Brettski did you get your guys to just dump several tons at your place and move them with your loader as you felt the urge?
My pondsite had virtually "zero" rocks. Clay up the Y-Y...no rox. I trucked in about 45 - 50 tons of what the gravel pit calls "oversize". It's basically landscaping river rock that was too large to qualify. It goes from fist sized to volleyballs. I brought it in on a tri-axle truck that can haul about 22 tons....2 loads (plus some left over from another job). It might sound like alot...it ain't. A decent driver can split the load into 1/4's or 1/5's. The key, as well you imagine, is to do this work well before the water arrives. Also, it's gotta be done when the ground is firm and dry. Drivers can back down into questionable terra-firma with great care, but if there is any inkling that they might not get out, there's only one action: dump the entire load right now. That's NOT the plan. Dump a little pile here, move over 15 feet and dump a little pile here...blah, blah. Use the front end loader to spread it out and push it further down the slope.
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I did not take (nor have) the time allocated to make the fancy beds that Theo did (unless, of course, you consider my mad, scientific polyvinylphibian saucer project). One thing I did do that I think/hope will yield nice returns is to dump a bunch around our covered dock so I can look over the edge and practice aqua-voyeurism (another suggestion I got from Sunil's book).
