Used to do this with the father in law (now sadly deceased). He would cut and I would "hole", This meant he would cut the turf two wide with the "slane" and I would grab the aforementioned turf and sling them out. Then there was the footing. Did it for years.
On the subject of the windmills etc I think it is ironic that with the push for electric cars we are being warned of a shortage of..electricity this year and perhaps into the future. We are told that data centres have a back up system that they can use if they have to go off grid, namely diesel generators. We might have hosepipe bans yet data centres will continue to use water as they need. That is why they are here, we have water.
China builds new railroad into Mongolia to extract coal to fuel power stations to produce goods we buy including parts for our "green" electric cars.
We are against nuclear power generated in Ireland yet it is O.K. to let someone else generate it so that we can import it via an interconnector.
I am so glad we have people in power who understand all of this because I don't. I could not sleep last night as I felt guilty that the tree house I built for the girls many years ago has not been registered with the RTB.