We dug the pond this weekend

[riparks]

DoDad, that's the plumbing for the bottom drain, it's 2 inch pvc. Is this right?

 

[sissy]

If that is your bottom drain up on the skimmer that looks bigger than 2 inch on the flange coming out of it on the side and it's on the side your pipe is up in the bottom .Or it just looks bigger not sure.Never had a bottom drain so not sure could be I don't understand them ,damf lol

 

[sissy]

hope you don't have critters either give them easy access to your fishies

 

[riparks]

Sissy, yep, the hubby dug it with his backhoe, there is no way we could have done this without it. The BD is 4 inches, we plan reduce it to 2 inches. We have an oppossum and a racoon that share my outside cat's supper, the old pond was much more shallow than this, we've never had any problem with animals, other than snakes.

 

[riparks]

p.s., I did dig the trench for the piping on the lift with a shovel.

 

[sissy]

ok 1 credit lol the raccoon I 'm surprised by they usually go for ponds with fish maybe you got him spoiled with the cat food .Just hope he doesn't like fish on fridays .Don't know what oppums eat just that there fugly

 

[addy1]

aww sissy opossums are cute, unless they mess with your garbage. lol

Your pond is going to look great! riparks

 

[sissy]

we have one here and he has scared chit out of me a couple of times .I keep no garbage outside but my neighbors here keep there garbage so piled up it looks like a mountain .and now because of that we are getting more mice than ever .It takes a trailer and a truck to take it away .They don't care and they have 3 small children ,but then again they seem too not care about them either the 2 year old was up in the woods going the other day and I'm not going after him .The parents can't even speak english

 

[riparks]

The racoon and possum come up to the back door and look into the house, we have not tried to tame them. I have seen the cat lying on the porch and the possum eating his food.

Raining again, no pond work this afternoon, bummer.

 

[addy1]

your storm is heading here maybe lol, so they say

 

[sissy]

storm headed here too all black over my house but sun is shining is that an omen I have been bad somehow

 

[taherrmann4]

We are making progress. Got held up last week due to rain. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Are you going to reroute your down spouts from the house that are on both sides of your pond? If not you may get lots of rain water in and around it.

 

[sissy]

It looks like they already routed1somewhere else via underground looks like I see a pipe clamp on the end of the one with a black pipe coming off it .The other one I see nothing so they may want to get that done also .I see that all the time then people wonder why there basement leaks .good catch

 

[riparks]

Yes, the one on the left was always a huge problem with the old pond.

 

[addy1]

We routed our using that 4 inch black drain piping. Worked great, just buried it until it we had it where we wanted it to come out.