The next
step was sand. You don’t want to backfill with the stuff you dug out in the
first place, it is full of rocks and rubbish that might damage the foundation.
Sand and the big shovel would arrive on Friday. When they did, it looked like
this:
Backfilling with sand.
Eric guiding the shovel operations.
Zack, the operator, is an old friend,
so unlikely to crush him.
so unlikely to crush him.
Matt levelling sand fill under the
deck. As with the stone, a lot of sand
had to be distributed by shovel and tidied by rake. More heavy work and not
all locations were easy to work in.
The next
project, once back filling was done, was to put a trench in place so our power
and telephone cables could be laid underground. This is what it looked like:
Zack making an entrance to the forest
from big brother’s parking area.
Working through the forest in the
little (relatively) digger.
The trench was filled with sand,
carried in load after load on
a little mini-dump truck on tracks. After a foot of sand, the
cables were laid, then another foot of sand was added. Then,…
...the forest floor was restored. Only
brush and dead trees
had been removed.
Yesterday,
it rained. It was perfect weather for my job: broadcasting clover seed along
the length of the trench. Clover grows quickly, isn’t fussy about substrate,
doesn’t mind shade, and deer love it.
The power
and phone lines have arrived safely at our (much improved) hole in the ground.
They look like this:
Power and phone cables in the house
(such as it is). No,
neither end is attached to anything yet.
While Zach
dug holes for our septic system, WW, Matt and Eric moved our woodshed. It
looked like this:
The woodshed unlimbered from its base
and braced for removal.
Installing the base at the new
location, Quebec style—there must always
be one guy leaning on his shovel.
Heave ho and there she goes.
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