Land development with wall and house...photo thread..first effort.
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This is the land in its raw state...3.5 rai on a good concrete road, with municipal water and power right at the gate.....nice and level with nice views of the wooded hills to the North and SE.....a nice place to live....once the spirits have been consulted and proper observances made.....
We acquired this land in Jan 2012 after several years of trying to get the owners to part with it....
It was filled to an average depth of 1.5 meters and now sits well above the road level as well as being several meters above the highest ever recorded flood level.....always a good idea I think.
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First we built a wall. This is the first section of 100 meters. It will be over 300 meters when finished.... It was started during the "wet" season, so the crew was often knee deep in mud. The actually seem to enjoy it....:)
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Lots of sand, gravel and stuff....lots of wall to be built....
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We excavated this pond at the back of the property.....45 x 25 meters ...and 8 meters deep. Irrigation for all kinds of horticultural ventures.....
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We filled up the great pond using a trusty Kubota and pump loaned to us by one of the wall building crew.....it thumped away for almost 24 hours on a few liters of diesel and pumped thousands of cubic meters of water......long live Kubota.....
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This splendid structure is for storing cement and stuff....also acts as a kind of command and control centre....and a place for sleeping when the crew gets drunk and can't face the wife.... gotta look after the staff.....:)
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There's the command and control centre completed with a temporary potting shed in the foreground......we also build a toilet (the smaller building behind the CC center) for the wall crew and house builders when they arrive... proper septic tank and everything... can't have all these people crapping all over my nice land and polluting the pond.....:mid:
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Not long after the outbuildings are constructed...here we have all kinds of stuff growing. The wife can make things grow out of bedrock....
This is my first attempt at a photo thread....hope it works OK.....lots more photos to add.....but this will have to do for starters.....:)