We came back from our trip and resumed work.
 

Pouring the storm cellar	Foundation insulation and drain system	Installing the septic system leach field

We had some excitement here last week.  This cement truck lost its brakes coming down the lane.  Fortunately the driver was able to make the turn into our driveway without rolling it over or colliding with the truck that was leaving (it was close).  The driveway is level and long enough for him to use what little brakes he had left to bring it to a safe stop.  Two days later the same driver in the same truck came around a curve and found a line of cars and pickups stopped in the traffic lane on state route 7. This time he crossed the yellow line and colided with an oncoming pickup.  The pickup driver jumped and was only slightly injured but his truck was demolished.  My construction crew was in one of the stopped vehicles and saw the accident close up.  They weren't one of the four stopped vehicles that were hit by the cement truck or parts of the pickup.
 

The hole for the septic tank	Four tons of cement tank	In place

The hole for the septic tank had to be dug through about 7 feet of fill and 5 feet of undisturbed dirt.   The truck delivering the tank had a long boom out the back to allow it to unload the tank into the hole.  There was some concern that the truck would slip into the hole when the tank was moved out to the end of the boom.  The solution was to lift the end of the boom with the track hoe.  You can see its bucket in the second picture.  You can see the tank made it into the hole and the truck didn't.

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