Day 2 of ground mount construction

Yesterday was an adventure. After hitting a rock in hole 1, a successful hole 2 dig, halfway through hole 3 the skid steer sprung a leak in its hydraulic coupler. A maintenance guy came and charged out the coupler on the tractor side, it still leaked, so he had to drive back to the shop and steal a hose side coupler from another until. I finished hole 3, started hole 4 and sprung another hydraulic leak near the auger motor. They had no spare hoses, so they bought a bigger auger Ithe one where he stole the coupler from) and swapped out the entire auger. I finished the remaining holes, then had to figure out the rock situation on hole 1. I climbed into the hole, had just enough room to squat with a trowel and a 5 gallon bucket to figure out the edges of the rock. It was too big to dig out without it taking forever, but I was able to coerce the auger to go around it by going a little crooked.

So all 5 holes are dug, today we place the posts with gantries and supports