Tomorrow's plan is to make multiple trips to Fill's Emporium of Dirt and start building up the grade that was underneath the deck that I demolished this year.
The geniuses who built our house built a deck over the septic tank, and since the ground was covered with a deck, they didn't bother bring up the grade. Consequently, water has little incentive to flow away from our house on that side.
I made a test run today. A round trip to Fill's that involved a 1/2 yard of "sand-fill", emptying the bed of the truck and wheel-barrowing the 1300 lbs of dirt (105 feet one-way) to the depression took 51 minutes.
My goal is to make four round-trips to Fill's Emporium of Dirt tomorrow with a stretch goal of six trips.
Blogging may be light.
I had a loadhandler for my pickup, made emptying it a lot easier.
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Well… if I had your money, time and wealth, Joe…I’d bring in a dump truck with at least 9 yards! I’da thunk a fella like you could do a lot of great things with good black dirt…😊👍
ReplyDeleteI place an old tarp on the bed of the truck, makes unloading easier. Those last few loads can be yanked out of the back with a good pull.
ReplyDeleteNot being offensive but I do hope you are installing a septic tank hatch as it's not fun to dig through all that extra dirt.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what the real name is but I installed one (a fair bit of kneeling on the dirt work there and has made my semi-annual septic events so much easier that digging where I THOUGHT the hatch should be :-).
"dirt digging" days are good days...............
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