H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Just structure, a couple small pex trees created into cinder blocks. And some 6” tile pieces about four feet long stainless steel wired to cinder blocks.
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Just structure, a couple small pex trees created into cinder blocks. And some 6” tile pieces about four feet long stainless steel wired to cinder blocks.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Those BHS look great! So you poured Sonotubes with concrete for columns? I don't think they'll go anywhere for a while !!! I'm guessing a small shelter is going on that slab deck?? Pretty beefy structure you have there. Built to last .........
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Thanks Bows, putting a concrete prefab 8’ two step at front of dock so we can get right up on it easy.
Wife wants a gazebo or some type of shelter house but I think she wants it put on the woods side of the pond with a big pavers or concrete as deck.
We will be putting up a good size pole barn in spring. Just framed and skinned at first and I’ll stone the floor pretty quick in it so we can start storing things out there and clean our garage here in town out.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
Do you have the mulch pushed up onto the bark of the tree??? Its really hard to tell. I push mine pretty tight, but I dont let it touch the tree bark cause it can cause rot and decay.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Thanks, and yes.
I left a little gap, mulch is really deep to suppress weed/grass growth and to try and help keep moisture.
Where they are planted on spoil pile is almost straight clay with topsoil spread over top. I will be able to water all summer, plan is to get some type of pump and water them right out of pond the first year.
We are also planting 40-50 apple&pear between pond and woods spring 2022 that will need to be watered all summer. Having a pond right there for a water source is a first in my tree planting adventures. Normally I’m filling jugs or buckets and hauling them all over.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
40 to 50 more apple and pear trees??? Why so skimpy??? !!! 
You have a B A D case of it, H20.
You have a B A D case of it, H20.
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
can i ask where you got those spruces? they look great!
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
While everything is frozen good I am getting a truck driver with a "sling" chute on his truck to bring out a load a pea gravel and shoot it about 6" deep on top of the ledge the pond builder put in, it is easy to see now with the snow on top of it. Ledge is around 10'-12' wide, thirty yards long and should be close to 5'-6' deep when pond is full. The plan is to ad a few large flat stone structures on it and with the pea gravel hopefully fish will spawn on it. The other half of the dump truck load I will just have dumped in a pile on beach area, spread it later and it will be covered with sand in spring.
The two pre fab steps are also done and waiting to be delivered, I just need to pep it by digging in the solid block footers and spread sacked pea gravel over it all to keep steps from settling much. Problem is the frozen rock hard ground right now...I might try and spud/chip enough out to get everything set for the steps. The steps are concrete 8' long 8" high, one is 26" wide the other 12".
Here is a view from the beach area yesterday...pond is half full!
Also need to get a couple cedar planks and get the wood duck box built that will be mounted over the ledge.
The two pre fab steps are also done and waiting to be delivered, I just need to pep it by digging in the solid block footers and spread sacked pea gravel over it all to keep steps from settling much. Problem is the frozen rock hard ground right now...I might try and spud/chip enough out to get everything set for the steps. The steps are concrete 8' long 8" high, one is 26" wide the other 12".
Here is a view from the beach area yesterday...pond is half full!
Also need to get a couple cedar planks and get the wood duck box built that will be mounted over the ledge.
b116757
5 year old buck +
Good looking pondWhile everything is frozen good I am getting a truck driver with a "sling" chute on his truck to bring out a load a pea gravel and shoot it about 6" deep on top of the ledge the pond builder put in, it is easy to see now with the snow on top of it. Ledge is around 10'-12' wide, thirty yards long and should be close to 5'-6' deep when pond is full. The plan is to ad a few large flat stone structures on it and with the pea gravel hopefully fish will spawn on it. The other half of the dump truck load I will just have dumped in a pile on beach area, spread it later and it will be covered with sand in spring.
The two pre fab steps are also done and waiting to be delivered, I just need to pep it by digging in the solid block footers and spread sacked pea gravel over it all to keep steps from settling much. Problem is the frozen rock hard ground right now...I might try and spud/chip enough out to get everything set for the steps. The steps are concrete 8' long 8" high, one is 26" wide the other 12".
Here is a view from the beach area yesterday...pond is half full!
Also need to get a couple cedar planks and get the wood duck box built that will be mounted over the ledge.
TreeDaddy
5 year old buck +
While everything is frozen good I am getting a truck driver with a "sling" chute on his truck to bring out a load a pea gravel and shoot it about 6" deep on top of the ledge the pond builder put in, it is easy to see now with the snow on top of it. Ledge is around 10'-12' wide, thirty yards long and should be close to 5'-6' deep when pond is full. The plan is to ad a few large flat stone structures on it and with the pea gravel hopefully fish will spawn on it. The other half of the dump truck load I will just have dumped in a pile on beach area, spread it later and it will be covered with sand in spring.
The two pre fab steps are also done and waiting to be delivered, I just need to pep it by digging in the solid block footers and spread sacked pea gravel over it all to keep steps from settling much. Problem is the frozen rock hard ground right now...I might try and spud/chip enough out to get everything set for the steps. The steps are concrete 8' long 8" high, one is 26" wide the other 12".
Here is a view from the beach area yesterday...pond is half full!
Also need to get a couple cedar planks and get the wood duck box built that will be mounted over the ledge.
Speaking of......cleaned all my wood duck boxes out last weekend
Really a kick to watch them in early spring
bill
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
I'm looking forward to enjoying watching them in spring from my front porch at this pond.
We have five boxes up at the other farm and they get used multiple times spring/summer, I need to get them cleaned out...ducks will prolly not use the box on the new pond! I am a little more worried about bass snatching the little ducks with the deeper water and no cover for them here. I would think the hen will take them to the creek or something.
My wife was saying how she is going to chase any geese away if they land here…I’m thinking how cool it would be to have a huge flock of 100 or so hanging around in summer. If they do come I will feed them!
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
The pond continues to slowly fill, it is up under the dock now.
View from beach area today, it is really looking like a legit pond now. I think spring rains might fill it the rest of the way up by summer.
We have been finding a lot of these "fossils" in and around the pond from the construction...some kind of prehistoric clams from millions of years ago that have turned into stones.
At one time this area was under water of some kind...kind of cool to think about.
The deer are also using the pond almost nightly by the tracks I see going down to the waters edge.
I got the footers dug in for the prefab steps a couple weeks ago and today had them delivered and placed.
So the dock is complete now except for a six step stainless ladder off the left side.
Will be stocking some fish next month, going to start with more fathead minnows/ golden shiners and also putting in some red eared sunfish and perch this spring.
Next fall we will ad some predators, smallmouth bass along with a few channel cats. Then next spring maybe some hybrid striped bass and more smallmouth.
We will be putting sand in the beach area as soon as water reaches that high so it doesn't leach down into the pond to bad, I may put a layer of pea gravel over it before we put the sand in.
Now I need to get the grass in good around the pond, will be seeding it in the next few weeks.
View from beach area today, it is really looking like a legit pond now. I think spring rains might fill it the rest of the way up by summer.
We have been finding a lot of these "fossils" in and around the pond from the construction...some kind of prehistoric clams from millions of years ago that have turned into stones.
At one time this area was under water of some kind...kind of cool to think about.
The deer are also using the pond almost nightly by the tracks I see going down to the waters edge.
I got the footers dug in for the prefab steps a couple weeks ago and today had them delivered and placed.
So the dock is complete now except for a six step stainless ladder off the left side.
Will be stocking some fish next month, going to start with more fathead minnows/ golden shiners and also putting in some red eared sunfish and perch this spring.
Next fall we will ad some predators, smallmouth bass along with a few channel cats. Then next spring maybe some hybrid striped bass and more smallmouth.
We will be putting sand in the beach area as soon as water reaches that high so it doesn't leach down into the pond to bad, I may put a layer of pea gravel over it before we put the sand in.
Now I need to get the grass in good around the pond, will be seeding it in the next few weeks.
IkemanTx
5 year old buck +
Okay, now that’s the coolest dock I think I’ve ever seen…
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4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
The only problem I see is the neighbors will be watching you sun tan on the dock nude
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
The only problem I see is the neighbors will be watching you sun tan on the dock nude
That's what the BHS are for!
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Was out at the pond this morning planting fruit trees (I don’t know what the hell I was thinking ordering over sixty apple and pear trees along with persimmons plums and hazelnuts when I have all this other stuff going on!) thought I heard something looked over the edge of pond and there were the first two ducks I’ve seen at that farm so far!It made my day.
Also took a pic from far end of pond to show current water level. You can see the roof trusses they dropped off for the barn build in front of the truck. Supposed to start on it this week.
Troubles Trees
5 year old buck +
The pond is filling in quickly bud, really looks great man! I don't know much about ponds and really only know the problems my friends have had in the past. As I understand it here in NY we have to line the pond with clay and a few friends have had to drain the pond to find the leaks and patch them.
You will appreciate the extra fruit trees down the road friend! I think some of us suffer from the same gene that finds us window shopping online for trees, which is easy, until the trees show up The pond really looks great!
You will appreciate the extra fruit trees down the road friend! I think some of us suffer from the same gene that finds us window shopping online for trees, which is easy, until the trees show up
The pond really looks great!
b116757
5 year old buck +
Groovy dock that one should last a few decades at least.The pond continues to slowly fill, it is up under the dock now.
View from beach area today, it is really looking like a legit pond now. I think spring rains might fill it the rest of the way up by summer.
We have been finding a lot of these "fossils" in and around the pond from the construction...some kind of prehistoric clams from millions of years ago that have turned into stones.
At one time this area was under water of some kind...kind of cool to think about.
The deer are also using the pond almost nightly by the tracks I see going down to the waters edge.
I got the footers dug in for the prefab steps a couple weeks ago and today had them delivered and placed.
So the dock is complete now except for a six step stainless ladder off the left side.
Will be stocking some fish next month, going to start with more fathead minnows/ golden shiners and also putting in some red eared sunfish and perch this spring.
Next fall we will ad some predators, smallmouth bass along with a few channel cats. Then next spring maybe some hybrid striped bass and more smallmouth.
We will be putting sand in the beach area as soon as water reaches that high so it doesn't leach down into the pond to bad, I may put a layer of pea gravel over it before we put the sand in.
Now I need to get the grass in good around the pond, will be seeding it in the next few weeks.
