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| Written by Natasha, on 02-12-2008 |
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What a weekend we’ve had! Our dingo digger maestro (Stuart) assisted
us in moving around 20 cubic metres of clean fill (in 150mm lots) into
our trenches and massive holes, whilst Peter took on the temperamental
‘whackers’ otherwise known as tampers, compacting the soil back into
our concrete padded holes.
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| Written by Peter, on 25-11-2008 |
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I don’t know who invented the term “clean fill” but it’s a bit of a
joke. The earth we’ve pulled out of the holes and trenches is very
rocky and we can’t use it to refill the holes. So we’ve had 32 cubic
metres of clean fill delivered to go into our trenchy holes around our
stumps. It’s come with bonus material! One load with lots of
chocolate wrappers, the other with bricks. And other stuff. However
it’s much quicker shovelling this clean fill than the rocky stuff we
have been sifting through so far.
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| Written by Natasha, on 23-11-2008 |
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Our building consultant Brian has told us that he's never seen anything
like it - in fact we are trail blazers! The rock in our earth really is
something. We have been working all weekend to get more stumps in - and
we are now up to the single holes that have been excavated. They are
pretty big. it takes 20 shovel-loads of dirt to fill our trusty wheel
barrow, and it takes 15-18 barrow loads to back fill a single stump
excavated hole with the stump in place. So today Peter and I have
shifted 4 cubic metres of dirt. Trouble with this dirt it that it has
lots of rock in it, which has to come out. Rock and shovels don't
really mix. This slows us down considerably.
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| Written by Peter, on 16-11-2008 |
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The much anticipated day of concreting our holes and trenches arrived
yesterday. We were still marking out positions and taking down string
lines when the concreting guys turned up. Having budgeted originally
for 3 cubic metres of concrete it was looking more like we'd need 17,
after having to turn most of our holes into trenches. So we were happy
by the end of the job to have kept it to 13 cubic metres. Still, much
more than we had hoped for and much more expensive. But to finally get
the base of our holes done was a huge relief and milestone.
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| Written by Natasha, on 14-11-2008 |
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The weather has finally broken - we even have rain, which is always
welcome. It's been a hard slog this week for Peter - we must have been
in these trenches up to 10 times cleaning them, marking them for stumps
and trying not to get caught up in string lines....he is so amazing. I
have so much admiration for his stamina and strength of will. Today
will be the last day of this kind of work, hooray!
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| Written by Natasha, on 09-11-2008 |
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Baths are a magical thing. They are lovely for tired sore bodies like
ours! We've spent this weekend working on cleaning out trenches (stump
holes) and enjoying the sunshine. It's been a less frenetic pace, and
we have a little ghetto-blaster plugged into the ipod - music has been
fantastic to keep us energised.
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| Written by Natasha, on 08-11-2008 |
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It has been such a testing few weeks since we started these stump
holes. Weeks of serious, unexpected hard yakka to get our stump holes
complete. Amazing basalt rock in our earth, we have even found some
tiny little fossilised shells in them, presumably from when the area
was under water. Amazing stuff. Our soil classification tells us that
the area is influenced by the Quaternary (Pleistocene) period
comprising of volcanic rock.
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