I'm planning a new driveway, and having measured up I've realised it involves digging a rectangular area of about 45 square metres. As I've got Bedfordshire's heavy clay underneath me and a dodgy back behind me, there's no way I'm doing it by hand!
So, I've got two options:
1) Hire a man with a digger
2) Hire a digger and do it myself
I've never used a digger before... bearing that in mind, is it likely to end in tears if I hire a 1-tonne mini-digger for a weekend with the intention of digging out 45 square metres of heavy clay to about 150mm depth with a relatively flat bottom, and chucking all the spoil into a skip next to the digging area? Or would that be hopelessly optimistic?
AFAIK there are no services running under the area to be dug, but when the time comes I will put a few test holes in the most likely areas that they would be.
So, I've got two options:
1) Hire a man with a digger
2) Hire a digger and do it myself
I've never used a digger before... bearing that in mind, is it likely to end in tears if I hire a 1-tonne mini-digger for a weekend with the intention of digging out 45 square metres of heavy clay to about 150mm depth with a relatively flat bottom, and chucking all the spoil into a skip next to the digging area? Or would that be hopelessly optimistic?
AFAIK there are no services running under the area to be dug, but when the time comes I will put a few test holes in the most likely areas that they would be.