RedNeckGeek
Super Member
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
- Messages
- 8,753
- Location
- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 5:45AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 77F. Winds light and variable.
Very nice weather for tractoring yesterday, cool with a bit of breeze. Finished up a bit more excavation on the propane terrace, and now have a level line/string to show me how much I need to fill in under where the blocks will go. I might have just enough three-quarter-minus-road-base, as they call it here, to do the job. If not, I need more anyway to go under the new shipping container. But a neighbor says he likes using ground up recycled concrete for such things, as the lime in the fines gives a harder, stronger composition to it after a rain or two, so I'm thinking of using that instead. Any of you tried it?
Also spent some time walking around with the laser level, looking for a place for that shipping container to go. Turns out there really isn't much level ground here that doesn't already have something parked or stored on it. And even the gentlest slope goes over a foot of drop in the forty feet the container needs, and that complicates getting a tractor in and out of both ends of the box (I'm hoping to find one with doors at each end). So I think I'll end up just moving the palletized firewood I already have, which I'll need to do anyway, and putting the container on that near level and already gravelled spot. Those pallets are mostly falling apart as well, so it gives me the excuse I've been looking for to try out the plastic pallets, and to start cutting up the steel pallets that the Kubota side-by-sides came on for the stacking loops that will keep the wood in place. Better swing by Harbor Freight and pick up a pack of cutoff discs when I'm in town this week, too.
Very nice weather for tractoring yesterday, cool with a bit of breeze. Finished up a bit more excavation on the propane terrace, and now have a level line/string to show me how much I need to fill in under where the blocks will go. I might have just enough three-quarter-minus-road-base, as they call it here, to do the job. If not, I need more anyway to go under the new shipping container. But a neighbor says he likes using ground up recycled concrete for such things, as the lime in the fines gives a harder, stronger composition to it after a rain or two, so I'm thinking of using that instead. Any of you tried it?
Also spent some time walking around with the laser level, looking for a place for that shipping container to go. Turns out there really isn't much level ground here that doesn't already have something parked or stored on it. And even the gentlest slope goes over a foot of drop in the forty feet the container needs, and that complicates getting a tractor in and out of both ends of the box (I'm hoping to find one with doors at each end). So I think I'll end up just moving the palletized firewood I already have, which I'll need to do anyway, and putting the container on that near level and already gravelled spot. Those pallets are mostly falling apart as well, so it gives me the excuse I've been looking for to try out the plastic pallets, and to start cutting up the steel pallets that the Kubota side-by-sides came on for the stacking loops that will keep the wood in place. Better swing by Harbor Freight and pick up a pack of cutoff discs when I'm in town this week, too.
