This weekend we dug out the crawlspace for the office addition (10 x 10 ft). We thought a small backhoe would speed the job along. Suncoast rental had 1 backhoe available.

Pop spent the weekend driving and operating the backhoe.

Pop Driving The Backhoe

Because it was so big, the bucket wouldn’t fit where we had originally placed the dug out dirt. So we ended up shoveling dirt by hand. The next round we moved the backhoe back and forth every scoop so that we could use the bucket. We took 2 full truck loads to Foothill Nursery and then the local nursery (9th street, decided they could take the last full buckets.

Shoveling Dirt

I did get to drive it for a little while. It sure beats slinging a shovel.

Bub Driving Backhoe