@Ute42
Gee that sure is a generous birthday present Ute....I think about all Ade would stretch to is a hard hat and a pair of safety glasses and maybe a set of toxic gloves!
As lovely as that excavator is Ute it is not the implement for here...it simply would not fit in the available space.....This is a hand to bucket job!
This was lunch time on the first day, 4 metres of 35! I have since got to the 20 metre mark so am more than half way....I am just hoping this old body can hold up to the end. Each night I find even the simplest manoeuvers like getting out of a comfortable chair a supreme challenge!
There is about 25 metres of digging along this dead side of the house and then another 10 into the back garden, and I can assure you Ute, it smells as bad as it looks.
Those around me are saying, 'why the hell don't you just get a plumber in?'...A certain logic there, but with as cost difference of close to $12,000 I would rather put that money towards another holiday. I will soon forget about these shi**y days in the trench when I am catching up with dear friends in Greece or France, or beyond!
Cheers......Rob