I just drove my car on the new driveway!!


I have been driving back and forth with the tractor and the ´cavator all day in order to cut any sharp edges and to pack it down. Must have made at least 25 turns all in all. Driving with the car felt a bit risky but so far the tyres seem to be fine. We´ll see how it goes *cough* further down the road *cough*

There goes your new car's paint job? "POP" goes the tyre? "BAM" = "Oh no, there goes the oil pan...?"


But it looks so gorgeous! Maybe it needs driven over by a real crusher, but those will kill your kidneys.


In Florida (USA) they made the streets of coral, which is sharp as glass. I wonder how they smoothed it for cars and got it so compacted?

They just crush it up, and pour it like sand. The Seabees used crushed coral to build airstrips in the Pacific during WWII.

It (coral) must be tough material, because the streets in Florida never need repairs, always look beautiful.

An embarrassing tidbit of info: When I was writing "coral" above, I spelled it "Chorrol" and couldn't figure out why it showed red,

@ Mirocu - I love the color of the bricks, it looks gorgeous. How did you find so many clean bricks to lay such a long drive? Awesome!

The guy we hired has tons of material, after all that he still has a lot left. His company secures leftovers when buildings gets demolished or changes the roof tiles.


Just for poop and laughter, here´s some extra pixies.

Backing up

They came down like a ton of.... Yeah, you know what they came down like

Oh yeah, that big heavy dump truck aught to crush those larger bricks down real well too! What a great find! We have a demolition guy in town here that is always getting bricks too, but his bricks never look so clean and pretty! Those look new!

So, another project report!


I haven´t been talking about this one because frankly I have been rather -Jameson- about it, but now when it´s all said and done I feel I can disclose the details





My ´cavator is a so-called XTV, meaning its tracks are extendable for better stability. This of course means the dozer part has to be extendable too and it is like in this picture (not mine), but the sprints that hold those parts were rusted shut and impossible to remove. I have hit them from underneath with a sledgehammer for months without result (I drove close to a pit I dug up to get room). I have used up five or six spraycans of WD-40 and another anti-rust agent that freezes the rust down to -40 C, still nothing.

Eventually I´d had enough, removed the whole carriage, flip it over, and went to town on those sprints again but from above this time (sort of). I used a much smaller hammer but lo and behold, they loosened up! Two were easily removed but the other two demanded much more work, but I did it! I got them all and finally I can use the extensions!!




My next project is figuring out what else there is to do in life now that this project is finally over

1.Mixed Martial Arts (mainly Greco-Roman Wrestling and Boxing)
2. Several books on how to be competent in my new construction job
3. Aaaaand the Promise of the Hydra.

Yeah
Got a lot on my hands right now, but I'm thriving in it; idle hands lead to HERESY!!! after all...

@mirocu: If you don't know what to do next, do drugs and kill a bear. You have 30 minutes to search this reference... USING INTERNET EXPLORER! Raaagh

I'm making great progress on improving my procrastination and the skill of self pity

GAAAAAH!!! Beating up your brand new little 'cavator? Gaaaaaaaaaaarugh !!!! But glad you were able to expand it, just hope no permanent damage done, urk.











Rodney Dangerfield made millions with these skills! It is so great to see you back here, Impy !!! You have been missed !!!!

A job in construction? That is Awesome!

lol thanks mALX

Of course not Just the sprints that hold the extension parts on the dozer got some good ol´beatin´

This place feels empty without you, really glad to see you back!






Oh good!

Mini-project "lift-logs-with-hydraulics" done! Our new machine* is home!






*pic taken from interwebz

LIFT IT WITH YOUR BARE HANDS!!!

THE ROID RAGE IS STRONG WITH ME TODAY

MUSSSSSCCCLEEEEEEEEE

...

Still working on my story, "The Promise of the Hydra."

We have for years. Not fun anymore

THEN YOU MUST HAVE HUGE PECS! WHAT INCHES ARE THEY?! LETS COMPARE! RAAAGGGHHH

You'll be able to clear a new driveway every week with that setup!

We now have fine gravel on the new road! It´s like driving on silk by comparison


And another project is partly over; the deconstruction and removal of an old garage. We only took the two long sides and some leftover timber. If we´re lucky we´ll get it up next year as we will concentrate on getting the tractor garage up first

Pictures or it didn't happen!

Darn it! I´ve fallen victim to my own saying I used to put on others!

Yep!

Well then, here is proof!

Orange Brick Road is now Orange By The Side Of The Road Road
Going to work in the morning (notice the rotating warning light! New feature for 2015! )
Going home from work in the afternoon



Booh-ya! Served, you have been

What fabulous pictures! Mirocu-land looks so wonderfully picturesque and rustic.

Looks like the gravel road came out great. Lol at the red beanie light on your 'cavator.

That road looks smooth as a baby's behind! What a great job you did!

I have to love the grass in your area, it is so green and lush! Around here you can almost only get that using annual rye, meaning you have to reseed it every year or your lawn looks just blah, lol.

Great pics, thanks !!! And if by served you mean I have to post one too - er...


Okay, I found one. Here is my yard:


http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...la/S6301678.jpg

Thanks, guys!


It needs it to feel like a big ´cavator


Awwww, who´s a good doggie??

Nice place, mALX Looks perfect for a garden party with the so-called upper class...

Those dogs would make a muddy field day of any garden party in their dog lot, lol. Any upper class dogs enter their pen, they will change their uppity ways real quick and turn them into banshees like they are, lol.

Today dad and I started to put up walls on the new garage. I know I said we were gonna do it next year, but what the heck. Better do it now so we can paint it next year instead

Good luck to you and your dad there, mirocu! Do you think you can finish the walls before the winter really sets in hard?

I reckon so. We´re only doing the long sides and one is halfway there and the other coming strong. Another day or two and it´s done. We may have to get some more material however but not much.

I have a project of sorts that I hope to accomplish this week. My current military retiree ID expires at the end of the year, me turning 65 this coming January. I'll need a new ID showing me Medicare eligible. Research has shown that I can get the new ID beginning 90 days prior to my birthday. If my math is correct, Wednesday sees me within the 90-day mark.

The hassle is that the nearest issuing authority is several hours away. Neither my car nor myself are what we once were. The drive there and back will challenge both of us. Still, it's gotta get done. Better now than once cold weather sets in.

Speaking of projects, I washed and waxed the car!!!!!!! It can be argued that I waited ten years too late before waxing it, allowing much of its paint to peel off. But hey, I'm lazy. Better late than never?

I hire a guy I know to do that for me. Not the washing part, the waxing/polishing parts. He´s basically a professional and the darn car looks brand new when he´s had his hands on it!


Good luck with the ID thing!

Hmm, I need some motivated house fixers at my son's new house. Plenty to do there!



*mALX sends tempting bird seed to Mirocu and Poppa Bird to fly here and help...*

That might be a trip better made with a friend in a better working car to drive you there and to take the strain off you; be there if needed if the trip gets to be too much for you.

Around here they have agencies that will transport you to appointments at doctor's offices or the Social Security Administration (etc) if you have untrustworthy transportation and are elderly or infirmed in some way; (and usually when the destination is too far to afford a taxi to take you there and back, which it sounds like this place is).

We have the same situation here on the Veterans Affairs = 3-4 hour drive through some of the worst mountain roads imaginable, and if you are lucky you won't be crushed in a rock slide or your car go out of control on the steep grade and/or drive off the side of the Black Mountain. (they have "Runaway Truck" ramps all down that mountain for those huge semi trucks that go completely out of control on that steep a grade; and more than one semi was not able to stop by the end of that ramp).



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http://www.fsrengineering.com/sector_transportation.htm



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One of the long walls is done and the other very close behind!


Our boards lasted way longer than we thought. We won´t have to get more than a few new ones when we start putting up walls on the back of the garage. I say walls because we will leave a gap so we can easily walk into the garage without having to go around it every time.


Man, we have done so much this year!

You sure have! Really good the old boards are still in such good shape to be used!

Some have cracks and some have weird shapes and can´t be used, but the overwhelming majority is fine. They have been in storage for years and years and years and they´re only this good because they have been inside behind closed doors and with small wooden pieces separating one layer from another, allowing air everywhere.

We would have to move it all up to us anyway, might as well put them to use


Pixies to prove it really happened will be up later

Bold: Woo Hoo!

Both long sides of the garage are done and we prepared for the back walls. Forgot the camera again though!

Didn't happen then!

Darn, I gotta do it all over again then

No, we will accept a pic of the long side walls up.

Oh, good.

It did happen after all!

And just for comparison, this is from early March.

I´m so happy we got the garage up this year! I certainly didn´t expect it

Looks great, mirocu! Congratulations on getting it done before winter!

What she said!

mirocu does winter? Tell him not to do it over here!

Yeah, I´m really glad it got done before winter really sets in. We were lucky the carpenter just got a job cancelled and could start working at our place right away

We don´t have enough boards to cover up the backside completely but we´re gonna use what we have and continue next year. We´ve had enough expenses for this year It amazed us though we did have enough for both longsides, none of use believed that.