So Sunday he continued to carve out the hill, here's the view from my back porch.
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View from the street, welcome to the mess!
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The orange line is pretty much the line that the wall will follow
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He had to dig out the curve in the back corner of the yard, and then dig down the hill to where the wall will stop. You can see the roots for the all the bushes that they cut out
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This is out my dining room window, as he dug all the bush roots out
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Tight space, but he made it work
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Also, my neighbor had an apple tree stump right on the edge of our properties that she asked to be removed.... GONE!
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Then he had to remove the rest of the stumps from where the wall is going
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Then he regraded the dirt over the stump holes
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After he was done carving out the wall straight across, he dug a 2 ft trench to put the base of the wall.
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Here you can see the height of the hill, about 7 ft.
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Big man exploring right where the wall will curve
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Climbing out
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You could have it all, my empire of dirt... (6 ft tall pile of dirt/rock)
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And here's where the wall will be
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Wow...nice...the Great Wall of Ack...


Keep digging and maybe you'll find gold and oil and be rich!

 

Holy sheet. What do your neighbors think of all this? Will they put up a fence to keep dogs and small children from rolling into your yard?

 

They all stop in front of my house or slow down to a crawl and just stare. A number of them have commented on how I have quite the project going on.

Yes, the whole thing will be fenced around to keep my dogs in and other neighbor's dogs out of my yard

 

Holy moly.

 

Actually D I did have a kid almost roll down my hill one time

 

But then, that's something I'd have done on purpose as a kid. Great hill!

 

Yeah, no. I used to have old decrepit steps on the hill, and the neighbor's little toddler wanted to come down them. It would not have been a good scene

 

So, now Ack can sit on his porch and growl at kids to "Get off my wall."

 

The asian kids are afraid of my dogs, they don't come anywhere near my house

 

Oh, wall I missed that

 

The Great Wall of Ack

 

Obviously.

 

Spoil sport.

 

If Ack was sued for kid falling down stairs and getting hurt, he wouldn't have money to excavate and build great wall of Ack

 

At least now you wouldn't have to worry about Dr's bills...just a funeral!

 

If someone hops a 6 ft fence and falls another 7 ft, that's their fucking problem

 

 

Darwin would agree!
Jeez...I was fkng kidding.

 

So my neighbor asked me to get the stump on her property removed, now she's calling me complaining that he dug on her property

 

Lesson learned?

 

No, I already knew my neighbor was an idiot

 

why you grindin that ho stumps then?!?!

 

I didn't, he actually removed the stump and thought he was digging on her side. All he did was remove the stump. I guess she expected him to grind it

 

I'd grind my foot up her azz

 

Point at the hole and tell said neighbor to jump in.

 

holy dig... great updates ack!!!

 

My landscaper is going to stake that whole side of the yard, looking at the county site, she's way off as far as how big she thinks her yard is. My landscaper said to tell her to stay inside because he wouldn't want to run her over with a piece of machinery

Thanks buddy

 

LOL...is she claiming encroachment?

 

She asked me to have the guy remove an apple tree stump on her side of the line, he was there with the excavator and popped the stump out. She's claiming that the hole left by the stump (which he's planning to fix this weekend) is where he dug to put my wall. I explained to her 8 times that the hole was from the stump. She's also claiming that her property line extends to like the middle of my yard. She's an idiot

 

 

8K worth of Versa Lok stone and a skid loader are arriving tomorrow

 

 

boom headshot!!!

 

 

So, my asshole neighbor calling the building inspector pushed the delivery back, but the base for the wall is down, and the first pallet of stone is here. I'll post pics later tonight

 

So the bobcat showed up on Friday, and he got right to work
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He regraded the yard and then refilled the trench
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and started putting down the limestone base.
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Here you can see the 6 ft level against the wall for a height comparison
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Baby girl checking on the progress
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Here's the first pallet of stone
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Here's the stone that I picked out, hard to see the colors with the sun glare, but it's a gray/tan blend
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Here's the remaining layer of base ready to go down tomorrow
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That's gonna be awesome, man!
i hate your neighbor.