Road Building
Before we started, we had a crude, barely passable road that
came onto our property, but stopped 600 feet from our home site. It took 3
large pieces of "yellow iron" to make 600 feet of new road, improve the existing
road, clear the home site, and put several feet of fill on the "pad" for our
house.
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Big dozer grading our steep curve |
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Big rocks came out of our road ! |
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That's a baseball cap sitting on a rock that came out of the road |
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The road really is that steep ! |
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"Grader" distributing fill for the road and home site |
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The "fill" came from scraping weathered limestone from the side of our road. A "Paddle-wheel" picks up the fill to carry it up the road. |
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Looks like snow, but it's actually limestone dust. If it ever rains, it will turn almost rock-like |
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Craig, our builder, supervising fill distribution for our home site |
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