Graded my Drive Yesterday

[RobS]

Finally took some time yesterday to grade my gravel drive. I had been a bit apprehensive for fear of making matters worse. We had a couple of pot-holes developing, some whoop-de-doos and a bit of a center crown of loose material. My fear was that there wouldn't be enough material to work with. The drive is a little over one year old and consists of a layer of fist sized stones covered with several inches of 3/4 inch down to dust. It's all crushed concrete, not stone.

Well, much to my surprise all went well. I used my landscape rake and made a number of passes at a pretty good clip. The rake tines stirred up enough of the fines to re-mix with the stones and it's already repacking nicely with our cars driving on it. I started with the rake forward and finished with it turned around backwards. Angled both ways and worked the drive in each direction (actually, each side and middle passes in each direction). I didn't kick up any larger stones either. The biggest problem I can see is some stones getting flung further into the "lawn" than what I would like, but that will give me something to do when I walk out for the paper, right /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Then the very last thing I did was to put out the driveway markers for SNOW!!! A quick tip I learned last year... if you use the orange fiberglass driveway markers, wear gloves when handling them. The glass fibers hurt when the get embedded in the palm of your hand /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Rear blade is now on, ready and waiting for the white stuff /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> The glass fibers hurt when the get embedded in the palm of your hand </font>

You got that right. A few years ago I purchased a fiberglass body for our Landcruiser. I was running my hand along the finished side and was impressed how smooth it was. Without looking, I ran my hand on the underside.... yeowch!! Unfinished fiberglass! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

<font color="blue"> Rear blade is now on, ready and waiting for the white stuff </font>

Our blade is on, too. I used it yesterday to remove leaves from the yard.

 

[PineRidge]

Rob Keep a 18 inch piece of rebar handy. Next year hold the rebar with a pair of vise grips and drive it into the ground with a stout hammer or mallet. Twist and pull out the rebar drop in the driveway marker. It works every year and makes putting up all those markers kids play.