Machine digging for the footings

I used my friend's skid steer to do the bulk of the digging.  Of course I forgot about the garage wiring so I cut right through it...

Now in the future I'll be running 100A service out there, but I'm not even close to being ready to do that, and I still need power out there so I'm just soldering this back together for now.  Definitely not ideal, but wire is expensive...  Also this is underground so it's not really much of a fire hazard.

I also have to re-route the existing conduit since one of the footings is going right where it was.

Pulling lube made a huge difference for getting the wire back through.

Since I had to re-route the conduit, it goes farther so the wire's not long enough to reach the panel, which is just wonderful.  So I spliced on some other wire I had laying around using clamps and a bunch of tape.  It's a good thing I don't have any kids.

Now I decided to mark out where the first footing was going to go.  I still have to do more digging so I'm below the frost line.