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The guys decided to put in a flower for the fishes.
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Today we got the first and largest floating boulder placed.
One of those tubes will feed the noodle head fountain. The other will feed a water fall-bird bath effect.
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Gravity is a big consideration when it comes to planning on how to keep the rocks sitting on the column and not just floating away.
But there's rebar pins to help gravity do her thing (we know gravity's a girl, an old girl).
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Yesterday was Sunday and I took advantage of a bud's JCB 506C since he doesn't work his people or equipment on Sundays.
It was the cat's meow placing the sandstone slabs on the deck.
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Of course every great plan can have issues.......
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Mother nature is a great artist. But she needs some help on occasion with alignments when it comes to flagstone decks.
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Those are some big rocks on that deck.
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But what a view.
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The 506C is about the most fun you can have by yourself with a piece of machinery.
Early this year I'd drive this puppy into gumbo clay unitl all four wheels were not contacting anything to grip. Then I'd use the forks to pull myself forward or push myself backward.
With the four wheel steer it can turn inside of itself.
It is an amazing piece of equipment.
Unless of course it does what it did to me last night. Some way some how it went into crab steer. That's where the wheels are pointed straight by the body is at a thirty degree of so angle of the path of travel.
It looks great. And I'm sure it's important when one is trying to traverse bad terrain and not have one wheel following another's track.
But when you're trying to load an eight foot wide machine on an eight foot wide trailer crab steer is the last thing you want.
She'd run up and down this access like it was a piece of the tollway across Oklahoma.
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