Grandson Jarod (23) running the excavator, Grandson Casey (31) supervising (seems fair, it's his excavator...) and Granpa (71) running the Idiot Spoon!

To be fair, we did trade off so everyone got a chance to play with the new toy. John Deere 26G that Casey bought for his landscaping/lot clearing side hustle.

We trenched in power to the Brick Chickhouse (posted separately) for a heated water bucket.

Dang sure didn't need it today, flirting with 90 degrees and working right in the Sun. To top it all off, I was crammed under the porch hooking up power and got stung on the snout by a wasp! I'll tell you what, THAT will make yer eyes water!

Working for gramps ain't going to make the monthly payment on the machine

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Working for gramps ain't going to make the monthly payment on the machine

Especially not when you gotta haul the dang thing 100 miles one way to get there!

We paid for fuel for the truck and the machine, and it was for his Mom anyway so pretty hard for him to moan too much.

Gonna run Fiber Optic to the Brick Chickenhouse while you're at it? Chickens need internet too

Shovel guy needs a few more Supervisors.

Oh wait, that’s for gubbermint work.

Never mind, carry on.
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Originally posted by PHPaul:
We trenched in power to the Brick Chickhouse (posted separately) for a heated water bucket.

Not sure that trench is wide enough

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Not sure that trench is wide enough

Smallest bucket he has. Beats hell out of a shubble!

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
We trenched in power to the Brick Chickhouse (posted separately) for a heated water bucket.

Not sure that trench is wide enough

When it come to playing in a big sand box size matters!

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Smallest bucket he has

First purchase excavator. first addon purchase thumb if it doesn't have one. second purchase ditching bucket, third purchase narrow bucket, fourth purchase wainroy. don't ask me how I know.

What’s wrong? Besides there ain’t enough sweat on the old man’s shirt to be resting on the shovel?

See what happens when you pay the help with eggs

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Originally posted by hrcjon:

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Smallest bucket he has

First purchase excavator. first addon purchase thumb if it doesn't have one. second purchase ditching bucket, third purchase narrow bucket, fourth purchase wainroy. don't ask me how I know.

Yup. He has the thumb and the grading bucket. I suspect he'll discover a need for a wainroy if he does much ditching or slope dressing.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
What’s wrong? Besides there ain’t enough sweat on the old man’s shirt to be resting on the shovel?

Hah! I don't DO sweat! There's something intrinsically wrong with water leaking through your skin!

Also, I worked for the government for 22 years, I KNOW how to hold up a shovel!

"Idiot spoon!" Loved that. I've run one of those many a mile over the years. And in Florida it wouldn't be a government job unless there was one Mexican digging, four or five Mexicans leaning on shovels talking and watching, and a supervisor guy smoking a cig talking on his phone.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:

I suspect he'll discover a need for a wainroy

He should definitely get a henway.

Gravel must be cheap there. I would of scrapped the gravel first to redress after the dig. I am a cheap sob though

love seeing the new mini exc in operation. Did I say I am envious in the other thread?

You are a good man that cares about his chickens. But a big trench like that I would be running everything I could think of through there. How about a water line? A big enough power line to handle 220. Who knows, you might need to be welding out there.

Maybe a 4" or 6" culvert you can put other items through later?

OK, I'll bite: what's a henway?

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Originally posted by sjtill:
OK, I'll bite: what's a henway?

About 5 pounds.