Hey Fred, after Precious reached cruising speed, we made to the site in about 30 minutes. We hit it yesterday morning at about 6:45. Worked till about 5. I hate this DST time change thing.
We ended up with 4 loads of chert delivered late Thursday. First thing Friday I started building a road across the ditch swale with the chert. The land we're on is soooo soft. I underestimated how soft. It took a whole load of dirt just to have a stable enough road for me and a full bucket load to cross it. We just had the truck keep bringing loads. On about the 7th load the truck broke through the crust and got stuck. They had to call another operator to unload the truck with my backhoe. Guess they were afraid me and the dump truck driver would beat the truck to death if we tried it. Ha! It was funny, when they were talking to the guy coming, he kept asking if it was a wobble stick backhoe. Guess he was dreading it. But he stood Precious up as high as she'd go and she unloaded a lot of it. Then they strapped Precious' backhoe bucket to the front of the truck and she pulled him out. I didn't take any pictures, but I did take a picture of the stuck truck and my phone rebooted!! So I don't have any pictures of it. I'll take some pictures today of what it looks like. It was a war zone yesterday and just a mess. But we finally got it into shape. It looks decent. We spread 9 loads of fill and cut the new ditch.
About to head back over to spread a bit more dirt. Will probably have some top soil coming next week hopefully before the rain to finish this job up.
Yeah, he's gonna get a good deal on this total project and he knows it.
We ended up with 4 loads of chert delivered late Thursday. First thing Friday I started building a road across the ditch swale with the chert. The land we're on is soooo soft. I underestimated how soft. It took a whole load of dirt just to have a stable enough road for me and a full bucket load to cross it. We just had the truck keep bringing loads. On about the 7th load the truck broke through the crust and got stuck. They had to call another operator to unload the truck with my backhoe. Guess they were afraid me and the dump truck driver would beat the truck to death if we tried it. Ha! It was funny, when they were talking to the guy coming, he kept asking if it was a wobble stick backhoe. Guess he was dreading it. But he stood Precious up as high as she'd go and she unloaded a lot of it. Then they strapped Precious' backhoe bucket to the front of the truck and she pulled him out. I didn't take any pictures, but I did take a picture of the stuck truck and my phone rebooted!! So I don't have any pictures of it. I'll take some pictures today of what it looks like. It was a war zone yesterday and just a mess. But we finally got it into shape. It looks decent. We spread 9 loads of fill and cut the new ditch.
About to head back over to spread a bit more dirt. Will probably have some top soil coming next week hopefully before the rain to finish this job up.
Yeah, he's gonna get a good deal on this total project and he knows it.