I live in a wooden bungalow on brick pillars.
It’s all a bit wobbly, so I’m doing some major repairs which include building a brick plinth wall around the outside to support it.
However, digging the footings for the new wall is undermining the existing pillars, which aren’t too solid to begin with.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, there were two tree stumps right where I want to build the wall.
I pulled them out today.
The first stump
Knocking the ground anchor pins in.
Trewhella winch set up and ready to go.
Whoops, looks like the pillars coming with it.
A bit of temporary shoring and we’re ready to carry on.
Out comes the stump and pillar in one lump.
The other one was a safe distance from the pillar and far less exciting.