Time off

We're putting in a driveway at our "Hurricane Evacuation" place.

This is the kind of thing that gets done on my days off work. Or when I take vacation time.

We thought it would be a 2 day job but then the pipes arrived on 2 trucks and we realized before they ever STOPPED that we didn't have equipment large enough to unload them from the trucks. We had to send them back. We had rented a huge backhoe - but we had to go rent something bigger to unload them when they were RE-delivered.
(Hear the fees racking up??)

It has definitely been a learning experience.
Especially since nobody knew how to drive the backhoe when we rented it and it was over 105* with 60 to 80% humidity every single day we were out there.

Here's what it looks like with TWENTY- SIX TONS of stabilizing sand packed around the culverts and end caps.

Here's a shot of two of the endcaps.
Which weigh 3.6 tons each.
There are 4 of them.
And that backhoe in the background?

TRUST ME - that thing was HUGE !!

Next week we will spread on another 13 or 14 tons of stabilizing sand, around 20 tons of crushed concrete, a little regular sand (2 or 3 tons) to fill in around the crushed concrete chunks and then we will wait for the state highway department to decide if they are going to make us spread blacktop on it so that it matches the highway surface.

With any luck at all, it'll be drivable by October. :-)

Ain't it purdy?

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