Trench
I was hoping to run the trencher today like I did when we replace our waterline at home but this machine was too hard to operate. Dave managed to get them all dug in the four hour limit.
I was hoping to run the trencher today like I did when we replace our waterline at home but this machine was too hard to operate. Dave managed to get them all dug in the four hour limit.
In the foreground are the remnanats of an old foundation when the site had a farmhouse or a small office for a lumber operation. Our house just touches the old foundation so some of it had to come out.
The building site was pretty close to level. So just a little scraping and we were ready to dig.
In the trackhoe versus bulldozer death match. It was fun having two big machines doing all the heavy work. The testosterone was so thick you could cut it... actually it was so thich you couldn't cut it.
No it is the beginning of our house. Notice the large garage and... well it is just some dirt at the moment.
Here is my Dad, Jack, working on our well. We bought our pump on ebay for $100. The box was smoke damaged. Installing it ourselves saves us $2700!
PUD dissaproved us this morning case we did not have the trench dug out behing the box and the wires were not stripped. Luckily I was out there earlier enough to get it dug out and my dad came and stripped the wires so we were ready to go. I will be up to 3 working days to get power now.
Even though we failed the PUD inspection on Friday once I dug the trench and my Dave stripped the wires he managed to get us on the schedule. Way to go.
Once the sand was tamped down and level then the insulation could be put down and the rebar over that. The rebar is tied at each cross.
The under the slab plumbing is all in one room thank goodness. We ended up digging out a lot of sand to accomadate it.
