We ended up purchasing 96 concrete blocks, only some of which are shown in these images. Since the 18-wheelers could only bring a dozen or so at a time, that meant we had 8 loads in total brought to us. Each truck had to be unloaded and the blocks moved to staging areas, as we were still getting the footer work completed while most of this was going on.
We moved some of the blocks down to the old dog kennel space (pic 3). Sadly this was the concrete straw that broke that pad’s back; granted, said pad was already cracked and dying, but since we plan to have a generator down there someday, it means we’ll need to replace all or part of the pad sometime soon.
Lastly, here’s a shot of what an 18-wheeler cresting the hill of our driveway looks like. This shot was taken from the roof as I was up there to service a camera.
Finally, here’s a video of how we unloaded the blocks. It worked best when three people did the work: the semi driver would hook up the chain on the telehandler to a block; the telehandler driver would then move the block to the pile; and a third person would unhook the chain. The work went pretty quickly, but at this point we were only a little over halfway in terms of taking possession of all 96 blocks.