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After the maintenance, I dug.

A steel pipe end peeked out. Regular readers will not be surprised that this led to half the Nordstream pipeline coming out.

Then I dug out the side of the big barn, because it's bottom log is rotting from being below soil level due to 90 years of soil accumulation. Good practice for digging near buildings. Only hit the roof once 😬

Lots more junk came up, steel, chunks of cancer roofing, wire, wood, roots, rubber, plastic pipe, disintegrating plastic sheet, rocks and lots of bricks.

Then I made a ditch for the water from the roof to run off (there's no gutter) and leveled the area. Needs some more infill at the end, but already much better.

Turning over the compost pile is quick & easy!

Ok, the wide bucket is a little large for the wheelbarrow, but it got full anyways! 😁

This simple compost pile worked a lot better than the fancy plastic composter in the garden (came with the property). Just not enough oxygen in that thing.

Sadly the pile was full of dubious materials from the previous owners, so I'm not using it for food growing. I fished out most. Maybe next year.

The Chinese mini excavators have become so popular, even tool importer Scheppach has started selling one: scheppach.com/de/unternehmen/n [German]

This is a very small 560kg one with an unknown petrol engine. It's not the usual Briggs & Stratton XR2100 that all the other petrol versions use.

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Garden tilled. The rotavator dug up a brick, a few more concrete chunks, some plastic, a pipe and a massive fucking steel beam. Luckily it seems I didn't break any of the tines. The guard door on the right was bent slightly, but it was easy to unbolt and bang straight again, didn't even chip the paint. Japanese steel won over Soviet steel 😁

Figured out what the feedback lever does, too!

Some tricky driving to get in the corners.