As blogged on OddityCentral.com, if you though excavating a basement was hard work, try doing it with R/C miniature construction machinery. One Canadian man has been doing it for 14 years and he’s still not done. Luckily, he’s in no hurry to finish.

Joe Murray, a farmer and radio-controlled construction machinery enthusiast from Saskatchewan, Canada, started excavating a basement under his house in June of 2005. In the beginning, he had a hands-on approach, using a pickaxe and an air chisel hammer, but then he started acquiring miniature radio-controlled digging machinery and he took a back seat, letting them do all the dirty work. By 2010, his fleet of trucks and excavators were already doing all the work, while he controlled them from a distance. But the problem with using miniature machinery to dig a life-size basement is that it takes a long time. And I mean a really long time.

We first wrote about Joe Murray and his awesome project back in 2012, but back then it was reported that he was getting close to finishing the basement and planning to start even more ambitious projects, like digging a pond with his radio-controlled machinery. But seven years later, the Saskatchewan farmer is still busy digging under his house.

“What a better place to have an all-weather playground than under your house?” Murray told Carscoop a few years ago. “It’s just a few steps away when I have time for it, it’s a comfy place to be when it’s -30C outside. I am in no hurry to finish.”

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