The Workshop

The digger with its roll bar and roof removed prior to getting it down the gap between the house and the garage. It's wet and horrible today.

shot of my shiny pate and the reason for removing the roll bar from the digger. The shiny pipe takes the network connections from the house to the garage.

Navigating the dumper truck along the gap. The roll bar on the dumper folds back, but I removed it after getting it to the back because it got in the way. The gaps between the garage and the down pipe and soil pipe are only just enough to get the dumper truck through.

Doing a quick bit of pruning on the skimmia bush to keep it out of the way.

Young Joseph (12) overseeing me loading the dumper. Unfortunately he wasn't quite big enough to help by driving it (although he probably would have liked to).

We're doing serious damage to the vagetable patch here.

Parked up for Tea time.

I was wearing ruts in the ground by taking the same path with the dumper, so I put some 2x4s down.

This was the first day's effort. Doesn't look like much, but it sure beat doing it with a shovel and wheelbarrow.

I had said that there wasn't much clearance. Hadn't I?

Paul and co-driver Michael on the digger. Paul came home from work, prised the digger from my grasp and took it over as soon as he saw it.

Loading the dumper truck with spoil. It certainly goes more than twice as fast with two of you at it