Here's what I have to do: anchor 2 statues to a concrete block (4x8x16 solid) with 2 bolts; that block will then sit on the bottom of the pond in maybe 12-16" of water. It's purpose is to provide some ballast to the statues and hold them in place as well as raise them 4" (or more, maybe) from the bottom of the pond. The statues have 2 bolt holes in their case, so the easy solution seems to be to just drill the blocks, use anchor cement to install two 1/4-20 SS bolts, bolt the statues on and set them in place. I'm fearful the anchor cement will split the blocks. So, will this work or is there other options I should consider? I've dragged my feet on this long enough, the once drained pond is filling to the point I need to get 'er done.

Maybe these and some of those lead anchors into the drilled holes

 

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-3-8-in-x-3-5-in-Stainless-Steel-Lag-Bolt/3056723

I am not sure why you are concerned the anchor cement will split the blocks? Are the bolts sticking straight up into the base of the stautue?

I visulise taking some CMU blocks and making a hooked anchor bolt,(bending a longer bolt into a "L") and casting it into the open cell of the block sticking out far enough to insert in the bottom of the statue. Then epoxying it to the statue.

 

Herb

are you using a solid 4'' thick cap block???

anchor cement won't split it...

also, use type 316 stainless steel hardware..

56 minutes ago, Dadio said:

I am not sure why you are concerned the anchor cement will split the blocks? Are the bolts sticking straight up into the base of the stautue?

I visulise taking some CMU blocks and making a hooked anchor bolt,(bending a longer bolt into a "L") and casting it into the open cell of the block sticking out far enough to insert in the bottom of the statue. Then epoxying it to the statue.

 

Herb

I'm afraid the anchor cement will swell enough to split the blocks.....of course if that happens, no big deal. But those blocks are not the strongest material. Stick, yeah, I was just thinking of a 4" cap block. I'll just go ahead and drill them and set it up.

anchor cement will not split that block...

You are correct, it didn't. I went to the hardware and got a small can of hydraulic cement, the bolts/nuts/washers I needed, and had it done in about 1/2 hour. Tomorrow they go to the pond.

Kinda late on this, but I'm with Stick on this! BTDT. Can we see a pic of the pond?

John

Yeah, here's one. You might notice the Pagoda and 2 birds on the center right....the birds are what I anchored to the blocks and put there The pond is still about 10" below full pool.

Edited July 12, 20178 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr

NICE! Sure beats my little 1500 gallon hole in the ground.

John

The couple who built this place must have loved Koi. We have 13 (yep) small Koi ponds around the house in various states of disrepair. Some are as small as 4x4x12" deep, the largest one is about 15x10x24" deep, and then the one in the pic (3/4 acre). It looks to me like he would put small Koi (or carp, or goldfish,  if you want to call them that) in the small ponds and when they got too big he would just move them to the big pond. When we killed/captured/whatever we could to get rid of them, the largest one we got was 24" long. A Koi farm guy came and seined out about 300, most of them in the 12-18" size range. We still had too many left and so drained the pond last fall. The smaller ponds I am/will tearing out, except for 2 that kind of integral to an elevated deck, to remove them would mean tearing out (I think) the deck. We'll leave those as lily ponds. We did stock the big pond with bass, bluegill, shellcrackers, and channel catfish this past spring. Here the big one:

Edited July 12, 20178 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr