Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[chickflick]

Hope your hand is better, RaZ.
On our way to South Haven for a Halloween camping trip with my two youngest granddaughters. Love this trip. It's so fun decorating the camper and site and seeing all the cute little kids dressed up. Have a good week end all

 

[RaZ]

Hope your hand is better, RaZ.
On our way to South Haven for a Halloween camping trip with my two youngest granddaughters. Love this trip. It's so fun decorating the camper and site and seeing all the cute little kids dressed up. Have a good week end all

I can barely use it today. Big gouge and swelling. I better put on my big boy gloves and get back to work on the garage tomorrow.
PumpkinFest is next weekend. I'm driving the hayride on Saturday.

Mom is getting fill for the driveway tomorrow, so I'll probably get to play on the tractor tomorrow. Driveway has been needing to have some potholes filled.

Are you using 23A gravel? I just did a neighbor's driveway with that. Graded and leveled and blended the slope. Then rolled over it with a water-filled roller. It is packed down really well. They love the new drive.

Have the opposite problem, need a back blade, to scrape the sod off the gravel driveway.

Back blades are fairly aggressive. Would a landscape rake be aggressive enough? I have both but use the rake mostly. The blade works better on the rock filled clay though.

 

[aart]

Back blades are fairly aggressive. Would a landscape rake be aggressive enough? I have both but use the rake mostly. The blade works better on the rock filled clay though.

'Sod' is about 2" high in places, think the gravel bed is pretty solid underneath...don't know if a landscape rake would work or not....don't have either or a tractor with 3pt, so I'm just dreamin'.

 

[1muttsfan]

I use a box grader, but you would have to have a 3 point hitch

 

[RaZ]

'Sod' is about 2" high in places, think the gravel bed is pretty solid underneath...don't know if a landscape rake would work or not....don't have either or a tractor with 3pt, so I'm just dreamin'.

Shovel and rake then.

 

[RaZ]

I use a box grader, but you would have to have a 3 point hitch

That's even more aggressive than the back blade.
The best investment I ever made was getting a tractor.

 

[bigmrg74]

Are you using 23A gravel? I just did a neighbor's driveway with that. Graded and leveled and blended the slope. Then rolled over it with a water-filled roller. It is packed down really well. They love the new drive.

Mom got what they called crushed asphalt for the driveway. What they do with it is take asphalt millings from road removal and they set up a plant where they crush that stuff up pretty fine. we got a bunch of millings on the driveway from when they did the road a couple of years back and that worked out great, other than we kinda wished that we had gotten a few more loads of it back then on the driveway. Figure that this stuff once it's packed down should do about the same.

 

[aart]

Shovel and rake then.

Ha!.....I seriously doubt that's gonna happen....some of it will get 'graded' with the bottom edge on the snow thrower on my L&G tractor.

 

[1muttsfan]

Grass and weeds growing in packed gravel is pretty hard to get rid of. Even with a box grader it's hard to dig it all out. I think trying to do it with a shovel would be an exercise in futility.

 

[aart]

I think trying to do it with a shovel would be an exercise in futility.

Not to mention it would probably kill me.
This is 'sod' buildup from years without any grading/scraping.
Would take a skilled operator to get it scraped off without damaging the gravel base, which I think is in pretty good shape really.

Most problematic is around the main garage entry...hard to throw the snow off down to gravel so more ice pack forms there. The 'grooves' have really filled in this summer.

Going up the hill to the road can get quite dicey too.

The turn around is ooooK, but still.