings or decks we want out over the water. Instead of using Bois d Arc posts for supporting the landings we're going to pour a pier and have a two foot concrete column.

There was a moment of excitement yesterday morning. I'd come up with an auger full of clay when the bank started to give. I froze. Iris did likewise.

We tied off to a tree and using a come along we assisted Iris in finding tierra a little more firma. This morning one of the things on my list is to rework the cut in some places because I have many more trips down the cut. And we don't want to have to call Betsy for help again.

Here's a shot of the cut and the bank wanting to sink.