Zachary Hoyt
Well-known Member
I have a rock 5' long, 2' wide and 10" thick, more or less. It is semi-rectangular. I have been wanting for a couple of years to put it in the edge of the pond but I needed to put some 4-6" high rocks under the "downhill" side to keep it level. I couldn't figure out how to move the big rock into the pond without it pushing the little rocks out of place ahead of it. I had a brilliant idea around Christmas when we had bare ground and the ice melted in the pond. I put the small rocks in place and marked outside them with some 1x1x48 oak stickers from the sawmill hammered into the pond bottom. A few weeks later when the pond was frozen hard and we had a foot of snow I took the Farmall 300 over there and dragged the rock the last distance to the pond and then got behind it and pushed it out on the ice, up to the stakes. My idea is that when the ice melts the rock will lower itself into place on top of the smaller rocks on one side and the pond bottom on the other, but I have never done this before and I do not know if it will work. When the ice starts to melt should I chop the part under the rock off from the rest with an ax or leave it attached to the whole rest of the pond? Any advice will be much appreciated.
Zach
Zach