Saturday morning 8 A.M. the backhoe arrived. It was the biggest size that could pass the narrow path to my plot so it was a mini model. Just over 170 cm wide.
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| Being offloaded |
I got a quick instruction about how it worked and what each lever did, and the guy left me to drive the digger to my plot. I was nervous getting through the forest road with the hoe tracks almost touching the borders. But somehow I got it all the way in one piece. Driving was actually the easiest part. The digging levers were a bit more complicated to get used to...
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| At the "entrance" |
So I started digging a bit lightly to get used to the controls, and dug around an old bamboo to see what the roots look like.
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| The first piece of rhizomes I took out |
As I kind of already knew, the plot is covered in a net of roots. I didn't measure but I guess they don't go deeper than 1 meter into the soil.
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| Oh... cleaning these out will take forever |
I was still driving around and digging sporadically. It was much more fun than I thought to learn operating the machine so I dragged it out, hehe.
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| Forgot why I took this, but I'm sure it has something interesting |
It was a nice and sunny day and I just kept getting better and better at what I was doing... I didn't want to have wasted away a whole day though, so towards the end I used the machine's shovel to gather all the sugi leafs to one side of the plot. That way it felt like I had accomplished something while learning.
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| The day is almost done |
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