Work on the track, part II

3 Dec 2018

Neil, Panos and Dmitri all turned up early to help us get the track ready for the concrete truck coming at midday. 

 This is the pile of rocks and rubble on our proposed driveway from the track

 Luckily, rocks and rubble were just what the lads needed to fill in the ruts in the track, so suddenly, the problem was the solution, and it all started to clear very quickly

 Dave, whose knee is still not up to heavy work, took to strimming, a desperately needed activity

 Panos returning for more rocks.  As the lads took away what they needed, mostly the rubble, I cleared the remaining rocks to one side, ready for terracing when we start landscaping the garden.

 Neil shows off the filled ruts

 Then, the man with the 40 ton concrete lorry arrived, and said there was no way he could get his truck down the track above, or indeed, up the track below.  We were stymied.  We needed a smaller, more robust truck.  We had to cancel the delivery, and send it away to another job.  Devastation.  

After bouncing various ideas around, we thought of contacting Steamboat Mark at work, as he works with a landscaping company.  We already wanted Mark to do our little bit of landscaping, as he used to build golf-courses and is a maestro with a digger.  So contact was made and Mark's boss agreed to come and check out the job.

 With no concrete to shovel, the lads agreed to dig out a channel for the water pipe, which needs to be buried before the car can be brought up to the shed.

 At the end of a busy day - the potential driveway is cleared (an unexpected benefit), and below, Dave got a lot of strimming done - but the car still can't get to the charger!  More delays.

This is taken from the entrance to the land.  The drive will go to the left, and we hope to put in a large-ish pond in the centre, before the stone-edged beds.