This was a finished project, just before Eric had offered to bring over his machine. I had cut a bunch of roots from the back tree and tilled the yard preparing it for grass seed next spring. The roots of even the biggest trees only go about 2' to 3' down, they just spread out very very wide and thick just under the surface of the forest floor. The trees here grow very different than in Ohio. The roots of the front two trees are still under the leaves near the fuel oil tank. I had cut the big tree near the back door and the two trees near the fuel oil tank at the front of the cabin. This is the side yard the day before the excavator showed up. I was originally going to dig the hole for the cellar on the north side of the cabin but once the trees were down and the yard was cleaned up it just looked like it made a lot more sense to dig on the south side. I had just recently cut down 3 trees that were right next to the cabin on the south side. Now that the big shovel showed up I got to show you a few more pictures. How neat is it to live 65 miles from a road and have a neighbor show up to the cabin with this. Thank You ERIC, you saved me weeks of labor. The first thing I must say about the process of digging the hole got very much easier and I must give out a big Thank You to my neighbor that got a new (used) excavator this summer.
![the seed cellar the seed cellar](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1820/1301/products/web_Apricot-Kernels-2_edc673ca-ffdd-416d-a80f-3cee871f5ccb.jpg)
![the seed cellar the seed cellar](https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/612972/files/26164811/green-bodhi-ac-dc-x-ac-dc-78-reg-21-pk.jpg)
This soil has no compaction, it is all sand and rocks and caves in very easily. If I had dug a hole big enough under the cabin the cabin would have fallen into it.
![the seed cellar the seed cellar](https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/612972/files/13777774/1000x1000x2/cbd-crew-therapy-fem-5-pk.jpg)
I know I had told people that I was going to put the cellar under the cabin but that changed once we started digging and discovered the conditions of the sub soil. Now I am going to give you an In Depth view of what we built. I showed a Preview of the hole for the Root Cellar in the last post.