Phase 10 Setting The Big Falls

OK, well I got some of the rock in place and now I have to figure out the best way to create a good flow of water, I have played with some of it but ran out of time.So I will post my progress as soon as I get the rest of the parts I'm making to finish the falls. Then the next step will be to create some disappearing falls a "pond less pond" on the right of the big falls, I think I'm going to run a 1" line out of the filter tank and Bring it to the big rectangular rock on the right and set a 1' PVC pipe and drill some 1/4 inch holes in it and let it run off the top so it will give the rock a wet look at all times will see how that works after the big falls gets complete.




Experimenting with the back.
So now you can see what I've tried to do and we now know what has to be changed.Building a pond can be a lot of work for the rookie pond builder. but I enjoy coming up with better ideas so now we move on to getting some different rock I will set some flat stone and then build it up to the tank and see what we get with that. I have got some different features for the back such as plants and some fixtures to blend in it I think this will turn out pretty cool see ya soon.

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Here is a close up shot I found of the Black Widow under some stone I was moving, love some of mother natures best.

The Cardinal in flight,Man that was a Hard picture to get he's moves pretty fast that guy!

Saturday I'm out working on the pond and I see the Cardinal was flying close by.So off I go to see the nest and good gosh the little birds have stepped out and are hanging out on the limbs next to the nest.man those little boogers sure do grow fast, last time I looked they were tiny guys.

So now we have another nest and I will keep an eye on these three little critters.I found this nest in the pear tree while giving it a trim. Well see how fast this takes I give it 5-6 weeks and they be flying away.It appears to be a red Robbin this nest.

Phase 9 More Rock & Locating The Skippy Filter

Ok May 29th We have set more rock and now we get to play with the skippy filter setting this up will take some work,but not much.

Phase 8 The back falls

Here we go again. Now I've started on the back,this is going to be the high lite of this water feature

Now I will put some stone on the lower ledge of the pond,you can see that it will rise from the water line,up into the next ledge, where we have set rock already. To the right of the pond you can see the steps you will use to enter the pond.

This corner will get a lot of river stone to accent the boulder you see here.

This is actually the fun part of building a water feature

Phase 7a An Evening View

This is an evening view of the pond from the house,one of the reasons I am building this.The blank spot is where the other water fall will be. We resume next week. Check back with me then for another update.

Well here is what I've accomplished

I've added this video to give a better perspective of what I've had to do to accomplish this project. As you can see there is just a we bit of rock I collected and how it looked in Febuary.

Phase 7 Filling And Placing Rock

Now we are into the end of May.We have had a lot of advice from several people on ways to make a pond. Most of them are good and some to extreme to put in play, but this is a pond I've put together with my spare time and very little money, when I say money, I mean under five hundred dead presidents.
The rock is from the creek in my back yard,the field stone dug up from all over the yard,in the bushes and every where I can find it. my neighbor lent me the bobcat,my other neighbor tore down a rock garden three years ago and told me where to find the rock that I needed.That rock turned into the boulders that I was looking for.Saving money there was the best. That rock would have cost three to four hundred dollars to say the least.

Here I am putting the puzzle together.That is the trickiest of all moving rock around and around.Boy I must have moved rock ten times by now and still doing so.

Phase 6 setting some rock

THE BOSS IS INSPECTING ROCK PLACEMNET.

Well now we can start getting some rock in place .First I installed all my padding.I have a lot of padding under the liner so it is cushy when we get in and cool off this summer.Then I installed more padding around the walls so when I set rock we know it wont get a hole in it. The liner is 45mil. and the rock is heavy,the back is sore and we keep pushing harder and harder to finish this project.