Building Lake Corona
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deezler
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Whoa seriously? Hard to fully judge from your pics, but it looks like the ridges are at least 15-20 feet taller than your water line. You're going to carve a long, 20 foot deep canyon just to get an alternate overflow, vs building in an armored spillway on your dam?
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You might want to look at his last pic again. The top of the dam is in the foreground. Looks like maybe 6 ft of ridge? Sometimes hard to tell in pics. To get this far along I trust jk96's judgement that it's a good solution.
Ridge would be much lower after pulling the rest of the dirt needed to finish the dam. That would be the main reason for pulling dirt from there. Right now it starts in the left side of the pic at about 10 feet higher than the water line and tapers down from left to right, ending only about 5 feet higher than the water line outside of the pic I posted. It would only be used for the overflow if enough dirt was pulled for the dam to make it doable. I have no intention of carving a trench for the overflow. I don't really like the idea of disturbing this area though so just an option at the moment.
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We'll be here when you get back. Have a great 4th down there. Look Northwest just after dark on the 4th and you might see our fireworks display here at the farm!!!! I'll try to get some pics/video.
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We'll be here when you get back. Have a great 4th down there. Look Northwest just after dark on the 4th and you might see our fireworks display here at the farm!!!! I'll try to get some pics/video.
bindian
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It's not the wrong tool if you only have that one machine. I had a dump truck. If you have more than one person, a loader and dump is great. But for one machine and one person, digging and moving short distances (200-300 feet) a 4WD tractor is not the wrong machine. Also swapping between machines gets old fast. All that time swapping between machines adds up also. My 6520 4WD Mahindra excels at digging ( or pushing dirt) and hauling short distances. The 6520 dug all my pond basins with the loader and moved the dirt.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to own a CTL.
hugs, Brandi
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Well I survived another 4th of July weekend with all 10 digits. In all seriousness it can be a pretty dangerous business and pretty proud that all of my crews as well as spectators for our shows are injury free after 22 years in this business.
That's me looking at the camera in this pic
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Here are a few more of the show I worked on the 4th with some of the best guys I know. These guys have been working with me for as long as I can remember.
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Started draining the pond for what I think was the 6th time today. Had it drained and a storm a few days back just about filled it up again. Hoping next week this project will get going again. At this point there is no doubt I will have a pond. Size is the only question now.
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That's me looking at the camera in this pic
2020-07-06_09-19-57 Here are a few more of the show I worked on the 4th with some of the best guys I know. These guys have been working with me for as long as I can remember.
2020-07-06_09-19-48 2020-07-06_09-19-412020-07-06_09-20-19 2020-07-06_09-20-11 2020-07-06_09-20-04 Started draining the pond for what I think was the 6th time today. Had it drained and a storm a few days back just about filled it up again. Hoping next week this project will get going again. At this point there is no doubt I will have a pond. Size is the only question now.
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Great pics, jk! Thanks for sharing the pyrotechnics.
Yes you will have a pond. I say make it as big as practically possible. You don't want to be second guessing yourself later that you should have.
Yes you will have a pond. I say make it as big as practically possible. You don't want to be second guessing yourself later that you should have.
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Really enjoyed seeing your fireworks pictures. I've never seen them up close like that and it's a really impressive set up that you have!!!
bindian
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Awesome photos. How long does it take to setup and take down?
hugs, Brandi
hugs, Brandi
It used to take a large crew all day just for setup. Had to unload all of the equipment, setup and secure everything, load pyrotechnics then reverse the whole process at the end of the night. We've changed our procedures over the last few years. This was a fairly large show for the area. Now we shoot most shows off of trailers. This show had two 24 foot trailers full of mortars already setup. All we have to do now is load the pyrotechnics and wire them to the control boxes once we get the trailers on site. Saves a ton of time.
Here's a pic of one of our trailers. Racks with mortars on the flatbed. Pyrotechnics are transported in the enclosed box to the shoot site. For the show this weekend we arrived onsite with 5 guys at 1pm and was wired, tested, and ready to shoot by 7:30 pm. We shot at 10pm and were heading home at 11:30pm. In the past when we were setting everything up on the ground this same shoot would have been a 9am to 8pm setup and we would have been breaking down and moving equipment back into box trucks until 1 or 2am.
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You must not have gotten around much, I cannot remember all of the different articles and vids I have viewed on pyrotechnics!
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Some focus their attention on quite different things than others... that shouldn't imply they 'don't get around much'.
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OK I stand corrected, I guess he hasnt READ around much about pyrotechnics.
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It used to take a large crew all day just for setup. Had to unload all of the equipment, setup and secure everything, load pyrotechnics then reverse the whole process at the end of the night. We've changed our procedures over the last few years. This was a fairly large show for the area. Now we shoot most shows off of trailers. This show had two 24 foot trailers full of mortars already setup. All we have to do now is load the pyrotechnics and wire them to the control boxes once we get the trailers on site. Saves a ton of time.
Here's a pic of one of our trailers. Racks with mortars on the flatbed. Pyrotechnics are transported in the enclosed box to the shoot site. For the show this weekend we arrived onsite with 5 guys at 1pm and was wired, tested, and ready to shoot by 7:30 pm. We shot at 10pm and were heading home at 11:30pm. In the past when we were setting everything up on the ground this same shoot would have been a 9am to 8pm setup and we would have been breaking down and moving equipment back into box trucks until 1 or 2am.
Have you been to Gillette Wyoming for the National pyrotechnics shows?
I used to go every year but it's been a long time since attending now.
