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Acadia18

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Lil ugly ass bitch


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dtfd

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ftfy

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Driveway project is done! It came out looking good for an amateur. Hopefully it will compact more so it doesn't get killed by the plow
You can answer a question that came to mind for me today. What do you do about clearing snow on a gravel drive? I assume you can't use a snow blower because it'll just spit everything up and get destroyed in the process and a plow would just push all your gravel around
 

cb1111

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You can answer a question that came to mind for me today. What do you do about clearing snow on a gravel drive? I assume you can't use a snow blower because it'll just spit everything up and get destroyed in the process and a plow would just push all your gravel around
Clearing snow on a gravel drive is not easy (don't ask me how I know). You need to have somebody that can scrape off the top layer of snow while leaving a bit over the gravel. A normal plow will just dig into the gravel and make a mess - no matter how well it is compacted.
 

zrickety

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Strange Mud

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Gravel: you use plow feet and raise snow blower up as high as you can. Don't try for clear just leave an inch or two. It's easier when ground is frozen early/late snows are a hassle. It also helps if you are not obsessive about plowing or your yard. Normally in spring you have to do some raking.

Much of my driveway is shady, it's on a hill with a couple of turns. It can be like a luge run. UPS often won't deliver in winter so I either ship to work or my neighbors.

Reminder at $10 sq foot for blacktop it would be $70,000+

Privacy is expensive
 
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Acadia18

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oddspyke

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You can answer a question that came to mind for me today. What do you do about clearing snow on a gravel drive? I assume you can't use a snow blower because it'll just spit everything up and get destroyed in the process and a plow would just push all your gravel around

Gravel: you use plow feet and raise snow blower up as high as you can. Don't try for clear just leave an inch or two. It's easier when ground is frozen early/late snows are a hassle. It also helps if you are not obsessive about plowing or your yard. Normally in spring you have to do some raking.

Much of my driveway is shady, it's on a hill with a couple of turns. It can be like a luge run. UPS often won't deliver in winter so I either ship to work or my neighbors.

Reminder at $10 sq foot for blacktop it would be $70,000+

Privacy is expensive
OR own a bulldozer. I grew up with a gravel driveway, but lived next door to my grandfather who owned his own excavating company, so he'd just float the bulldozer blade an inch or so and clear it for us in 5 minutes.
 

JC_451

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Dead round these parts.

It is 80° here at 5:37 am. :(

The thread shall be renamed HSB until the end of the summer. That is all.
 
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