The rain last Sunday has proven to be a real headache. The ground is just now starting to dry out enough for the Uni-loader to be of a help. Yesterday, Monday, was spent waiting on the plumber to run the water line. He was all set to make the connection when he discovered a leak on the city side of the shut off. We had too wait for the city to get there and asses the problem. Lucky for us the water main was right next to the shut off, that meant that they did not have to dig up the street. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! The water got back on about 2:30pm The Kid and I were able to make two runs to the dump get rid of some of the junk we had generated. All in all not much got done due to water issues, both rain and city.
Here's what the project looked like this morning before we got started.
We were able to get almost all of the large wall down to the ground today. This ment several trips in the Uni-loader to move the rock that we could salvage for the garden wall across the street. Also this morning we got the gravel deliveries. We now have about 23 tons of gravel in the neighbors driveway. After lunch we were ready to get started on the footings but we had problems when the hill side started to collapse on us. DARN RAIN. Then we got a window at the dump so we made 3 more trips to the dump. Spent the rest of the day working on the hill side. This meant on average about a 8 minute round trip around the block to dump the dirt in the neighbors back yard.
If you are so inclined you can see a few more pics. go to (http://www.dad.incomingwormhole.com/WallProject/Wall2R.jpg) There are a total of 7 pics so just change the #2 to 3 and so on. #2 is an uphill pic from this morning, #3 is the trench, aka moat, for a drain in the neighbors yard, #4 is the 100' moat, I mean trench for the side wall in The Kid's yard. #5 is after lunch, #6 is the 23tons of gravel and #7 is what it looked like tonite when I left. I sure hope it looks like that tomorrow :-)
Gotta go hope to have walls going up tomorrow.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}