After determining where to put the pond the next step was to find a
back-hoe
Here is how it looked after removing the top soil and putting it
in a safe place
operator. the only logical place was to wrap the pond around
the Ham Radio
so I can use it later to dress off the edges. You can see the orange
flags
Tower.
marking the guy wires.
Now the fill dirt is starting to be removed. The pond is 180'
looking in this
This shows how we wrapped it around the tower. You can see the fill
starting
direction. and 85 ' at the widest point.
to pile up. The flags mark my underground cables to the tower.
Don't want
to have to replace them!
Wade slowly worked from one end to the other. He is down about
2 feet at
Done for the day. You can see the Greenhouse in the background.
this point.
This shows the relationship to the house. and the 3 to 1 grade
on the bank.
The rains started coming the weekend after it was finished there is about
1,000
Looks great from the big living room window.
cubic yards of fill to be hauled off.
The water is about 2 1/2 ft deep at the far end. You can see how
I am constructing
my dock using 4 inch PVC pipe concreted in the ground. After
this picture I put
rebar in the pipes and filled them with concrete. Very sturdy
and will not rot!
Since these were taken the Dock has been completed. 42 loads of
dirt have been hauled off and I am waiting for Wade to come back over with
the back-hoe to finish dressing off the edges and replace
the topsoil around it. This is one extreme way to get rid of
mowing 1/3 of an acre of grass!