a job my dad did 50 years ago

I was in the town I grew up in the other day to stop and see my brother.While I was in the neighborhood I took some pictures. My dad did this job of lining this stream for a customer sometime around 1963 ,He also built the bridge and the dam.He did farmwork early in the morning,did jobs during the day,and then worked farming till dark or after dark ,sundays just farming

Looks like he did a great job, both in the quality of stone work and very pleasing to the eye. Plus it's held up well for fifty years.
I'd like to go back to a farm my family owned and see if the fences (barbed wire) are still holding up from about that time (1963). I was just getting out of high school then and helped Dad build about 3/4 of a mile of new fences.

Larry, I can see where you picked up your trade! Looks tidy even 50 years later.
Sam

Thats the best things about haveing Dad's that worked from home, We Can still go out and see the jobs they did. Working from home today has a whole other meaning.

That looks great. I wish I had a stream running thru my property.

Could you imagine the permit process to do a job like that today. Nice work!

Wow - that is really nice. We have a hand dug cistern that my wife's great great grandfather dug and lined with rock. Have a quite a bit that have come loose and fallen down into the cistern. I would like to get them out and "fix" it - but I am afraid of the possible snakes - I should have done it while it was cold and dry.

Very nice! I highly doubt there is any permiting process in Pennsylvania currently that will allow this. Pa gets upset if you walk across a creek.

larry@stines,

Very nice. Obviously the acorn did not fall far from the tree... he did quality work.

You have that right. Pa has some rediculous regulations.

Wow! That's some really nice looking work!

It reminds me of Canal Fulton, OH.


I'm sure today there would have to be an environmental impact study, and a soil erosion and sediment study, along with permits for both. Then, you'd need a grading permit, and a creek crossing permit, and there would need to be a hydraulic engineering plan approval, structural engineering plan approval, as well as water flow study, because it looks like the water way was straightened out which apparently increases water flow velocity, increasing the risk of flooding down stream... or so they say...

There used to be a time when you owned property, the property was yours, and you could do as you wish with it. Now, you really don't own anything. Someone else has control and you are really just renting it from the school district. Don't believe me? Don't pay your school taxes for year and see how fast they put a public auction notice on your door. To me, that means the school district is renting the property to you.

Regardless, I love seeing pictures like these. I'm a big fan of engineered waterways and water landscaping. I've always wanted a waterwheel on an old grist mill converted to an electric generator. thanks for posting this!

I cannot imagine someone taking the time to do a job like that. I have trouble stacking three rocks. That is one nice piece of work.

Beautiful work and it has obviously held up well!
Great pictures Larry, thanks for sharing them.

I was by my old home place a fdew months ago. The poultry house my Dad built in 1928 is still standing as true as ever, but it hasn't had a coat of paint since he died and we sold off the buildings in 1995. Looks a little ratty now, but I just own the land, not the buildings.

Nice pictures Larry.

I'm almost 60 and starting to think the folks adopted me - Can't/don't the woodworking that my Dad used to do.

Glad you kept up the trade!

Larry...

Always enjoy your stone work - and now we see where you got the talent.
I've always been a big fan of stone work and try to use it on projects wherever we can. One of my favorite uses is a stone wall lined waterway - like the one in your pics. Have never had the opportunity on a project, but have tried to design it in more than once.
Have some good masons here in southern Indiana we work with. Will try to post pics one day of some of the jobs.
If you ever get out this way for a while, don't tell anyone.... they might not let you go back home!

Tony

He did an awesome job. Something that he, you, and many reletives can be proud of for generations to come!

Yeah, Tom Ridge promised to cut the DEP in half. Then he took the other half and made the DEQ.