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[Oldpath05]

C&K shingle is just trying to get his front end working, $500.00 for new axle.........

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Before the new axle gotta dig out all the metal shavings.

 

[Oldpath05]

My Ranger is ticking down it's last few miles, and I'm considering an F-250 that I can put a dump body on. It will only haul about 3000 lbs but that's a yard of gravel or 1/2 cord of firewood... all that I really need for my purposes.
Two years ago I started reclaiming gravel from a road on the other end of my property to build a pad for my tractor shed... 3/10 of a mile each way, one bucketful at a time. I usually got a couple of trips per night at about 1/3 yard per bucket. It started snowing before I got done, so last year I bought a load of gravel. I don't remember what I paid but it was cheaper than wear and tear, plus the diesel I was burning.

I'm doing the same thing on my bridge and rest of the new woods road, one bucket at a time, 2-400' each way in 2nd or 3rd gear, almost done now.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I used to do one bucket full at a time like you guys are talking. Can be slow going but it will get done.





Then I bought a used 3000 lb dump trailer and do it this way. There's Pike crusher plant 1-1/2 miles down the road. Two yards of 3-1/2" road base for $28. Trailer can take a one yard load. So one trip to Pike's and two trips out in the woods fill in a mud hole.





I keep looking for some gravel here but it is all silt and rocks.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

I used to do one bucket full at a time like you guys are talking. Can be slow going but it will get done.

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Then I bought a used 3000 lb dump trailer and do it this way. There's Pike crusher plant 1-1/2 miles down the road. Two yards of 3-1/2" road base for $28. Trailer can take a one yard load. So one trip to Pike's and two trips out in the woods fill in a mud hole.

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I keep looking for some gravel here but it is all silt and rocks.

gg

That bucket looks bigger then mine at 5' wide. I like that saying> ......it will get done. You have a great setup GG. So your paying $14.00/yd, I have no doubt that I already moved 50 yards since April, an excavator help me back in May to loosen up the dirt, rocks and boulders that I have, looking for gravel, then it's the ledge I have that really gets in the way. But what really grinds my gears is just two miles away theres probably 3000 acres of gravel....:hissyfit:

 

[Oldpath05]

For some reason the next ten years crossing my bridge this guy is going to come to mind..........

 

[Gordon Gould]

That bucket looks bigger then mine at 5' wide. I like that saying> ......it will get done. You have a great setup GG. So your paying $14.00/yd, I have no doubt that I already moved 50 yards since April, an excavator help me back in May to loosen up the dirt, rocks and boulders that I have, looking for gravel, then it's the ledge I have that really gets in the way. But what really grinds my gears is just two miles away theres probably 3000 acres of gravel....:hissyfit:

If you have moved 50 yds of gravel ( that's quite a bit a bucket at a time ) then getting an excavator in there was a good thing to do. Moved the big rocks plus gave you tractor access to all that material.

gg

 

[hunt4570]

Thanks, it's nice seeing a project come to a end, it seemed like all the prep work was more work then making the bridge it self.

Prep work is always the hardest!!

 

[KennyG]

I would really be surprise to see 1600 lbs each to go very far but I'll know for sure next March, thats the true test.

I hope you are OK but I would have anchored or keyed it into a foundation in some way. Houses are really heavy but there is a reason they fasten them to the foundation.

 

[hunt4570]

I used to do one bucket full at a time like you guys are talking. Can be slow going but it will get done.

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Then I bought a used 3000 lb dump trailer and do it this way. There's Pike crusher plant 1-1/2 miles down the road. Two yards of 3-1/2" road base for $28. Trailer can take a one yard load. So one trip to Pike's and two trips out in the woods fill in a mud hole.

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I keep looking for some gravel here but it is all silt and rocks.

gg

Yeah, all mine is one bucket at a time, wish I had gravel here too, its all just sand here!

 

[Loaderman22]

Yeah, all mine is one bucket at a time, wish I had gravel here too, its all just sand here!

I wish I had gravel too, it's all rock and clay, we are close to Hudson River, so when that glacier/iceberg carved its way down, this is where it deposited all the junk it dug up. At least that's what some experts say happened. I wasn't there and there's no pictures so I don't know.