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We have the pool permits and they are now ready to start digging for our pool! This is what my backyard looks like right now! I am so excited.
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First they had to remove our fence and fence post.
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They then laid a layer of dirt over the concrete to provide some cushion for the bobcat to drive across.
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This is a bobcat. It is a lot smaller than the huge machine that digs the pool.
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It's job today is to move the dirt that is dug from the larger machine (I don't know what its called) to the trucks waiting on the street.
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Our concrete patio has to be pulled up. Here it is being torn to shreds in about half an hour.
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About an hour into the project, the pool shape is drawn out over the dirt and forms are staked as a guide.
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They start to dig even before all the forms are staked in.
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Here is E capturing all the footage. He was so excited to get home to watch. Looks like the workers hadn't had their lunch yet.
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3 hours later and "the Big Dig" is over. We started with this:
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