Wife wanted to set up real horse shoe pits instead of just having a couple of posts in the yard, so we made these.
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While we’re picking up materials, I was thinking it would be nice to have pristine clean playground sand so I figured 4’ x 3’ x 3” = 3cf x 2 pits = 6 cf total and loaded up 12 half cf bags on our cart. One of the bags was leaking a little. Wife felt the sand and said it made her hands feel dry so she didn’t like it. Told her I wasn’t having someone deliver 6cf of sand but if she wanted creek sand, I’d see what I could do. It would save us the cost of sand anyway. She opted for creek sand.
So she supervised while our adult son and I built these things. Got the tractor out and told them I’d be back shortly with sand. She said she didn’t know where I thought I was getting it because there’s nothing but mud in the creek and she wasn’t good with mud. Told her not to worry about it. She then asked how many trips is this going to take being each trip would be about 20 minutes or more. Told her one. She said that made no sense. Told her, we’ll 3’ x 4’ x 3” x 2 pits = 6cf and the bucket holds about a half yard so one trip would be plenty. She said 3x4x3x2 is 72 and at a half per bucket that’s over 100 trips. Tried to explain her units of measure were all fouled up and it almost immediately devolved into a “Who’s on First” routine of back and forth on cubic feet v cubic yards and inches v feet. After about five minutes of this nonsense, son stepped in and convinced her to just let me go get one bucket of sand from the mystery quarry and see how it went before shutting down the operation.
So yeah there’s a lot of mud in the creek. It has been migrating south for eons so the north side is sand for several yards and the south side is mud. Off to one of the crossings with the loader.
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Sure enough there’s a bunch of mud on the south side and a bunch of sand on the north. Can’t find my reading glasses without assistance but the sand is still where it’s been the past 30 years I’ve known about it so no problem finding it. Needed some touch up anyway so a few minutes of that and a bucket of sand later…
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Back down the “road“ to to the unoccupied house yard. One bucket and we had sand left over (shocker). Last I heard, wife was still working on the math. There’s a lot of stuff she’s way better at than I am, but I can figure cf and cy needed to cover a specified area to a specific depth.
Edit: Only thing I don’t like about the Kubota is sometimes it’s so dang efficient I don’t get much seat time.
