Digging 4

We whacked away at the track with my crowbars and his sledge hammer. For at least a couple of hours, with him talking about all these techniques he'd heard would work.

Helen was pretty good with that sledge hammer.

But in the end it was a wash.

Next day, Tuesday, up came the pros from ABSolutions.

Francois (on the ground) and Cam (backside). Francois moved to 6 months ago from South Afrikans, where he was used to excavators that are 20 x bigger than my toy, and nothing can be moved by human labour. So he very elegantly used the machine against the machine, using the bucket to push in the idler to give us the slack we needed and then put a chain around the track and used the stick and boom to pull the track onto the sprockets..and then the same with the idler.

Frankly, it was practically poetic and graceful. In a muddy, clumpy, kind of way.

But I was giddy! With my digger back, I could roar across the hills and catch up on 2 precious days lost.

So I sped back and forth to cut the rest of the path and was getting somewhere:

But…life is cruel.

And it happened again on the same track.

It's embarrassing. Going to have to call back AB Solutions to help out again.

But I'm starting to think of the digger as my Stephen King thing…