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I built this fountain for Dick and Jeanne Gladden back in the 80s. I got a call from a vacationing Jeanne saying she had bought a fountain and could I pour a slab and hook it up. Sure. Then trucks started showing up delivering these huge hand-carved stones to the front yard. I spent several days figuring out the shape, how to plumb it and light it and what the hell I was taking on. The base is about four feet tall with #4 rebar going both ways except in the center where there's two layers of rebar to hold the tremendous weight. It was a monster of engineering and I couldn't get a crane out to save me so I figured out a way to install the giant center bowls by hand using only ramps. It's my equivalent of building the pyramids. At night it looks like it is spitting chrome.