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Madman loose on Dartmoor!
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....for I have a minidigger sitting in my garden, and all weekend free to play with it. [Rubs hands together with glee whilst cackling insanely] One big pond coming up and a stream to joint it to my existing pond. And I'm going to dig out a circle on a sloping bank to copy Sasha's lovely little sun-trap, but won't get around to finishing that for a year or so. Been using the digger for relaying drains at work today, and one thing I've already noticed. When you sit in it, *everything* looks like it should be turned into a hole. -- Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK Ý http://www.digdilem.org/ |
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Madman loose on Dartmoor!
Victoria Clare wrote:
Hello Victoria VC Mmmm - Sunday evening, but no progress report. What do we VC reckon? Is he sitting sadly in the middle of a vast muddy VC pit, wondering how to climb out? It went surprisingly smoothly. Yeah, I was astonished that nothing broke, I found no water pipes and broke no bones. Makes me suspicious. VC I've had a look out of the window, and I can't *see* any new VC tors from here... One thing I underestimated was the amount of soil to come out of a 15m x5m x 1m pond. It's a lot. A real lot. Plus a further 20' diameter circle dug into a 8 degree slope resulted in another big lot. Which has to be barrowed across to the other side. Prolly about 5 ton of topsoil or so. Surprisingly good topsoil here, all nice free-draining loamy stuff, and a full 3 feet of it before hitting the clay sub, which means I had no problem disposing of the subsoil, because there wasn't any. And I've reached the pivotal point of nearly being able to order the butyl. Note to self: Must sort out 20 ton of walling granite. -- Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK Ý http://www.digdilem.org/ |
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