Truck Driver

We really got into a nice rhythm yesterday.

I back into the sweet spot,

Kyle loads my bed with 6 scoops

(all the truck can dump... its wet heavy clay/sand)

then I drive through the pasture to a

spot behind Linda's new house and dump it.

(Which requires BACKING to the pile...

I'm learning to back a vehicle using my mirrors! 

Only took 60 years...)

Then drive back to the sweet spot...

make a "tick mark" on my tally sheet

and do it all again.

I did a total of 30 loads yesterday.

Kyle came over with the skid steer and

spread the dirt out after every 10 loads.

Spreading dirt. 

Some of my piles.

And his "cat bird".

This bird followed him, back and forth,

the whole time he was spreading.

Looking for bugs... but no luck since this

is coming from the bottom of the pond.

We moved a LOT of dirt!

 

There's his little friend again!

Silly bird.

I forgot to take another picture...

but it's WAAAAY bigger now.

I left about 5:30 and Rod took my driver's seat

for another hour and then they called it a day.

He/We are taking the weekend off.

It's going faster than we anticipated

(KNOCK WOOD)

so we aren't going to push quite so hard

next week. Although he still has a TON

of work left to do - 40 more dirt piles to move

that he and Rod piled up on Thursday,

and 80+ trees to move, cut up, load up

and haul off to the dump.

So far, so good...