In addition to an excavator (actually four excavators–the first one we rented from United was brand new but died and had to be sent back to the manufacturer after just a week; the second we sent back as the engineering firm failed to deliver specs and drawings in a timely fashion, and it looked like we might not get the wall replaced until the spring, but then enough fires were lit under their butts that they finally got us what we needed, but then we couldn’t get a new rental quickly, so we borrowed one of theirs until we could rent a fourth unit to finish the work), we had to rent a couple of telehandlers, aka reach trucks. That late in the season, getting equipment proved difficult as construction firms were trying to finish projects before the rains set in.
We did enough rain to fill up the pretty trench, so we had to wait for things to dry out before we could assemble the form work for the concrete footer. While that was going on, we started to get deliveries. Our first load of concrete blocks arrived at the exact same time as the telehandler that was going to unload them.
Once the machine was unloaded, we got to work unloading the first of the blocks–and really tore up the ice plant at the end of the house yard (last pic). Turning an 18-wheeler about took a bit of finesse.
