So the first thing to do is to clean this up. This takes a couple of days.
Then we can extend the excavation, pulling out more rocks and dirt.
At this point, we need to use the jackhammer to break up the larger rocks.
This broke out a large rock from the center of the excavated bed.
To get this out of the pit, we shaped the front edge of the bed by digging out the top part of the dirt, to fill in the bottom part, creating a dirt ramp. This allows the rock to be rolled up the dirt ramp and out of the pit.
and then we need to dig out that ramp.
After a rain delay, we can remove those rocks,
but the dirt is really too wet to work. But we can spend the day with the jackhammer and produce a lot of rock that needs to be be cleared out.
Clearing out the rock leaves a well-defined excavation.
We still have dirt and rock to excavate, but this first part looks done.
