Took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather and got my 1200' driveway for my spec house spiffed up.
Also finished backfilling the foundation and enlarging the parking area as well as bringing the road up as much as 6 feet to keep the max grade at 10%.
Sure is fun ripping huge stumps out and moving huge piles in a hurry. It was nice of the glacier to leave a nice esker full of gravel between the swamp and the ledge outcrops. Just strip off 18" of overburden and start digging decent quality bank-run gravel.
One more day of hand-raking and back to staining interior woodwork.
Better get that grass seed planted on those side slopes quick ere they erode! 🙂
I rented a Komatsu(?) 320 some years ago to clean up after an old barn demolition. What a blast! Need a 20' deep hole dug? No problem! Need to pick up that 15' long concrete slab of a retaining wall that your tractor couldn't budge? Sure, I'll just snap it in half and toss the chunks in the brand new 20' deep hole. Sure was a lot of fun!:-)
Try that around here and you had better bring a truckload of dynamite to get the last 18 feet of that 20-foot hole.
S&E measures??!!!
Do you realize, that you sir, are "living the dream"?
I've got a little Kubota tractor that I use all the time but a large backhoe is on my list of things to own some day, that and a tandem axle dump truck, bulldozer, stump grinder, chipper, etc.
What is your Land Disturbance Permit #?
Where is your silt fence?
Did you pay your impact fee?
Dear god - I hope you didn't cut any trees down! You will need to pay recompense for those.
> What is your Land Disturbance Permit #?
never heard of that one. I think I can stump an acre before permits are required
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> Where is your silt fence?
Not required unless next to wetlands
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> Did you pay your impact fee?
Yes, but only for the wetlands disturbance
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> Dear god - I hope you didn't cut any trees down! You will need to pay recompense for those.
I did not cut any trees down (i pushed them down with the excavator)
> Better get that grass seed planted on those side slopes quick ere they erode! 🙂
Too late for grass seed. 6 inches of snow will cover it up tonite.
> Try that around here and you had better bring a truckload of dynamite to get the last 18 feet of that 20-foot hole.
Actually, I have pretty much dug down to ledge (bedrock) on the driveway cuts. Ledge on this lot varies from 0-10 feet, then the glacier deposited gravel on is during the last ice age 12,000 years ago. Once you strip 18" of loam and silt off the top, the gravel is pretty good once you remove the large cobbles.
Some of the ledge is extremely soft and simply crushes into a fine waxy material, but then you hit a harder rock laced w/ quartz that is undiggable.
I was just giving you a hard time. Sounds much easier to build where you are.
> I was just giving you a hard time. Sounds much easier to build where you are.
Yeah, I knew that, but I figgured I'd respond anyway.
My town is pretty easy w/ no building inspector nosing around.
As far as site work.....
As long as there are no wetlands, you can pretty much do what you want as long as you don't exceed and acre of clearing or you need to file an erosion & sediment control plan.
I did have to file a Minimum Impact Dredge & Fill permit for the two culverts, which is pretty easy, except some *&(^&% on the local conservation commission tried to put additional conditions of the plan. (she tried to make me wait until september to do any digging among other things.)
Well, one more day of hand digging out stones and tossing them over the bank until the freeze up tonight.