Introduction, Site Assessment, and Tools Overview

all right you guys today we got a pretty special of a video coming up we're collaborating with team aquascape and we're going to be doing a 8 by 11 pond install with as much detail as i can possibly give you to help you guys maybe do this on your own so without wasting any more time let's get into it but yeah if you want to do something over yeah exactly where you want to go with it you want to do it right here huh it's kind of painted yeah we'll find out see so final falls good morning stan good morning tim what's up stan hey hi chris hey guys how are you doing good to see you again likewise always a pleasure so how big is the pond gonna be eight by eleven so let's look at our tools today basically we're just going to be using a lot of hand tools we've got shovels we're going to be using a laser as well [Music] so since this is a collaboration with team aquascape we have both the dirt monkey crew and the aquascape crew working in the same space typically we would only have three four maybe five guys tops working on a project like this [Music] hey chris can you tell me what that rule is you were just explaining to us about spreading out the dirt because the three-foot rule yeah what is what is that so um you know we're always preaching to have these things have our water features look as natural as possible and in order to help prevent that that volcanic look that we so often see in crummier looking water features is because all of the dirt that supports the rock and liner is non-existent so we like to use the dirt