Pad site for travel trailer on rural property?

[RobJ]

Yep, I don't think I've seen a man big enough to muscle a trowl machine. He'll use about as much effort as my 90# daughter. Well almost, maybe not on concrete but a waxed floor yes.

I remeber my first "trip" on a buffer when I started working at Wieners Department store. The buffer took me for a ride until I learned how. Ouch!

Rob

 

[patrick_g]

Rob, I can still recall the lessons in physics I received learning to operate a buffer. A little up or down force so effortlessly swings the buffer left and right and a twist of the handles clock or anti-clockwise moves if forward and back but you still have to learn about angular momentum and how you have to start canceling a motion with opposite controls before the machine gets as far as you want it to go in one direction.

No inherent stability, you can't just let go of the controls and have it straiten up and fly right like a small airplane.

Buffer experience is similar to but not identical with the rotary trowel. The trowel is more sluggish and doesn't tend to "coast" like a buffer. For a good operator the hardest part of the job is getting the machine on and off the slab and loaded and unloaded from truck or trailer. Actually operating the machine is not much of a big HE MAN thing if your brain is engaged.

Pat

 

[Defective]

my first wife ran the power trowel when we put in the shop...5'1" tall & 100 pounds with rocks in her pockets. Job definitely does not require a huge muscle-bound type.

 

[philbuilt]

Make the pad big enough and thick enough to convert to a future garage and or work shop! 28' x 40' would make a nice future space. I would pour the edges at-least 12" thick. Just Think "Workshop"
Phil

 

[RobJ]

my first wife ran the power trowel when we put in the shop...5'1" tall & 100 pounds with rocks in her pockets. Job definitely does not require a huge muscle-bound type.

Actually I was talking about someone who has never done it. It's easy when you know how.

 

[Seon]

Coincedence that this thread pops up. I'm in the process of have the "lower 40" graded with a pad for an RV. This way, when my kids come over to visit, they'll have a place to park....under the oak tree. I do have water and electricity buy no sewer.

 

[npaden]

I cleared out a spot for the pad last weekend. I should have taken a before picture. The weeds were waist high and I took out a 5' tall 12" diameter stump. The spot was pretty uneven and I got it pretty close. My laser level batteries were low so I just used a regular level and tried to get it close.

The trailer that is there is a high dollar one that a friend of mine bought for $150! I'm probably going to pull it out and just put some gravel under it.

I thought about putting a cement slab under this trailer also, but I'm afraid if I do too much I might hurt the root system of the large mesquite trees. I'm leaning toward putting down a weed barrier fabric and then putting several inches of gravel down under this trailer.

This was the first time to tow the trailer since the day I bought it a little over a year ago. The truck sure knows it is back there. The tractor and trailer are right at the edge of the GVR of the pickup. Normally I average around 17mpg on the highway and pulling the tractor I averaged 10!

Going to try to meet with the guy to put in the septic this weekend.