The tale of the water tank......

We seemed to have waited for ages now for more action on the block regarding the house build. Which of course started, rather dramatically, the week we had to nip back to Adelaide.... always the way. Huge thank you to Deb, Robert and Fred for keeping an eye on the proceedings, taking photos and keeping us updated.

A huge hole was dug east of the house site, thankfully not to close to the veggie patch, for the 22,000 litre concrete water tank. A hole Winnie The Pooh would have been very proud of far to big for hafalumps more the size for woolie mammoths! I'm digressing....

By all accounts it was quite a kerfuffle, we all believed it would be sandy soil on that part of the block, perfect for digging and bedding in a water tank.  About half an hour into the dig a huge deep lump of limestone was discovered, it just went on and on as did the digger.  The race was on to get the hole dug before the crane and tank arrived early afternoon.  

A brace of diggers at work!

think this says it all

Hats off to the tenaciousness of the digger, digging that hole must have been no mean feat, from what started as a fairly easy two hour job it turned out to be a four hour marathon.

Much digging, two huge piles of rubble and one very large hole later the crane and tank arrived.  For some reason in his infinite wisdom the crane driver decided to take the scenic route via the back of Old Man Stringy Bark and promptly got bogged in the softer soil there.... hmmmm.  It was eventually freed and made it up to the hole and the awaiting water tank.

Water tank was slowly and gently lowered onto it's soft sandy bed only to find it went much lower than expected.... hay ho

It seems there has been a wee bit of a communications problem, we all had different ideas on where the roof of the tank was going to sit.  Varying from just above ground, just below ground level to buried! To cut a long story short after many hours of discussions with the builders of our house, the water tank constructors and quite a few sleepless nights the problem was solved. Another tank has been ordered, another huge hole will be dug, both tanks will sit with their roofs just above ground and we will have four very large mounds of limestone rock to deal with! A creative solution will I am sure be found..... eventually..... no worries then!!

The large areas of sand in the above photos are the leveled base of our new home, already for the plumber to do his bit, waffle pods and the eventual concrete fill. Very exciting.