What did you do to or on your Mahindra today?

   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #691  
Finished knocking down my last two trees south of my barn. Going to take the stumps out and lower this area about three feet for drainage to the south away from the barn. Have a small stack of the better logs [ 10'4" ] ready for the Sugar Maple buyer to see if he wants any of them before they get wacked up for firewood. Working on fixing up an old 1991 Cat E70B excavator that will be doing the stump duty to give my old 5035 a little rest. She has dug a lot of stumps. Glad to get this part of the project done before it got too hot, and the mosquitoes are just starting to get thick. In about a month, going to break in the new toy.... :)
 

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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #692  
Pulled a 3/8" wall pipe culvert out of my drive today. One that I put in years ago but was not really needed in that spot. Moving it down in front of my rock wall in an area I am going to build up with pit run gravel/clay mix and covered with Afton stone. Plan putting the culvert in tomorrow and fix up the grass on the side of the drive IF THE SKEETERS are not too bad. Supposed to be windy. Pictures are posted backwards for some reason.....
 

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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #693  
Yesterday I got a few acres cut with the Brush Cutter, I have to say I love this thing.
Purchased a Country Line from Tractor Supply and thought it would work but didn't know just how well, thank you God !
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #694  
We got some grass cut. But it was a million degrees outside. Lol
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #695  
8 loads of pit run/clay mix yesterday and rough spread the loads in front of the barn [ whilst it was still windy enough to keep the mosquitoes away/not raining ]
 

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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #696  
Put a down payment on a 2010 King Ranch F250 in Texas. I'll fly out to pick it up Friday. I've had several F250's and have wanted one with a King Ranch package for a while.
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #697  
8 loads of pit run/clay mix yesterday and rough spread the loads in front of the barn [ whilst it was still windy enough to keep the mosquitoes away/not raining ]

Wondering... Clay, doesn't that get muddy fast when wet, and slippery ?

Out here in SoCal, any portion of the dirt road with clay gets like an ice rink when it rains for a while.

We end up digging it out and putting in a mix of Decomposed Granite and 3/4 minus stone, sometimes we use crushed cement too.

Funny how that works out !
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #698  
Wondering... Clay, doesn't that get muddy fast when wet, and slippery ?

Out here in SoCal, any portion of the dirt road with clay gets like an ice rink when it rains for a while.

We end up digging it out and putting in a mix of Decomposed Granite and 3/4 minus stone, sometimes we use crushed cement too.

Funny how that works out !

The gravel clay mix forms a base for the crushed limestone [ we call it Afton stone up here ]. You level [ and crown ] the gravel/clay layer and pack it down some, then cover with the Afton. Any clay that does not get mixed real well with the gravel oozes up and mixes with the Afton. Once the whole shebang dries the gravel clay hardens and the Afton layer also hardens. The layer of Afton does not let any water get down into the clay mix. If you try to dig it up after that it is like digging blacktop and it comes up in slabs like blacktop. Scratching at the clay/gravel with a backhoe is a chore. You might get a little sponginess in the Spring as the frost goes out, and this is a good time to work it with a land plane if you need to. But it generally does not develop pot holes in a light driveway use.
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #699  
The gravel clay mix forms a base for the crushed limestone [ we call it Afton stone up here ]. You level [ and crown ] the gravel/clay layer and pack it down some, then cover with the Afton. Any clay that does not get mixed real well with the gravel oozes up and mixes with the Afton. Once the whole shebang dries the gravel clay hardens and the Afton layer also hardens. The layer of Afton does not let any water get down into the clay mix. If you try to dig it up after that it is like digging blacktop and it comes up in slabs like blacktop. Scratching at the clay/gravel with a backhoe is a chore. You might get a little sponginess in the Spring as the frost goes out, and this is a good time to work it with a land plane if you need to. But it generally does not develop pot holes in a light driveway use.

Thanks, something to keep in mind !

Afton, I will look that up, never heard the term before.

Once the road hardens after the wet season, it too is hard, in fact all the land is hard as can be and the backhoe scrapes over it.
But add some water, as in rain, and SOUP you get, sticky, slippery, muck ! Like a good Pea Soup, the spoon stands up in !
If I can get down about 10" then I can dig without a problem, and keep lifting the hard top soil from underneath; dug two LONG trenches that way, but getting to that level is where it take time, funny.

Ltr
 
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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #700  
Picking up my new.to me 2010 F250 King Ranch today. Pretty excited about my new truck.
 

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