[QUOTE=Mendip;4262772]^
I'm starting to think I don't need this fancy gym that's on it's way... I may not have fancy gym muscles but I'd like to see some of these gym types hammer away at concrete for 8 hours a day in 35 degree heat and 80% humidity. They wouldn't last 5 minutes in the real world.
Mendip
I can't but wonder if you were the source of the expression, "mad dogs and Englishmen" as in "Only mad dogs and Englishmen would go out in the midday sun".
A "smart" person would hire a jack hammer and have the job done in minutes. Or better still get his gardener to do it and just supervise from the shade of the Sala.
Also I would have thought it would have been better to pump the pond out like you said you were going to BEFORE doing this work, it might have made it easier?
Good luck.