FF117
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I started dirt work for our new driveway today. It will be approximately 1200 feet to our future home site. I plan on doing the dirt work, compacting with tractor (or a sheep foot compactor), installing 200 lb driveway fabric, covering with 8 inches of 1 inch minus rock (as recommended by the manufacturer), then compacting using a vibrating roller compactor. This is by far the largest project I've attempted, but I figure that if it's too much I'll just hire the rest out. Nothing lost other than my time and some fuel. First step was trying to remove the top soil/grass. This was more difficult than I anticipated because the grass has deep roots. I used the rippers on the box blade to loosen everything up, used the rear blade to windrow the topsoil to the downhill side, then piled it up with the loader. After the top soil was moved, I began scraping soil from the high side of the hill to fill in the low spot at the entrance. The driveway will be located just left of pile of top soil. The shiny area is a knob that I'm scraping dirt from in order to fill the entrance area. There will be a ditch on the uphill side to direct water to the ditch near the county road. If you look close at the last pic there are a couple visitors that walked by to see what I was doing. Like I said, this is my first shot at something like this. I've read a lot of threads and publications, but I'm definitely no expert, so suggestions are appreciated.
Many thanks to Brian at Fit-Rite Hydraulics for setting me up with a top n'tilt setup. I used the heck out of it today. There's no way I would try to tackle this without it.
Many thanks to Brian at Fit-Rite Hydraulics for setting me up with a top n'tilt setup. I used the heck out of it today. There's no way I would try to tackle this without it.