Thanks for posting those xtangomike. That excavation took balls! I’d love to know how it was sold to the landowner…. 😀

I think it was Sandown local council.
It was in the early days and they had no idea (niether did we) exactly how large the operation was going to be.
Steve Vizard did all the PR, and there was certainly some rumbling in the jungle when the enormity of the exercise was fully known.
Like all good diggers, we had mostly fled the scene when the s..t hit the fan, and I think there were some latter payments made to offset the ‘clear up’.
Never in the ………..of digging has such a large hole been dug by so many loonies trying to find something that wasn’t there.