Remodeling

Thanks. I'm sure I will have to add more stone in a couple of years. If I used weed block fabric I wouldn't be able to use the rippers on my box blade. When I dress the driveway with the box blade it looks like I got a new load of stone put down. I laid it down pretty thick in some areas. I will seed the downhill side for now, I've got to trench or French drain the uphill side to keep it from turning swampland in the first place.
 
87kawzl said:
Thanks. I'm sure I will have to add more stone in a couple of years. If I used weed block fabric I wouldn't be able to use the rippers on my box blade. When I dress the driveway with the box blade it looks like I got a new load of stone put down. I laid it down pretty thick in some areas. I will seed the downhill side for now, I've got to trench or French drain the uphill side to keep it from turning swampland in the first place.
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Get yourself an Land plane and use milling instead of stone. Lasts a lot longer and you won’t ever need those ripping teeth again.
I actually sold my box blade because I couldn’t justify having something I don’t use after getting the land plane.
It also takes me minuets to groom the driveway with it compared to hours with the boxblade.
 
That box blade is tricky, my BX doesn't have the set levels like the bigger ones. The land plane has been on my radar for a while now since I have a decent length of driveway. The box blade comes in handy in certain situations though.

I understand millings can't be paved over, someday I may want it paved.
 
:hello: Milling when used here in FL is better than anything else. My friend Mark put his milling 8 " deep/thick. His heavy equipment runs up and down it almost every day when he is loading and unloading it. Weeds won't grow through it. The longer the milling is down the more dense it gets. I have another friend whos drive way is a half mile long and he had it paved over the milling. We have no frost line so we don't have to worry about the ground shifting.
 
R. J. said:
:hello: Milling when used here in FL is better than anything else. My friend Mark put his milling 8 " deep/thick. His heavy equipment runs up and down it almost every day when he is loading and unloading it. Weeds won't grow through it. The longer the milling is down the more dense it gets. I have another friend whos drive way is a half mile long and he had it paved over the milling. We have no frost line so we don't have to worry about the ground shifting.
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I fought with stone for a few years before I went with the millings. Never again will I use any stone for a driveway except maybe for a first run if I think some might sink. If you have a solid base to drop onto I would go straight to the millings.
I have been talking about paving the front driveway and when they came to give an estimate they said with my base of shale to fill where I took the topsoil out and how I dropped the millings over what was left of the stone as well as the thickness, they could just prep and pave right over them and still guarantee the work.
 
:hello: I got six yards of 3000 PSI concrete with fiber for free for letting the builder that I sold my back lot to to come through my side yard with their concrete pump and four concrete trucks. I will need eight more yards of concrete to extend my driveway all the way to the street. That would make my driveway 30'x 50'. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 20240502_085509[1].jpg 20240502_085609[1].jpg 20240502_085814[1].jpg
 
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:hello: For some reason I found the energy to bust up and haul away a 12'x 10'x 8" concrete slab that I was going to repurpose. Somehow it got split in three places. At one time my very first shed set on it. The City told me that I couldn't have three sheds so I tore down the smallest one. :pain10:. :angryfire:. :banghead:. I hauled it off to our concrete graveyard. When I get time I'll cover the concrete with dirt. We have been slowly filling in the mud holes in this low section of the powerline. Myself and some friends have been doing this for the past 35 years. I spent about 12 hours alltogether hauling 5 loads.20240508_082840[1].jpg 20240508_090228[1].jpg 20240508_093126[1].jpg 20240510_100737[1].jpg 20240510_100809[1].jpg 20240510_104512[1].jpg 20240510_104533[1].jpg 20240510_104802[1].jpg
 
Breaking in the springs bumpstops on the Yota!

Surprised you didn't drag it over and screw it to the other shed.:)
 
:hello: I was going to set that concrete slab in front orf my work shop. First I was going to cut the largest section down to 6'x8'. Even then it was way too big to get in place and level it correctly. When breaking the slab up, hauling it off and unloading it the hardest thing was putting up with FLs 90* heat and 90% humidity. My window for doing hard labor is 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM. By 11 AM it's already in the 90s.
 
Trying to get yard and garden work done here but the Canadian wildfire smoke makes breathing very difficult for me. I chose the shop and a cold one instead!
 
:hello: This morning I framed up the rest of the footer for my 30 foot wide 50 foot long drive way. I also had my skidster guy Cole level/grade my front side yard. It is so FN hot!!! :angryfire:. It is 108 degrees in the sun!!! :banghead:. :pain10:. I've been in FL going on 40 years. The heat brothers me more every year. I think I'll wait until this Fall to pore the nine yards of concrete. 20240529_095315[1].jpg 20240529_092631[1].jpg 20240529_092719[1].jpg 20240529_092657[1].jpg 20240529_092553[1].jpg 20240529_092510[1].jpg
 
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:hello:After more than a year of our 490 foot long fence being done the gap between the planks went from 3/8 " to 3/4 "so we lowered all the planks so that they touch. It took us about 24 hours to do all 490 feet.. That left us with a 4 1/2" gap on the top row. So far we got about 50% of the top planks on. It takes 13 planks high to get to the six foot mark. Most of the planks are 15 feet long. 20240531_101338[1].jpg 20240529_120753[1].jpg 20240529_120842[1].jpg 20240529_120806[1].jpg 20240529_120852[1].jpg 20240531_101213[1].jpg
 
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:hello: I'm just glad that 10'x 12'x 8" slab was up on the platform for my other shed. I really didn't have to bend down to pick up the chunks of concrete. Some weighed 80 lbs. It took six pick up loads to haul it all off. I did two loads a day. I could of had my friend Cole load the concrete in my trailer but it would of been much harder to unload. Also the place I took it I would not have been able to turn my trailer around to back it up. The concrete grave yard is about a mile off the paved road. 20240601_074733[1].jpg
 
:hello: Today four guys came over at 6:30 AM to help me cut down our dead 65 foot sycamore tree that got hit by lightning last October. First we cut off the bottom ten branches then tied an 80 foot heavy duty rope 3/4 of the way up the trees trunk along with a 30 foot recovery strap. I pulled it down with my TACOMA while Cole cut the back side after notching the trunk. It took 12 seconds to drop the tree. We quit at 11:30 AM. I bought everyone lunch and beer. I have a 12 second video of the tree just missing my 30 foot flag poll. :laughing7:. I can't figure out how to up load it. 20240622_122309[1].jpg 20240622_122312[1].jpg 20240622_122256[1].jpg 20240622_122312[1].jpg 20240622_122317[1].jpg 20240622_122251[1].jpg
 
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Soon we will be posting re-dos of the initial remodeling!
 
:hello: No re-dos for me. :laughing7:. On all my projects I do them right the first time. I'm called one and done. :laughing7:. Takes me longer because I'm picky. :laughing7:.
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