When Andy Asher and his wife Tiffani were looking at landscaping ideas for the front of their home on Cora Lane, they knew they didn’t want traditional grass.

After doing some research, they eventually decided on a rock and water feature, later choosing to add an old truck as a waterfall. The project is set to be completed this summer. 

“We didn’t want to do grass, we just wanted to do some type of rock landscaping,” Andy said.

“We saw on Pinterest an old truck with a water fountain coming out of it into a waterfall, and thought it was kind of cool, so that’s what we’re going to duplicate.”

Located in front of the house, the landscaping features a large inset rock wall with a half moon driveway entrance. It also will have a waterfall and lazy river. To get it done, Andy reached out to Jack Haire, who helped plan the design and did most of the early prep and dirt work. 

When Haire had some other projects lined up and had to step away though, Andy asked TJ Wetherbee to help complete it.

“I do a lot of river restorations, and so I travel around, and that’s what I do,” Wetherbee said.  “I also stack rock a lot, so that’s why he had me come help with the rock work. It’s the smallest fountain I’ve ever done because usually I’m doing waterfalls, but it’s been fun.”

Wetherbee positioned the rocks for the retaining wall, as well as determined exactly how the lazy river would flow. He also suggested the idea of a truck water feature.

“I used their judgment on how it should look and what to do with it, and that’s kind of where we came up with the design,” Andy said. “So Jack helped design it, and then he got pretty busy with some other things, and TJ came along and put it all together.”

For the primary water feature, the water will flow out of the hood through the grill of the truck down a 3-foot drop and then along a lazy river until it cycles back up through a recirculation pump.

“There are a couple other little waterfalls there that we can either kick on with the pump, or when we get a lot of rain, can be turned off,” Andy added. 

The project began last year about this time, and the majority was completed last fall, but it has been on hold as Andy searched for the perfect older truck.

“I’ve had a really hard time making up my mind,” he said. “We’ve kind of just been doing it as we go, but not in a big hurry. I’m sure it would have been done a long time ago if I just would have turned them loose and let them do it.”

The Ashers recently found what they were looking for and purchased a truck in Montana that is the right color of patina for the project. It is currently sitting in the front yard waiting to be gutted and staged.

“We’ll take the motor out, and we’ll put a tub in there that the water starts out in and then I’ll make it so it just flows out over the grill and lands into the other fountain that I got going,” Wetherbee said. “I’m hoping to get on it here pretty quick so we can get it done.”