Demolishing a single-wide trailer: Part II

Holy moly - the rural life has many pros, but it also has serious cons.  I tend to forget after living in the city, how inefficient, unorganized, unconcerned, and nonresponsive many of the service providers are in this neck of the woods.  Worst customer service skills, super difficult to make plans.....it's very frustrating.  We've spent a lot of time waiting for calls/texts back.  Asking if we could count on work happening on any particular day....we can't BTW.....it's stressful, especially when you are trying to coordinate multiple services (more on this later).  

With that said, some progress has been made on getting rid of the mouse house and we are two days away from our two week allowance of renting the large roll-off dumpsters.  It all comes down to tomorrow and whether our demolition guy will come and complete the work.

On the first day he worked, we were shocked that the machine he brought was just a bobcat - we thought there would be a backhoe or some other similar, larger machine for this job.  However when he got to the property he was very positive and said he could have it done in a day.  His first visit to the property was one full week after the dumpsters were placed, he did about an hour of work and then he had a mechanical problem with his bobcat and had to stop working for the day.  

Four days later he was back and he worked for four hours - the wind was crazy and the debris was blowing all over the place.  It looked like a very unpleasant job from a distance....around noon he was gone and he gave us a call on the way out saying the wind was terrible and that he would be back to finish the job.  Husband reminded him that the dumpsters were only there for two weeks and he said, "oh right, no problem, we will get it done."  No doubt the progress on day two was significant!

Speaking of trying to coordinate multiple services....In addition to the destruction of this trailer, we also wanted the guy to do some road work for us.  Rancho Status Quo is approx 5 miles off county maintained roads, and when the monsoons come the road are terrible.  We have a plan to improve two particularly bad parts of the road with a culvert and gravel.  The culvert was delivered shortly after the dumpsters and has been sitting by the road where we want it placed since the delivery driver dropped it.  The gravel was delivered today.  It too was dumped by the road where we want it spread.

The plan is for the bobcat guy to finish the mouse house, install the culvert, grate some road, and spread gravel.  Will that all happen tomorrow?  I do hope so!  About 10 years ago we installed a culvert in another troublesome spot and to this day it is always dry and easy to drive through (as opposed to being the place where we got our vehicle stuck in mud)  In the picture below the culvert is about half way down the road.

Anyhow, it will probably all come together exactly as it needs to - we probably spent time worrying over nothing and I look forward the mouse house being a memory!