Barndominium/Shop or "real" House?

[ETD66SS]

Starting on the stone to finish out the pad leveling.

Stil quite costly as I need 9 loads of stone. However, glad I was able to find hard fill close by as I needed 13 loads of that material. Would have been crazy expensive to just use stone.

About 450 tons of material total to level off this area.

 

[ETD66SS]

Got quite a bit done this weekend.

Used my sod cutter to clear the sod from the perimeter of the forms and stacked up the sod on the edging of the eventual driveway leading to the garage:

First pass spreading the stone out. One part of the forms got destroyed when my tractor fell off the edge of the loose stone. They are only temporary anyways:

I got the pad level within about 2 inches with my transit:

 

[Carl_NH]

That corner in front of your lumber kiln looks about 3/4" low

Very nIce work and great attention to detail!

As they say a good foundation is key to any building (or business) for that matter.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

Looks good! I just did the same thing not long ago. I know how tough it is getting everything level even with all the cool tools.

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like it's about ready to build your forms for concrete.

 

[ETD66SS]

Looks good! I just did the same thing not long ago. I know how tough it is getting everything level even with all the cool tools.

I definitely have all old school equipment. No GPS or lasers here...

I still plan to drive many passes on the pad with my loaded dump truck. Then I will grade it out one more time.

 

[ETD66SS]

Working on the driveway approach. Removing sod, filling back in with dirt so I can trench for water, gas, power and drainage under this approach. Eventually I'll use driveway fabric and about 6 inches of 2" crusher run on top and blend it in with the building pad.

Still utilizing my spoils piles from when I dug my pods going on 16 years ago now. Unfortunately had to clear brush and even cut down some trees that grew on the piles:

I forgot how much I hate dirt sticking in the dump body:

Often times I get visitors watching me while I work:

 

[EddieWalker]

Funny how those dirt piles from digging ponds never seem to go away! I have a couple of them that I'm always getting dirt from, but they don't seem to get any smaller.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I pushed all my piles out. Had a big enough low area that it looks like it was always there and it raised it up enough that the area no longer gets mushy in the winter.

 

[ETD66SS]

All the earth moving is done. It's not perfectly leveled out yet but good enough so I can get the trenching done for the utilities.

I pushed all my piles out. Had a big enough low area that it looks like it was always there and it raised it up enough that the area no longer gets mushy in the winter.

I had thought about that at one time, but glad I didn't. It turns out I have needed that dirt for many projects.