Underlayment and Liner Installation

that we had slinging slightly forward this is the geotextile underlayment this is going to give a little bit of padding underneath that liner it'll help distribute the weight as well because the liner will stretch this in fact will not it'll help distribute the weight so if you have a rock that's point loaded on the liner this will help spread that weight out and prevent that liner from really stretching i would think you'd want something heavier duty than that if we're worried about point loading of a rock on the liner we do have we do have we do have um a much thicker underlayment called rock pad but on a project this size where we have rocks that are max 18 inches 150 pounds it's just simply not necessary out here unless you have a very um like rocky aggregate sub base underneath the liner okay is there a right side and the wrong side to this liner there is not okay unless you're playing a joke on a new guy that would be a great time tim to get the gravel over here because we're going to use that to backfill as we're rocking into the bottom section this is our first aquascape pond which is a lot different than the projects we're used to working with we've done a lot of ponds but on a really massive scale we did the african hoofed animal exhibit at the minnesota zoo which was a five acre pond using dozers and excavators this pond only requires hand shovels but we were able to work some heavy equipment into it now oddly enough you would think if you're digging a pond you probably have some excavation spoils to haul off site but the exact opposite is the truth you use all of your excavation spoils to build out and flesh out the waterfall and sometimes you may need to import some extra dirt so that you get a very natural feel to that waterfall and that's exactly what we're doing in this case is just bringing in a little bit of extra soil so we can really flesh out that waterfall and make it feel right now what you're seeing here is a combination of the dirt monkey crew working with the team from aquascape together normally on a project this size you would only have three or four guys max so this is a lot of overkill but this is also helping us dial in and understand the process from stem to stern [Music] now earlier in the video you may have remembered hearing chris say that you only need shovels you don't need excavators and skid loaders to do a pond like this and the team from aquascape rarely ever uses big equipment but since the dirt monkey team has big…