>>>I am just dreaming of the rocks I can retrieve from the river with that baby!<<<
All for a bench?
LOL you will have a whole Shrine built down there...
I was going to rent one for a day, but they charge $400 a day around here, so I decided to use my Armstrong digger, and downscale my tasks considerably...
I have a walk-in basement facing the river. For a couple of years I have pictured in my mind (just a dream, mind you) a path down to the river with large flat stones as steps and smaller stones filling in the spaces between steps. Just a dream, as it didn’t seem doable. Now my grand nephew has become interested in the project, so maybe it is doable after all. I have already removed the loam in an area about four feet wide by about fifty feet long, a lttle at a time. Had I known about the backhoe, I would certainly have waited, as this was quite a chore, with a hand shovel and a little cart on the back of my John Deere. I had decided to hire someone to put crushed stone in the pathway, but I think the stones from the river will be so much nicer if I can accomplish it. Have to be sure to keep my project 150 feet from the river though, or those town code enforcers will pay me a visit!!
Regardless, it will be several weeks before the river gets back within its banks and subsides enough to expose all those lovely hugh rocks.
The SUN is out after getting 4.5 inches of rain in 24 hours!!