Making progress on the new waterfall, learned a lot from the old one! This one has the rubber going up the sides some(2x6’s underneath) so the water is held in by rubber on the sides, not depending on the rocks/caulking to hold it on the sides as the old one did. Spill rocks are siliconed in, rest are dry stacked.

The filter unit will go up on top and hopefully be screened some by rocks/trees.

I like the two trees flanking the lower pond, may get some beside the upper pond later on.

The hose up to the top goes under the roadbed, in an old plastic downspout tunnel. You can see it to theleft of the tunnel as it comes out of the white plastic. This is hard work for an old retired guy!

Looks good, Jerry. Thanks for sharing.

Looks great. I have also wondered if there are solar powered water pumps for remote locations where an electrical cord might not be available?

Ooops, no sooner then I located these guys and their solar powered water fountain pumps

http://www.siliconsolar.com/solar-fountain-pumps.html

I ran my power line out under the sidewalk, when we put that in.

Mark Paul Sebar said:
Looks great. I have also wondered if there are solar powered water pumps for remote locations where an electrical cord might not be available?

Ooops, no sooner then I located these guys and their solar powered water fountain pumps

http://www.siliconsolar.com/solar-fountain-pumps.html

I wonder if the solar systems will pump enough water to satisfy your wish for a water fall. I found that two 3500 gallon per hour pumps were just about right to produce enough water at the head to look like a stream and waterfall. Remember, you need to lift the water, as well as just move it. It is the lifting that eats up the pump power. A 3500 gph pump produces significantly less than 3500 gph at a rise of 5 feet.

SteveF

Cool

I finished up the waterfall and it sure sounds nice. Need to screen the filter on top some yet and a few other details, then relay the track through the tunnel that runs underneath it.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Pond%20pix/WfallDone1.JPG)

Closer shot:

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Pond%20pix/WfallDone2.JPG)

The fishing looks good there! Got a worm??

Nice work, Jerry. I have a pond and waterfall on my “to-do list”, just need to figger out what size and where exactly to put it.

Nice looking water feature, Jerry…

Got the track under the waterfall today. It is the outer loop, inner loop will take awhile yet. Should be running trains over Memorial Day weekend!

Nice job, Jerry.
I’d like to do a water feature, but I’m afraid the dogs would just use it as a giant water bowl
Ralph

Ralph Berg said:
Nice job, Jerry. I'd like to do a water feature, but I'm afraid the dogs would just use it as a giant water bowl :) Ralph

That’s why the station stop at our pond is called “Sweetwater”. Max loved it and is buried near by. I’ll have to go a long way back to find his picture.

The wifes Bassat hound ignores the pond, so no problem.

Nice Waterfall Jerry. Are those all Goldfish in there they look pretty big !

Most are goldfish, we have 5 Koi, 4 are pretty big, 16" or so.

Jerry,

Time to post a video on the waterfall, it will have everyone run for a leak, again. :lol: :lol: