Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[Farwell]

If you hit cast iron hard enough, even it will break. I was thinking that maybe Harv had bronze or brass, even the Liberty Bell has a crack in it.
Farwell

 

[Varmintmist]

I'm just glad he skipped the pics /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I don't think any of us feel comfortable watching a grown man double up and cry. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

There appears to be no after effects. I worked a long hard day yesterday without any unusual discomforts. The usual discomforts were there, wouldn't know how to act without them.

The beam got poured yesterday. Eleven yards was all it took.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It's a thick beam and took lots of concrete.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We ended up doing fifteen yards yesterday. We shut it down about six thirty. Three day laborers feeding the mixer and handling the pour with me keeping the materials flowing with Iris.

At lunch I asked the laborers if they wanted some help. They asked for one more guy to help with the mixer. The first guy that the administrator of the day laborer site gave me complained about the concept, shovel work for eight dollars an hour. I didn't argue. I asked if there was anyone else interested. There was.

About three hours into it we made eye contact and I got the distinct impression he thought I'd said "worm" and he'd gotten "snake".

But at the end of the day he wanted to return and the other guys wanted him back. So it looks like he worked his way in.

This is what we're doing at the new spillway.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

One of the things I really really hate are traffic lights that change at the last minute. Especially when there's a cop sitting at the intersection.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Here's a shot of why it took so much concrete to do the beam.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Today was a good one.

They brought in the last of the block we ordered. We're using over three thousand block on the wall around the pond.

I tried helping the guys place twelve inch blocks. They're heavy. That's heavy. Heavy like in a pallet containing sixty weighs more than a pallet with twenty bags of Portland cement. Those bags weigh ninety four pounds each.

To get the blocks down to the pond I split a sixty pallet into two thirties. And going down the ramp into the pond is interesting to say the least. It's literally the angle of the dangle that makes the heart stop. Losing a pallet of block would be sickening, and expensive.

Here's a shot of what we got in today.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

From the other side.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

As we get to the new spillway at the east end of the pond the grade becomes more shallow.