When the house was first built, the doc used his giant tractor to cut earth from the bottom of the south pasture and move it midway up the hillside to create a rodeo ring. As a result, we have our own little pit and instead of tossing bodies into it, we’ve been using it somewhat successfully to dispose of concrete from various projects. This past weekend, Agent Smith sent the drone up to capture some images of the pit so we can provide them to a geotechnical engineer. (Sadly, the mob we used for the wall project doesn’t do much grading work, but they referred us to someone who might help.)
So here are some more detailed shots of the south pasture and our Pit of Sarlacc. The pit is the depression of greener grass in the center of the first image. In pic 3, a view from higher up looking down into the pit, the large white objects are concrete chunks from the wall project. We will soon move the pieces on the edge further down towards the bottom of the pit.
Last pics are side views of the pit looking west. As a bonus, you can just see the mail truck running down to drop mail off to our neighbors.
In addition to the stills above, Agent Smith captured some video, which I then edited down with some annotations.
For weeks, “neighbors” at the end of the low road have had some project going, involving several hundred loads of dirt trucked in by a rotating herd of large dump trucks. We sent the drone over to sort out what they were doing and still have no clue what exactly they are hoping to achieve, but they have certainly made a disaster of our road. Here’s a good shot of what I mean:
