Phew. If I point to my ear lobes, those are not sore on me. Everything else is. I may have to have someone feed me tomorrow. I can still handle a 12 oz curl so my first beer is in hand.
My friend's truck has some gotchas to overcome. The key was at his house, and so was the truck's battery. So I got those last night, and put the battery on the charger overnight. I drove over to where he stores it, and put the battery in, after cleaning the terminals and the cables. Oh, and the driver's side door lock does not work, so I have to open from the passenger side, and crawl across to unlock the driver's door. And the inside door handle on the driver's is broken so I have to roll the window down, and play contortionist to reach the outside door button. The rear view mirror glued to the windshield has fallen off.
The starter just clicked, but after 6 or 7 tries, it spun and the truck would not start. Oh yea, one more gotcha. It has two fuel tanks, and only the rear one works! So flip the switch to rear, and it fired up. It is a 5 speed manual, but no issues there. So off to the bulk soil place. I asked the front end loader guy for 1.5 yards. When I went back to the scale it was 1.16 tons. It was a low rider, but I only had to 4 go miles to get home.
The the shoveling commenced. And continued for hours.
I started on the west side. A plank of 2x12 from before I put in the pit for the scissor lift, 10 years ago, and a concrete block made me a ramp for the wheelbarrow. Dump in the soil, and spread it some. Then move the ramp to the other side. Then to the south side for the ramp.
About a thousand wheelbarrow loads, (mom told me a million time to never exaggerate!) or it felt like it, TA-DA! The truck is unloaded, and the soil is partly compacted.
We are supposed to get rain tomorrow, so some settling will occur. We will finish it off with bags of top soil that the El Camino can handle.
The pickup is hosed out, the driveway is cleaned off, and I am ready for my second beer and some sitting on my butt.
Mrs. Carrera did assist and she is sore as well. I was alone in the wheelbarrow dumping. Time for my second beer! I will wait until tomorrow to return the truck.