Believe it or not, I really do have a real job that doesn’t have anything to do with hunting. So in between hunting trips, I really do have to work. This past weekend a co-worker of mine was asking for volunteers to help him put in his new Koi pond at the new house that he just had built. Unfortunately I didn’t have a trip planned so being the good co-worker that I am, I volunteered. Now living here in Colorado, when I think of a pond in the back yard, I am thinking maybe an 8’x8’ or maybe even a 12’x12. So when I noticed all the people that were invited to attend on the email, I figured that we would have this thing knocked out and sipping some suds in about half an hour. Boy O’ Boy was I wrong!
|
When we showed up and walked into the backyard I almost fell over. The hole was dug, which was a good thing, because the pond was about 40’x50’ and 5’ deep in size!
Holy cow! It wasn’t a pond but a reservoir! I had never imagined that it would be that big.
|
|
|
The email had said that he needed help moving a 600 pound Koi pond. What I didn’t realize was that was just the weight of the Koi ponds rubber liner.
However, John had a good plan and quickly put everyone to work before they could turn around a run off!
In no time at all with proper supervision from the program manager (John’s wife Tammy), we had the landscape fabric down and were ready for the liner.
|
|
|
Fortunately for us the liner came rolled up on a roll that was about 6’ long. After a little debate we shoved a piece of PVC through the center, picked it up and people started to pull it towards the hole.
|
|
|
Once unrolled it was determined that we had the short side going the wrong direction. So, with a little muscle we were able to get it orientated in the right direction and started unfolding it. At last it was in position and with a little push and pull here and there we had the liner in place.
|
|
|
The last that I heard was that it was about 6 inches from being full, can’t wait until next summer. It is always nice to have a new place to fish!
|
|
This entry was posted
on Saturday, November 10th, 2007 at 9:37 am and is filed under Colorado, fishing.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
