When we started this project the location was very important for the simple reason we were literally setting it in stone. I wanted a spot next to the back door but my wife wanted something a bit further from the house. I picked a spot under two willow trees that offered some shade and a bit of natural shelter.
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| The ground before we started digging. |
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| The spot was about 50 feet from the house and left lots of room to expand this project or have a place for people to sit. |
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| This is my Harmon who with his brothers help dug the foundation hole, |
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| Our frost line is 18 inches on a severe winter. I had the boys dig the hole to 20-22 inches deep. We made sure the botton of the hole was level. |
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| We filled the hole with broken pieces of concrete. This did a couple of things. One I knew they would be strong enough to hold the weight and two they were uniform in thickness and relatively easy to work with. |
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| We layered the rock on top of each other trying to make sure the gaps were covered. |
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| Between each lyer we added gravel to fill the holes in the cracks. |
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| Once it was complete it sat about an inch above the grass line. Putting the 3/4 minus crushed rock between the larger chunks of concrete really stabilized the whole thing. There was no movement when we were finished, |
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