Some more foundation work pictures

Here's a collection of pictures from the foundation work. This one shows some of the 39 yards of dirt in the basement when the work started. It also shows the previously-finished north wall which was completed about three years ago. I'm doing the same job on the south side of the house now.
These were from early December, when I finished the majority of the piers and posts. The visible 2x6 studs got Hardie-board sheathing on the outside which is a cement fiber board.

If you look carefully in this picture, you can see a missing sill plate, which was rotten. I replaced it. You can also see the new sill plate I put in already. Both had extensive dry-rot, but thankfully they were the only rotten parts in the entire floor.

The concrete piers in the ground were 24 inches cubed (some deeper than 24"), which is a metric ass-load of concrete, all from premix bags.

I'm glad to be done with the majority of the purely physical labor. I have a newfound appreciation for ancient societies building monumental works like the Great Wall, the pyramids, Stonehenge. Moving the earth is hard work.