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.