MossflowerWoods
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- Joined
- Aug 12, 2011
- Messages
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- Location
- Fredericksburg, VA
- Tractor
- Kioti DK50SE HST w/FEL, Gravely 60" ZTR Mower. Stihl MS290 (selling), CS261, & FS190 + Echo CS400 & 2010 F-350 6.4 PSD snowplow truck
In the beginning I had a drainage problem. One of my ponds is a beaver pond with 12 month creek flowing in and out that the prior owner expanded with a backhoe. The other is a runoff and spring fed creek that overflows every Winter & Spring. INt he past this created a "vast dismal swamp" that would be unmowable for months. Last June I got my LX266 almost stuck in that bog trying to mow a month or more too early.
Unfortunately I do not seem to have a pic of true "before" swampy condition. :confused3:
I envisioned digging a small decorative "dry creekbed" to act as a drain and to make the yard cuter. My wife agreed to this project :thumbsup
she is 100% in charge of the "yard" the rest is my domain).
This spring was unnaturally dry and the swamp dried out very early. On day in April I heard we had 4-5 days of rain coming so I went out and dug the trench. This was my first real "bucket work".
The first 2 pictures are of that day. It is also documented in "Today's Seat Time" around April 21.
The drainage worked! I got runoff from the landlocked pond (we call it the Cherrio Pond) to the Beaver Pond and Voila! No more swamp!
But it was not cute.
Jumping ahead to Father's day weekend. Other projects had consumed me since late April, but for Father's Day, except for going to Richmond for celevbrations with family, and Church, all weekend was ME TIME!
First I made a crossing for the Lawn Mower. That is pic 3. The very large rock had been decorating a man-made pond next to the driveway that was ridiculous, hard to see and leaked killing half the fish. I've been tearing it out to make my wife a garden... I've got all the rocks around that old pond, and a couple rock piles, and a ton of bricks of various eras.
I used the bricks first to make a channel for water under the lawn mower bridge, and to support the big stone. and then I filled in the rest like building a giant puzzle. The cossing is very close to level and as smooth as I can make it.
Pic 4 is where I used a scrap 7' chunk of iron water pipe and rocks to make a crossing for my Kioti. I used all the discussions on my "tractor road" thread to build this what basically is a culvert/crossing.
I put bricks in the bottom to ensure the rocks did not completely close off the flow of water, and to conserve my rocks. I need to measure this thing, but trust me it is a LOT of rocks...
Pic 5 is a wide shot trying to capture the whole "creekebed". You can also see the bricks in the bottom of the bed.
That is what I managed to get done Saturday 6/17/12. I did work on placing rocks for about 4-5 hours on Sunday the 18th but did not get any pix.
Be well,
David
Unfortunately I do not seem to have a pic of true "before" swampy condition. :confused3:
I envisioned digging a small decorative "dry creekbed" to act as a drain and to make the yard cuter. My wife agreed to this project :thumbsup
she is 100% in charge of the "yard" the rest is my domain).This spring was unnaturally dry and the swamp dried out very early. On day in April I heard we had 4-5 days of rain coming so I went out and dug the trench. This was my first real "bucket work".
The first 2 pictures are of that day. It is also documented in "Today's Seat Time" around April 21.
The drainage worked! I got runoff from the landlocked pond (we call it the Cherrio Pond) to the Beaver Pond and Voila! No more swamp!
But it was not cute.
Jumping ahead to Father's day weekend. Other projects had consumed me since late April, but for Father's Day, except for going to Richmond for celevbrations with family, and Church, all weekend was ME TIME!
First I made a crossing for the Lawn Mower. That is pic 3. The very large rock had been decorating a man-made pond next to the driveway that was ridiculous, hard to see and leaked killing half the fish. I've been tearing it out to make my wife a garden... I've got all the rocks around that old pond, and a couple rock piles, and a ton of bricks of various eras.
I used the bricks first to make a channel for water under the lawn mower bridge, and to support the big stone. and then I filled in the rest like building a giant puzzle. The cossing is very close to level and as smooth as I can make it.
Pic 4 is where I used a scrap 7' chunk of iron water pipe and rocks to make a crossing for my Kioti. I used all the discussions on my "tractor road" thread to build this what basically is a culvert/crossing.
I put bricks in the bottom to ensure the rocks did not completely close off the flow of water, and to conserve my rocks. I need to measure this thing, but trust me it is a LOT of rocks...
Pic 5 is a wide shot trying to capture the whole "creekebed". You can also see the bricks in the bottom of the bed.
That is what I managed to get done Saturday 6/17/12. I did work on placing rocks for about 4-5 hours on Sunday the 18th but did not get any pix.
Be well,
David
