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Showcasing Samson's Oasis (Intermediate Pond)

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Next, the video displays a larger 'Samson's Oasis' pond, described as ideal for fish and aquatic plants, and currently home to turtles and koi. This project starts at $25,300. The presenter explains that this larger pond requires machine-set boulders, increasing complexity and the need for heavy equipment. The foundation is still an 11x16 pond kit, but the larger stones necessitate machinery. Installation time is estimated at 60 man-hours (1.5 to 2 days for a crew). This project is presented as an intermediate step for contractors who have already mastered smaller, hand-installed projects. It offers a stepping stone to larger projects without an immediate jump to the largest, most complex ones.

Goal: Understand the characteristics, costs, and equipment requirements of an intermediate-sized pond project.

Tools and materials

  • Aquascape 11x16 Pond Kit — Base components for the pond
  • Heavy Equipment — Moving and setting large boulders and extensive excavation
  • Machine-sized Boulders — Creating the pond's rock features

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What are we looking at for a price tag on a setup like this one? >> here is kind of a little more ambiguous. Um so, with the machine-set boulders, it's probably going to be more than what's, you know, listed here. Um because once you got the machine-size boulders, you got to bring in the machine. You got to know how to place those. You got to buff up the liner, the underlayment. It's all this the components, right? Um but with that said, the foundation of this is going to be like an 11 by 16 pond kit, right? And so, with that, it gives you a general gauge of the size and kind of what you'd be looking at. And again, we go back to the machine-size boulders, which increases complexity. Looks nice. Some people really like that. But that's something that you would graduate to, right? You don't want to do that on your first project. You don't need to. You can make a great-looking water feature without doing any of this, which is what our team was doing across the country, 50 ponds in a year, you know, um and plenty plenty to look at from there. So. What is What is the breakdown on this one, then? Yeah, so overall, the pond kit's probably going to be around $5,000, give or take. Uh it's a little bit Every time you step up in size in the pond kit, it's going to jump price a little bit. Um man-hours, we're probably going to be looking at somewhere around, I would say 60-ish, so a day and a half, two days, depending on your crew size and what you're doing there. Um and that's not to say that a advanced installer couldn't knock this out in a day, right? Um again, minus the

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