Eckert Lyon Week 3

We are moving on to week 4, the last bit of work needed to resolve all the edges and hand off the ponds and stream as a 'you finish' project.  Even after we finish tucking and covering the liner edges, there will need to be adjustments here and there and lots of plants which the owners will do as time and money permit.

I feel it's important to show increments in week intervals because future clients will not only be able to see how much work can happen in a week but also how much work is behind the scenes or in this case, under the liner and a week is a very comprehendible amount of work for most projects.


 

At the beginning of the week we had a mud bog. This little Kubota (from Double R Rental) is a great machine and I hope to purchase my own soon. However for some of the bigger rocks 6k-8k pounds, it could barely pick them up. I was a little nervous about approaching the soft edge of a large pond with an 8k lb rock in a 9k lb tractor.

While a large rock in the bottom of a pond is a 'feature', a small tractor in the bottom of a pond is not!

Here the edges are getting shaped, raked and leveled.



This liner weighed about 800lbs and had to be moved into the pond with tractor and slings. It took many bodies to pull and push it into place.




Even the larger 15k lb Hyundai (Jet city rentals) could barely pick up this boulder.

This rock goes outside the liner. The liner will glue to it and be cut off just above water level. Usually it's ideal to place rocks like this 'on' the liner but given the orientation of the flat spot and the desired finished height plus the need for stability, we chose to dig it in and not place it on the liner.

All of this work happened before the liner went in.






The stream liner, the outflow from a drainage ditch installed by the house contractor and the poly pipe left over from FrEdLey (donated by Fran Abel Landscape Design) for the project.
Christine models a thistle's large tap root on a small Hyundai.



A nice pinhole feautre of my lumix. To get the blackened edges on yours, simply drop the camera with the lense out from about 3 feet onto a hard surface!

The old Nissan is put into action hauling a huge huckleberry together with decomposed cedar for the pond edges.

Tommie and Fran begin "working" the edges.

Large boulders and logs make the pond's edges wildlife friendly and provide a more natural look.

The stream is a long way from being completed but with the liner, large rocks and logs, it's beginning to take shape.

One of the large hollow logs is getting planted.

This is the outflow from the upper pond.