In College I worked construction to keep me in spending money... We were rehabbing an old factory to make it a modern mini-mall with most all the original 'distressed' brick walls intact. Due to some design fluke in the original building, there were a series of closets one over the top of each other on the building's 5 floors which were perfect for the installation of an elevator for the new mini-mall. Only one problem... There was not enough room under the set of closets for the "bottom equipment" of the elevator they were going to install. Of course five stories of 10x10 walls prevented any machinery from reaching to the bottom of the hole to remove the soil. My job was to shovel by hand all the soil from the bottom of the shaft into a wheelbarrow which I then had to roll up a 2x8 to the outside of the shaft for removal... wasn't that hard at first but as the hole got deeper the trip up the plank got steeper so the loads got lighter but the trips up the plank more frequent... There was no winning... That one really sucked!

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