There was no good way to dig this hole. It is just too deep for a standard bob cat. My neighbor has a small track hoe but I put this tank against the outside wall and corner.
I need these places to be solid later for the foundation cement piers and on the other side of the tank will have the grow bed and it will have from 2-4 ton of gravel depending on the type I use plus 1,440 pounds of water in it. So it needs to be solid also.
If the power company line marking guy would have come on time I would have used my tractors auger to dig more in the hole. It only goes to 4’ so I still would have had to do it by hand at the end. When you dig lots of holes close together you still need to shovel out the dirt.
He marked the line today and we were less than 2’ from the power lines.
A back brace sounds like a good idea I need to pick up one for the rest of the project.
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