Let's talk liners and liner protection

[GBBUDD]

You should see the contraption I rigged up to get the first two bags of river rock emptied into the front yard! it was a sort of metal slide resting on rails on top of the staircase. I'd fill an industrial sized rubber bucket with rocks, position it at the top of the slide and let 'er rip! It was vastly entertaining, even if it meant no one could get to the house without climbing over the slide. But I got 3000 kilos of river rock into the front yard and laid over landscape fabric to make a passable Japanese style garden!

frig it time to move

 

[GBBUDD]

That was going to be my suggestion GET SAUNA tubes they fit one inside the other or drain pipe the black or green send sand and gravel down by pipe all contained no mess . maybe a trash Shute rental

 

[GBBUDD]

heck i have used cardboard before

 

[j.w]

That's not soil, I think it's layers and layers of old dinosaur scales! I would want to add a bunch of sand under that liner for sure. I'm sure glad we have sandy soil here in my neck O the woods! Can't find any rocks at all hardly. It's like the beach. Maybe it wasn't such a great spot for our house? A wise man once said " You shouldn't build your house on sand, build on rocks so maybe it's a good thing for you as if the earth shifts, your pond will survive

 

[YShahar]

That was going to be my suggestion GET SAUNA tubes they fit one inside the other or drain pipe the black or green send sand and gravel down by pipe all contained no mess . maybe a trash Shute rental

My first attempt thought was to rent a trash shute. That would be perfect for the job. So I called around and it turns out that it costs upwards of 1,000 shekels per day. Scratch that!

I hate buying stuff that I can't put to use afterwards, so for now I bought just the one 6 meter long sewer pipe. It's not that large in diameter, so I'll need to build some kind of funnel to get the stuff into it, but still, might work! I'll do an experiment first just getting some of the river rock from the neighbor's yard into our front yard. If it seems to do the trick (in terms of not being too small to get the rocks into) then I'll buy another length of it to go all the way out over the shed roof and into the back garden.

 

[YShahar]

That's not soil, I think it's layers and layers of old dinosaur scales! I would want to add a bunch of sand under that liner for sure. I'm sure glad we have sandy soil here in my neck O the woods! Can't find any rocks at all hardly. It's like the beach. Maybe it wasn't such a great spot for our house? A wise man once said " You shouldn't build your house on sand, build on rocks so maybe it's a good thing for you as if the earth shifts, your pond will survive

Well, the last few earthquakes we've had in our area, I didn't feel at all, so yeah, there's that! Of course, that was before I took out all these rocks. Now the whole yard -- pond, house, and all -- might just slide right off into the wadi below. That would make the rock hyraxes and vipers rather grumpy, I think.

I certainly wouldn't mind having at least a bit of sand in our soil! And what I would really love is if I had the kind of soil @combatwombat has (wouldn't mind the little purple excavator either ;-) ) But this mess of dinosaur scales is what I've got.

So I'll be ordering a 500 kilo bag of sand (plus whatever solutions the various building supply stores recommend).

 

[j.w]

Well, the last few earthquakes we've had in our area, I didn't feel at all, so yeah, there's that! Of course, that was before I took out all these rocks. Now the whole yard -- pond, house, and all -- might just slide right off into the wadi below. That would make the rock hyraxes and vipers rather grumpy, I think.

I certainly wouldn't mind having at least a bit of sand in our soil! And what I would really love is if I had the kind of soil @combatwombat has (wouldn't mind the little purple excavator either ;-) ) But this mess of dinosaur scales is what I've got.

So I'll be ordering a 500 kilo bag of sand (plus whatever solutions the various building supply stores recommend).

Gosh I'm getting tired in my brain just hearing about all the obstacles you must overcome to get this pond up and running and just the way you want it. You don't give up either, you just find a solution and work it all into the plan, WOW, good for you and you go girl!

 

[GBBUDD]

Tip .. TO MAKING A LARGE FUNNEL

take a 5 gallon bucket hang it from the handle place a rock the size of the pipe we'll say that you want the funnel to slip in and dump boiling hot water into the bucket the rock should stress the plastic making it sag and pushing on the rock can make it the way you want it maybe a torch to the bottom moving it around quickly.

the other is the simple flat stock rolled on an angle and tapped much easier less durable

 

[sissy]

old carpet works old linoleum also for protection old padding for under carpet and padding that people put under vinyl planks floors I used some in my pond that was left when I took up my floors and put down vinyl plank flooring . Used it in my waterfall pond

 

[GBBUDD]

Another material that would work well is rubber matting for concrete floors in shops