•  Saturday, 08 February, 2014

- Video - Replacing the Ramp

- By 7:30A about a half dozen crew had straggled

down an orange ladder into the site pit and spent

the day working on all four retaining walls. They

also spread a bright green “carpet” around the

perimeter of the site pit. The first half of the day

both backhoes helped dig down deeper at the

walls, and in the afternoon the big backhoe

reconstructed an earthen ramp from the Military

Rd gate into the site. (1:21 min)

• Friday, 07 February, 2014

Like yesterday, crew dawdling but no heavy

machines.

• Thursday, 06 February, 2014

The crew arrived on time to survey the condition

of the soggy site. The forklift moved a few

supplies. The horizontal hole poker worked on the

east wall, then the west wall. The crew worked on

all four retaining walls, but must have decided the

site was only suited for mud wrestling because

visually there was not much productivity today.

• Wednesday, 05 February, 2014

Another rain out. About 9A, a black pickup parked

just inside the gate and a few crew climbed down

into the site and fussed about in the rain, but by

9:45A the crew and pickup were gone,

abandoning the site for the rest of the soggy day.

• Tuesday, 04 February, 2014

- Video

The morning started with the backhoe digging

down at the Military gate and removing the

driveway. All the cars and pickups had been

removed from the site, and the machines were

left marooned in the new site pit. The little

backhoe helped the crew with the retaining wall

where the driveway used to be. The backhoe

continued to dig out the site pit and pile dirt for

trucking. After 2P when the heavy machines

stopped, the crew kept working on the gate

(back left) retaining wall and south (far right)

retaining wall. (1:35 min)

• Monday, 03 February, 2014

Productive work was rained out -- and there was a

practical reminder of why. At about 10:45A, a flat

bed, supply truck got stuck in the mud just off

center of the site and had to wait until 12:15P for

a large tow truck, parked at the gate, to wench

the supply truck backwards out of the site.

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