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[Gaffers]

After a certain exercsie at Sandhurst where you dig a complete trench system before you are allowed to sleep (85 hours in our case) I vowed to never do anything that stupid again.  Thus for my footings I will be hiring a mini jcb

[Marks DTM Calib]

The most I did in a day was 8m2 but given the terrain that was some serious going.

I didn't go down the digger route for a number of reasons.

1) I would have needed to hire it at least four times (as I needed four skips and could only accommodate 1 at a time)
2) It would have required the party fence being taken down to get through as even the narrow ones don't go narrow enough.
3) The micro diggers are not powerful enough to go through the type of soil I encountered
4) I had a number of services in unknown places
5) Most can only dig down to 1.2m
6) You would also need a micro dumper to move the spoil to the skip

So sadly it was not an option in my case

[chrisgixer]

Fit as a butchers dog now then? 

[The Sheriff]

It's amazing how much you can dig out once you get into a rhythym. Starting is the worse part, especially if you don't fancy it. When I worked for a .....erm......jewish gentleman in Liverpool, he was too tight careful with his money to buy ready mix, or even hire a mixer, so we regularly had to mix the concrete by hand. It looked very daunting when it was tipped, a big mountain of it, but we soon got into a rhythym and it was done in no time.

Good on yer, Mark. 

[Auto Addict]

I saw what he dug out by hand, amazing