New quinta improvements

in Homesteading3 months ago

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It's been a long week. We had rain for a couple of days which slowed us down a little bit but it was great for all the trees. I have started watering all the fruit trees and you can already see how the figs, cakis pears and apples are growing.
We spent most of the days preparing for the crane we hired yesterday. There is a slight slope in the farm land and we needed to remove the ground on the side we will build the sleeping room and pule it at the other side of the tiny house. It was just too much work to do it by hand.

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I also requested the guys managing the crane to flatten the farm main entrance. It was really small and we broke part of the wall to make it wider as I could barely drive in when using the trailer. I had to purchase 6 cubic meters of sand to use for that purpose. You can see the end result in this picture I took this morning.

We plan to add a pillar to the left side of the entrance, rebuild the rock wall next to it and add a new gate.

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Then the crane started digging the ground on the upper side of the house, filling the small truck and dumping it into the lower side.

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We spent most of the day doing those tasks but had some time to build an external closet for the cooking and heater gas bottles and the Bluetti powerbank.

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Now its time to start mixing some concrete to create the base ground for the sleeping room and start adding bricks. :)