Yesterday afternoon, K sends me this text:
" This happened today :) "
Yup, that is an excavator in our backyard, digging up the stump and roots left over from our tree removal. I was beyond excited when I got that text!
There have been 2 things holding up any further progress on the garage--
#1: Figuring out to do with that stump.
The tree stump absolutely had to be removed. With the way the plans lay out in the back yard, the stump would lie half under the concrete slab of the garage, and half under the asphalt driveway, which will eventually lead to one or both of those surfaces cracking as the dead wood rots away. It's possible to change the plans, sure, but neither of us wanted that, if we could get the stump out instead.
#2: Getting the plans OK'ed by the city. (I don't think she has brought the plans in, yet, so this still remains.)
K asked the excavating subcontractor that they use at her job if, since the job site they're working at is 5 miles from our house, he would come over and see if this was something he could do. She said he was working on it for about an hour, but got the entire stump and most of the root system up and out of the ground, evened out all the dirt in the area, and then used his shovel to pack down the loosened dirt into the hole left by the stump. Amazing!!
Here are some pictures and video of the process:
And the result:
Look at how tall these roots are!
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