Camp property found, now updates.

[ArlyA]

Bulldozer track?

Not sure, but I'd guess some forestry harvester.

 

[MossRoad]

I don't suppose you're lucky enough to have a vein of gravel on the property?

That's a great question.

When we bought our property, it was mostly sand and muck. We had to cut a road in as a specific place due to it being on a highway. My forester friend gave me a soil map book (all info now available free on-line) that showed a pocket of gravel right at the same point we were required to cut the road in! Very fortunate. I dug out a foot deep 10' wide trench in the sand about 400' back into the property and used the gravel to fill the trench 6" deep. Then we trucked in enough slag to fill the rest of the 6". Very sturdy road and half was free. Never would have known that gravel was there, if not for that book.

It specifically said there was a 6-12' layer of gravel under 12-24" of sand, and sure enough, there it was.

 

[MossRoad]

Seen at the parking lot. View attachment 4094023

Could make an interesting retaining wall for a planter at the entrance.

 

[MossRoad]

Some of the logging road mud holes are simply the dirt was pressed out via trucks, creating a berm that retains water. So the berm needs to be cut out. Other area's are so grassy, we can't see whats there and retaining the water.. The owners had been driving out there some years ago, before the last logging operation. We looked at historical moisture level for the summer which showed 6 or 8" of extra this year.

Have you looked at any soil maps of the property? See my other post about that. Very helpful, in our case.

 

[dodge man]

I have a friend that has a large piece of ground that is his camp property. He is lucky enough to have a creek that has gravel in it that he gets a few bucket fulls in his end loader every year.

Don’t forget to enjoy the process. Sometimes you get so caught up in things you forget to enjoy it.

 

[MossRoad]

I have a friend that has a large piece of ground that is his camp property. He is lucky enough to have a creek that has gravel in it that he gets a few bucket fulls in his end loader every year.

Don’t forget to enjoy the process. Sometimes you get so caught up in things you forget to enjoy it.

I've never seen him frowning in any pics so far, be it working or playing. I think he has it down pretty well.

 

[deezler]

Here's his county soils report if anyone wants to spend wayyyy too long mining the data, haha. I think Arly's place is on "sheet 56" on page 380 but then you have to cross reference all the soil type numbers to the inventory. In short, he appears to have a nice mix of rocky upland and peaty MUCK. Doubtful there is readily available gravel anywhere near the surface to easily extract, IMO.

Soil Survey of Baraga County Area, Michigan : United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

 

[ArlyA]

Here is google map of the place. The camp is at the bottom of the pic. 46°30'02.9"N 88°29'11.9"W

 

[ArlyA]

Here's his county soils report if anyone wants to spend wayyyy too long mining the data, haha. I think Arly's place is on "sheet 56" on page 380 but then you have to cross reference all the soil type numbers to the inventory. In short, he appears to have a nice mix of rocky upland and peaty MUCK. Doubtful there is readily available gravel anywhere near the surface to easily extract, IMO.

Soil Survey of Baraga County Area, Michigan : United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

As little as we've tramped around out there, we'd agree. The current owner said the logging company had a excavator going down the road the cabin is on. Its Baily Road if anyone cares. And asked him to check for gravel as he went along. Before he told us this, we noted these 4x8 holes dug along the way for unknown reasons to us at the time. He said he didn't find any gravel, just rock and clay.

 

[dodge man]

It looks like you still see logging trails.