We all understood that steel culverts are heavy, but Hey.. we own a backhoe. Rod truly was not prepared for the fact that the backhoe could barely lift these pipes. There were 2 pipes that were 60" across and 20' long. He was lifting in 2 sections and took hours and hours. We tried lifting with a chain, with a steel cable, with the arm of the backhoe, etc. My job for most of the day was the hook girl. Not what you would picture in your mind, unless it is me covered in mud, in my boots, with gloves on, sunburned nose, and crawling in a hole hooking the hook onto the backhoe! At about 3:00 p.m. my neighbors came down and relieved me of my job. These two guys were a huge help in getting the 2nd culvert out of the way and I no longer had to man handle the cable/chain etc.
In the end he was able to push them out of the way somewhat.
Now at this point, the supervisor's came down to sit around on the job to watch.
Since we are going to the trouble of replacing the culverts, we are also going to go through the trouble of raising the level of the pond. We are doing this by putting the new culverts in about 3 feet higher than were the old ones were at. So Rod starts filling the hole back in.
Night fall is approaching and the hole is ready. They roll the new culverts in! We are all so excited to see them getting set into place. Rod puts a scoop or two of dirt on them and we head up to the house feeling like all is well. (Sorry for how dark these picture are)
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