{"id":765,"date":"2012-03-29T19:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=765"},"modified":"2012-03-29T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T23:49:49","slug":"dirt-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Dirt, part two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underdogsupply.com\/\">Underdog Landscaping<\/a> delivered eight cubic yards of soil:  six cubic yards of top soil mixed with two cubic yards of mushroom soil.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidelinecast\/7024043771\/\" title=\"Untitled by micclap, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7105\/7024043771_a04b1c9f8a.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that my labor force engaged in a union action after loading exactly one wheelbarrow.   They said something about dinner.   Anyway, eight cubic yards is an immense pile of dirt.  I shoveled from 6:30P until 11:00 P.  (One of my students asked why I was so quiet the next day).   Then I moved more on Wednesday and again today.  All three beds in the backyard have been filled; I had so much dirt that I&#8217;m going to create a fourth flower bed in the back.  I had enough dirt to re-do the side yard AND to fill the front.   <\/p>\n<p>My math: one cubic yard covers 27 cubic feet or a 3x9x1 bed.   Eight cubic yards covers 216 cubic feet.   <\/p>\n<p>I filled three 4&#215;10 beds, one 2&#215;8 bed, one 3&#215;8 bed, and the front yard, which was 5&#215;9.  That should be 205 feet, which makes sense because I have a little pile left.  I should note that I used boards that were 10&#8243; so I lost some on each bed.   <\/p>\n<p>Still, an absolute immense amount of dirt moved in four days.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday night Underdog Landscaping delivered eight cubic yards of soil: six cubic yards of top soil mixed with two cubic yards of mushroom soil. Note that my labor force engaged in a union action after loading exactly one wheelbarrow. They said something about dinner. Anyway, eight cubic yards is an immense pile of dirt. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dirt, part two<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-cl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}