Anyway, enough excuses. Let me give you the quick update of what we've been up to so I can get on with everyday complaining.Hired the 'Kanga' trench digger and earth mover to dig stormwater trenches and move some soil around. It was good fun, but hard to get to do what you want. I got nowhere near as much done as I'd hoped, partly because it is so big there are lots of places you can't take it.
A couple of weeks later I hired the smaller 'Dickens' trencher. This is less manoeuvrable, in the sense that it has no steering, and only drives itself backwards. But it is smaller, which means you can get it into tighter spots. As you can see we managed to get it right down the fence, even past the airconditioner and the water tank. There's no way I could have operated it without a second person to help reposition it though. Also the trenches it digs aren't quite as wide or as deep so we needed to dig every trench twice, sometimes three times. Even so, I managed to getmore done with this than with the bigger machine.
Here's Rewind Snr, with a tortuous trench in which we (well, mostly he) laid 100mm irrigation pipe. This is a subsurface soak to absorb runoff from the paved house surrounds and also overflow from the tanks. If it ever rains enough again such that this won't hold any more water, I can divert the tank overflow to the street. But I don't think I'll be needing that for a while.When my tanks finally arrive I'll show off my elaborate (did you say insane?) plumbing in more detail. It is funny that I told Mrs Rewind I could get all this plumbing done in one weekend, if I hire a machine and get a few mates to help. She was of course right, and it has so far taken several weeks. Lucky it doesn't rain anymore.
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