Home of the heavy machinery
We prioritized steps over
mailbox, so at first it was a bit tough to tell service providers how
to find us. Then I realized I could just tell them to look for
the yard full of construction equipment.
The bulldozer did most
of its work before we arrived, but the trackhoe has been busy on a
daily basis since. Here, it's digging trenches for our septic leach
field.
Then on Tuesday, our
herd of equipment grew larger yet as a massive truck came to deliver
our septic tank and tiles. The new beast broke down while hefting the
concrete tank over the trackhoe-dug hole, but a different truck was
back on the job within two hours. It's amazing how much work heavy
machinery can get done in a short amount of time!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Sounds like you two are super busy managing the contractors and doing your own work. Plus, even just washing and cooking must be a bit of an endeavor without power and running water. Can you tell us more about a day-in-the-life in another post sometime? What is similar and what is different from how you lived before? What do you like better already and what do you miss? Is the chaos making you crazy? Can you explain what the "final inspection" is all about?
thx!