We went away for a week to spend some vacation time in Vacationland (i.e., Maine) and returned to find this masterpiece sculpted in soil. Brian had been busy carving out the final pond shape, and backfilling and tamping the deep zone wall to about 2' of its top. The deep zone got a fairly thin layer of sand which was also tamped into a nice, solid base. He also dug a trench around the pond perimeter, which will be used to lock the pond liner in place (the edges of the liner drape into the trench, which is then backfilled with soil and tamped). It is difficult to see in the photo, but Brian also cut lengths of scrap plastic drain tile and wrapped them around the wall braces that extend above the backfill. The braces have fairly sharp edges and the drain tile wrapping should protect the pond liner from punctures or tears. Almost time to put the liner in -- a prospect that has been keeping me awake at night as the liner weighs 1200 pounds. When it arrived on a semi a few weeks ago, the driver had no way to even move the liner to the rear of the trailer, not that it would have fit on the trailer's hydraulic drop gate even if he could have moved it. Fortunately, I have a farm tractor with a front end loader and was able to tow the liner out of the truck with a set of chains and then carry it to the barn with the loader for storage. How we are going to unroll the liner and stretch it over the pond remains a mystery.
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