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Finally wacked down some Prickly Holly [?] bush today. It grew up behind my Hibiscus. Didn't notice it before it tried to take over!
Glad I put the snatch block in; it was Tough! :gtfo::buttkick:
 

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CasterTroy said:
Many MANY more tickets to come.

From my experience, Surge, then railroad ballast, then crusher run... Or crushed asphalt.. depending on the level of smoothness you prefer
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Was planning to do asphalt millings right on top, what's the advantage of the ballast in between?
 
YotaOnRocks said:
Got the first 600' of the driveway base down. Thanks to @toyota231 for hauling the rock today.
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100% jealous of this. I’ve been waiting on Duke to run power before I put anything down….engineer said they’re not responsible for anything they mess up. With my luck,Im sure as soon as I put something down they’ll decide to trench down the middle of my road :rolleyes: Hopefully have something that nice in a few weeks though. Dad and @ramjo had an eventful morning last week with some wet clay and the Tim Cameron of all terrain forklift drivers.
 
I was lucky with my place, PO had already put the road in. Don't know what all makes it up, but it stood up just fine to the house and shop construction -- umpteen mixer trucks, dump trucks, 18-wheelers with brick, structural steel, etc. All I did was spread (thin) 3 loads of washed over it (1900') when we finished to pretty it up and keep the dust down.

One house near me they just dumped load after load of gravel across an old pasture, didn't even scrape the topsoil. Gravel just disappeared. FInally after watching them add more and more gravel over a couple of years, they finally dug it all out, put down fabric, ballast rock, then gravel. They probably paid for that driveway about four times over.
 
Finally got a picture of our old family farmhouse. It was taken in the summer of 1976. It sat on 67 acres in New Hampshire. The back part of the house and barn were built in the 1800's. The front part of the house was added on in the early 1900's. Each room had a pot belly stove for heat and the kitchen had a woodstove to cook with. Running water was pumped up from a nearby stream. It was eventually sold in the 1980's because the family members got tired of the upkeep on the place since nobody lived there full time.
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Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
Finally got a picture of our old family farmhouse. It was taken in the summer of 1976. It sat on 67 acres in New Hampshire. The back part of the house and barn were built in the 1800's. The front part of the house was added on in the early 1900's. Each room had a pot belly stove for heat and the kitchen had a woodstove to cook with. Running water was pumped up from a nearby stream. It was eventually sold in the 1980's because the family members got tired of the upkeep on the place since nobody lived there full time.
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That’s super cool. Have you tried to look it up lately?
 
Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
Finally got a picture of our old family farmhouse. It was taken in the summer of 1976. It sat on 67 acres in New Hampshire. The back part of the house and barn were built in the 1800's. The front part of the house was added on in the early 1900's. Each room had a pot belly stove for heat and the kitchen had a woodstove to cook with. Running water was pumped up from a nearby stream. It was eventually sold in the 1980's because the family members got tired of the upkeep on the place since nobody lived there full time.
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What part of NH? Our family sold their A frame there in the early 2000’s for similar reasons. It has sold a few times since and it’s on the bucket list of a few of us to eventually buy it back.
 
jcramsey said:
100% jealous of this. I’ve been waiting on Duke to run power before I put anything down….engineer said they’re not responsible for anything they mess up. With my luck,Im sure as soon as I put something down they’ll decide to trench down the middle of my road :rolleyes: Hopefully have something that nice in a few weeks though. Dad and @ramjo had an eventful morning last week with some wet clay and the Tim Cameron of all terrain forklift drivers.
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Yep I got a slow compacting ditch right in the middle of my turning service area of my drive. It was either play in a mud pit and ruin to grade and compacted clay or deal with them trenching through. In my case It was a toss up on time frame.
 
YotaOnRocks said:
Was planning to do asphalt millings right on top, what's the advantage of the ballast in between?
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Ever see the video about how to fill the jar with rocks, pebbles, and sand? (Prioritize your life I think it is)
Large stones first, then ballast to fill voids. Then sand.
I did the millings as well (would take the place if the sand in the video)
My road washed out after the first flood. Then I learned the hard way how to make a proper base.

I had 3 more floods after and the road was fine. Of course we had 5 different 100 year floods the year I decided to build 🙄
 

jcramsey said:
100% jealous of this. I’ve been waiting on Duke to run power before I put anything down….engineer said they’re not responsible for anything they mess up. With my luck,Im sure as soon as I put something down they’ll decide to trench down the middle of my road :rolleyes: Hopefully have something that nice in a few weeks though. Dad and @ramjo had an eventful morning last week with some wet clay and the Tim Cameron of all terrain forklift drivers.
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The spot of the full send episode......been hauling cubes of blocks half the morning. I see him getting out of the middle of the drive going across the creek and know it's about to get sketch. Leans the cage against a tree and starts to backup. Front ends already sliding down into the soft dirt, keeps it cranked hard and backs up until front tire reaches the big rock. We hook the dozer to him to help keep the back end up on top. He climbed back on, buckled up and let it eat. Either he was nuts or he had full confidence in the ability of that machine. Could've been a bad day for sure.....if he'd a put it in the creek I would of had to unload the rest of the truck by hand 😄😳

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