#CedarHollowSC

matth_85 said:
You're speaking my language....but I have too many irons in the fire around the house.
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I know the feeling, this year has been the most I have ever spent around chapin. Its been fun, but its a change for sure. This won't be the last weekend of this kind haha. Lots more to burn
 
We got a huge section of the knocked down trees this weekend and its drying out well. I also used a landscape rake behind the tractor on the upper area where the shop is going. I borrowed one for now, but if anyone knows of one for sale let me know.

Also, got some gravel delivered. The driver picked up the wrong load, I wanted ballast stone, but got Crusher Run, so they knocked a chunk off. I'm putting down ballast stone through the two areas that i have filled in the driveway. Then I will top it with Crusher Run.

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Same thing happen to us every time the dozer guy was supposed to come clear the lot it would start raining finally after 2 months we got it cleared. Then it was bone dry for like 3 months but the week they started on our foundation it rained about every other day until it was dried in. I could have paved my drive way twice for the amount of money we have spent on gravel the past 2.5 years.
 
nsfbl60 said:
Same thing happen to us every time the dozer guy was supposed to come clear the lot it would start raining finally after 2 months we got it cleared. Then it was bone dry for like 3 months but the week they started on our foundation it rained about every other day until it was dried in. I could have paved my drive way twice for the amount of money we have spent on gravel the past 2.5 years.
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yeah, i feel like i wasted all of the good non rainy days from the summer and fall last year, but I just wasn't ready yet back then.
 
The drive way in Camden is a good 6" deeper than the yard. Is that the common way to fill before you cover with crush n run?
 
Ghost said:
The drive way in Camden is a good 6" deeper than the yard. Is that the common way to fill before you cover with crush n run?
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I was doing what I have always done for job sites, everything i have ever seen always has them putting ballast stone or large stone down first, many times over a geotextile to spread the load, then top it with crusher run. The large stone gives a good base if its soft at all. I wanted to do it because i know there will be a lot of large truck traffic down it in the coming years.
 
Twilliamson said:
Boss man rented a motor grader the other day to put down a driveway for his sons house... that's the way you make roads!
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That would definitely make it faster. I've enjoyed workin it with the box blade on the tractor even though it takes a little longer.
 
Ghost said:
I'd be interested to know if the grappel on the front can double as a root rake?
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it can, I have used it like that for some larger roots to get them out of the ground, but the grapple I bought has fewer tines so they aren't close enough to really do much "raking"

if you were to go get a grapple from a few of the other companies like https://www.everythingattachments.com/55-Inch-Wicked-Root-Rake-Grapple-p/eta-55-wrrg.htm
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it would probably work better.

mine only has 5 tines on the bottom.

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The roots I have problems with are wisteria. They are about 2" across and just below the surface. Sometimes I can pull most of one out with a brush grubber but usually it starts to slip along the length. Something like that should pull them up and not cut them. Now I just need a tractor.
 
matth_85 said:
I think you covered the cheap ideas. Short of that, the only option I know of is landfill.
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yeah, i'd just store them somewhere on the property before the landfill. Biggest issue is moving some of the larger ones. I gotta find a nice place to pile them up away from the house area.
 
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