Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction Hallo from Idaho

This is what I did this morning just messing around...





This doesn't have the holes routed in the plastic yet and I need to lag or more likely drill and drive wood in to make the end boards more secure. So far I am into this about 15 minutes time and no monetary cost. I have hundreds of these slightly punky white fir trees to use and several thousand feet of this fence plastic.

I am expecting to get a year or maybe even two out of these rafts. When they begin to get low in the water I will just pull them to the shallow marshy end of the pond sit them on the bottom of the pond in the 1 to 2 feet of water there and use them as stationary growing rafts there. With my eldest son and I working together we could easily produce two of these an hour so not a great investment of time and basically no monetary investment at all. I could pretty easily make 50 to 60 of these a year to grow in to start. It would be an investment of about 30 to 40 hours of my time but that is a drop in the bucket of what I usually put into my gardening each year.

I could also easily do these in 16 foot lengths as well, but for now I am going to keep it all smaller and simple at the start.