AZ ranch

[BoFuller]

The week of the 4th I spent a whole week at the Ranch. I hauled a load of gravel everyday and a load of water most days.

 

[BoFuller]

On the 4th of July I caught this sunset.

 

[BoFuller]

This weekend was not so good for working. About an hour after we got here on Thursday it started raining and it has continued all through Friday also. Actually we had quite a hailstorm around noon Friday. It's too muddy to haul gravel or water. In between downpours I'm trying to do a little equipment maintenance.

 

[Tororider]

Driveway is looking good.

 

[BoFuller]

We may not be going home today. We have gotten so much rain that the roads have all turned into rivers, streams, and mud pits. My neighbor called last night and said to not try and go home as he was tired from spending all day pulling two other neighbors out of the mud. I tried at one point yesterday to move my telehandler and after I moved it about two feet, it had sunk about 8 inches. I just shut it off.

 

[BoFuller]

Hey Ken, does that look familiar? Bring back any memories?

 

[azbinder]

Bo, just finished reading your thread from start to yesterday. Really interesting how you are progressing. I live in Dewey and while I won't be building like you, I will have to deal with Yavapia county when I start running power to my garage.

By the way, I work for the Kubota dealer in Cottonwood, so if there is anything you need, let me know.

Mike

 

[tnmike]

Good Lord is that the main road into your place or the drive or what? (the one that has water running down it)

 

[crash325]

Hi Bo,
Just a thought. I think you have a pretty good supply or access to it. If possible build your road up. Roads "Cut In" do turn into rivers and get deeper with most every hard rain.

At my place I pretty much stayed level with what was already there. fluffed the silt, rolled in some gravel and topped it with a coarse white sand. Haven't really done anything to it in about 5 years.

Like your place the "Cut In" roads around here, hard rain = river.

 

[BoFuller]

Good Lord is that the main road into your place or the drive or what? (the one that has water running down it)

The bottom left corner is my drive and the river going out to the top left is the main road.