3 Horse Ranch
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- Joined
- Aug 18, 2017
- Messages
- 1,193
- Location
- Tonasket, WA
- Tractor
- NH B50H Cab, Ford 1715, Poulan Pro 46
Our beloved Governor Inslee issued Stay-at-Home, Stay Healthy order in the third week of March. Travel plans were cancelled so we decided to work on a project that we have talked about since we first moved into the house. We are live-in caretakers, project doers, and for the last 9 months to a limited extent, care givers for my brother who became totally blind after a career as a software engineer for a company in Minnesota. He contacted us in 2016 with the desire to move back to Washington State for the rest of his years. He had acquired three horses and two dogs that he wanted to bring out here also. In 2017 We found a place that was suitable but needed some work so we sold our house, retired from work and moved in and got to work. The house has two stories and he lives for the most part autonomously on the lower floor and gave us the upper floor. We built fences, put a level floor in the barn, cleared out, tilled, seeded, and fenced an isolated acre and quite a few other projects in the last three years.
We had started last fall by planting a new front lawn, but with the governors edict our plans for Spring had to change. I,d been considering it for a while so we got started. The first pic is from the real estate ad at the time the home was purchased, the second is this Spring after the new lawn was established. The driveway had a 6 inch rise at about 30 feet from the garage apron. The apron on the left had broken because they had for some reason effectively dammed the water in that corner. Twenty years of driving in on saturated ground had caused the corner to sink about 4 inches. There was a 3 inch hump in the gravel about 1 foot off the apron. When it rained hard there was a 4 inch deep puddle on that corner of the apron.
Using my box blade I managed to move the hump and drag the gravel to places I wanted it. We dug back the grass line and built the little retaining wall, poured a new corner on the garage apron and last week we finished with the new gravel. We are generally quite pleased with the outcome, it was $2700 well spent.
We had started last fall by planting a new front lawn, but with the governors edict our plans for Spring had to change. I,d been considering it for a while so we got started. The first pic is from the real estate ad at the time the home was purchased, the second is this Spring after the new lawn was established. The driveway had a 6 inch rise at about 30 feet from the garage apron. The apron on the left had broken because they had for some reason effectively dammed the water in that corner. Twenty years of driving in on saturated ground had caused the corner to sink about 4 inches. There was a 3 inch hump in the gravel about 1 foot off the apron. When it rained hard there was a 4 inch deep puddle on that corner of the apron.
Using my box blade I managed to move the hump and drag the gravel to places I wanted it. We dug back the grass line and built the little retaining wall, poured a new corner on the garage apron and last week we finished with the new gravel. We are generally quite pleased with the outcome, it was $2700 well spent.
