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Originally Posted by rsrguy
Wow bugs... that's beautiful and a gobb of work.. after 4 back surgeries my lower back would be in knots.  |
Thank you sir!! Yeah, my back is screaming after all of that.
I had to come up with a different plan of getting rock behind the wall. I also had to figure a way of removing all of the dirt and debris that packed up when we were flooded by the ruptured EID water line. So my solution was to hit the local quarry and get loaded up with a yard + in the bed of the ol 1995 K1500……[emoji23]. The guy at the yard said “ya, right, we can only give you 1/2 a yard.” I reassured him that I installed bags and could hold the weight, so far I’ve made three runs since Thursday afternoon. She is tired and grumpy like me, however she was my first new vehicle when I started my career and she will finish it with me whenever Inpull the plug. 346K original miles and she has always been there for me.
Ok, back to the plan…..
Even though I have most of a transfer load of gravel in the drive, I still need to get it up and over the wall to backfill. Since I dunt have a tractor and it’s me, myself and I doing this, I use the height of the truck bed and then shoveled it out from there. I can unload the bed in about an hour and a half if I don’t doddle around. So far, Thursday evening I was able off load the first yard, then removed enough dirt from the backside of the wall to fill the bed and then off-loaded that on the property. Today (Friday), was able to off load two more yards/beds full of gravel. Since we grow bloody big rocks, I’ve removed some biggies and using those as riprap in a drain culvert. The height of the bed makes it so much easier too.
My back is still sore but not like the night I was stupid enough to make what felt like a 1000 round trips lugging a shovel full of rock.
Still have a bit more work to do removing dirt and backfilling with clean gravel. When this is done, the fun begins with the butt-load of keystone legacy block project.