My back and arms ache, but the feeling of achievement is awesome. David and I have worked really hard today, David wheelbarrowing all the rubble up the slope to the skip and I have been lugging stone down the hill to build the dry stone wall. I am actually really chuffed. It looks amazing, but I'm biased. Just need to put down the hardcore and then the hoggin to complete the path. Then the greenhouse can take its position, centre stage. |
We started by building the base for the new greenhouse, then the area was cleared to make way for the Cotswold Hoggin Path. Hoggin is a mix of gravel, clay and sand, that is self binding.
We have had great fun with machinery. A digger to remove the turf and dig out. A mini tracked dumper to take all the rubble and sods of earth to the top of the garden and bring all the hardcore and then hoggin to the bottom. I think it would have taken weeks without it. (we also had a concrete breaker but that was for the old sespit)
Then comes the wacker plate to compact the hardcore and then the hoggin.