Re: Demolishing concrete culvert - follow up
I had one response to ad. We agreed on $300 for two (his offer). He was supposed to come by with his "construction guy" to see how to move. But he never showed up. I waited 3 weeks and then decided on the jackhammer option, around $100 for a weekend. However, I kept thinking that I wasn't sure if I could break up all 3 in one weekend, so it might cost more. Plus after breaking up, I'd still have to move all the pieces which I expected would be accompanied by considerable manual labor.
So without much planning and while sitting on tractor the other evening and looking at culverts, I started digging. I buried first culvert in evening (about 4 hours). Second one on Saturday in about same time frame. I'll catch third one later. Only cost me a little diesel, no manual lifting, no jack hammer work, and I got in some great seat time.
Most of the time is spent building the ramp to keep at semi-safe angle. It seems like that last 6-inches takes forever. And of course I got impatient on my first one and now will have a 15" permanent hump. I told boys it's a bike ramp so they're happy. And I'm sure I'll have seepholes for years to come as the pipes fill up slowly with dirt (no way to pack them easily and I wasn't really worried about it).
So thanks for all your ideas. I think I took the easy way out and am wondering why I waited 3 years to get rid of these eyesores when it was so easy. Maybe I was busy or maybe I thought I'd actually find a use for them. And I still have them if needed but it was a whole (get it?) lot easy rolling them into these holes, then it will be getting them to levitate back out.
I had one response to ad. We agreed on $300 for two (his offer). He was supposed to come by with his "construction guy" to see how to move. But he never showed up. I waited 3 weeks and then decided on the jackhammer option, around $100 for a weekend. However, I kept thinking that I wasn't sure if I could break up all 3 in one weekend, so it might cost more. Plus after breaking up, I'd still have to move all the pieces which I expected would be accompanied by considerable manual labor.
So without much planning and while sitting on tractor the other evening and looking at culverts, I started digging. I buried first culvert in evening (about 4 hours). Second one on Saturday in about same time frame. I'll catch third one later. Only cost me a little diesel, no manual lifting, no jack hammer work, and I got in some great seat time.
Most of the time is spent building the ramp to keep at semi-safe angle. It seems like that last 6-inches takes forever. And of course I got impatient on my first one and now will have a 15" permanent hump. I told boys it's a bike ramp so they're happy. And I'm sure I'll have seepholes for years to come as the pipes fill up slowly with dirt (no way to pack them easily and I wasn't really worried about it).
So thanks for all your ideas. I think I took the easy way out and am wondering why I waited 3 years to get rid of these eyesores when it was so easy. Maybe I was busy or maybe I thought I'd actually find a use for them. And I still have them if needed but it was a whole (get it?) lot easy rolling them into these holes, then it will be getting them to levitate back out.
