Moving some dirt

[amarsh64]

We finally decided to fill in some of the big hole in the back yard a few weeks ago.
11 tandem loads of crushed shale in the hole and 2 on top for working around the yard with.
Yesterday I put in a small culvert to get me across to where our garage /shop will go in a few years .
now i can easily start dropping trees and removing stumps where it will go.



I cleaned out the culvert ends right after the pic was taken

Also my enclosure has been getting a little muddy as of late so I figured it was a good time to straighten it out while i had the material on hand.

 

[mred2]

The work(fun) will never end!

 

[Thomas]

Another reason to own tractor...nice work. :thumbsup:

 

[amarsh64]

This being my first culvert install I figured that I would buy the 24 footer. This would give me 12 feet for the garage culvert and I would have the other 12 footer for another part of my property.
Turns out that 12 feet turns into about 9 foot 6 after it's in and there is material runoff on the ends . (newbie mistake) In the winter there will be ice on this sometimes so that is not a comfortable width. One 18 dollar coupler later and I have about 21 feet of usable driveway across the ditch now. Much better. It would have been easier to couple before I put the first one in but learning from your boo boo's is always a good thing as well :thumbsup: .

 

[sodamo]

That’s how I learn - eventually

 

[Doofy]

Very nice culvert job. Well done.

 

[1 of U]

why does the tractor have a license plate on it ??

 

[amarsh64]

why does the tractor have a license plate on it ??

That is how our government gets their piece of the pie I guess. As far as I know every new tractor would come with a plate from the dealer. It needs to be registered every year to keep the sticker on the plate current. You need the plate to get insurance especially if you want to be on the road at all with your tractor. If you financed I am sure they would want to see insurance on it. I might not be completely correct with this but it is along those lines.

 

[mred2]

I was once stopped by a new county deputy that just moved to Alabama from Florida. I was driving my tractor from one property down the highway about 200 yards to another property on the other side of the road. He asked where my tag was. I told him that tractors here did not have to be tagged. He told me that if he caught me on the highway again with the tractor, I would get a ticket. I called his office. Never saw him again. I do believe tractors are required to show the orange triangle on the back. Not sure about lights.

 

[amarsh64]

Yeah it seems to be a little different wherever you go. I asked an RCMP officer that was getting gas beside me one day where the proper spot for my plate was seeing as there was no designated place on the tractor. He said as long as they can see it easily anywhere was good. On the rops it went .

 

[CS2210]

I live in new brunswick and was told by my dealer here that as long as your on your own property and not using a tractor for commercial use then you dont have to license it. Its covered on your home insurance in most cases as long as your on your personal property. If you plan on using it commercially then you have to add insurance for that and like everything else here you pay through the Nose for it.

 

[amarsh64]

I had to change home insurance [ which at the time seemed to be all I could find to cover our tractor] when we bought it because our company did not offer coverage period on or off the road . That was a pain. A few months ago my old home insurance company which we still have the auto insurance with let me know that they now carry tractor insurance. :irked: Anyway , long story short I need the plate because I have to go on the main road to get around to the backside of my property and to a few friends if need be. Like you said " through the nose " .

 

[Doofy]

I live in new brunswick and was told by my dealer here that as long as your on your own property and not using a tractor for commercial use then you dont have to license it. Its covered on your home insurance in most cases as long as your on your personal property. If you plan on using it commercially then you have to add insurance for that and like everything else here you pay through the Nose for it.

Don't need to register my tractor but adding it to my Homeowners Insurance is an additional $500 per year. Could be worse I guess. This is for the tractor never leaving our property.

 

[CS2210]

When I bought my tractor i thought that maybe I could pick up a couple of the neighbours driveways in the winter and help make the tractor earn its keep here. I looked into commercial insurance and was quoted over $1000 per year. So I added it to my home insurance. About a year ago I was looking around and found an insurance company that would insure my tractor as non commercial for $18 per month, and I just worry about keeping my own yard clean.

 

[amarsh64]

My tractor is around 325 extra on my home insurance per year . This gives me coverage if i have to go from point a to b on the road or in a neighbour's yard but not if I am using it for commercial use. 18 bucks a month seems really good for regular on property use. :thumbsup:

 

[kthompson]

As 30 plus years as insurance agent don't determine good or bad insurance by price alone. $500 a year may be much better value than $18 per month or might not be as good as coverage as the $18 is. Tractor coverage is not near as simple as auto is for not established standards auto has making it easy to compare.

 

[Frankenkubota]

My drive is 2600 ft so.....I wrote a check. In addition to putting in 6 culverts they had to smooth out the old logging road and cut in 500 ft new and then 480 tons of crush and run, more to came.

I知 pleasantly surprised by how much abuse the culverts can take.....so far. I Can稚 lie, I backed my big heavy tractor over the end of one and it did no damage. Better yet, because of all the mud, every poor ups/fedex driver and all material deliveries are forced to back out, 2600 ft, Curvey and up and down!

I致e seen lots of truck tire marks over the ends of at least 3-4 of them with no apparent damage. They seem to be pretty tuff.

In m6 case, they might be completely full of red mud? (Not really)

Nice job

 

[Frankenkubota]

Mine was under $100/ year added to homeowners, full coverage.

Amica Ins

 

[amarsh64]

Sounds like you had a much bigger job than I did FrankenKubota . I bet you are some happy with your upgrades to your driveway . Well done sir .

 

[amarsh64]

Time to continue on past the culvert.
We started pushing into the woods last week. Dug out a fair amount of stumps and moved a bunch of brush and logs aside.
The boss even gave me a hand. She is getting good with the loader ! We have a grapple coming this week and that will easily take care of all the roots, brush and logs that are in the way. Slow but sure . The main thing is we are having fun