The gully to pond project

[bindian]

Brandi, if I did this for a livin', I'd have a few fingers and arms ground down and bent to fit.:laughing:

I guess I have the advantage there. Numerous times I have been called to the other hangar bay to stick my small hand where the guys can not reach.:laughing: Usually my hand and arm comes out all covered in oil, hyd. fluid and jet exhaust soot, as it is so tight and hard to reach........I can not even where a rubber glove.:mur:
hugs, Brandi

 

[jinman]

I guess I have the advantage there. Numerous times I have been called to the other hangar bay to stick my small hand where the guys can not reach.:laughing:

Dang! Brandi, it just dawned on me. I shoulda called you. Heck! I'd even repay the favor by coming down and helping you spread bentonite on your dam.:laughing: Seriously though, 8 lb of bentonite per square foot works out to about 1/3 cubic foot per square foot doesn't it? No wonder you had so many bags to buy. Whew! I hope my pond dams are sealed.

Here are some photos of the area. The hoses leaking were the bottom two hoses in the stress relief clamp in the center of the first photo below. The second photo shows the backhoe control valves from the top. Of course, none of the hoses were on this top row. They are all on the bottom. The final photo is zoomed in so the bottom row of hoses are visible. The bottom left two hoses are the ones I had to replace.

 

[pacerron]

Dang! Of course, none of the hoses were on this top row. They are all on the bottom. The final photo is zoomed in so the bottom row of hoses are visible. The bottom left two hoses are the ones I had to replace.

Jim,
Is that another example of " Murphy's Law"

It sounds crazy, but I have found places where an old fashioned monkey wrench works better than the fancy offset handle wrenches.
48mm is no problem, and the jaws are thinner than a reqular wrench that size.
Only grips two flats but so does a regular hydraulic wrench.
The handles are short and a couple burps with an air gun/chisel with a thuimper point against the handle usually loosens the fitting. The wrenches are made of an aluminum alloy so they don't mess up the fittings.
I'm not sure thery make them anymore.
Ron

 

[bindian]

Dang! Brandi, it just dawned on me. I shoulda called you. Heck! I'd even repay the favor by coming down and helping you spread bentonite on your dam.:laughing: Seriously though, 8 lb of bentonite per square foot works out to about 1/3 cubic foot per square foot doesn't it? No wonder you had so many bags to buy. Whew! I hope my pond dams are sealed.

Here are some photos of the area. The hoses leaking were the bottom two hoses in the stress relief clamp in the center of the first photo below. The second photo shows the backhoe control valves from the top. Of course, none of the hoses were on this top row. They are all on the bottom. The final photo is zoomed in so the bottom row of hoses are visible. The bottom left two hoses are the ones I had to replace.

Uuuuhhhhhhhhhh..........I only work on aircraft. That's my story and I am sticking to it.:laughing::laughing::laughing:
hugs, Brandi

 

[jinman]

Today is the first day I'll have a full day to work on my dam since getting my hoses replaced on my TLB. Lately, with the spring temperature, we've been sleeping with the window open. Not only do I now have a couple of ponds right near to my house, but those ponds are full of frogs that set off a cacophony of sounds in their nightly concert. I tell my wife that if she can go to sleep with that, she shouldn't be disturbed by my snoring, but she ain't buyin' it.:laughing:

 

[pacerron]

Those ponds are full of frogs that set off a cacophony of sounds in their nightly concert. I tell my wife that if she can go to sleep with that, she shouldn't be disturbed by my snoring, but she ain't buyin' it.:laughing:

You don't have "Spring Peepers" ( tree frogs ) out there, or do you?
Up here they are constantly trying to attract a mate by singing their heads off this time of year. We used to have some big frogs in our pond but since the "Great Blue Heron" ( not related to "the great red beast" of Brandi's ) spotted them a few years ago, he is here every morning and evening and keeps them cleaned out.

 

[bindian]

We got tree frogs down here.
hugs, Brandi

 

[MarkV]

Jim with all your pond work are you going to be able to get your garden going?

MarkV

 

[ben2go]

Today is the first day I'll have a full day to work on my dam since getting my hoses replaced on my TLB. Lately, with the spring temperature, we've been sleeping with the window open. Not only do I now have a couple of ponds right near to my house, but those ponds are full of frogs that set off a cacophony of sounds in their nightly concert. I tell my wife that if she can go to sleep with that, she shouldn't be disturbed by my snoring, but she ain't buyin' it.:laughing:

So what you are saying is that you have a full dam day. :thumbsup: :laughing:

Good work by the way.

 

[jinman]

Jim with all your pond work are you going to be able to get your garden going?

MarkV

Mark, thanks to my lovely and helpful wife, we WILL have a garden this year. While I've been off doing ponds, she has been planting the garden. I tilled it and added sand and manure a few weeks ago. Then, I used my hiller on my cultivator to throw up hipped rows for planting. She has planted onion sets, potatoes, beans, cucumbers, squash, and cantaloupes. We are planning to go tomorrow to get tomato and pepper sets. That should round out what we plan to do this year.

Ron, we DO have tree frogs here and many others. My grandson caught two at the same time using a minnow dip-net from my minnow bucket. He wanted to use them as bait, but I told him the bass and crappie would prefer the big silver-sided minnows to those little frogs. The frog that I laugh at the most has a loud call that sounds like the distress call of a cicada. It's a loud high-pitched buzz.

Here are a series of pictures of the culverts going in. I had to put two culvert sections together. I had some small road-base gravel with a lot of clay sand in it that I used to make the base of the trench and fill around the culvert sides/bottom before clay. Although the pictures don't look like it, the first culvert drops 6" front-to-back and the 2nd drops almost 10". The last picture makes it look like the culvert is low on the water side, but that's an optical illusion. Putting the culverts together was a breeze. I used the grease the dealer gave me and it made the culverts slip together nicely with a little coaxing from the backhoe on one end. I backfilled the trench, but didn't get pictures of that yesterday. I'll add rip-rap and try to get some photos of that today.