My Christmas money plans.

[PondmaninAL]

My MIL and her gentleman friend our sending my wife and I 350 pounds for Christmas. I don't know what that will translate into in dollars but it's alot. My wife and I are splitting it up between us. I plan on building a whole new lined, wooden trough. With each trough that I have built, I have been able to learn what works and what doesn't through the years that it has been used. My first and largest trough is really showing it's age and neglect. It is 72x49x20"deep. I've learned some mistakes that I made and plan to not make those mistakes again. The first mistake and biggest one is using recycled, untreated, partially painted wood. The new trough will be made entirely made of PT lumber. The old one has the drain on the side. I did it that way thinking that I wouldn't be able to get to it on the bottom. The new bottom frame will make it possible to have a bottom drain. Also, the new trough will be 120x48x24"deep. The 24" will be to the bottom of the spillway(to allow it to flow into another trough or the old stock tank.

The old trough will be refurbished and totally painted and best of all, used again. This is what it looks like.



If you look to the left of the Dish Network bird bath, you can see the side of it.



On the backside, one of the ribs have popped loose from the bottom of the frame and the bottom is dropping loose from the side. It is also leaking around the side drain a little.

Once the new one is done and the old one is refurbished, plus the addition of a smaller trough that I'm building Thanksgiving weekend, there will be four wooden troughs lined up. Oh, the metal stock tank will also be taken down and cleaned thoroughly and sprayed with vinyl. Also, a wooden surround will be built for it.

Winter is my woodworking time of the year.

Happy ponding,
Scott

[Sean]

Great X-mas present, I know what that is in Canadian funds

I am sure you will spend it wisely!

Cheers,
Sean

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