Job Status Blue

As Chico dug deeper into the hillside, in a valiant effort to excavate the cistern and lower level of our home, he encountered more and more of this Blue Bitch Granite substrate. Where most builders encounter large boulders, we encounter rock ledge! Not just any ledge, this stuff is really, really hard stuff! Makes me wish they could use dynamite to blast these encumbrances from our memory and our jobsite!

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As you can see, Chico has his backhoe "standing" on the chisel bit held in the jaws of the hydraulic hammer at the end of the arm of the back hoe. Notice the front wheels of the machine are off the ground? I don't know how Chico can sleep at night, he must vibrate all night after a grueling day at the helm of this monster. We thanked him profusely for his stick-to-it attitude, and we still wonder why he keeps coming back for more.
The Mother Lode of Blue BITCH Granite (excuse my sarcasm) runs from left to right twenty six feet and front to back thirty feet. We suffer through the assault on our checkbook, we are paying Chico by the hour for this work.

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