RadarTech
Elite Member
Today brought a special project...
At our new house the lot behind us was excavated about 3 years ago for a house with a basement..
Well, 3 years later the hole is there, the lot is still empty and the hole fills with a dangeours water puddle.. read that as at least 2 feet deep at times..
Now the interesting part here is the property has not changed hands, and I don't own it. I wish I did!
But another neighbor hates the 4 piles of dirt out there..
He even did some checks and the basement dig is not supposed to be left open if there is no building permit or guards etc..
here is where the tractor comes in..
When we first met the neighbor, he mentioned how he would like to fill that in and would like to buy the lot...
I offered to fill it in if we could get right away across it when he bought it.
To make a long story short, we have written approval to fill the hole in and level the lot out and plant grass..
My part in this is to do the leveling.
the lot sell is in the works, I don't know all the details yet..
BUT it looks like I have at least 15-20 hours of work ahead of me.
I should have some pics to post tomorrow.
now for some questions..
The hole is 20 feet wide and 50 feet long..
the depth from the side walls starts at nil and goes to 6 ft..
with pics still coming, and the dirt mounded on 2 sides, how should I attack this?
Thanks,
J
At our new house the lot behind us was excavated about 3 years ago for a house with a basement..
Well, 3 years later the hole is there, the lot is still empty and the hole fills with a dangeours water puddle.. read that as at least 2 feet deep at times..
Now the interesting part here is the property has not changed hands, and I don't own it. I wish I did!
But another neighbor hates the 4 piles of dirt out there..
He even did some checks and the basement dig is not supposed to be left open if there is no building permit or guards etc..
here is where the tractor comes in..
When we first met the neighbor, he mentioned how he would like to fill that in and would like to buy the lot...
I offered to fill it in if we could get right away across it when he bought it.
To make a long story short, we have written approval to fill the hole in and level the lot out and plant grass..
My part in this is to do the leveling.
the lot sell is in the works, I don't know all the details yet..
BUT it looks like I have at least 15-20 hours of work ahead of me.
I should have some pics to post tomorrow.
now for some questions..
The hole is 20 feet wide and 50 feet long..
the depth from the side walls starts at nil and goes to 6 ft..
with pics still coming, and the dirt mounded on 2 sides, how should I attack this?
Thanks,
J