I've got pictures galore - for all you who just might be fascinated with a backhoe and digging holes.
A before picture of the driveway, and also, that tree (see the orange thing on the ground) that tree used to be in front of my bedroom window. Jim pulled it out for me. Instead of it giving me shade in my bedroom, it lay down after too much snow burdened it one winter, and lay across the driveway, causing us to go around it.. so I had Jim pull it out for me!
First we start with the septic sucking service (for all our Red Green Fans our there)... emptying all the yuck that was down there. At the end of that brown wall is where the tree USED to be..
We then had to sequester ourselves inside so that the littles wouldn't get hurt by the moving backhoe, or fall in the hole.... so these photos are taken from inside. See that big cement box out there in the yard, there's another one just like it down in the ground. The backhoe is just breaking it apart, not actually bringing it up in one piece.
Once all the original septic tank bits were removed, and the hole cleared, they laid a layer of sand on the bottom to make it flatish.
That's one deep hole.
Next, the truck that dropped off the septic tank LAST week in the rain, came back and picked it back up, loaded it back onto the trailer, and brought it to the hole.
Jim got on there and checked it - it was 3 inches too high. They had to take it out and remove some sand, then try again. Finally he was able to install the pipe which connects to our outflow from the house.
When it was properly set and piped, they slowly started to pack in the sand around it to make sure it was stable.
And then refilled the soil.
Now it's time to retrench the lagoon pipe. It goes all the way out to the pasture where the grey water goes.. (grey water? I don't know if that's the right term - it has no poop in it, but it's not clean enough to reuse in any way). That USED to be my driveway there.. go back and look at the first picture.
They've gone now, but I haven't taken a picture of the aftermath yet.. I'll put it up tomorrow.
Header Banner photo of wild oats taken by Trent. background wallpaper is my concept, but Trent's technical abilities.~~~~
I am Sombra, and these are the stories from our house. We're a Messianic family where academics often take a back seat to the work and adventure of life.
