Digging to the Depths

This summer was interesting to say the least.  I couldn’t find a job, and I wanted to hang out with my bro’s before we run off to Brazil, so Schuyler and I dug a big hole in their yard.  The purpose was not particularly well lined out to begin with, but it became more apparent as we went.  Basically we didn’t want to have to fill it back in when we were done.  Here is a picture of the site before we started digging:

At first, we started with a hole about 4 1/2’ square.  After getting down about 6 feet, we out grew the size because it is hard to pick in that small of an area.

 

Eventually, even that was too small, so we expanded it to 6’x6’ square.

Finally when we made it to 13’ down, we stopped digging and started building.  We put in two floors, so counting the bottom of the hole, there are three levels to stand on.

It took a lot of work.  It was especially tiring when we realized that the thing wasn’t really as square as we had thought, and it took no small amount of work to fix it.  All in all though, it was a good time.