BUILDING A ROCK POND AND GARDEN: Phase 7 Filling And Placing Rock

Building A Pond With Very Little Money

I have to start this with a toast! A toast to everyone that has given me donations to build a pond with very little money and this is how you do it..
#1
Go find some rock you like and use what ever means it takes.Dig it up,take road trips, ask people if they need it removed from there property be resourcful.
#2
Be ready to work hard and I mean hard.
#3
Have some friends that now people.It's not what you know, It's who you know
#4
Find some one that does not need what they have in there back yard or lot. Like cinder block.Thanks to a man by the name Roger Rines he donated all the block I needed it was going to the dump any way, so we have to help him out and take it for him.
#5
Drive around and locate things you think will help you build what you want. I found rail road tyes and used them for my corner.Just another example.
#6
One of my buddies I paddle with hooked my up with some liner for the falls. It just so happens I also bought some rock from His friend and he gave me a great price on river rock that you see.
#7
This item will cost you but if you know some one that can help reduce the cost this will help a lot thanks to Brian Jones, I got my 15x20 liner for only 131 dollars
#8
Finding a good pump 85 dollars for a 3200-gph with a 18ft. lift with a 2 year warrenty.. total 112 dollars.
#9
The filter system "Skippy Filter" Thanks to Sheb Majors he has given me the tank and filter padding to create a Keen filter system.Still have to buy parts to make a cool filter system.Parts will be PVC pipe some fittings and some patience.

I have 2 pumps..............................................................$225.00
I have a liner..................................................................$131.00
I have rock.....................................................................$215.00
I have hose kit...............................................................$045.00
I have some plants........................................................$050.00
I have some tiki torches...............................................$020.00
I have a bird bath spitting water................................$015.00
I have a light system ...................................................$060.00
I have a bird house "yard sale"...................................$003.00
Total cost out of pocket is a little over 764 dollars at this time.
Pond estimate at $4,500-5,500 when complete

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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.