In our garden we had a big tree. It was chopped down a few months back. Now we had to get the remaining stump/roots out.
Cue the lads with the stump grinder (no sniggering at the back).
It took them nearly 2 hours to get it down 4 inches below ground level. They drank copious amounts of tea. However, the job was done and we were happy. At this was done as a favour (they are friends with our son) they would only accept a score each and off they toddled.
As you can imagine, there was loads of wood chippings everywhere. I started raking them up and bagging them up in strong plastic bags. Now I know that in amongst the chippings there was soil and stones etc. but ye gods, each bag was almost unliftable - even only half full. Cue trip to local dump (I checked how busy it was using the "gatecam" Tel told us about). Six bags - and a real struggle to lift them into the car boot. At the dump I asked if I could - out of curiosity - see how much I was carrying by using their weighbridge. They said fine.
HALF A BLOODY TON !
And I have made 2 trips so far today. Prolly need to do 2 more tomorrow.
Now drinking Murphy's to replenish lost fluids.
