Piglets escaped over night. On the (very) bright side...they escaped across an INTERNAL fence, from pasture A into pasture B. I think they just wanted to hang out with the sheep and geese.
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I solved coordination problem of having excavator & surveyor on site at same time by asking surveyor "is there some way to survey the boundary & create offset points, so I can bury the pins under a rock wall, then you can come back and recover the boundary + place pins in rock?
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3/ He said "oh, yeah, it's called 'control points'; that's easy." me: <facepalm> At a cost of maybe $100 extra I solve $900 of aggravation. It would have been nice if someone suggested this earlier.
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4/ This is the problem with stepping into new problem domains: you don't know the options. Hell, you don't even know the terminology to ask about the options!
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5/ Still very pissed w the one excavator who's been jerking me around for 4-6 weeks. Called a second surveyor who will come out to inspect the job this evening (hopefully). Maybe I can swap vendors and accelerate this project?
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6/ I very much want to get this boundary wall done, not just bc a finished project is better than an unfinished project, but because I want to plant some crops in the 1,000 ft^2 patch where the stones are now resting. Can't / wont' do that until project is 100% done.
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7/ Which means: * rocks delivered * surveying * excavator pulls stumps * excavator builds wall * excavator digs holes to plant arbor vitae trees * truck load of compost delivered to plant trees in * trees planted Hoping this happens by, say, 1 July. That would be quite late >
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8/ But still enough time to grow SOMETHING. Maybe sweet corn.
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if by "building" you mean "paying $80/hr for an excavator to do it", then yes :P
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