And it got stuck at an inopportune time. During the kind of drought we only get once every several years.
I was digging a channel to drain as much water as possible out of the muck so I can more easily work with it, using it to raise the dam 8 feet and nearly double the surface area of the lake to about 8-10 acres while more than quadrupling its volume so it can produce a lot of micro-hydroelectric power. The idea being to produce enough to run everything but the 240 stuff (welder, lift, etc) in the workshop and maybe even have enough excess capacity to make it worthwhile to sell it to the power company or at least move the other garage (on its own meter but using a paltry amount of juice) and the pool house (which uses an obscene amount of power) onto the free juice.
Now I have to try to work quickly. Renting the excavator for a month, which I'll initially use to dig the drainage channel and install the pipes for the hydroelectric, then get my son down here to run the dumptruck while I use the excavator to load it and smooth what he drops off, then after the month is over, have them pick up the excavator while dropping off a 963. The idea being that the muck *should* be dry enough after a month of draining that I can take the dump truck out of the equation and finish the job with the loader.
