We got the auger back and have the front fence almost done. The walkway and driveway gate are permanently hung and fence stretched across the front yard.
But most importantly, we finished trenching out the drainage ditch next to garage and got it half filled with baseball sized rock. FM has a local rock quarry right in her town so getting any kind of rock or concrete product you want is convenient and super cheap. The longest part was just getting the damn trench dug.
This ditch was a bitch
and we should have rented a ditch witch
but the witch will only dig a width
of 16 inches.
So we dug this entire thing out by hand - over 30 feet long, two feet wide and almost three feet across in some places - with a freaking hand shovel!
It was a bitch!
Don't even get me started on what it's like to hand shovel 3 tons of baseball sized rock out of the truck.
Yuk!
and we should have rented a ditch witch
but the witch will only dig a width
of 16 inches.
So we dug this entire thing out by hand - over 30 feet long, two feet wide and almost three feet across in some places - with a freaking hand shovel!
It was a bitch!
Don't even get me started on what it's like to hand shovel 3 tons of baseball sized rock out of the truck.
Yuk!
The large rock filled the bottom but to top the rest of the ditch off, we needed to fill with smaller gravel and extend this into the driveway to make one long continuous area. This was going to take significantly more than one pick-up truck worth so we called in the big guns.
Armed with 15 tons of gravel.
And he promptly backed into the garage and left a dent.
But at least the driveway and drainage ditch are pretty much done and our digging days are behind us.
Uh, that would be only the trench digging days!
Uh, that would be only the trench digging days!