piper
02-07-2012, 10:12 AM
I decided I would post the new pond build and update with new pictures as it progresses throughout.
I decided to let someone else to do the digging to save my back. The first two to three feet of top soil is a sandy loam and easy enough until you get to the hard packed clay.... then the fun begins.
He says he has built other ponds before and put koi in them... but I believe he meant something like a stock pond for the cows and horses, and I'm right. So this will be his first concrete walled Koi pond and I outlined the dimensions and the height of the wall above and below grade and the general concept of what I wanted..... so here goes:
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1714.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1715.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1716.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1717.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1718.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1719.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1720.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1721.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1722.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1723.png
I decided to let someone else to do the digging to save my back. The first two to three feet of top soil is a sandy loam and easy enough until you get to the hard packed clay.... then the fun begins.
He says he has built other ponds before and put koi in them... but I believe he meant something like a stock pond for the cows and horses, and I'm right. So this will be his first concrete walled Koi pond and I outlined the dimensions and the height of the wall above and below grade and the general concept of what I wanted..... so here goes:
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1714.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1715.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1716.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1717.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1718.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1719.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1720.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1721.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1722.png
http://www.extremekoi.co.uk/imgcache/1723.png