Garage and road project

[Sir Henry]

It’s a warm sunny day so I thought I would play on my tractor. Maybe jumping on it (okay crawling on) might not have been such a good idea just 13 days after kidney surgery but I was getting cabin fever.

They delivered another five loads.

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I still have another 30 loads coming in the next few days to few weeks.

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I had a quarter load dumped at the bottom of the driveway.

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[daytime dave]

Take it easy but enjoy your seat time Gene.

[Sir Henry]

I leveled the last six loads and will be getting 29 more loads delivered today. This is a view of where the garage will be from halfway up the hill.

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And here is the view from where the garage will be. In both pictures the car is parked in one of the stalls.

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There will be a level parking lot 40 feet wide by 50 feet long in front of the gage and a level spot 50 feet wide by 30 feet deep behind the garage. Living on a hill is great for the view but it makes building very expensive. In total with the garage, RVport and Alice’s shelter I will have a total of 70 loads of 15 yards each. Each load is between $280 and $320 depending on if it’s clean gravel, building gravel or large rock. The far majority is at $280 but it’s still expensive.

[Mags]

That is about what we used to pay for rock. Then Knife River bought out the local quarry. Now it's $500 a truck load and doesn't seem to matter what type. Clean drain rock 1-2" diameter. Driveway rock - 3/4 minus (small gravel mix with some sand and a little clay binder). Fillment Material (reject), basically dirty drain rock.

[Sir Henry]

That is about what we used to pay for rock. Then Knife River bought out the local quarry. Now it's $500 a truck load and doesn't seem to matter what type. Clean drain rock 1-2" diameter. Driveway rock - 3/4 minus (small gravel mix with some sand and a little clay binder). Fillment Material (reject), basically dirty drain rock.

Loads were about half as much before 2020.

[Hatchdog]

Every time I look at your pictures of all that rock the Steve Miller song “Keep on a rocking me baby” pops into my head.