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The owner wanted to rent the land out, but it couldn't be shown in the state it was in: dense overgrowth with years of accumulated rubbish underneath. The brief: clear everything, raise the level with fill and grade it flat, ready to hand over to a tenant.",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"day-one-clearing","Day one: clearing",[16,25,26],{},"The 7-tonne Yanmar excavator stripped the overgrowth together with the waste-laden top layer - there's no point separating that kind of sandwich by hand, the bucket takes it all in one pass. The trucks ran it to the landfill: 10 loads of waste and greenery in a day. By evening the plot stood empty.",[20,28,30],{"id":29},"days-two-and-three-soil-down-the-mountain","Days two and three: soil down the mountain",[16,32,33],{},"The fill came from a quarry at Maenam Soi 1 - and that was the trickiest part of the job. The way out is a long, steep descent, and the truck goes down loaded. 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