Digging

We have been very busy this last week digging out the foundation.

We rented a backhoe for 1 week. Day 1 went well, with both of us learning how to operate we actually got a lot done. The morning of day 2 The U joint broke on us. We called the rental yard and they came out with a truck to pick up the machine. We rented another tractor with a gannon this time.

Here is the second machine that we rented. This actually turned out to be a good thing as we used the gannon, which is the attachment on the back, quite a bit.

Here you can see things starting to take shape.

We took some time to work on the driveway also.

By the last day we really needed the backhoe again to dig some footings. This backhoe came equipped with an extend-a-hoe. Extend-a-hoe's are very useful and should you ever have the option I highly recommend them.

Here we are on the road back to the rental yard. I took it all the way up to 4th gear!