Soil Spear

This was the hole being dug to concrete in the soil spear for our new rotary dryer that is taking pride of place in the middle of our new lawn. That doesn’t look much like a lawn you may say and you would be right except that it is the base for the artificial turf that we have had laid as so little of the garden was being left to lawn that we decided that there was little point in retaining a lawn mower. As it is, now that everything has been set out, the lawn area does not seem to be as small as we had feared but in any case, part of the artificial turf argument is to minimise care while optimising the look.

So back to the soil spear and hole. We had deliberated at length about when this should be put in, i.e., before the grass laid or after; should it be the spear or the supplied concrete tube. It was decided that it should be put in before the grass went down but close enough in time to allow a bit more tamping in if it sat proud of the surface.

So, it was all achieved as we desired and looks great and we were thrilled with our beautiful, if unauthentic, lawn: that is until we discovered that the soil spear (their term not mine), that was now firmly fixed in the ground and for which a hole was cut in the grass, was too small to fit the rotary dryer that we had bought. In spite of my extensive research to avoid this situation, including an email to the manufacturer, I had not seen any information to indicate that the version that was being sold with the concrete tube had a diameter 5mm larger than the one designed for use with the soil spear, which I had bought as a separate item at a time when we didn’t even know which one we would use. So confident was I that at no stage did it cross my mind to check both products against each other as all the descriptions were identical except that one was supplied with a concrete tube and the other is supplied with the ground spike. I had opted for the version that included a cover and a peg bag.

So frustrating, especially as I now have to find a courier that will take a box over 2m in length to return the incompatible dryer.

Anyway, can you believe it’s December already?

Backblipped on 2nd December