Dave, Luckily on the second day of digging on the tunnel, that night it rained for a couple hours. when Igot up in the morning to go back out and dig the tunnel was full of water. I had to use my shop vac to empty it. My soil is solid clay once you get to about 2 feet down so it holds the water. I am so glad that happened, but I was pissed the day that it happened, I emptied my shop vac 20 times, so there was about 160 gallons of water in there and I wasn't even halfway done with the tunnel. but what was good about it was it made me realize that I had to do something for drainage or else every time it would rain the tunnel would fill up with water. So after I got the whole tunnel dug. at each end of the tunnel before I put the pipe in. I dug down another 3 feet and filled those holes with gravel. the holes are about 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep. It rained then a few days after I got the tunnel finished and the water drained immediately. no standing water whatesoever in there. so the holes with gravel did the trick. Now, we've had 2 very bad downpours since then where it just rained so hard and so fast in a short amount of time and the drains weren't able to keep up, and the tunnel did fill up about halfway both times, and then it took about an hour for the water to drain. but I can live with that. we don't get those kind of rains very often. and I know in just a normal rain it's going to drain properly. but if it didn't rain that first night of digging I probably would not have though about making drains, and it would have been so much harder to add drains after the pipe was in and everything done. so. I'm really happy about that.
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Benji the Bobcat
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Today I pretty much finished up building the forms for the two sides of the pond that were lower than the rest of the pond. Now the concrete will be level all the way around the pond. I have some small gaps to fill in but that won't take long tomorrow, and then I have some areas of dirt that I need to level off, but it will be ready tomorrow for the concrete contractor. He is going to try to work me in this week and if not then next week for sure. So I'm excited for this to finally happen. Here's some pics from today after the forms were built, and I'll be posting a video here in a few minutes once it is finished loading on youtube.
well it's almost been a month since the pond was dug and ready for concrete to be poured and the contractor is finally coming this week either wednesday or Thursday to do it. So I am really excited for this. Not a lot of time left this year for swimmiing, but I anticipate at least some days of warm weather for benji to enjoy his pond yet this year. I'll definitely get some videos of it. I just want to thank everyone that helped out with this project. You guys are all awesome and it wouldn't have been possible without you, my facebook friends or my youtube subscribers. Hopefully by this time next week I'll be able to fill up the pond and put it to use.
Here's the latest Benji video. Kind of shitty quality because of the lighting, but he was being his normal lovable self.
Here's the latest Benji video. Kind of shitty quality because of the lighting, but he was being his normal lovable self.
He sent me a PM. He's excited about his pond and he thought he would be nice to you after he bit you.
Well, he's been pretty nice to me after that. Actually I honestly don't think he even knew he bit me. He was trying to kill the cat I had in my arms. Trying to get the cat out of the house and he jumped up and tried to rip him out of my arms. but got my hand instead. He did let go right away so he might have known it was my hand. Healing good but stilll hurts. He better appreciate this pond. lol
