Re: New to site and new pool project starting this year
Hey everyone.
Hope you all had a good week! TGIF
Well we have made some progress this week, getting there slowly but surely, thought I would post a few more pics.
Since we had to buy the new fridge and put the pool off for a while, we started working toward getting the shed done so we can move the wood furnace, but since the equipment will go between the shed and pool we had to go ahead and frame and start building up that area also.
The first 3 pics are where we stopped last night, I took the pics but was too dog tired to post them, lol.
This is our "lil" tractor, Kubota 4 x 4, it is a real work horse, it has tons of power but no weight, poor thing, but it will run forever on 5 gallons of diesel, unlike Big Yellow below, (it takes 5 gallons just to start that thing, lol).
Big yellow there belongs to our best friend, it is a 3400 Ford Commercial, fluid filled rear tires, 6' Gill box blade on the rear, that thing is HEAVY, lol, (it is over fueling BIG TIME, we are gonna have to get new injectors for it soon, that is why the 4' stove pipe is on the muffler, makes the smoke and fumes go over our head instead of in our face), this is how we have been digging and moving the clay, (wish our backhoe was running, it is a 750 Ford, and will move 3 times as much as his does, plus having the backhoe itself to dig with would have made this so much faster and easier), but big yellow does a good days work.
This shows we have the shed area completed, (as far as level and rock, still have to put the tile for the floor in).
You can see between the tractor and the finished area for the shed there is a 2 x 6 we used to scissor the rock level, it is leaning against the small 4 x 4 sticking up, that short post will be replaced with a taller one later, it is 2' past the corner of the shed, there will be an area there the length of the shed with a roof so we can store and keep firewood dry.
We still have to lay landscape timbers from that post out 16', there will be a 6' x 12' "porch/deck" out in front of the shed so we have a place to work with the tablesaw, or horizontal bandsaw, or sawhorses, ect.
From the tall post to the next set of timbers, (first side of the shed area), is where the pool equipment, supplies, tools and toys will be, the whole 4' x 16' area will be enclosed, with the first 10' from the post out having a roof/lid that will raise up for access, the last 6' will be taller and used for stuff like garden tools, lawnmower, ect., we are going to use 2" thick pavers as a floor in this area.
This is a picture showing the grade where we didn't have to level, (north side of backyard), it doesn't look like much of a slope huh?
When we are finished there will be a tie wall along this side from the house all the way to the wood line, and then along the wood line to the left and going away, (south) in this picture, then back along the equipment area back to the house, it will go all the way to the top of the pool for the deck, once the wall is built, we will put in drain tile and backfill to and level with the clay with 2" clean.
Now this is looking back to the south and you can see just how big that slope really is, (a good 4').
Looks like a mess since we have been scooping up rock to level the shed area, lol.
The next 2 are from the south side looking back north.
We decided to make one change in our plan this evening after looking at everything, since we had to go 3 timbers high to raise the shed above ground level it doesn't look right so we are going to add another layer of timbers all the way around the pool area, and add another inch or so of rock.
Once the deck is built it won't even show, but it might be another couple of years before we get that far so we want it to look better between now and then.
Well enough babbling for tonight, lol, yea I can be a real "Chatty Kathy", but hey how else are you supposed to make any sense out of our disaster at this point, giggles.
Hope you enjoy, and Please, Everyone have a Safe and Happy Weekend.