Normally it is so drry here in Spain that even digging the smallest hole in the garden for a plant say, means you have to resort to a pickaxe to loosen it, a shovel or spade just won't touch it. But we have had rain-lots and lots of rain, so much of the ground is quite sodden and very soft.
So today the water bowser turns up to put the first 20.000litres of 60.000 back into our pool, where in another topic I mentioned I'd left the drain valve open
He drives off the gravelled part of the garden and on to the soft stuff to reach the pool and promptly gets bogged down up to his axle at the back! So he connects the pipe to offload some water into the pool to lighten the load. Trouble is the pool is higher than the most of the truck, its built on a terraced plot of land see. So out comes about 5000 litres and then he has to waste the rest onto the garden-making it even boggier
The truck body lifts about a 1ft without the weight on which means his rear bumber bar is now clear of the ground, we fill the holes with gravel and rock and managed to free the rear end. Now any one else would stop the truck at that and back fill the holes, but no, he continues, drops the front axle into the holes made by the rear wheels, and the front is no bogged down
eventually with the aid of a local farmer with a JCB and steel towing cable they got it out.
At least I got 5000 litres of water for free and a churned up garden
he said to call him again next week if there is no more rainfall
