Today, we started the major task of digging out the hole to receive our largest Energy Module we are assembling underneath our house. But first, we tidied up various bits and pieces like old concrete post with their concrete footing still attached and moved them away. We need all the room we can get to store the sandy soil being excavated.
The hole we need, measures 10 metres long by 3.5 metres wide and the usual 1.2 metres deep, this amounts to over 40 cubic metres or well over 80 tons of the sandy stuff to move!
It was tricky to position the mini-digger in the various places and angles to do the job, firstly, cutting one long side to make it neat and tidy. We discovered that this patch of our ground, is rather made up of course sand particles and it was a fluffy nature and didn’t hold together too well, so we had some slippage in some spots around the edges.
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We loaded as much as we could against the wooden wall of the mountain of dirt we placed there last year, and we still had loads more to shift. We had to use our dumper truck to ferry a large amount away and dumped near our holly tree!!
By the end of the day, we managed to dig out pretty much all the material at last.
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Tomorrow, we will do the more accurate scraping of the bottom of the hole and start assembling a rather large number of insulation boards to form the bottom layer for the tank to sit on.