eepete
Platinum Member
I put inner tubes in my front tires when I kept having seal problems, no more problems. Cheaper than a rim.
Pete
Pete
At Home In The Woods
- Thread starter Obed
- Start date
- Views: 1588789
OP
Obed
Elite Member
Last edited:
dcyrilc
Elite Member
Mine came filled with some kind of rubber compound. No air to leak. It's kind of like a filled/solid tire on a wheel barrow.
OP
Obed
Elite Member
Great suggestion Pete. Thanks!
dcyrilc
Elite Member
Has to beat using that hand pump. LOL
OP
Obed
Elite Member
The first picture is the "before" shot. The other pictures show how far I got today. I doesn't look like much from the pictures but I did make progress. I was hoping to finish it today but it was just too difficult to quickly dig that hard clay. It was amazing how slow it was to remove 12" of that hard clay. I have removed most of the necessary dirt. Tomorrow I plan to remove the remaining extra dirt and work on smoothing and sloping away from the house.
Attachments
OP
Obed
Elite Member
You got that right Cyril. I once plugged a car tire in my driveway and pumped up the tire with a bicycle pump. That was a lot of pumping.
dcyrilc
Elite Member
I have to admit that I do love my compressor!
Even one of the little round ones you can get at HD or Lowes for air guns are great for pumping up tires. And they don't take much power to run either.
dcyrilc
Elite Member
What's the schedule for the roof? I figured it would be finished about now, but from the pix it doesn't look like they've done any work lately.
Coyote machine
Super Member
- Joined
- May 4, 2009
- Messages
- 7,641
- Location
- Southern VT
- Tractor
- 22 SANY SY 50U, '10 Kioti DK 40se/hst KL-401 FEL, loaded tires, KB-2485 bhoe, Tuffline TB160 BB, Woods QA forks, MIE Hydraulic bhoe thumb & ripper tooth, Igland 4001 winch, & GR-20 Log Grapple. Woods BBX72" Brush Mower. Diamondplate aluminum canopy
I second Curly Dave's position on stone and fabric for drainage. I would not be concerned about splashback onto the deck boards or support structure. What you use for deck support will be PT anyway so its not a big deal and if you use Azek as I suggested earlier you will have no water dripping down off the decking onto the structural lumber underneath.
What needs to happen is to keep ALL water running away from the house on its own power, ie. gravity and proper grading.
I would run continuous 4" perforated pipe from the highest point, covered in a filter sock- available in 100' lengths from HD, etc. The perforations need to be pointed DOWN to the ground so any ground water goes into the pipe and follows along to daylight. I would also cover the pipe with stone, after laying it on a bed of stone along the entire foundation perimeter. You may already have footing drains along the perimeter and along the retaining wall but with clay, read zero drainage factor, having a close to surface drain to keep any water from getting between the wall and the clay can't hurt. Now is the time to make it happen; too difficult and inaccessible later.
While I think of it- you ought to be able to get rid of the clay mounds you have scattered all over the place to someone nearby who wants to build a pond. Clay is the ideal pondbed material and you should be able to get it hauled off your place to theirs for nothing, which saves you cleanup costs and gets your site closer to finished. Also the scrap pile ought to be tossed into a dump trailer or walk in type dumpster so you can salvage what you want to keep but aren't slowed by having to clean up that which should only have to be handled once, instead of numerous times.
TSC also sells slime and similar products to keep marginal tire beads and rusty rims from causing flats. Could be cheaper than tubes too.
What needs to happen is to keep ALL water running away from the house on its own power, ie. gravity and proper grading.
I would run continuous 4" perforated pipe from the highest point, covered in a filter sock- available in 100' lengths from HD, etc. The perforations need to be pointed DOWN to the ground so any ground water goes into the pipe and follows along to daylight. I would also cover the pipe with stone, after laying it on a bed of stone along the entire foundation perimeter. You may already have footing drains along the perimeter and along the retaining wall but with clay, read zero drainage factor, having a close to surface drain to keep any water from getting between the wall and the clay can't hurt. Now is the time to make it happen; too difficult and inaccessible later.
While I think of it- you ought to be able to get rid of the clay mounds you have scattered all over the place to someone nearby who wants to build a pond. Clay is the ideal pondbed material and you should be able to get it hauled off your place to theirs for nothing, which saves you cleanup costs and gets your site closer to finished. Also the scrap pile ought to be tossed into a dump trailer or walk in type dumpster so you can salvage what you want to keep but aren't slowed by having to clean up that which should only have to be handled once, instead of numerous times.
TSC also sells slime and similar products to keep marginal tire beads and rusty rims from causing flats. Could be cheaper than tubes too.
