It's a long
way to the top if you want to rock and roll
Concrete is just a flat rock that don't roll. Oof
and woof, it's heavy. We first had to bust up three slabs to make the river, bury the
piping and level the bucked up concrete. i'm inspecting the foot thick root. |
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Slabs o'Concrete
Here you can see the path of the river. The slab of concrete in
the center is going to be a bridge after the river is built and it's levered back into
place . All of the other slabs above the river cut have been pried up, leveled and reset.
The four slabs the patio furniture are on are reclaimed slabs that were buried under dirt
to cover being bucked a foot in the air. |
Sing
It
If you come on down to the river, bet ya gonna find some people
who live. You don't have to worry, if you got no money, people on the river are happy to
dig. Big wheel keep on turnin', proud Jerry keeps on burnin'. 'Cause we're rollin'.
Rollin'. Rollin' on The River. Pa oop poop-poop-poop, oop poop-poop-poop, oop
poop-poop-poop, ta da-da-da............. |
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Playing
Bridge
And i thought you needed cards. It would
be easier with a foursome. |
Let There Be Rock
All together now, plastic sheeting, carpeting,
plastic sheeting, EPDM rubber liner and then lots of rocks. The pond liner and river liner
were joined with a generous overlap and Marine Goop. |
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We're All Wet
The river will have small pools of standing water
when not flowing and lots of plants. |
The Bigger the Fall, the
Harder They Are
The cutout with the liner goes straight down
one foot and then from one side to the other. The river is wider than it appears and
deeper. The water therefor flows through the rocks and gravel for further filtration as
well as the action of the plants. Those are impatiens planted on the edges as well as the
edges of the pond for color. The concrete was stacked on a double layer of EPDM as well as
carpeting on top of and underneath the liner. We didn't mortar this wall in place. The
gaps between the concrete were filled with "Great Stuff" foam and then trimmed
off. It "cemented" the pieces together to stabilize them. |
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