A few posts back I mentioned that once Agent Smith’s father–our excavator operator and general project manager–flew back home, there was an unforeseen hiccup with the wall project. The hiccup was that I–just when I needed to be at full strength to finish things off–fell ill with a cold and was stuck in bed for four days.
During that time, the wall was actually finally built. The blocks were laid in place, one by one. We rented a second, smaller telehandler to handle placing blocks at the south end. We purchased and had delivered a large amount of drainage cloth and 60 cubic yards of drainage gravel to be used behind the blocks.
I was so ill at this point, I only got out of bed when the delivery trucks were here so that I could sign the receipts.
Once the first row was laid out things went quickly; it only took the crew a few days to lay all the blocks into place. The bottom row was difficult, as placement required a lot of trial and error for each block–since they fit together, getting them just right was crucial. By the evening of November 14th, we almost had a finished wall.
The crew returned the day after these images were taken and placed the final blocks. After nine weeks, we had our replacement wall–almost.