People have been asking me since March when I was going to break ground. I kept saying "soon", but soon never happened. It finally happened last Wednesday, but it was delayed so I wasn't even there to see it! I had waited at the site for about two hours Wednesday morning. The dump trucks were lined up, Joe Haaf was there, the backhoe operator was there, but no backhoe. I finally left and went to work, and I guess the backhoe got there shortly after I had left. Oh, well. I had waited so long for that day and I missed it!
I'll post some pictures here, so people will really believe me. No big hitches in digging. There was a large pipe coming out of the ground which was embedded in concrete and rebar. It was meant to be a very sturdy pipe. There was a lot of speculation as to what was on the bottom end. Was it a well, or and underground tank? I was convinced it was a post for a carousel or merry-go-round. I'm not what it was for, but the good news is that there was nothing at the other end. Another small hitch was that there was a small dump in the middle of the lot that had a lot of building rubble; big hunks of concrete and some other junk. I'll have to pay extra for that to be disposed of. The third thing was that the ground is clay, not sand. There was a couple feet of sand under the top soil, but clay underneath that. The soil borings I had done, which went down 8 feet, showed just sand, not clay. I'm not sure exactly how that will affect things, but I guess sand is more stable than clay, so we would rather have had sand. Lucky I decided against a sand pit under the house, or I would have had to haul sand in for it.
Here are the dump trucks, all lined up and ready to go, but no backhoe.
Starting the dig.
Before digging.
Concrete rubble.
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