Serious Equipment

The superintendant of th job could not figure out why I did not want his grader to dig the pond. Little did he know we were going to build an eight foot mountain to work off of where the pond is supposed to be. I tried to get our mini excavator out here for this, not to use it, just for the picture. This job would not progress without big equipment, we are fortunate to have it at our disposal..The question was posed to me today, " So we do one and I suppose we will have to do more big ones like this?" I hope so.

Take Two

After finding a hole in the liner that required the entire waterfeature to be taken apart and rebuilt, this is our final result. We changed the fall stone and arrangement of some of the stones. I am much happier with this project now, especially since it is not leaking any more. 

Pondless Contest

Here is our entry with running water. I would have preferred to use moss rock for the falls if it was available. 

Pondemonium 2006

Here is our team for the waterfall building contest. We did not win, but I think ours looked the best, and the most natural in my mind. In this picture the water had yet to be turned on. Our team worked well together without too much conflict, but it is hard to not step on eachothers toes. Lots of good ideas. 

Maple Ridge Waterfeature

Tuesday we set the first of the 60+ tons of large stones for this waterfeature. This is the view that will be seen as cars come down the hill towards the building. We set these initial stones with a payloder, and will bring in an excavator tomorrow to set the stones further in, and then tie the falls back into the wall.