Excavation

First things first- since half the garage wall is poured concrete, we needed a big hole in the ground.  We hired Environmental Landscaping of Ashland.  Sean and Mark showed up on 8-nov-02 with 2 beefy Bobcats and attacked the project.
Things went swimmingly until we found the first "rock"...
They estimated this one was 12-15 tons and they couldn't get it out of the hole... so they dug a pit on the right hand side where Sean is standing and just pushed it in there far enough so it was out of our way..!
That was the largest one they found (but there were lots more..!)  When we started, they were hoping to be done by noontime... ;-)  (ed- are we sure these guys aren't software engineers?)
When we got done at 7PM that night, here's what we wound up with- a relatively large hole in the ground...
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