Lol!
Home projects for winter, more bright ideas in the mid-at
Oh yeah, I know just what you are talking about, pulling posts with a rope, tire and the jeep.
you guys are funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwB40qTfuvI
I love that song
Here's the same principle use on a bush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTHQucLY_y8
great video Ric.
Good idea using the tire...BUT....
Not sure all cars/small trucks could do this without damage to the car.
The skeptic---Gita
Well, its a given that you have to know if you can hook up the chain, and where, not to hurt the car.
Had some men here once, said they could pull a Calycanthus floridus Sweetshrub/Bubby bush, with a chain (no tire). I told them they couldn't, it was too pliable and suckery, nothing with good thick main stems like the barberry in the video. They didn't believe the " little lady".
The bush and I won.
We're 'supposed' to stop in at a home remodel show near here, see some bathroom idea, meet a couple contractors etc......but its hard to tear myself away from being outside
I understand not wanting to go Sally. With the tire you pull up, big difference.
Gita you can pull quite a lot from the frame of a vehicle, but even that has limits.
Mike and his two brothers got the small dock on the far side of the pond repaired yesterday. The front right corner is lower than the rest of the dock now, but at least it is back together and useable. What a crazy winter. The ice got at least three feet thick on the pond and caused so much damage. Even the metal extension ladder that we used to climb in and out of the water to the dock was twisted and bent in three places.
wow Terri, it was nuts!
Wow, 3 feet of ice! Really surprising for such a large body of water to freeze that deep.
Uugh. We could only stand one run through the gauntlet of home show booths. We did see some neighbors nice to chat with and liked one contractor. Got to do this to make decisions like when we did the kitchen. With some looking i will get things sorted out.
It must have been quite a project to build that pond, Terri. Are you going to pump in some water to make up for the lost 12 feet?
When I look back on all of the home remodeling projects we've done, deciding what to do with bathrooms had to be the most difficult. Just finding tiles we both liked took way longer than it should have.
Building the pond was a big project - it took Mike and several of his buddies using heavy equipment every weekend from Memorial Day to Labor Day back in 2001. The pond will fill up on its own from the creek and from several big rains. I found some pictures from back when it was being built - looks like this again right now with all the water gone.
Picture 3 gives perspective on how tall the stack was - Mike is still trying to figure out the best way to redo it
Picture 4 is the dock that was really damaged - fixed now, but one end really slopes and will need some work
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How did it lose so much water?
Wow Terri. What does the stack do again? Is it for overflow?
I'm finally done with our basement project. We just have to put everything back and I have to clean up the tools and such. This weekend I'll finally be able to do some yardening. We are getting an entertainment center custom built by our one friend. It's about 3 weeks from getting installed. I'll post pics after that is in so you all can see the total finished project.
yayyyyy!
The stack maintains the water level of the pond. It is several feet below the total height of the dam and about a foot lower than an emergency spillway. The stack is like an L, where the bottom of the L runs along the bottom of the pond, through the bottom of the dam, and empties out in to the creek below the dam. The water continuously goes down the stack at an even flow and keeps the water level at the height of the top of the stack. If there are torrential rains and the stack can't handle the volume of water, the water then empties out via the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway is to the left of the dam and water flows in an earthen swale around the dam and empties into the creek below. Since 2001, the emergency spillway has only been needed four or five times. The whole intent is that the water never goes OVER the dam.
When the stack broke, the water kept draining (like your bathtub water would drain) until it reached the new lower height of the stack. The stack used to be about 17 feet, now that it is broken it is only about 5 feet.
Edited to say the stack is also lower than the emergency spillway not vice versa as I originally posted. Top of dam is the highest height, then the emergency spillway, then the stack.
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wow! I had no idea the pond was THAT deep! I showed the pictures to Mark.
Question--what is the "stack" made of?
Did you build it with tons and tons of sand? What held it all together?
Does the bottom and sides of the pond get so saturated that it holds its shape
with no reinforcements?
A very interesting lesson here from you. Thanks, Gita
The stack is/was made of galvanized metal. G, you are probably asking about the dam - it is made out of all the excavated dirt. It is like a pyramid - very broad at the base, like 80' or more, and then tapers up to the top, maybe 15'. They used front end loaders and bulldozers to excavate and move the dirt. It was "walked" in, which basically means that the bulldozers and front end loaders ran back and forth multiple times over each load of dirt that they moved. That, and the volume of dirt is what makes the dam hold its shape. The sides are just the edges of what was excavated. I don't think there was much done to them other than grading/back dragging for smoothness. Another FYI - a front end loader has a bucket, a bulldozer just has a blade. The front end loader bucket is used for excavating and moving dirt, the bulldozer just moves dirt by pushing it with the blade.
Wow, your DH must be quite skilled. I don't think I could even begin to attempt such an engineering feat. Hope it all gets fixed up.
Thanks for the explanation; that was very interesting!
Mike loves heavy equipment LOL. He is always willing and able to help in the garden if he can sit on a piece of machinery to do it, otherwise it is mumbling and grumbling. Luckily, I have his brother Lowell that always offers to help with the manual chores, so I am not totally on my own with it.
I guess riding on heavy equipment would be fun for sure. I watched the Christmas episode of Alaska: the last frontier and the one guy gave someone in his family a pond for a gift. He used dynamite though.
Such a shame after all that hard work, but the pond is a really lovely addition to your home and well worth the work you put into it. Love the pic of the stack with the person standing next to it really gives it perspective.
I just did google images of 'bathroom style'- I swear, the page of images was 90% white, with some beige and light grey. I guess colored bathrooms are not in style.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVv22STRVvHoAyDAnnIlQ?p=bathroom+style&fr=yhs-mozilla-004&fr2=piv-web&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004
There must not be much of a market for colored tubs, sinks and toilets. Maybe people are worried that the fashionable colors of today will become the equivalent of 1970's avocado in a few decades.
Or the 50's obligatory blue, pink, and yellow.
my 1970 house came with 2 1/2 baths, one each of yellow, blue, and green porcelain bathroom fixtures. What struck me was the near total lack of color in the whole rooms.
What! No tile on the walls and floors to match the color of the fixtures? Photos below are from a potential project near U of MD two years ago.
I actually don't mind that yellow or blue (a lighter shade of that yellow could be a pretty wall color), but that pink!
It is not the color as much as the extent. Would you paint your kitchen floor, walls, cabinets, counters and appliances all the same color?
Oh, I get how they went waaay overboard with the matchy-matchy color scheme, and all throughout the house, no less. Still, I feel like I could live with the blue and yellow as I renovated the house, but that pink bathroom might drive me cuckoo!
Yeah the colored fixtures are definitely out. Our main bathroom has a white tub, toilet, and sink bowl. The walls are light green, faux wood plank floor, and medium tan granite countertop.
The half bath in the house was easiest on the eyes as far as color, but it was 4 feet by eleven feet. And what's with the tiny double sinks in the "Powder Room"? How many guests go in pairs?
Ha! I just laughed out loud at the thought of guests going in pairs to the powder room!
So did Pat and I, but not when the homeowners were present. It took restraint.
Don't a lot of women go to the bathroom in pairs? I was thinking that it was looking like a public restroom.