The first half of the cut is done!!!!.
This is pretty exciting... there have been times when I wondered if I'd ever get this far, but the first half is done!
The drains at the end of the gutters dump into the now-buried culvert:
After:
Before:
Side view of drains & culvert:
After:
Before:
Left-hand drain looking down from directly above; the bottom of the culvert is about 10" below the gutter:
The next 10 posts I'll install (just beyond the end of the finished half of the cut):
Click on the image below to view a movie of me walking the finished half of the cut (3.7MB WMV)