New Driveway and Polebarn

[rswyan]

Looking SSE. Alot more topsoil has been removed and moved over to Jeff's place (probably 20 loads in his son Stacy's 1-ton dump) - but there is still a really, really big pile of it - and we aren't all done stripping it off the site. And although I chipped brush several times a few more piles of it have appeared at the perimeter of the pad.

 

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Looking almost due East. Wood chip pile is on the left.

 

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Last year I started to remove and relocate the old driveway to a new location. The attached pic shows why I needed to - the asphalt driveway never really had a proper base installed under it. When our local refuse company got bought out a couple of years ago by a bigger concern they started running a large compactor truck down the drive to pick up the trash - rather than the pickup truck with an insert like they had done previously. This was the result - but then the driveway wasn't in the greatest shape to begin with.

 

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The location of the new driveway will be on the far side of the old shed in the attached image. It will come down along the tree line and then fork near the bottom of the image, with the west leg going to the house and the east leg going to the new polebarn.

 

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This is a picture of where the new drive will pass the old shed.

 

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Stripping out the topsoil for the new section of road.

 

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Almost had it done but then it rained .... have a bit of a drainage problem that needs to be addressed.

 

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Now that it's dried up a little the old and the new can be joined together.

 

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Since the field above the new section of road drains south (across the road) I needed to do something to make sure all the water from that drainage was going to be percolating under the new road. So I decided to put in some french drain.

 

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This the catchbasin that the french drains hook into.