my Zen Water Garden and Koi Pond - Page 13

kien · #**121** 05-10-2013, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MMAX

Just like mine too. Countryside ditches, trips out west to the mountains and best of all co-workers with huge rock piles on their land. I would be interested to see how many pounds of rock I hauled to build mine--probably a couple of tonnes at least. I have nothing against Burnco but do yourself a favour and save yourself a pile of cash. Rock from these places cost a fortune.

+1

I also dug up a lot of medium sized boulders when I dug out the pond that is good for landscaping. I also found a construction site near my house that had a pile of boulders that they dug up and needed to get rid of. They were dirty and covered in mud/dirt but they were free!!

Dez · #**122** 05-10-2013, 05:39 PM

A long plank is your friend. Back up the truck to the boulder, then roll it up into the truck.

IanWR · #**123** 05-10-2013, 08:17 PM

We found the pot lifter (http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/p...2,2180&p=63382) to be a useful tool to gather/place rocks. With two people you can move fairly large rocks, and it even helps move rocks by yourself. Btw, a pleasant bonus to find pond chat on a reef site.

- Ian

kien · #**124** 05-10-2013, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by IanWR

We found the pot lifter (http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/p...2,2180&p=63382) to be a useful tool to gather/place rocks. With two people you can move fairly large rocks, and it even helps move rocks by yourself. Btw, a pleasant bonus to find pond chat on a reef site.

- Ian

whoa! That pot-lifter looks brilliant!

kien · #**125** 05-14-2013, 05:45 AM

The pond is now back online! Granted it doesn't really look any different than before

kien · #**126** 05-14-2013, 05:51 AM

Dez · #**127** 05-14-2013, 02:25 PM

Nice Kien! I love the pic of the koi just about to take in a mouthful of food. Was that covered structure there behind the deck before? Looks like it's a completely waterproof roof. When did you build that? Nice pictures.

kien · #**128** 05-14-2013, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dez

Nice Kien! I love the pic of the koi just about to take in a mouthful of food. Was that covered structure there behind the deck before? Looks like it's a completely waterproof roof. When did you build that? Nice pictures.

Thanks! That's my gazebo that I built last fall. Yes the roof is waterproof, covered with semi-transparent polycarbonate panels. I still need to finish painting it. Plus I intend to cover some of the windows with plexiglass and some with bug screen/mosquito netting.

FishyFishy! · #**129** 05-14-2013, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

Thanks! That's my gazebo that I built last fall. Yes the roof is waterproof, covered with semi-transparent polycarbonate panels. I still need to finish painting it. Plus I intend to cover some of the windows with plexiglass and some with bug screen/mosquito netting.

That looks great! That will be a nice little chill area for the summer for sure!

kien · #**130** 05-14-2013, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

That looks great! That will be a nice little chill area for the summer for sure!

Yup that's the plan :-). I found that we couldn't sit back there for a long period of time because we would just get roasted by the sun! You've seen my back yard, it's pretty exposed there. Or at least it was :-)