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Continued Excavation & Boulder Placement (Day 2)

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Pond Day1 Breaking ground

What happens here

Day 2 begins with continued excavation, particularly focusing on creating shelves and edges within the pond where boulders will be placed. A mini excavator is used for this precise shaping. Large boulders are then carefully lowered into position using the excavator's grapple bucket in conjunction with straps for secure placement. Ed emphasizes that using straps is safer and more effective for liner protection than relying solely on a grapple, especially when placing rocks near the pond's edge. A lesson is learned when a boulder escapes the grapple and rolls towards a structure, highlighting the importance of careful technique.

Goal: Shape pond shelves and place boulders for structural and aesthetic purposes

Tools and materials

  • Heavy Straps — Safely lifting and positioning large boulders
  • Large Boulders — Creating pond edges, shelves, and retaining walls
  • Mini Excavator — Excavation, shaping, and placing boulders
  • Shovel — Adjusting soil around boulders during placement

What they say

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we're going to keep d you guys so stay stick around good morning one and all it's the start of day two I got the machine fired up I'm just waiting for Zach and Ed to get here but uh it's just going to be setting Contours we've got so many shelves and edges because as we build these Boulders up we've got to have someplace for these things to rest so all we're going to be doing is prep work uh just trying to get everything physically so that we can see how it's going to look when we start to finally get to the end stage where we're actually able to place Boulders and put matting in and put do all the other work that goes with it so let's keep digging and keep going and I hope you have a good day hope you're enjoying this video series so I'm actually building a 3 to1 [Music] slope but this doesn't look 3 to one yeah little steeper slope than we were thinking it it is almost thinking we got to pop some bus in there which we could do yeah especially right right there this is fine here yeah but yeah right there that looks a a little tight isn't it it is want going to go pick a couple pick whatever you want at want to bring shuffle them in Zach and we could yeah could you lift this corner it's kind of skinny and put it like right here and then it'll kind of angle it down a little bit it'll follow we got an we have a this rock has a slope to it so it should just slide right in there what I noticed about working with Ed is he doesn't marry a boulder he flips it spins it spanks it pops it in place and calls it good and if it's not he moves on little bit further over down you got to go that way like 3 more Ines right there he's learned how to read the Rocks which means he spends the least amount of time possible to increase his productivity while still getting the results he's searching for let me throw a little soil under there or does push it before we can start installing the pond we have to build a retaining wall to support the infrastructure yep could you push the whole thing up that way from down here just push it closer to that rock little bit more I'm good [Music]

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