Excavator Delivery

Time to Dig

After what was actually years of waiting, the excavator has shown up and began it’s work. This is where the fun begins. This is where things start moving and visions start to come.

The drive down was marred with traffic and detors, but he made it here with enough time to unload and review the plot plan and locations of everything. We walked the property and noted all the undergrowth that happened in the 2 years since they had last seen it.

The prior owner did a ton of work clearing the large trees and generally making it flat and easy to visualize. That was 3 years ago. All the work was excellent in letting us visualize where the house should be. However because it’s taken so long to get to the build phase, the undergrowth has taken over. Pricker bushes, saplings, vines, all sorts of stuff has made it difficult to do anything.

Things move fast, and the above photo is from the same spot a day later. The generall footprint of the house is clear and ready to go. There’s still plenty of underbrush along the rear and where the garage is going. There was a few hours of work done to clear a staging area for the cabin delivery which is coming tomorrow!

One other thing aparent among everything here is stone. So. Much. Stone. I knew there was plenty within, but I thought that it was going to be small and managable sized. Two pins have already broken on the exacavator. We’re waiting on delivery of a larger sized one, possibly with a breaker also.

There is plenty still to do - clear the driveway section through the woods, fill in the rock with gravel, and then plan out the corners for the hosue & garage. There is one gigantic boulder that is in the way, and will either cause the driveway to curve a bit, or will need to be chipped away. We’ll find out exactly what that means for everything this coming week when we lay out things. But overall half a week down and tons of improvements!