lost bowl on kickstarter

our project got on kickstarter. check the link here.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1902659823/the-lost-bowl-a-diy-backyard-concrete-skatepark

whole shell finished.

we did the flat almost two weeks ago. a little slow on the update.

i found a person on craigslist selling a filter the right size for my pool. so i went to get it and ended up coming home with the filter, pump, inline chlorine adder, a pool ladder, two pole skimmers, a pool hose, and lots of chemicals.score!!!

bought the tile last week, should be picking it up tomorrow. and im planning on going to pick up the federal stone coping sometime next week.

once the coping and tile is on, i am ready for plaster!! then we skate!!

the volcano!!!

when ordering concrete it is a guessing game, it's better to over order. which we did, so we formed up quarter/volcano fire pit to not waste any leftover concrete.

concrete!!

man, where to start? we shot today. the day started off early, 7am!!pump truck showed at 7am and we started putting hoses together. compressor shows up and by 7:50 we were ready.

first truck shows at 8am right on time, we have a second truck scheduled to be an hour and fifteen minutes later. the first truck has no rock! none! they sent out mortar mix!! a quick call in to the concrete company and they admit mistake. they say they have another truck sent out immediately. we have to clean out the pump lines while waiting to avoid clogs. finally at 9:40 we get a truck. the mud is good.

there are ten yards in the truck and we got the whole shallow shot and a flashing of a little bit of the deep. the whole ten yards is shot in just over an hour and going great.

so, the third truck shows up and we start shooting the deep end. the mix is very wet and full of large agregate. we have to take breaks for walls to stiffen up as we go. we get the deep end fully shot and everything cut.

this process is awesome! the nozzle has soo much pressure! we had blockers at the top of the bowl holding plywood but when the missed rock would shoot super far, once or twice hitting my neighbors house! and once hitting hippy in the face.

thanks so much to everyone that helped!!

we came in at a total of 20 yards for all the walls. we will be doing flat mon. or tues.

raffle winners!

or wieners, however you prefer!!

first off, thanks so much!! the raffle brought in a little over $800!!

24 people bought tickets.

if you did not win, i am sorry, dont be sad, when i have shirts ready i will give you one for shipping costs. just shoot me an email and remind me when you see them up for sale.

and the winners are!!!

1. aaron muuray- kevin mueller

2. s&b pork deck- chip atkins

3. hellssatans deck- chris jordan

4. corey obrian- ryan ries

5. sc 30 years- brad hall

6. dt hendricks- taz pearce

7. hippy stick- michael gilbert

8. birdhouse deck- michael fauerbach (hank)

9. lance mountain- sean mccormick

10.zoo york- brennan olofson

11. duane peters- emily monroe

12. thrasher banner- steve barnes

13. dwarves poster- andrew wolak

14. ripper banner- chris gannon

i will email people tomorrow if you don't email me first at kingpat121@gmail.com

thanks so much guys!!

the next pics on the blog will be of CONCRETE!!!!!!!

rebar is done done done!

finished rebar, now we just gotta get plumbing all glued up!

dang!

today we used duanes surveying equipment and found out there is over six inches too much dirt in the deep end. lots of digging needed tomorrow.

leastmost

my friend steve put up a little spot on his page about the lost bowl. oh yeah, i forgot to mention it has a name! when you come here you will understand why it's called the lost bowl.

http://leastmost.com/news/build-your-own-fun-2/

2,750 feet of rebar got delivered.

starting the rebar, hopefully tomorrow i can show a picture of it done.

just a pic i liked alot. taken by dave.

been spending a bunch of days shaping and everything is really starting to look good. trying to shoot concrete next thurs. if weather permits. that will be one day less than four weeks from breaking ground. not too bad, for all the rain we had and only having one guy with any real experience.

shaping.

we are now shaping using templates of the concrete. one side of the bowl was dug out a little too far so we use wood at the top as a backing for the crete. the other side will just be backed by the dirt wall.

old drain field.

in the deep end we have old pipes from a septic tank drain field. we are gonna pack dirt over them so the city inspector doesn't see them. then the day of the shoot we are gonna blast a little concrete in each.

top plate in.

so we drove alot of stakes, and my friend duane came over with his fancy schmancy leveling/survey equipment. we went around and marked level on all the stakes and then added two by threes. then we put the plate in and pullend and twisted til it was perfect. this was alot harder than you think.

i have enough money to make it through the pour. i need to raise funds for coping, tile, decks, and plaster. so, im gonna do a funraiser for one month.
this build will be a dual purpose 100% diy build. we will be swimming in the summer and skating the rest of the year. all of you are invited to skate, swim, or hangout when done.

DRAWING WILL BE OCT 30TH!!!! i will not be pulling the winning tickets. i will find someone impartial.

all of the decks and banners in this first post is part of my personal collection. more stuff might be added as a few people have said they will be donating stuff for the raffle.

tickets are;
2 for $5
5 for $10
25 for $25
100 for $50

you can buy them by simply paypaling at kingpat121@hotmail.com
give me a couple days and i will email you back with your ticket numbers. please leave you email address in the notes section. i will have this posted on other forums as well.

any questions email me at kingpat121@hotmail.com.

prize1;


rhps aarron murray guest deck!! cool ass scalloped edges. homage to murrays old dogtown deck.

prize2;


snb roasted pork. a cool ass slick bottom deck made for snb 5 or 6 years ago. i wanted to skate this one but held off.

prize3;


hells satans silkscreened deck. made by hank of shipyardskates.com
how rad!? very few people still silkscreen! hank is bringing it back!

prize4;


corey obrian reaper reissue by santa cruz. as BOC said "don't fear the reaper".

prize5;


santa cruz old man retired deck. cool shape and great concave!

prize6;


this is og!! nos dogtown hendricks deck. nos! mint!

prize7;


trippy bro! vision hippie stick reissue.

prize 8;


cool birdhouse popsicle. the black on this is felt!!!

prize9;


lance mountain family og. been set up, but not skated, kinda scuffed, but cool

prize10;


zoo york popsicle. whatever.

prize11;


master of disaster!! duane peters reissue!! cool!cool!

prize12;


big ol' fabric thrasher banner.

prize13;


dwarves poster/print signed by kozik. has some stickers on the edges that were used as tape to hold it up. haha!

prize14;


big ripper banner!!

please do not put the word raffle on paypal!! they will screw me. thanks everyone! pat

and we got a shitload of rain. boo!!!

we are shaped up pretty good now. this is a pic with a fisheye of the whole thing with the top plate hanging beside it. tomorrow we are gonna drive tons of stakes around the edge to suspend and level the top plate in place.

at the end of day three we are to depth and roughly shaped. here is a deep end template hanging out.

after two days of digging we are getting a few feet from the depth. here is travis, brad, mark and me at the end of day two.

sooo, we have broken ground. i rented a bobcat mini excavator for a week. we cut out the shape of the pool out of 3/4 plywood. we made it 6 inches wide. we staked and flagged off the outside of the wood and started digging.

final drawings are done, dealing with the zoning office.

i finished my final drawings, they are slightly scaled down from what i originally wanted. probably for the best, since i haven't skated bigger stuff that often.

the pool is going to be 4' shallow and 8' deep. 32' long and 18' wide. 7 1/2' trannies in the deep with 6' in the shallow. really mellow hip, 6' outer radius.

i went to try to get my permits today, but was shot down quickly. i need to get a survey of the property with plot drawing with pool on it by the surveyor. i also need to get my drawings i did myself stamped by a structural engineer. i have an appointment monday with a structural engineer, and a friend who is a surveyor helping me out this weekend on that part.

once i find someone with a large format scanner, i will scan all my drawings and post them. here are pics of two the drawings for now.

i should have permits early next week, and then on to building the top cap.

dimensions

i will be doing the drawings soon and will have all exact figures then. this will give you an idea though.

deep end will be 9' deep with 8' foot trannies with 4' of flat. this will put it at 20' from coping to coping.

shallow end will be 4' deep with 6 and a half foot trannies which puts it at about 8 feet of flat. also 20' from coping to coping.

deep end coping to shallow end coping should be about 32=34'.

figuring it out

so i've been doing alot of research and it looks as if the whole thing will be DIY, just me and my friends.

i went to the zoming office today. i found out my water table is in the clear by far(yay, no pool floating out of the ground here). i found out that in my area a pool needs to be 25' from roadside property lines and 6' from other peoples property lines. this is no problem for what i'm gonna do. i also will have to build a pool fence around it even though i am doing a 6' privacy fence around my property lines.

i have calculated estimated costs to be around $10,000-$12,000. i will have about $7,000. so i need to come with some fundraising.

what better way to spend the governments money than to build a pool? i am closing on a house at the end of april, and with my first time home buyers credit, i am going to build a pool. now this pool is going to cost more than the government is giving me, i'll just have to figure out ways to get the difference.

the pool of my dreams is a kidney pool built for skating and swimming. i'm thinking 4 foot shallow with 9 foot deep.

i have started researching the process and costs of getting a pool built, and have decided to do as much as i can on my own. i will document all processes, thoughts, and costs here.