The gravel comes from a truck parked up the street. The wide bucket bulldozer goes up, gets a shovelful and then comes back and tilts its contents into the smaller bucket:
You can see the new drain with the metal plate blocking it off. Here the bulldozer is dumping the gravel down onto the drain:
Check how close I am to the action! That friggin bucket almost knocked me off the platform I was standing. This is no joke, gentle readers.
And now for some real manual labour. The worker has to distribute the gravel around with a shovel:
And then they bring out the machines. I guess these things force and shake out any space between the gravel to get maximum density and minimize shifting for the road underneath.
One very entertained neighbour:
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