TODAYS SEAT TIME

Gordon Gould · Oct 20, 2016

Lots of good work going on. I am enjoying all the posts you guys are putting up.

gg

Ryansweatt2004 · Oct 20, 2016

Started a huge project two days ago. Dug out my sloped side yard and built a retaining wall out of boulders that one of my neighbors gave me. Then pushed and graded out about 16 yards worth of gravel and fill from my recent road ditching project that I also got for free. All in all I ended up with a nice level area for parking my trailer and tractor implements and also for stacking firewood now and it only cost me about $20 in diesel. I placed all the boulders with the pallet forks and my l3901 but had to have my other neighbor stop over with his BX23 to fine tune the placement of a few rocks with his backhoe.

Sysop · Oct 20, 2016

Ryansweatt2004 said:
Started a huge project two days ago. Dug out my sloped side yard and built a retaining wall out of boulders that one of my neighbors gave me. Then pushed and graded out about 16 yards worth of gravel and fill from my recent road ditching project that I also got for free. All in all I ended up with a nice level area for parking my trailer and tractor implements and also for stacking firewood now and it only cost me about $20 in diesel. I placed all the boulders with the pallet forks and my l3901 but had to have my other neighbor stop over with his BX23 to fine tune the placement of a few rocks with his backhoe.

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Looks good! :thumbsup:

Gordon Gould · Oct 21, 2016

Which I had a neighbor who needed some rocks. I could keep him happy !

That will make a nice useful area for you - Good work

gg

Ryansweatt2004 · Oct 21, 2016

Thanks, yea there's no shortage of rocks and boulders around here. I have that many more sitting around the back of my property but they're hard to get to.

sixdogs · Oct 21, 2016

Ryansweatt2004 said:
Started a huge project two days ago. Dug out my sloped side yard and built a retaining wall out of boulders that one of my neighbors gave me. Then pushed and graded out about 16 yards worth of gravel and fill from my recent road ditching project that I also got for free. All in all I ended up with a nice level area for parking my trailer and tractor implements and also for stacking firewood now and it only cost me about $20 in diesel. I placed all the boulders with the pallet forks and my l3901 but had to have my other neighbor stop over with his BX23 to fine tune the placement of a few rocks with his backhoe.

What an amazing little tractor (and operator skill) to do all of that work. Excellent job.

daugen · Oct 21, 2016

yet here along the coast you can't buy a rock...
well, you can for quite a few dollars per rock, trucked in from far West of here.
I grew up in PA with three granite quarries within ten miles, our farm was named Rockwood.
Granite and shale, granite and shale. Geez that was hard digging.
Some clay here but otherwise sandy soil is so much easier to work with.

Isn't much of the granite and stone left over as "glacial moraine" after the last big Ice Age?
wonderful building material good for hours of seat time moving around

Soldier415 · Oct 25, 2016

Ryansweatt2004 said:
Started a huge project two days ago. Dug out my sloped side yard and built a retaining wall out of boulders that one of my neighbors gave me. Then pushed and graded out about 16 yards worth of gravel and fill from my recent road ditching project that I also got for free. All in all I ended up with a nice level area for parking my trailer and tractor implements and also for stacking firewood now and it only cost me about $20 in diesel. I placed all the boulders with the pallet forks and my l3901 but had to have my other neighbor stop over with his BX23 to fine tune the placement of a few rocks with his backhoe.

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Looks good. What attachments did you use for leveling it all out?

Soldier415 · Oct 25, 2016

Friend of mine who had part of his foot amputated recently and is out on disability had a driveway that really needed work before winter as the potholes by the road were giving his car's suspension a beating. Loaded up and drove the 2 hours up to his place and got to work with the box blade. He really needs more material but with the loss of income we did what we could. I think it came out pretty good.

Last pic is the finished product. You can see all the big rocks we pulled up with the ripper shanks.

Ryansweatt2004 · Oct 25, 2016

Soldier415 said:
Looks good. What attachments did you use for leveling it all out?

I dug everything out with my loader and landpride RB3784 blade, placed all the boulders with my Titan pallet forks and then had my neighbor fix three of the boulders with his backhoe before I back filled and finish graded everything with my landpride LR1584 rake.