vtsnowedin
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It looks like you went about it right. How has it held up for you? It is good to bring up your past experience with excellent pictures to help out the new guy starting out.
Loader Driveway tear out
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rswyan
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The (gravel) driveway has held up extremely well ... it appears to be very stable and I wouldn't have any qualms about paving it (asphalt or 'crete) at this point.
I have added no new material to it since I finished it ... what, 9 years ago ?
A local friend (and TBN member) has commented on how well it has held up ... after inquiring several times whether I had added any gravel.
As the wife has a bad habit of finding every low spot (puddle) when it's wet ... and then driving through them (splashing out the fines) I usually have to hit it with the box blade and smooth it out once or twice per year (spring and fall) ... although I may have missed a year here and there ...
The crusher run is pretty thin in some spots ... and I'll occasionally pop a larger stone or two when blading it ... but I try to set the top link and angle the box blade to push things down rather than dig them up.
I need to get a load of crusher to cover the two turn-arounds, which were built after the driveway ... one is just large stone and the other is just crushed asphalt ... and to cover a 30' section of driveway (at the bottom) that I built up about 6" just about a month ago with large stone to alter the flow of runoff, and so I could build up the grade around a grated catch basin in the yard (to prevent the run off from the lawn from draining onto the driveway)
That's what TBN is all about.
Hopefully it will be of some use ...
boggen
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get a corner of the FEL (front end loader) up under the asphalt, and wiggle the asphalt up some, and let it drop, lift up again, and let it drop, and just go around the asphalt, "prying it up" and letting it drop, eventually it will start cracking completely into manageable chunks that you can just drive the FEL right up and under the chunks to load up and dump some place.
there real no way to cut it without saw and even then the tar would more likely glue it all up. so about only way to crack it up, is to use the FEL like a large pry bar, and raise chunks up and then let them free fall drop in place. it is going to be a messy job in a sense of tearing up yard, as you move the tractor all about going at different angles. but it should be doable,
there real no way to cut it without saw and even then the tar would more likely glue it all up. so about only way to crack it up, is to use the FEL like a large pry bar, and raise chunks up and then let them free fall drop in place. it is going to be a messy job in a sense of tearing up yard, as you move the tractor all about going at different angles. but it should be doable,
vtsnowedin
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I find using a loader like that to be a lot of fun. I wore out the bucket of my old 880 David Brown 2WD doing things people said it shouldn't be able to do.
rswyan
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:thumbsup:I find using a loader like that to be a lot of fun. I wore out the bucket of my old 880 David Brown 2WD doing things people said it shouldn't be able to do.
Looking back on it, it would have been preferable to have a tractor at least twice the size of our B2910 ...
But it got the job done ... just took longer ...