I am a boy. I have always enjoyed equipment and especially what some machines are capable of accomplishing when the right person is dialing the toggles. We had a fadrom on site today, technically a scavator is an excavator, something we might call a trackhoe in the States. A fadrom is principally used as a bulldozer, although the one which Salvator was operating for us had a backhoe.
As I was saying, the right operator can take a simple machine and make it do extraordinarily precise things. In Albania, the price for hiring man and machine is 3,500 lek per hour, which is around 120 times what a puntor, or laborer makes. In 3.5 hours, this machine had filled our sewer trenches, graded the site, and loaded six kamions worth of earth into trucks to be hauled away. Tomorrow we will begin work on the rain water handling system.
This will be the first church built in the history of the city of Fushekruje. I am so blessed to be a part of it.
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