Canadian border Vt. So I got started on the driveway mess. It’s going to be paved with asphalt around the front area and gravel back the tractor shed. The price is making me cry but my wife assures me it will be worth it in the end. I hope so. The asphalt on the virgin ground meant digging the clay out 18” and then laying a base of 4-5” rock. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lennyzx11 ask your contractor I would put fabric underneath! The reason gravel disappears into the clay, you drive over it push the gravel down; and then the clay soup weeps up through I am suggesting you don’t pave until you fix the base! Otherwise your paving a floating bridge HD road fabric here is about $500 a roll that’s 13 feet wide and 235 feet long Best money you will ever spend!! I pm ya phone number
Thx. I did talk to them about putting fabric down. They said it was a given. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Well, for starters it helps make it feasible to drive a truck....been kind of looking, but I'll be better able to really look in a few more paychecks. But sometimes you come across great deals when you aren't really looking. Job is perfect, a lot of days I'm kind of sorry to leave at 5.
Glad about your job. Good luck hunting for a truck. Seems like you have been looking at them for a long time. Hope you find the deal you have in mind. Used vehicles are no longer the deals they were before Covid.
New herd of wild horses here today, it was almost magical, 3 snow white mares with white manes/tails and all 3 had light white/mauve tint babies. Couple other white mares, couple more off white/mauve tint mares, a chestnut mare and a chestnut male. Kind of sad I saw a lot of visible ribs and the newer foals looked emaciated, glad things are sprouting here atleast for now, no way this could support the amount of horses here like last summer that wiped out everything that grew here including nasty thorny thistle/nettle. I wonder where they're from, I heard east of here the winter was so bad it killed off thousands of antelope and elk and wildlife. No way they came that far but looks like a tough winter wherever they were close to here.
Neither is anything else, hey? The dollar is worth less, but I'm making more of them. I like to look as a pastime anyway, but now I'm actually starting to get on the hunt. I found a truck I would have tried to get last week, but she was halfway across the island and I couldn't go that far at the time. 2013 ford regular cab with less than 60K miles for a little under 10K bucks (about 7400 USD). Hopefully a similar deal will come up closer. I'm not in a huge rush but I'm hoping to find something within a few months.
Good Lord! Now that’s an onion! I left it 3 years ago and it didn’t do much the last two years but this year it exploded into life!
And the finished version of the gravel. Coupla months to pack before the pavement crew shows up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Looks good, but I'd rent a vibratory compacting plate to run on that before paving it...otherwise I suspect you'll have cracks next spring...that, or wait until next year to pave.
Just read on OPE that Nixon passed away yesterday. Did anyone know him? He was very local but never got the chance to meet up.
Hope I'm done paying my Murphy's Law dues. Picked my truck up on the way to the dentist this morning, 4 new tires & hubs after I blew one on the highway going back to the hospital for kiddo last week. Dentist said I need a root canal on my front tooth that swelled up and was/is loose, apparently clenching and grinding at night over 40 years kills the nerves inside ones teeth, this was just the first one to go... Left the dentist and cop pulled me over, turns out both my drivers license and plates expired in Dec. and my proof of insurance was in the Blazer since drove that most of this last year. Ooops. Guess I have to go a specialist in Chy for a front tooth root canal, I've had those in my molars but one on a front tooth makes my skin crawl.
