The rain never came last night. Instead, it's supposed to come in a few hours. Just looking at what may happen in terms of heavy rains and ground saturation. They aren't going to be trying to dig a giant hole in the mud - but - their trackhoe is still broken down according to the contractor and are waiting on a part to arrive.
He appears as ready to get the dirt work portion over with as I am - I'm sure he wants to get paid and that isn't happening until that phase of the job is completed. A pay-as-you-go thing, it works for me.
I haven't received a quote from him to upgrade the size of the septic system to 1,000 gallons instead of 750. It's something that should be seriously contemplated in order to be able to add some extra lots once the initial 14 are in place. How much that adds to the cost is entirely unknown to me.
He did find a driver for his roll-off truck, a person that allegedly has driven for 15 years but has been stuck in an automatic for the last 4. Yup, that's where trucking is going, they are forcing autos on you whether you want one or not. The contractor said this dude couldn't get the hang of shifting the manual even tho he claimed he had driven one previously before getting dumped into an auto.
I let the contractor know that he is probably a bit consternated having you sitting there watching everything he is doing and that adds to the stress and nerve level. Give him a chance to simply figure it out on his own and he will probably get it back pretty quickly. The age-old "ride a bike" saying. I actually got on a bike the other day after having not had been on one in many, many years. That old saying is true.
Oh, and I was right about the order of utility installation. Apparently they do some kind of dirt buildup on the pads - I really don't know what he does with the extra dirt, everything is perfect at the moment. He knows what he is doing, I do hope I can be there when they do the next phase because I want to see what, exactly, he is doing with the extra dirt?
Anyway, after the extra dirt, then comes the utility installation. The only thing I can see that might take a bit of time is the power. You have to install the pedestals on a concrete pad, so that's a couple of days right there and then digging the trenches and laying out the underground line, routing it to main boxes and then running smaller lines out of the main boxes. I could see them having to come out a week for that. Perhaps why it costs so much. After the utilities, then comes the gravel and after that? You are done with their participation in the project. Time to move on.
I have found the building I want, but I first need to find where to put it. It makes no sense to put it at the front of the property since I will be housing wifi equipment in there. So, it will be somewhere at the edge of the lots and right next to the existing driveway. But I want the contractor to see what I have done with marking out the lots. After I spent all those hours out there, he said he would be doing the marking, lol. That's fine by me but I want it pretty close to what I have marked out. I'll see what he thinks, I just want a decent angle - about 50 degrees. This gives more room for a third row in the future on the other side.
Anyway, I'm off to Brownsville again after having an unwanted day off. Not to say I didn't enjoy the day off, but I really just need to work right now and keep the money flowing in to pay for the various things I am doing over there at the property. Of course, saying anything to the dispatchers about it, even just light-hearted mention, will get you their wrath so unless it goes on into several trips of garbage runs in a row, I'm keeping my mouth shut and hope for the best. At least it was another Brownsville run versus getting dumped with an Oklahoma.
Well, off to the races.
G'day.
