WHISKEYS NEW POND PROJECT

[whiskey]

will make one small change ..all flow in skimmer to go to sieve and will have a 1000gph pump after sieve to feed plant bays with cleaner water [taking solids out first ]

 

[addy1]

Busy boy whiskey, keep the info coming

 

[whiskey]

BUSY BOY ........IF YOU CAN IMAGINE 10 DAYS OF LOOKING OUT WINDOW DOING NOWT .... LIKE CHILDREN DO ON CAR OR TRAIN TRIP ...ARE WE THERE YET!
MINE WAS CAN I ...NO...CAN I.....NO............................UNTIL YES I CAN

 

[whiskey]

Hi

Today hard slog triple courses of brickwork [ where top pond flowed into main ] plus some blockwork removed.

Had a surprise though, being......... i got my drawing/plan wrong.....tut tut.

Found i got more space than first thought, which means main pond will be even biggger, your see by looking at footings plan i drew today [ to double check ] and just look at photos of two pieces of timber laid where the new main pond will finish, needless to say i was really excited over the prospects , this will enable fish to grow on nicely.....yea.

So tomorrow i got the help of wife and son working with me my wife going to steam
clean the first of three 50 gallon water tanks ,first one came today ,the second come next wednesday and the third to be arranged as bidding stops tomorrow on ebay.

Going to make filters out of two and a sieve out of the other, size of tanks are 116 x 64 x 50cm so plenty of room for filter media etc.

Son going to try his hand at cleaning blocks up, so i can use them on first course once footings are in, and little old me will endevour to rectify footings boardwork plus take rest of blocks down.

 

[DrDave]

I like ambitious projects. Looks like you will be busy for a while on this one.
We are thinking about selling this place and purchasing our retirement property. I'm sure I will have a blank slate to work with again.

 

[j.w]

So when ya gonna be all done w/ this project whiskey................not to rush you or anything? Maybe by Spring/Summer? Looking forward to seeing the finished project w/ the fish swimming around enjoying their new digs!

 

[whiskey]

jw here we go again ....it will be done when its done......rome wasnt built in a day ......just in 24 extend hours.....ha ha

 

[j.w]

Yea yea I know,lol!!! Take your time and make it perfect as I know you will!

 

[CountryEscape]

I can't remember, Whiskey ... too tired to go back and read ... did you have fish in your original pond, and if so, where are they during the rebuild?

 

[whiskey]

countryescape there in pond in front garden which needs re coating .....weather saw to that.

 

[CountryEscape]

That pond looks huge under the snow! And, what is the framed screen a picture of? I probably am missing something here .....

 

[addy1]

That is screening over the pond country, no snow, see some lilies a few fish

 

[whiskey]

hi all today we all got our backs into it , my wife moved a huge pile of soil into containers bless her, so we could see the full size of pond.

My son helped my wife to by shifting blocks, and piled them up ready for the big clean up, some of them had footing on from previous build [heavy ]

As to me knock out rest of walling and laid footing boards just got four more channels to dig maybe tomorrow but looks like being sunday as rain forecast for tomorrow.

Few more photos ....you can start to see the spanse of the pond.

Also we all took it in turns to throw the dumbell for "LADDIE"

 

[addy1]

Like your laddie! keep on cranking

 

[j.w]

I think Laddie got the best deal of the day! Should have put him to work digging B)