Another Saturday, another pair of sore backs Sunday. The weather turned out perfect for this kind of work. We started at 10:00 by going off to the city's recycling center to take our recyclables and get another load of free mulch. Back home, we started unloading it into the flower beds, then tackled leveling the ground for the future patio. Fortunately, Leslie's mother had loaned us her mechanical hoe, and it saved us a lot of pickaxe swinging. We dug deep up near the tree in order to level the area. Dale used the hoe and dug up the dirt, pausing often to pull up and cut roots. Some pickaxe work was required, but not nearly as much as it would have been without the mechanical hoe. The picture below shows Leslie finishing leveling the area. She used the hoe to pull the dirt that Dale dug up and put it outside the area, for a layer of topsoil on the other side of the concrete pavers in the background.
The following picture shows the pile of tree roots that Dale pulled and cut up. For perspective, notice the green trash can in the upper right of the picture. This was a mess!
We finally finished at about 4:15. Another one or two Saturdays, and we will bring in some loads of gravel for fill.
The following picture shows the pile of tree roots that Dale pulled and cut up. For perspective, notice the green trash can in the upper right of the picture. This was a mess!
We finally finished at about 4:15. Another one or two Saturdays, and we will bring in some loads of gravel for fill.
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