I haven't checked this thread in a while... I'm all up to date on gravel quantity measurement, and potato farming now... *grin* locally, we buy gravel by the ton, but more on that in a minute, and my hats off to thoes providing community service such as the huge effort put into the crops provided for local food kitchens.
Now, about the subject of gravel...
About 6 months ago, the DOH was doing some road repairs on the highway that passes thru my property, and brought me several loads of fill dirt. Made a great improvement to the lower side of the barn, was able to make a nice access/parking area, which is mostly finished. Wife can't stand the 'rough' look of bare dirt, it still needs smoothed up, and the slopped lower side needs contoured better when its dry enough to traverse.
The other day, state guy stops at the house when Im at work, asks wife if we want more, to which she replys... 'He!! No!, we need gravel!' Long story short, there was 5 tons of 3/4" limestone dumped in the lot by the barn when I got home yesterday night, they need a dump spot bad enough to give us gravel to be able to dump dirt from a slip repair 2 miles up the road. Win/win for me, I'll have a nice area filled below the barn, and some steep banks smoothed out nicely... and likely more gravel to boot, if my wife as much to do with it!
I got the gravel spread on the driveway to the house today, and where the wife parks her vehicles, it turned out nicely. I judge my tractor skills by how much hand raking is needed after the loader work is done, and all back-drug... turned out smooth, never got the rake out of the barn, kicked a small high ridge down with my boots on my way back to the house!
Sorry no pictures...
