Well, the deed is did. It just about killed me because I ended up doing the entire thing by myself. I've yet to smooth out some of the wrinkles although I won't get them all out because there are curves in my dam, varying depths in the pond and that dang island that I really regretted at the height of my fatigue during installation.
Nonetheless, I consider it about 90% done until I finalize where the water flows into the pond (that part is 98% done) and get some water in it to see where the liner will nudge and tighten.
I couldn't even begin to describe all the things I didn't know I didn't know! :-) I unrolled the first liner in the wrong spot because I thought it unfolded from the center. Nope. I had to use the forks to move all 130ft of it up to the top of the dam. Fortunately it unfolded from the top side! That's one example of so many more things I didn't know I didn't know until I had to know it!
Doing this alone was an incredible challenge. I put down a little over 11,500 sq ft of liner. If I hadn't had the second tractor, the backhoe (for pulling sideways where I couldn't drive straight) and my pallet puller from work, I wouldn't have been able to do even what I did. Each liner weighs almost 800lbs and I about took off all my fingernails pulling and tugging on it. It's not perfect and it's not professional but it'll work just fine until the next phase where I work out the little kinks.
19 мар 2018
