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Wisconsin | It’s not that hard… just hard work. Have done a couple partials before. Currently digging a basement under the other half of our old farm house. I’m in the camp of hold it still not lifting. Soil type makes a big difference. Clay is pretty nice unless it rains. Sand you end up with a huge hole as it keeps caving in. The first one I helped on was with sand and in town. Guy had a double lot and an old skid loader, between the dirt he scooped out and the hole he was out of room. The next one we did half a house on clay with case 580 extenda hoe and a pretty good operator. That went pretty well except for when it rained. Current job is on the edge of the glacier and what I thought would be sand is hard packed clay and gravel. Hammer drill with spade is involved can’t touch it with a shovel. Backhoe for what I can reach and shoveling the rest. Taking it slow due to time issues, will be putting it on hold for winter soon. Probably will consider a mini skid small excavator in the spring. Biggest issue besides time and dense gravel has been the non standard framing. The house was sat on a variety of randomly placed or perhaps existing rocks. Slid some beams in but still have too many jack points to make much machine work feasible. Obvious don’t know your layout but doing it in chunks is possible. If you have some room a tracked skid steer can climb a fairly short ramp. Somewhat local rental place rents a dirt conveyor for this job. Most concrete contractors have gone to poured walls as it’s somewhat easier. Perhaps find someone that can lay block. | |
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100 year old house foundation
