Before/after photos, road building.

[PAGUY]

teg- Nice job on that road. Remines me of the road in Bald Eagle State Forest in PA that leads to Penns Creek in Weikert.

[teg]

Hey, thanks everyone... My first road plan was much steeper and shorter. By making it longer and basically split the steep part into two smaller hills with a little flat area in between, allows two wheel drive access to the creek. It took longer but I got more seat time.

The wk/ed after the gravel was put down, I was planning to build a pavillion down at the creek but the first night I had a little accident with the trailer... awning ripped off. "No, really honey... I thought the duck tape was holding fine." Anyway, so the lumber for the pavillion is now a roof over the trailer. Awning was too small, the trailer roof had a leak (but that duck tape is still holding fine ) and besides, I think this will keep the trailer cooler in the summer.

Once we build up there and this trailer is history, I will convert the roof into a barn for the tractor. While building it, we ran into a yellowjack's nest in the AC unit. Lucky for us, we saw them before we pissed them off A little foam spray and we were working again. Should to be able to finish it next wk/ed with 8' rafters on the other side and then lay the tin on it.

More photos for you guys...

[Texas Dodge]

Looks good

[EddieWalker]

Teg,

Very nice job on the road. It's hard to believe it's the same place, you've done such an awesome job!!!!!

As an amature road builder myself, I have a huge appreciation for what it takes to move and shape dirt on your own, and realize how much is involved in planning, layout, measuring, cleaning and building them. You did good and you should be proud.

Thanks for sharing,
Eddie

[3RRL]

teg,
You did a great job in prepping that road, but adding that gravel made the finishing touches.
It doesn't even look like the same project ... just beautiful man!

[Woodworkerman]

Great job on the road!

In your second from last picture on the first post of the thread I can see that you have the road roughed up nicely. The rocks are all exposed and the roots are broken. What implement did you use for this....box blade or some kind of tiller? Thanks.

[mjncad]

Great looking road Teg. How long of a drive is it?

[teg]

Originally Posted by Woodworkerman

Great job on the road!

In your second from last picture on the first post of the thread I can see that you have the road roughed up nicely. The rocks are all exposed and the roots are broken. What implement did you use for this....box blade or some kind of tiller? Thanks.

The road was done with a 6' box blade and the FEL (mainly used for putting dirt where I wanted). I made several passes with the rippers on the box blade down (that's the photo that you are talking about). I had the BB tilted on the uphill side and only worked the high side. The BB didn't carry or move much dirt at this point but the dirt did roll out on the downhill side. The rocks I un-earthed needed a helping hand... to be moved from the road - used as fill on the low side. I then would move towards the middle of the road (still tilted) to move the dirt more to the downhill side, until I had a semi-flat road.

Next I worked on the slope and lucky for me I did have an area near the top that had plenty of dirt (and rocks). I dug down with the FEL and then ran over the area with the BB (leveled) with rippers down. Trying to decrease the height of the slope. Dumping (filling) dirt at the bottom of the steepest part of the hill, then running over / compacting the road.

Once I had the road flat and the correct slope, I leveled the BB, pulled up the rippers and shorten up the toplink so that the BB would cut and carry dirt. I continued to pull more dirt (and carry some in the FEL) from the high area and dump dirt to make the road wider.

I did have to get off the tractor a bit so that I could remove the big rocks from the roadbed and putting them on the downhill side (both for fill and to stabilize). In the end, I cut 3-4 feet from the top of the hillside and the filled area was raised about 2-3 feet. For the wk/ed, I logged 10-11 hours on the clock and the wife was happy I did

[teg]

Originally Posted by mjncad

Great looking road Teg. How long of a drive is it?

This part is ~400 ft, which connects up to another section (~1000ft long) that I did about 4 years ago. There is a steep section on that part that I need a running start to get up in two wheel drive. I knew it was too steep then and wanted to spend more time (then) to fix it up, but I didn't. It will eat at me until I fix it for good... but got too many other projects to do first!

[teg]

Sorry, more photos!! Finished the roof, Didn't take too long (2 days and a case of beer). I did not really do any exact measurements since it was a pole shed and we were drinking. The front side was 5" longer so we just kept saying, "It's just a pole shed." I'm happy how it turned out. Needs some gutters and bracing... we'll do it labor day!

As for the "design", yes beer was used... it was because I had 8' tin and 16' tin that I salvaged from a house that was torn down. Friday night, scratched down a plan on a piece of paper and off to the lumber yard the next day!