Rock bottom

Initially I thought I'd call this post for "Welcome to my nightmare" but it had a somewhat too negative tone.
Guess this sort of sets the tone for the weekends achievements.
The plan was to level out the ground, measure out the building and set the concrete supports.
Easy enough, huh!?

First task was to remove a bunch of planks from the wooden deck as the new building will cut into the deck due to it being somewhat wider than the previous shed. All for a good cause, let's call it collateral damage. Found new usage for my car jack, apparently it works well on wooden decks too.  

Some quick sawing later that part of the job was done, the next was to start levelling the ground as there was some 20 cm difference between the ground where the old shed was and the ground under the deck.
However I quickly realized that under a few centimeters of soil the entire area was ladened with cobblestone...lots of it.
Either it's an old roman road or a stockpile for some anarchist stashing it for the next riots.
Anyways it took me ages to clear out and pile the stones, honestly probably closer to 200 kg

anarchist stockpile?

Shame on me if I would give up that easily.
Having piled up stones and filled my trailer with surplus soil it was time to make some holes for the foundation. Bringing out my trusted tools expecting a rather smooth work....*error*

The right tools to poke holes in the gound

First off the entire ground was more or less just mud...proper thick mud.

Drilling into that is tough work, who the hell needs a gym?

Need to loose a few kilos? I got the remedy for that.

Mud, all mud

 Thinking that now I'm finally getting somewhere the devil takes the final piss in my face.
In one corner of the building the drill hit stone pretty immediately. Me stupidly thinking it's probably just another stone.

Trying to excavate the stone it pretty soon becomes evident it's plain bedrock.

No way in hell I would be able to get rid of it.

Some cursing and re-positioning of some of the supports I finally called it a day/weekend.
Light was out and I could hardly see what I was doing.

As Dr. Claw always said: "Next time Gadget next time"...or in my case next weekend.


Title reference: Rock bottom/Dressed to kill/Kiss