{"id":87,"date":"2016-01-14T05:43:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T05:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2016-01-14T05:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T05:51:18","slug":"serious-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/14\/serious-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Gary was playing around with his tank I took on the serious work of digging a trench to bury the new pipe from the bore.<\/p>\n<p>You may laugh, but it&#8217;s delicate, technical work.\u00a0 How do you dig in a straight line when you&#8217;re going backwards with the grubber?\u00a0 How deep do you have to go to carry the load of a 10 tonne truck?<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, how do you fill it in? Everyone who has tried to dig a hole (even Dale) knows that there is never enough sand to fill up the hole again once it has been taken out&#8211;even if you put a pipe in the trench to take up space.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very mysterious&#8211;it&#8217;s called Subliminal Sand Loss and there are equations about it&#8211;some of us understand these things. . .<\/p>\n<p>I put the grubber in there just to make it modestly clear that, yes, I did this, and by hand. . .I know, you had no idea.\u00a0 Just the beginning. 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