One man, one hole

At long last started on a bit of serious digging. Against me however was the awful damp weather of the last week making everything smeary and with the heavy weight of the digger on the tractor with its narrow tyres meant unsightly tyretreads (trenches!) in the grass.

Wanted to dig out an old bed that since it was laid probably over 60 years ago, is no longer usable as it gets no sun. The hole is due to become a geese pond and on consideration, I may now simply place the glass fibre pond from the hen pound in to it. Will save on getting plastic lining. If we get in to the geese business in the future, then a larger pond will be required and there is a good site elsewhere.

Digging went quite well and it didn't take that long to get the tipper trailer loaded. However then had a problem when the trailer was attached to the front of the tractor. It would pull it but not around corners, the heavy weight of the digger meaning great traction on the rear wheels but the front pair barely touching the anyway greasy ground. At that moment MrB came by, he even hung himself on to the frontloader but his few kilos made no difference.

Detached the trailer and went in search of weights, loading about 300kg of concrete blocks in to the front loader. This did the trick although with no power steering , it was hard work on the arms. More trouble at the offloading site as the hydraulic connection is at the back of tractor, so again detach and drive alongside the tipper to offload.

So all in all theoretically good but took ages. Now I know why the local farmers have so many tractors, one for each impement! The hole was at least 1.5m deep and most importantly neither I nor the digger fell in.

Will be a few days before I can get to see if the glass fiber pool fits.