Nosy Neighbour Update

Special delivery for Chuck and Mike, here is the nosy neighbour update.  As of the last post, Dude had finished digging the big hole in his lawn.  Yesterday he proceeded to fill the hole with the gravel sitting on the lawn.  Due to dude's lack of skill with the mini-hoe, he had to dump a couple of buckets of gravel in the hole and then jump out and rake it out.  He must have got tired of this because he tried to use the small blade on the front of the mini-hoe.  It was a good idea in principle, but poorly executed.  Dude ended up pushing WAY too much gravel to the end of the hole and then had to back up using the bucket to try and drag it back.  This process took most of the day.

After finally filling the hole, Dude figured he had this heavy piece of machinery, he should use it to pack down the gravel.  Anyone who has seen a tracked vehicle move will see the problem with this plan.  He could go straight up and down the hole and do a great job, but when he turned a bit at the end to drive on the parts he missed, the tracks just dug up a bunch of the gravel he had packed down. 

Finally, a dump truck came and Dude loaded the dirt into it.  Well, he loaded the first truck load.  On the second load, he had to run into the house for something and the truck driver hopped into the mini-hoe.  The truck driver had obviously been operating hoes for longer than 6 days and he filled the truck in half the time it would have taken Dude.  Dude came back out and looked on dejectedly while his fun was taken away.

Today, Dude was wearing the sad face as Peace Country Rentals came to pick up his toy.  He got one bit of fun as he drove the mini-hoe over his lawn again to pick up the second bucket.  Then the rental guy kicked Dude out and he ran into the house to lay weeping on his bed (this last part it pure conjecture).

I don't know what Dude payed to rent the mini-hoe for a week, but I'm sure someone who knew what they were doing could have done the job in less than two days and for less money and made less of a mess of Dude's property.