HasamaHomestead/迫間ホームステッド: Hugel beds

I hate getting old , 3 days late muscle fever, it's just too painful, so after double dose of Loxonin hot shower and bunch of medical grade "Salonpas" patches, around 10 am I was finally able to get on my feet and start the day. Weather was perfect for outside work so i decide to tackle the bunch of logs and made some hugel beds,well... now I know why permaculturalists always come in bunch,on any video showing you how to build one there is at least eight people doing it or use heavy machinery like Sepp Holtz,reason... It's too damn hard,Logs we have are from the large shed we had on the property, but it was demolished last may due to street enlargement, so the firefighting vehicle could have access in case it's needed.Each piece of wood weight from 60 to 100kg.You should see my wife's expression and that comment"You want me... to move these ....are you serious?!!" unforgettable.first 30 minutes we were piling wood ,here is word of advice start with pile that is farthest from you so you don't have to jump over already piled ones.next event was two hours of shoveling dirt to cover everything properly and adding mix of soil and composted manure on top.that was first day due to another obligations.Another advice between first and second layer add either wet card board or wet news paper to prevent weed growth and to keep the core wet. I think that weed and grass that is getting out now is from the dirt layer,after couple of days we add lime and waited for the rain to dilute it ,put the wood chip on and transplant the zucchini's ,melons and other crawling plants.We still have a lot of wood left but not much of the soil for covering so I need to either get it somewhere else or find the another use for the wood,but that won't be hard my dad is going to make an rocket mass heater in our old weekend house in Shirakawa-cho.I hope to get that documented.