The big news - the trenches are done! We rented another mini excavator and spent a week digging and installing the last 100 ft of the power/data trench and our 80 ft trench for the well. Both are inspected and filled in. We had a flurry of activity these last few weeks despite very rainy muddy conditions. Mr. Dometastic used big boy sand box toys while I was stuck with the more humble equipment and a sore back. The more digging, the more water we found. This made my humble equipment even harder to use. This has been a really wet year so we were wading in mud. The kind of mud that makes you lose your boots. The power trench required bailing multiple times. Several inches of water repeatedly collected in this low spot near the pole. I would bail it out and it would refill. Thanks to our hay bales in the end of the trench from last year we were easily able to find the end where we needed to connect. Conduit sweeps are on the pole and bonded. We ...
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