Project Fill the Driveway
One of Steve's friends from work had a few dozen bags of cement that had gotten wet and hardened. After experiencing our driveway, he offered to give us the bags as a way to start filling in the larger holes. This past Wednesday, he and Steve brought the cement bags here after work. It took two trucks to haul the nearly three dozen bags. Today, Steve used them to patch the largest hole that sits near the top of our drive.
I took a lot of photos in between my own projects. Here is a photo diary of Steve's progress:
We figure each bag weighs about 100 pounds. Steve shifted 30 bags into the hole. That's 3000 pounds, or 1.5 tons. And this after he ran a mile this morning.
Four rows are done; the equivalent of a ton of concrete.
He may be a white-collar worker during the week, but this weekend, he's definitely a black-collar worker.
A large pine-tree root was in the middle of Steve's project area, so he used a pick ax to remove it. Guess this was the cheap pick ax. Look at what the root (pictured) did to the blade! Fortunately, we had another pick ax of better quality that cut through the root with no problem.
Steve found this root twisted into the letter D. I declined his invitation to keep it.
All the rows are now in place.
Now it's time to bury the blocks of cement.
The job is now complete. There's just one thing left to do . . .
Give it a test run. The repair held up quite well. None of the cement bags moved at all as Steve drove the Jeep across them.
The Jeep didn't sink much into the dirt at all as it drove across the repaired area.
This is a soft spot in another area of the drive. These are the tracks the Jeep made as Steve drove over it. This is quite different from the area supported by the cement. We're very happy with the improvement.
Steve pulls the Jeep back into the drive. The repair continues to hold up well.
This is the price Steve paid for not wearing his shirt. I told him not to do it.
I took a lot of photos in between my own projects. Here is a photo diary of Steve's progress:
We figure each bag weighs about 100 pounds. Steve shifted 30 bags into the hole. That's 3000 pounds, or 1.5 tons. And this after he ran a mile this morning.
Four rows are done; the equivalent of a ton of concrete.
He may be a white-collar worker during the week, but this weekend, he's definitely a black-collar worker.
A large pine-tree root was in the middle of Steve's project area, so he used a pick ax to remove it. Guess this was the cheap pick ax. Look at what the root (pictured) did to the blade! Fortunately, we had another pick ax of better quality that cut through the root with no problem.
Steve found this root twisted into the letter D. I declined his invitation to keep it.
All the rows are now in place.
Now it's time to bury the blocks of cement.
The job is now complete. There's just one thing left to do . . .
Give it a test run. The repair held up quite well. None of the cement bags moved at all as Steve drove the Jeep across them.
The Jeep didn't sink much into the dirt at all as it drove across the repaired area.
This is a soft spot in another area of the drive. These are the tracks the Jeep made as Steve drove over it. This is quite different from the area supported by the cement. We're very happy with the improvement.
Steve pulls the Jeep back into the drive. The repair continues to hold up well.
This is the price Steve paid for not wearing his shirt. I told him not to do it.
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