Day 2 of the driveway job and our visitors graciously left to tour the peninsula. Jim, who was so helpful yesterday, earned his days away and couldn't have helped what happened by noon anyway. The young crew were setting forms the length and slope of the driveway (275 feet). We moved rocks out of the way and prepped another area to be poured by the house.
The last cut with the concrete saw, and all that had to be done was to remove the chunks of concrete for the propane line. Then the mini-hoe caught a corner and the rubber track jumped off its rollers! I tried levering it with a steel bar, but 99% of the fix is knowing WHERE to put the bar, and neither of us did. So the trench wasn't finished and the machine was blocking the driveway. Problem #1.
Then the young guys unwisely drove their truck up. Puzzling, because all day they had been walking up. This slope has eaten furniture trucks, a Honda, and many young labourers. Trying to back DOWN the hill, they mangled some of the forms they just put in, and then steered right on top of the propane line. It was crushed, although not quite flattened. Problem #2 --- was the line (which the 4 of us older, wiser workers assembled yesterday) destroyed or not?? No way the line could be buried in fresh concrete without knowing if the propane would flow through!
Problem #3 --- the maxi-hoe operator didn't show up today, so the trench at the bottom wasn't done either. The mini-hoe was repaired by 6p.m. and moved away, but the day was over. The excrement had hit the rotating device. Better luck tomorrow?
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