Some progress to report:
After a carefully worded email to the owner of the company building my pool, earlier this week, the owner, my sales guy, my assigned PB (supervisor) and I had a pool side meeting on Thursday to discuss a few things, among them, the details of the slide install. The meeting ended with me needing more dirt (cost depending on the source) and the graders to prepare the ground for the slide on Saturday. I got a call Friday from the PB telling me had a dirt source for $30 a truck, but nobody to haul the dirt into the backyard. Not wanting to delay anymore I told him to bring it on and 6 trucks worth of dirt were delivered (total thus far is 15). I'd have to say that this is very nice dirt; just like screened dirt that you'd have to pay extra for, not a single rock in it. Dump truck guys had a good chuckle when then buried a half pallet full of pavers with the dirt.
Saturday came and I was told the guys were busy hauling dirt on another job and they'd be later in the day and may have to work Sunday. They ended up coming very late only to drop off the bobcat and go. Surprisingly they showed up today, Yes Sunday, and hauled all the dirt back and graded around the pool. It looks so much better now. I had them grad it bit into the wooded area and the bobcat had no trouble pushing down the trees, one around 6" think.
Tomorrow (Monday) I'm scheduled to have the concrete guys come and pour pillars and a concrete deck for the slide. Interesting to see how this goes.
Since all the access to the back was blocked by the dirt (seen below), the kid driving went over the hill and took it down the hill over a 50 degree bank without a problem. Dug his bucket into the ground to control his dissent, had the bobcat almost facing straight down and popped right out. Made it look easy for sure.
Finished grade behind pool. See before picture in previous post.
After a carefully worded email to the owner of the company building my pool, earlier this week, the owner, my sales guy, my assigned PB (supervisor) and I had a pool side meeting on Thursday to discuss a few things, among them, the details of the slide install. The meeting ended with me needing more dirt (cost depending on the source) and the graders to prepare the ground for the slide on Saturday. I got a call Friday from the PB telling me had a dirt source for $30 a truck, but nobody to haul the dirt into the backyard. Not wanting to delay anymore I told him to bring it on and 6 trucks worth of dirt were delivered (total thus far is 15). I'd have to say that this is very nice dirt; just like screened dirt that you'd have to pay extra for, not a single rock in it. Dump truck guys had a good chuckle when then buried a half pallet full of pavers with the dirt.
Saturday came and I was told the guys were busy hauling dirt on another job and they'd be later in the day and may have to work Sunday. They ended up coming very late only to drop off the bobcat and go. Surprisingly they showed up today, Yes Sunday, and hauled all the dirt back and graded around the pool. It looks so much better now. I had them grad it bit into the wooded area and the bobcat had no trouble pushing down the trees, one around 6" think.
Tomorrow (Monday) I'm scheduled to have the concrete guys come and pour pillars and a concrete deck for the slide. Interesting to see how this goes.
Since all the access to the back was blocked by the dirt (seen below), the kid driving went over the hill and took it down the hill over a 50 degree bank without a problem. Dug his bucket into the ground to control his dissent, had the bobcat almost facing straight down and popped right out. Made it look easy for sure.
Finished grade behind pool. See before picture in previous post.
