I started in on it again today, but the skies have opened up and I got rained out.
I set the pond a little deeper, and me and the in-law to a trip to a couple of suppliers and picked out some neat 2 inch flag stone that will be put around the edge, similar to the copeing around a pool.
I'm going to have to cut the flagstone down to the correct size to make it look good.
Not cheap, but does work well. I need to bite the bullet and buy a new CPU and upgrade to the current version.
After a while, some of the images get graphically heavy and my CPU starts to complain.
Some designers like the program, others don't. It works for me though. All in all, it gives the customer perspective of what things potentially can look in the end, and most designers around here are doing old-school hand drawings that don't give a clear perspective of the landscape.
BTW, my corn experiment looks like a failure.... the ears look good, but so far, they are practically hollow! Lots of air inside medium sized leaf ears.
BTW, my corn experiment looks like a failure.... the ears look good, but so far, they are practically hollow! Lots of air inside medium sized leaf ears.
Ya, I had it moved, seems like the landscaping section is starting to look like a ghost town, and I wanted to get more opinions from a larger cross-section of the Lawnsite community.
Ya, I was curious about the corn and how it was going. Your ears might look good, but it sounds like there are tons of leaves around a small ear. If the silks have died back, I'd go ahead and pick them and see what you got.
The tree; project my mother in-law wanted done. I've slowed down a bit lately (luckily had three calls today). She just wanted a bed around the tree, then decided to add a water feature. I took some more pictures earlier today of the water-fall dry stacked, so I'll try and post them later.
Thanks for the post ******, seems like I haven't made too many friends around here lately. I think the summer doldrums are taking a toll on everyone.
I didn't get started till noon today, we had 1 inch of rain yesterday afternoon. Luckily the soil is silty, and the water ran away pretty quickly.
First two pics are from the dry lay to figure my cuts and how I wanted the water fall to look in the end. The spikes are there just to keep my blocks in place until I mortared them in.
All in all, I don't like it. I'm not sure it's going to look good when it's done.
Here is a couple after I got the coping mortared in, and I started to re-stack my block for the water fall. The water should come off the block the tubing is sitting on and fall strait into the water. I cut a drip edge on the back of the block to help make sure the water doesn't run backwards.
Here is the pond dry-stacked and on a test run. I let my mortar set over-night before I put any real weight on it as the water feature turned out heavy.
I cut a drip edge underneath the block that the water runs off of, and all the blocks are tilted slightly forward to help any water turning backwards, to eventually fall forward.
After the test run, I pulled all the blocks to check, and sure enough all the water seemed to be moving forward.
After that, I set all the flag with block adhesive.
I used a red-quarts flag that I cut down on the edging. The red color is more a brown color, and the neat thing was the the block had a metallic sheen to it similar to lead, or pencil lead on a sidewalk.
O.K., I think it turned out well, better than I expected. I talked the m-law into buying some ferns to go along with the grasses she had bought previously.
I went to see my sign guy last night. I needed some more lettering on the sides for the parade coming up this weekend.
I'll be setting up a booth at the local carnival, and I'll post pics of it. Hopefully they will have an internet connection again this year and I can post pics right away and kill time on Lawn-site during the day.
First pic is my guy removing the badges off the truck. I was getting sick of looking at them and they were mucking up my logo. He just took simple fishing line to get behind the badges and cut the foam, and then we used a liquid remover to eat the foam and adhesive off.
We are at least going to do the plantings up next to the foundation and also the section of sidewalk in that area. I'll be meeting with her next week, and I'm hoping to do one of the ledges also.
It was the stock Chevrolet , S-10, and LS logo we took off the truck. The truck was visually messy with my logo and those on there.
A lot of guys work their logos around those badges, I say take them off and you have more room for lettering.
Thanks for the compliment on the water feature. Even though it's small, it came out nice. Eventually I'm going to go get more of that flagstone I used for the feature and make a bench next to it. We looked around at some concrete benches, but we didn't like the look of them.
Do you do mowing besides the landscaping. What do you run? Do you know of Martin Bros in Bloomington. That is where I bought my Exmark Turf Tracer. The GM is actually my cousins husband.
Do you do mowing besides the landscaping. What do you run? Do you know of Martin Bros in Bloomington. That is where I bought my Exmark Turf Tracer. The GM is actually my cousins husband.
Ha, your going to finally make me fess up to what kind of mower I have.
I use a 38 inch Simplicity Coronet. I only have 4 yards right now, so I have no need to upgrade. If I do, I might go to Simplicity's zero turn just for an upgrade and to make yards go faster.
I never did push the mowing side of the biz, the landscaping and maintenance seemed to be my niche. I will mow though, but I'm letting the lawns come to me, instead of pushing for more lawns.
My dream machine is a 62(?) Dixie Extreme. Only when I have at least 20 mow accounts minimum.
I know Martin's. I didn't realize they were an Ex-Mark dealer. I thought they mostly sold heavy equipment. I see their logo on a lot of Construction and Farm Equipment.
You could have seen Martin Equipment on Heavy Construction equipment. They are located in Goodfield. Martin Brothers is in Roanoke, Lexington, Bloomington, and a few other places. The one in Bloomington is mostly just lawn and garden and is on I beleive 51 South (Isn't that Main St) down near the old sale barn.
You could have seen Martin Equipment on Heavy Construction equipment. They are located in Goodfield. Martin Brothers is in Roanoke, Lexington, Bloomington, and a few other places. The one in Bloomington is mostly just lawn and garden and is on I beleive 51 South (Isn't that Main St) down near the old sale barn.
Ya, they have the JD dealer and small equipment shop out there on south main. I forgot that I went in there one time to check out the telescoping JD hedge trimmers. (Ya pretty sure it's 51, I get confused out that direction).
I go to Goodfield quite often. I get most of my block and pavers at Trinity Stone.
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