The new septic system is finished.  Thank goodness.

It is working well, even though it has a meskiny design and the fact that the tank is slightly too low (2").  We could probably have turd races with the slope from the house to the tank. 

The drain field went well.  I am very pleased.  We used the newer trend drain panels that require no gravel.  Supposedly it takes half the footage using the two foot widths compared to perforated drain line and gravel.  (The three foot wide panels require half again less footage.

We put in 120 feet of drain line in three sections.  The trenching was all the little Bobcat trac hoe wanted and it took two passes to get the width.  I was a happy camper when I dropped the machine back at the Bobcat dealer!

Some people would have you believe that running a back hoe or trac hoe is rocket science.  Don't believe it for a second.  All it takes is a little knowledge and coordination.  Shoot, Bill even got good on it!

We still have mounds of dirt, but next week we will begin a sprinkler watering to settle the dirt and then we will haul off the excess.  The guys have been leveling with rakes this morning.

A final project was to dig up an old propane tank.  Worst thing was that we cut the propane line Wednesday night.  The new line crossed the old tank.  Dang the luck.  I had to run to gather up pieces to splice the line where we would have heat that night in the house.

But we got it done!

We did take the majority of  Tuesday off to go to the house per the pending divorce decree and pick up some of my remaining property.  Still no boots, and no college or class rings.  Go figure.  We got to go into the attic, garage, I got to do a walk through of the house, and the storage building and back yard.  We had a pickup and trailer load, including my antique safe.  We also stopped by and got my items from the Stonegate storage unit.

Getting down to the short rows.

Have a day!

FATHER, YOU are getting me there.