Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Limestone Border

Regarding the limestone, in my neck of the woods we can buy retail direct from some of the the quarries. Cut out the landscape supply guy.

BTW, the largest the slinger truck could deliver was #2. Here's the website to the guys I used http://rockchuckers.com/ Check out the demo videos to see it in action.

This is what it looked like the same day after being placed at low water level, August 16, 2005. I didn't rake or level it.


Here is a picture taken on 5/9/07 nearly at full pool.

Rob,the small rip-rap ( about the size of a softball ) they also call it Gabion is $ 41.75 a ton here in my part of La. I'm going to use 18 tons to cover just 2 the sides of the pond. It will be 3 feet wide and 100' long for each side. One end of the pond already has the rip-rap and the other end is a levee. I used burlap to cover the slopes on the levee and that seems to work fine to control the erosion and it lets the grass grow through it. I can't get a slinger truck as Ryan suggested, to the pond or I would definitely use that to save a lot of work and have the stone spread uniformly. I have to use a bobcat to move the stone and then even it out by hand.

Here's Kent's pics

Ryan, I put another 18 tons of the small rip-rap around the sides of the pond this weekend, just in time for another round of huge thunderstorms sat. evening. For the first time, I was able to observe what the rain water was doing and could see where the water was breaching the limestone. I had enough limestone left over to beef up those areas and will have to wait and see if it works. For the most part, it looks like what I added this weekend will do the trick to keep the debris out of the pond. Even with the 2 areas the water got through, there was very little debris.Now all I need is GRASS to grow. Thanks for the help and posting the pics. You're pond looks great!! I can't wait for mine to look that nice.

Glad to hear it's coming together. I wish I had your rain problems. It has been very dry at my place, even the corn is starting to curl. My ponds as low now as it was in my August '05 pic and it's only June and no rain in forecast.