Obed
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We had some rain this week. Subsequently I noticed silt was washing down the hill from the 4-wheeler path and was being deposited in the gravel in our parking pad. In addition, the cleared area on the hillside where the contractor had tried to use as a place to deposit extra dirt still had some residue of red clay that was also washing into our gravel.
Yesterday I decided to clean off the remaining red dirt off the hill side and do something to prevent water from the 4-wheeler path from running down to the parking pad. From years of use, the 4-wheeler path up the hill through the woods had eroded into a deep canal which caused a lot of water to run down the path toward the house location. So we used the 4-wheeler path as a spot do deposit the extra dirt from the grading work around the house.
When the contractor put the dirt on the 4-wheeler path, we ended up with mounds of dirt encompasing the edges of both sides of the path. There was now way for rain water to drain off the path so it all run to the parking pad. I did not expect the contractor to pretty up the 4-wheeler path; that's something I figured I would do. I used the box blade to remove the mounds of dirt along the edges of the path and deposited the dirt onto the path farther into the woods. I then made a berm across the path so that any water that still tried to run down the path would be forced off the path instead of continuing down to the parking pad.
The last thing I did was add some gravel to make a turn-around spot so that people wouldn't be tracking mud into our gravel when they turned around. I got my wife to help me decide where to make the turn-around spot. Both of us have gotten a little paranoid about where gravel goes so I made sure to get her opinion.
During the house build, when the original construction manager backfilled our basement walls with gravel, he sloppilly dropped gravel over 80% of the front yard. And I'm not just talking a little gravel. The whole front yard looked like a parking lot. The gravel packed into the red clay and ruined the front yard. I removed as much of the gravel with my tractor as I could but there was a lot my little tractor just couldn't get. When we did the grading job, I had the contractor remove as much of the gravel as possible.
My wife and I marked the turn-around spot with some rocks and I spread out the gravel.
When the contractor put gravel on the parking pad and on the new driveway to the basement, we tried to keep the gravel used to a minimum. It's easy to add more gravel but it's really hard to remove gravel from someplace you don't want it. Thus, we have a large pile of gravel onsite that we bought during the excavation job to use for "whatever".
Yesterday I decided to clean off the remaining red dirt off the hill side and do something to prevent water from the 4-wheeler path from running down to the parking pad. From years of use, the 4-wheeler path up the hill through the woods had eroded into a deep canal which caused a lot of water to run down the path toward the house location. So we used the 4-wheeler path as a spot do deposit the extra dirt from the grading work around the house.
When the contractor put the dirt on the 4-wheeler path, we ended up with mounds of dirt encompasing the edges of both sides of the path. There was now way for rain water to drain off the path so it all run to the parking pad. I did not expect the contractor to pretty up the 4-wheeler path; that's something I figured I would do. I used the box blade to remove the mounds of dirt along the edges of the path and deposited the dirt onto the path farther into the woods. I then made a berm across the path so that any water that still tried to run down the path would be forced off the path instead of continuing down to the parking pad.
The last thing I did was add some gravel to make a turn-around spot so that people wouldn't be tracking mud into our gravel when they turned around. I got my wife to help me decide where to make the turn-around spot. Both of us have gotten a little paranoid about where gravel goes so I made sure to get her opinion.
During the house build, when the original construction manager backfilled our basement walls with gravel, he sloppilly dropped gravel over 80% of the front yard. And I'm not just talking a little gravel. The whole front yard looked like a parking lot. The gravel packed into the red clay and ruined the front yard. I removed as much of the gravel with my tractor as I could but there was a lot my little tractor just couldn't get. When we did the grading job, I had the contractor remove as much of the gravel as possible.
My wife and I marked the turn-around spot with some rocks and I spread out the gravel.
When the contractor put gravel on the parking pad and on the new driveway to the basement, we tried to keep the gravel used to a minimum. It's easy to add more gravel but it's really hard to remove gravel from someplace you don't want it. Thus, we have a large pile of gravel onsite that we bought during the excavation job to use for "whatever".
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