Building Lake Corona

/ Building Lake Corona #1,401  
Nice job and video! Watching the video, it was visibly light in the rear, and probably felt even worse. I'd have been worried about dropping the stone on the pillars.

All the best, Peter
 
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Nice job and video! Watching the video, it was visibly light in the rear, and probably felt even worse. I'd have been worried about dropping the stone on the pillars.

All the best, Peter
Had to go slow and make sure I had the slab above the columns. Definitely didn't want to have it fall and crack them. Placed some fast set concrete powder on top of the columns before setting it to account for the rough surface. Too cold to mix it with water today. It's solid at the moment. If it develops any play I can always lift it and mix a handful of cement for each column and reset it.
 
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Had to go slow and make sure I had the slab above the columns. Definitely didn't want to have it fall and crack them. Placed some fast set concrete powder on top of the columns before setting it to account for the rough surface. Too cold to mix it with water today. It's solid at the moment. If it develops any play I can always lift it and mix a handful of cement for each column and reset it.
Sometimes just exposing to moisture will harden it.
 
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I've been manhandled trying to move and lift big flat stones with my 60 horse Kubota tractor...they are deceptively dense and heavy.

That Case is a beast to be able to get that slab up...and then shift the weight further out on the forks and still ooomph it up.

Very impressive!
 
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I've been manhandled trying to move and lift big flat stones with my 60 horse Kubota tractor...they are deceptively dense and heavy.

That Case is a beast to be able to get that slab up...and then shift the weight further out on the forks and still ooomph it up.

Very impressive!
I was pretty well maxed out. Still had a lot of verticle lift left but no counterweight. The tilt cylindars were close to maxed out with that slab almost 10ft out from the pins. J.
 
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Any updates J?
Still waiting on some good runoff rains but slowly creeping up still. I'm at the highest point it's been to date probably 2.5 feet to go. We haven't received anything in the 1" plus yet. The big storms last week went just south.
 
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Still waiting on some good runoff rains but slowly creeping up still. I'm at the highest point it's been to date probably 2.5 feet to go. We haven't received anything in the 1" plus yet. The big storms last week went just south.
Good to see that all that hard work to fix the pond is paying off! Is it getting clearer or still murcky?
 
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Good to see that all that hard work to fix the pond is paying off! Is it getting clearer or still murcky?
Starting to clear up a little bit now. Holding good. We had one of the warmest and driest winters I can ever recall and I think I was only down 4 in over the winter. So far it's up a foot from the low point from the spring rain we've got so far.
 
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Pretty good rain last night. Pond gained 7 inches. Still looks like about 30" to go just eyeballing it. That puts it currently about 10 feet at the dam and about 4 to 5 feet everywhere else. It also muddied up the water pretty good as well.

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My little wildlife watering hole filled up. I need to add some freeboard to the left side of it.

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jk96, just catching up on reading....good job on the pond
and especially the limestone slab. Good idea. Very nice. It will be a great
spot to hang out or fish in a couple of short years.
 
 
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