The Trenching Continues - Albeit Much Slower

Today was a much slower day than usual as both Brad and Corey had classes in the afternoon, Bill S had some personal appointments, and I had been fighting a dirty cold for the last two days.  Notwithstanding our aches and pains, we did manage to add about an extra 8'-10' of trenching to the project. 

To give you an idea of what we're now up to, we have to dig a trench 18"-24" deep around the inside perimeter of the baggage room basement.  Because of a shortage of manpower, we're piling the excavated clay in a pile in the basement which we will later haul outside when we get the extra manpower. 

The diagram below illustrates what we have to do.  The solid line indicates what we've done and the dashed line indicates what we have left to do. 

Once we get the trench dug, we then install a 6" "Big-O" drain tile in the bottom of the trench and back to the sump pit.  And then backfill the trench with 1" clear septic-bed crushed stone.  The crushed stone is hauled from the north end of the Museum's property. 

But we're not there yet so we'll keep on working away on the trenching.