What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[sheepfarmer]

Gosh Bill, somewhere about now I'd be wondering about where else I could put my driveway! Or where else I'd like to have a nice river on my property? Maybe some nice boulders to slow it down? The water has set a dead eye on that piece of your driveway

 

[billrigsby]

And I see snow on the grass.

I wish it was snow, Hail, and Loads of it.

 

[jryser]

Well, it was installation of Ride Rite air shocks for my truck FOR my Kubota! So TOMORROW we will load her up and get to stepping on prep for Frigid Forage Autumn Quick Plot!!

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[bearbait]

Sorry to see that Bill, you did such a good job of it and not long ago.

 

[torch]

I got a knock on my door yesterday afternoon. The contractor delivering my neighbour's new dock backed into the lake too far and got his Dodge 2500 and 20' trailer stuck in the lake bottom mud.

With 2 lengths of tow chain strung together so the tractor was on semi-level dry ground, and the transmission in low range 4wd, I pulled him out with the FEL chain hooks on my B7100HSD. Then back-bladed the mess he made of the ramp and shoreline.

 

[billrigsby]

Finished the driveway, AGAIN......

Still needs some touch-up, but the oil light started flickering,
even though the gauge shows good pressure?
Flickering at higher RPMs, which seems odd. A bit worried.

Will do oil change tomorrow, probably due. Do not have
a functioning hour meter, but the last few driveway jobs have
racked up some hours.

Hopefully the oil is just needing a change?
and / or
Was too Hot?

 

[jnldr]

Wow that's a job!!!!


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[bearbait]

Good luck this time, nice job.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Finished the driveway, AGAIN......

The definition of insanity, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

 

[jryser]

One last PREP for the Kubota - welded a new hitch on my 2000 trailer, got 4 new tires, rewired, and put grease hub caps on. As good now as new and more importantly SAFE.

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[twomany]

Finished the driveway, AGAIN......

Still needs some touch-up, but the oil light started flickering,
even though the gauge shows good pressure?
Flickering at higher RPMs, which seems odd. A bit worried.

Will do oil change tomorrow, probably due. Do not have
a functioning hour meter, but the last few driveway jobs have
racked up some hours.

Hopefully the oil is just needing a change?
and / or
Was too Hot?

You might consider some crown, ditches on the sides, and some water bars to send the rains into the ditches.

I live on a STEEP hill, the drive washes big time if any of those three things go wanting.

I've got a york rake, a back blade and a box blade, all for road upkeep. Since Hurricane Irene, gravel has gotten costly.

 

[billrigsby]

The definition of insanity, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Well I'm only expecting two things
1. Mother nature to cooperate
2. Some people to contact me,
once they're done fixing everyone else's driveway,
to build this thing the way it should have been done
in the first place.
( remove a couple feet of decomposed granite and
and put in real road base compacted properly )

In the meantime, got to have a driveway

 

[twomany]

Well I'm only expecting two things
1. Mother nature to cooperate
2. Some people to contact me,
once they're done fixing everyone else's driveway,
to build this thing the way it should have been done
in the first place.
( remove a couple feet of decomposed granite and
and put in real road base compacted properly )

In the meantime, got to have a driveway

YOUR work looks good!

 

[billrigsby]

The definition of insanity, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

You might consider some crown, ditches on the sides, and some water bars to send the rains into the ditches.

To give a better idea of what I am up against
(for what the County guy called a 25 year flood).

The guy down the way with the Alpaca Ranch who has been here since
the 60's remembers when this place was put in, in the 90's.

Basically he said they brought in a D9 and "CUT" the hill side and "FILLED"
the wash to make the driveway, not even a culvert in the wash,
all native soil (DG / decomposed granite).
The County guy I talked to confirmed "things were lax" back then.

I was also told, which I knew working for a different County,
there is no way to keep this amount of water on the road.
While I am a ROW (Right Of Way) guy and not a Drainage guy
I know we want to keep water OFF the roadway.

So, What to do......

I do have water bars further up the drive to help with rutting,
but any water bar that would have alleviated this would not
have been crossable / driveable without a tracked vehicle.

We (Denis and I) He has the back hoe, will install (a) culvert(s),
either two 18" or a 36" where the yahoos should have put one,
and I will get a contractor to remove as much native soil as required
and build a "proper road" ( with crown and ditches)I hope they do not
take it personal when I bring in our nuclear densometer to check their
compaction

That should solve the problem, and then we will not see any more
precipitation like this once I spend the money

NIW - I have been called insane plenty of times, but that was in the 70's

 

[Sharryn]

Bill I sure hope your expectations are met. You sure have put up with a lot over the last several months. Hope the oil change is all it needs too. Good luck!

 

[twomany]

Bill

Do what ever needs to be done.
The views from the road are fabulous!

Crowns just take working the material to the middle. Sometimes there are "wasted trips" up because I'm too lazy to reset the lift links, But it all works out.

My drive must be 2/3rds the width of yours, but I've got " stone" in all the wrong places. ;-)

Vermont is the only place (other than New Hampshire) where you can dig a hole not larger than a quart jar and pull a bushel basket of solid stone out of it.

 

[Jeff Gordon]

Picked up about 200 bricks on my property ,took them up to my neighbors house he is lining a drainage ditch with them ,so I got to give the old girl a little workout today .

 

[sheepfarmer]

Wow Bill, no wonder you are having troubles, those yahoos cut the water a nifty shortcut down hill and called it a driveway....hope it likes the new culvert and goes back where it belongs, you have such a nice place.

 

[Neire]

Compacted the compost heap and mixed top(fresh material) layer with some older..

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[mdhughes]

Like Bill, I worked on a section of the private road we share with 12 other homes. It is a section that is right off the blacktop and has a little bit of a hill that gets wash-boarded bad. Spent about 3 hours on a 100' section. Wasn't as wet as I thought it was and took longer to loosen up, but I got most of it down 4" and leveled out.