Part 14

Time to get rid of the over-head lines. The city requires a 30 inch deep trench dug. I did the ground level trench with a back hoe, up the hill, and on top of the hill had to be done by hand......what joy that was.... after the digging came 4 inches of "SAND" because most of the stuff that came out from where we are doing the addition was sand, and i do everything i can to save some money on it, we sifted all our sand. this consisted of making a wood frame with a wire screen on bottom that had 1/4 inch holes in it. that was placed on top of a wheelbarrow and the sand that had a TON of rocks in it got sifted into nice rock free sand. sounds easy right? no. 4 inches of sand in a 2 foot wide trench that was 150 feet long took forever! but we got it in, and the 2 inch pipe got put on top of the 4 inches of sand. the next fun part....12 inches of sand on top of the pipe.