On a recent visit home Steve and David removed a slab of concrete and some soil  from  a courtyard of the house and have it prepared for wooden decking.

Kept it clean as they went

The pick came in handy at times too as Steve demonstrates here

Well into the removal of the first section of old slabs

First section all clean in the background and well into removing the second piece

The supervisor sits in the corner watching the boys work

The concrete had to be broken into small pieces, then put into plastic buckets and carried through the house to the back of Uncle John's ute

Steve with boltcutters used to cut the reinforcing in and under concrete. Supervisor still working

The job continues though the neighbours were getting tired of the noise

Getting towards the end and cousin Greg got involved as well

Buckets loaded on the ute

Don't know how many loads were taken (I think it was 14 or 15 ute loads) but every bit of concrete was placed in the bucket by hand.

Here's where the broken concrete ended up extending a terrace at Greg's and Julie's place

With soil excavated as well it made a deep hole so an electric pump was needed to remove the collected water after rain. Here Steve has been using the pump