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kien 05-10-2013 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by MMAX (Post 817613)
Just like mine too. Countryside ditches, trips out west to the mountains and best of all co-workers with huge rock piles on their land. I would be interested to see how many pounds of rock I hauled to build mine--probably a couple of tonnes at least. I have nothing against Burnco but do yourself a favour and save yourself a pile of cash. Rock from these places cost a fortune.
+1

I also dug up a lot of medium sized boulders when I dug out the pond that is good for landscaping. I also found a construction site near my house that had a pile of boulders that they dug up and needed to get rid of. They were dirty and covered in mud/dirt but they were free!! :biggrin:

Dez 05-10-2013 04:39 PM
A long plank is your friend. Back up the truck to the boulder, then roll it up into the truck.

IanWR 05-10-2013 07:17 PM
We found the pot lifter (http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/p...2,2180&p=63382) to be a useful tool to gather/place rocks. With two people you can move fairly large rocks, and it even helps move rocks by yourself. Btw, a pleasant bonus to find pond chat on a reef site. :)

- Ian

kien 05-10-2013 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by IanWR (Post 817652)
We found the pot lifter (http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/p...2,2180&p=63382) to be a useful tool to gather/place rocks. With two people you can move fairly large rocks, and it even helps move rocks by yourself. Btw, a pleasant bonus to find pond chat on a reef site. :)

- Ian
whoa! That pot-lifter looks brilliant!

kien 05-14-2013 04:45 AM
and we're back!
 
The pond is now back online! Granted it doesn't really look any different than before :lol:

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kien 05-14-2013 04:51 AM
Koi!
 
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Dez 05-14-2013 01:25 PM
Nice Kien! I love the pic of the koi just about to take in a mouthful of food. Was that covered structure there behind the deck before? Looks like it's a completely waterproof roof. When did you build that? Nice pictures.

kien 05-14-2013 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Dez (Post 818311)
Nice Kien! I love the pic of the koi just about to take in a mouthful of food. Was that covered structure there behind the deck before? Looks like it's a completely waterproof roof. When did you build that? Nice pictures.
Thanks! That's my gazebo that I built last fall. Yes the roof is waterproof, covered with semi-transparent polycarbonate panels. I still need to finish painting it. Plus I intend to cover some of the windows with plexiglass and some with bug screen/mosquito netting.

FishyFishy! 05-14-2013 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by kien (Post 818313)
Thanks! That's my gazebo that I built last fall. Yes the roof is waterproof, covered with semi-transparent polycarbonate panels. I still need to finish painting it. Plus I intend to cover some of the windows with plexiglass and some with bug screen/mosquito netting.

That looks great! That will be a nice little chill area for the summer for sure!

kien 05-14-2013 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by FishyFishy! (Post 818315)
That looks great! That will be a nice little chill area for the summer for sure!
Yup that's the plan :-). I found that we couldn't sit back there for a long period of time because we would just get roasted by the sun! You've seen my back yard, it's pretty exposed there. Or at least it was :-)


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