I'm almost certain he will, he's just not ready yet! In his calculations though, he didn't add cost of heating, so maybe you can give him that added cost. 👍👌❤
Happy Anniversary you two. We just celebrated 45 years but we both will admit that "We have been married for 3 blissful years and we just celebrated our 45th anniversary" A day of bliss here and there adds up to about 3 years. the resto f the time has been the good, the bad and the ugly...
Happy Anniversary, 31 years, awesome! I'm sorry, I'm one of those commenters spouting concrete. If anyone is fully aware that you know your stuff it's me. Oh yes, dollar wise, perfect sense, fun spreading stone, you lucky dude! It was your neighbor that day when you drove by and said, "you know you've got it made when you have a heated drive." Well, with ya'lls motto, "the finer things in life," a heated cement drive and parking lot and aggregate walkway from house to gameroom, certainly is the finer things in life. I do hope you didn't get offended. I do hope that one day, whenever, you will have all the finer things in life. Your channel sure adds to the quality of mine! So very sweet to see Eva 'back at it.' Thank you Lord! Eva and Melissa sure had great hair today and awesome smiles, geese, so nice! I really enjoy watching you spread stone! I remember now, you've talked about making that road before, at least in 2 videos. Concrete IS very expensive! Everything is, we here in Hickory NC are paying $3.39 a gallon for gas. I saw the dancing clip on Instagram, good stuff! It's supposed to reach 68° tomorrow w rain. Now get that stone spread and stay out of the mud! Thanks Mike and Melissa for the sweet video today!👍🚜❤
Being able to spread the stone like that is called finesse, and you Michael have it! Well done! There are operators and there are steering wheel holders. You are an operator!
Happy Anniversary, Mike & Melissa! 32-years of wedded bliss 🤣😂 for my wife and I this year. Crushed stone, perfect anniversary gift!!! As a lifelong city dweller, I never would have understood the cost effectiveness or usefulness of stone/gravel until I started developing my North Idaho rural property. There is no way I could have laid concrete or asphalt to cover my 1/2-mile access road or 600’ driveway, let alone keeping it from disintegrating with the freezing and thawing of Winter weather. The naysayers are possibly those who’ve lived in the concrete jungle their entire lives. Great to hear Eva is back in the gym and back to normal life.
Mike, I am amazed at how well you can drop stone and sprinkle it the way you do. I have attempted this several times with the over 50+ ton of stone I put in last year with my 1025r and just couldn't master it. It just tends to dump in piles. I will be working on perfecting my technique this year but I can only hope to get close to the way you can put stone down. Things are looking great there and I enjoy watching the videos daily. Great content, instruction, and I am gaining a wealth of knowledge and insight into the reason behind the way you do things. Happy and excited to see the success you are enjoying through your perseverance and determination. There's a lot to be gleaned from all of these videos and your mentorship to the community.
Hey Mike, I'm sure it is still cheaper to stone it. But! You need to add in some of the trailer cost because you use it to pick it up Some Kubota cost and your time because you use those to spread the stone. I didn't mention the truck and the insurance for all the equipment because your a smart guy and I know that you would know it put that into the cost as well. My point is, it's a little misleading when you only mention the cost of the stone. If you didn't have all of the equipment and didn't know how to use it, you would have mentioned the cost of delivery and labor/machinery to spread the stone. I'm with you on the cost factor, just thought you should include "all of the cost" not just the stone. On another note, I love watching your channel, the content is great. I'm glad that Eva is doing so much better, it is definitely an answer to all of the prayers. Have a great week and I'm waiting on an xl sweat shirt so that I can get my ODWTM gear.
I live rurally in New England and when I first got my house (haas for you in PA), the driveway was a goat trail. Your vids on tractors are partially why I bought a tractor. I went with a gravel drive over paved because of the frost heaving, ice conditions and the mud/thaw season. Gravel pros, I just leave the snow if it's below the axles. The gravel drains very well and all I do is every Spring I get the York rake and blade out, grade and crown and then rake it out and I have a new driveway again. No matter what happens to it, plow damage, ruts etc, I just fix it in about two hours. The down side to gravel is, everything is dusty, it tracks into the house, you can get puddles if you need to re-grade it. If you wash cars or equipment it puddles up and gets mucky etc. It's nice to have a well done concrete pad somewhere for cleaning things or working on jack stands etc. If you want gravel that will last forever, grade everything out for the base, throw some 3"+ stone down and compact it, then top it with crusher run and compact it again. Rent a roller compactor, it's really worth it. You can drive a cement truck over it...basically a road base.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa, my wedding anniversary is today, the16th, 37 years of wedded bliss also. Happy to see daughter Eva doing so well, you go girl!!
Great to see Eva is back to 100%. One thing for sure, when you do concrete or black top your going to have a great base to start with. The base is more important then the final finish
Biggest problem with asphalt is that any oil or gas gets dripped on it it dissolves. You kid overflows the lawn mower, delivery truck stops in. Car leaks oil ect, ect. Then you get holes.
This helped me decide which way to go on my driveway in front and the back of my house. We use crushed austin stone around here. That is the route I am gonna take. Thanks for the video
I'm so excited to see Eva doing so well , Thankful For the Speedy Full Recovery! God Is Good!! Nice seeing Melissa with that Heart Warming Smile!! 😊👍👊 Happy Anniversary!!
If you would place a quality geo-textile fabric on your soil and then place 2+" of stone rolled down I think you would not need as much maintenance annually as you suggest. The biggest issue is usually steep slopes and bends in the road, on a slope some catch drains may be needed to control washouts with heavy rains or storms. Congratulations to both of you on your anniversary. Best wishes to Eva on her continuing recovery.
Hi Mike. I have a 1000' driveway. I put stone down first. Years later I was able to get road millings. They hold up really well and pack down almost like a paved driveway. Don't have all the stone to rake up in the spring either.
It's really great seeing Eva doing so good. I looked into doing concrete but then went with asphalt. After years of doing stone the asphalt was a good choice for me. Yep stone is cheaper but I'm getting older and was tired of working with stone every year. I know you love stone. Me...not so much. Also you make spreading stone look easy. Folks it's not that easy. Mike definitely knows what he is doing and is a great operator. Thanks for sharing.
In August of 2021, we paved with blacktop our driveway and parking area around our barn in northeast PA. The total area was 6,000 sq. ft. for $24,500 with a commercial grade blacktop since we have heavy equipment, the propane and garage truck driving on it. We edged the blacktop with road modified to protect the pavement when driving on and off it. We are very happy with it plus everything is cleaner and NO MORE MUD!
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa! One thing to consider in the concrete vs stone equation is if open concrete is taxed as part of your property tax bill every year. When our first appraiser came out from the county he ask about future plans and I said after the shop the house would be next then concreting the circle drive, he said it would be taxed, so I said asphalt then and was told they were thinking about taxing that too. So stone it was and always will be.
Hi Mike, Melissa. I just received my orange hoodie. I was pleasantly surprised by how quick I got it and thanks for the handwritten note. I look like Mike now when I’m working and Melissa you are amazing.
Happy Anniversary, you two. Wow, I wish I could make it that long with my wife. Unfortunately, we got a late start, and time may not be on our side. But we will enjoy the time God gives us.. I love my Morgans shirt. I just got it Monday!!!!! Thank you!
Great to hear how Eva is doing!! People don't realize how much the price of concrete becomes when you do a large area!! In my area I paid $35 for Two yards of stone this fall, and that was from a Ready-mix plant.
Great to see Eva up and running again 👏👏. You know Mike I've never owned a tractor in fact I've never even driven one but have discovered I have a thing for Farmall tractors, perhaps not so strange I love 50's trucks too. Everyone stay safe there and best to Hunter. Regards Jim UK.
Love the videos and watch every one of them. Happy Anniversary 🎉.. I love playing with the numbers, old baseball stats guy.. 54 Years of stone = 60k of concrete.. if you spend 30 hrs a year spreading and maintenance on a stone driveway that's 1,620 hours in 54 Years.. Your time is worth something so let's put it at 25$.. Just for maintenance of stone driveway for 54 Years in just labor $40,500. Add in fuel cost, new tractor cost, maintenance of machines, rising prices of materials over that 54 year period and it's a no-brainer.. Concrete all the way. Once it's done it was paid for at today's prices . The way inflation is going nowadays. A ton of stone might cost you $200 in a couple years. Come on Melissa buy him a concrete driveway!!! I'm trying to apply the Mike lumber price savings angle on the concrete for ya.. Just having fun. Keep up the good work.
Happy Anniversary! Great to see Eva has recovered and is getting out to the gym again. While I agree that gravel is much less expensive, I’m not sure you did an apples to apples comparison. The $11 for concrete has a lot more calculated into it that your number for the stone. You really need to include the cost of all the equipment required to get the stone and spreading it along with your labor. I realize it’s a sunk cost for you and you work cheap, but gravel is more that just the cost of the stone. Love the channel. Have A Day!
Happy Anniversary Morgan's. I agree with your concrete math. Then also consider it cracking etc. Heavy machinery will Crack it unless much thicker. Asphalt same problem. Stone drained better and not as slippery in winter or when wet. Stone is the way to go.
We do general contracting in S/W Florida. My average cost all in. Meaning forming , labor, concrete pump etc runs us about $5 a square foot. That is based on a four inch slab. Site work and grading is already completed at this price,
Happy anniversary, nice to see Eva back in her happy, healthy , helpful routine! 16:00 international Farmall A , my dad's favorite tractor. Not his most-used is poppin Johnny two lunger with the tricycle front end. He built a angle iron with expanded sheet metal basket attached to the rear axle and with a rubber grommet where the headlight is attached. So it free floated on the front axle. He had a wooden box in the corner closest to the driver with steel post clips and Staples, with a fencing plyer and a hammer in a ice cream bucket. The rest of the Fencing Equipment lay in the basket. He called it "His Communing With God Tractor" I haven't before or since seeing a person so happy by himself fixing fence!
I still own a Super A (an A with hydraulics) which belonged to my grandfather. My 27 year old son pulls a 5' John Deere brush hog with it to mow our timber roads.
Happy Anniversary guys, Melissa that is some nice rock Mike got for you. Told my wife I was getting her a Mike Morgan Rock for our anniversary, she is so excited.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. Congrats on 31 years. Truly an feat especially in this day and age. Great stone vs concrete video mike. Here in SC I pay $36 a ton when i pick up crush and run but still cheaper than concrete and it doesn't crack.
Happy anniversary, good to see Eva back to normal,what ever that is. Here in Southwest Mt. I get road mix right off the crusher, 10/ton if I haul it in my dump trailer.
Numbers on paper always made sense to me. Thanks Mike for doing the numbers and making it clear why stone is better!! Happy Anniversary! I'll be sending an e-card to your email address.
Research, True Grid. I live in the city and will be using this this year. Been using 1ft by 1ft paver blocks but these true grids last forever and absorb the water run off when it is warm. I live in Bismarck, ND. It sure has been a weird winter here again. Warm, cold cycles when usually it stays cold Jan and Feb. I enjoy your videos, keep up the good job. Take care.
Happy Anniversary and happy to see Eva doing so well. As far as the concrete I live in indiana pa not far from you this is the land of taxes here or I would not be cleaning mudd up all the time ...hate mudd.
So much for the concrete vs stone controversy! You Morgan folks sure are a pleasant, hard-working, decent bunch! Great to see Eva doing so well. How's Hunter holding up? God bless you all.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! 31 years that is great! It's great to see couples who stick together through thick and thin. Your right about the thickness, with the log trucks coming in you'd have to go at the least six maybe eight inches. Now if you have a alternate way to get to the wood yard you could concrete the main driveway and have all the heavier things come in a different way. Congratulations to success, prayers for the both of you, and your family. Stay safe!
Forget the groundhog day, you know spring is around the corner when Mike starts to spread some gravel!😀 Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I love those videos. 🙂👍
Thumbs up to Eva’s recovery! Happy anniversary! Don’t ever forget it (been there, done that). As for the concrete vs stone… the reality of economics wins. It’s not only the concrete costs, but don’t forget the cost of the new wood lot road. Great video, keep up the good work!
Another good video. Love to hear and see that Eva is doing so good and getting back to doing what Eva does. Thanks again for the tractor pics. Stay well, stay safe and yall HAVE A DAY
I wish the limestone rock was that cheap here. In lower Alabama we pay $1100-$1300 for a 22 ton truck load. Great to see Eva back in gym and healthy. Still trying to decide on which shirt or shirts to get. Keep them videos coming.
M&M...its great to see Eva doing so well I for one am very glad that she is and so fast, WOW! 2nd ... ~ Happy Anniversary ~ May you have many more! BTW I hope that Melissa is getting a medal for putting up with Mike all these years. From my own experience save your money and stay with the stone drive. WHY? Concrete in almost any large pad has two things. 1) its very hard and 2) it cracks, shifts and moves. Yes afraid it does as my large concrete drive is having issues at the expansion joints where one pad is rising and the next is sinking.
Mike I know exactly what you are saying. When I purchased my driveway it needed to have gravel put down. I was shocked when I found out how much it was. Then I saw a video on TH-cam where they spread out ground up asphalt! Maybe you should look into that instead? I believe that was the best decision for me. It has been three or four years now and I am just now needing another layer but nothing like I’d need with gravel!
We’re so glad Eva is doing good. You are right on the cost of rock versus concrete. I myself would go with blacktop or chip and seal before I would go with concrete. It’s so slippery in the ice and it’s costly. You know bridges freeze up before the road does. In fact we had our driveway chip and sealed in our homestead before this one and it was still good when we sold and moved. Anyway food for thought. Rock does us good and is a lot cheaper like you figured. Great video Mike. Thanks 👍👍👍❤️
Great news Eva 👏 Glad to see you are progressing so well. Mellisa I don't know how you did it. Trying times for sure. Put it down scrape it off seems effective! Thank God for you-tube dollars 💸
Happy Anniversary you two! I think paving with asphalt would be the best option as it is much cheaper than concrete. In CT there arent many concrete driveways. Pretty much all asphalt which we like and are very durable!
Glad to see Eva doing so well! I’ve got you two beat by one year on marriage and the word “bliss” says it all😜. Seriously though, happy anniversary Mike & Melissa, many healthy & happy more.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. SO glad to see Eva getting back to doing the things she loves. I'm sorry everyone has to "sell" their opinion to you. Concrete, asphalt, crushed rock. What's the difference. You do you, and keep making videos doing the things YOU love to do. We'll just keep watching. Thanks, and Have a Day!!!!
Happy Anniversary !!! A thought on the driveway….. We have a mile long dirt road up here in Maine and had fought mud sections for years until my buddy told me about bituminous asphalt. It’s more expensive than stone, but less than concrete. We chose to do sections at a time over a few years, but now it looks and acts just as if it had been paved. I’m not sure the cost of it in your area, but just my two cents. Which I’m sure if you had the two cents from everyone’s ideas offered to you you’d be able to afford to gold plate the driveway. Hahahahahaha Keep the great videos coming ! Thanks!
Another great post, Mike. So glad to see Eva is back into high gear and doing so well. Great comparison between concrete and stone. I could live with the stone when you factor in the cost of doing it in concrete!
Hi Mike , Happy Anniversary . Stay with gravel , no cracks from heavy trucks and big tractor’s . Mike , check your vehicles , you got a oil leak in your driveway . Have a day !
Happy Anniversary Folks! Spot on about stone.Asphalt and concrete need yearly maintenance. A yearly dusting of stone gives a nice fresh look! Mike you forgot to include the price pf the radiant heat tubing!
Great to see Eva doing so well. You are right Mike, gravel is much more cost effective than concrete. If I ever win the lottery, I will have my 900 foot driveway concreted, but until then gravel and my land plane work great. Thanks for including the picture of our tractor at the 15:57 mark. Keep up the great work with the apparel business Melissa!
Happy Anniversary ! Happy for Eva !! Great explanation gravel vs. concrete. I arrived @ same conclusion for my long driveway years ago. I had quote for asphalt and figured I can get a big load of gravel every 4-5 years = cheaper plus we like the gravel driveway look. I don't have all your equipment so the dump truck driver(s) set the tailgate chain to thickness I want spread (1-2 inches usually) as they drive and dump. NO work on my part. 👍
Happy Anniversary, and glad to see Eva getting back to her routine, I am with you concrete is nice but man what would we do if we couldn't see Mike spreading rock... Lol
You should listen to your viewers and Concrete at all
Lol do you know a guy?
18 inches thick!!!
(Never know when a fully loaded Boeing 747 is gonna need to land) 😉
I'm almost certain he will, he's just not ready yet! In his calculations though, he didn't add cost of heating, so maybe you can give him that added cost. 👍👌❤
Happy Anniversary you two. We just celebrated 45 years but we both will admit that "We have been married for 3 blissful years and we just celebrated our 45th anniversary" A day of bliss here and there adds up to about 3 years. the resto f the time has been the good, the bad and the ugly...
Happy Anniversary, 31 years, awesome!
I'm sorry, I'm one of those commenters spouting concrete. If anyone is fully aware that you know your stuff it's me. Oh yes, dollar wise, perfect sense, fun spreading stone, you lucky dude! It was your neighbor that day when you drove by and said, "you know you've got it made when you have a heated drive." Well, with ya'lls motto, "the finer things in life," a heated cement drive and parking lot and aggregate walkway from house to gameroom, certainly is the finer things in life. I do hope you didn't get offended. I do hope that one day, whenever, you will have all the finer things in life. Your channel sure adds to the quality of mine! So very sweet to see Eva 'back at it.' Thank you Lord! Eva and Melissa sure had great hair today and awesome smiles, geese, so nice! I really enjoy watching you spread stone! I remember now, you've talked about making that road before, at least in 2 videos. Concrete IS very expensive! Everything is, we here in Hickory NC are paying $3.39 a gallon for gas. I saw the dancing clip on Instagram, good stuff! It's supposed to reach 68° tomorrow w rain. Now get that stone spread and stay out of the mud! Thanks Mike and Melissa for the sweet video today!👍🚜❤
Happy Anniversary! My Wife and I just celebrated 30 years two months ago, hope y'all have many Blessings and more years to come your way!!!
Dear Eva. It’s so awesome to see you so healthy and recovered! All of our Prayers have been answered and you’re 100%
Being able to spread the stone like that is called finesse, and you Michael have it! Well done! There are operators and there are steering wheel holders. You are an operator!
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. Great to see Eva starting the video. It put a smile on my face!
Happy Anniversary, Mike & Melissa! 32-years of wedded bliss 🤣😂 for my wife and I this year. Crushed stone, perfect anniversary gift!!! As a lifelong city dweller, I never would have understood the cost effectiveness or usefulness of stone/gravel until I started developing my North Idaho rural property. There is no way I could have laid concrete or asphalt to cover my 1/2-mile access road or 600’ driveway, let alone keeping it from disintegrating with the freezing and thawing of Winter weather. The naysayers are possibly those who’ve lived in the concrete jungle their entire lives. Great to hear Eva is back in the gym and back to normal life.
Mike, I am amazed at how well you can drop stone and sprinkle it the way you do. I have attempted this several times with the over 50+ ton of stone I put in last year with my 1025r and just couldn't master it. It just tends to dump in piles. I will be working on perfecting my technique this year but I can only hope to get close to the way you can put stone down. Things are looking great there and I enjoy watching the videos daily. Great content, instruction, and I am gaining a wealth of knowledge and insight into the reason behind the way you do things. Happy and excited to see the success you are enjoying through your perseverance and determination. There's a lot to be gleaned from all of these videos and your mentorship to the community.
Hey Mike, I'm sure it is still cheaper to stone it. But! You need to add in some of the trailer cost because you use it to pick it up
Some Kubota cost and your time because you use those to spread the stone. I didn't mention the truck and the insurance for all the equipment because your a smart guy and I know that you would know it put that into the cost as well. My point is, it's a little misleading when you only mention the cost of the stone. If you didn't have all of the equipment and didn't know how to use it, you would have mentioned the cost of delivery and labor/machinery to spread the stone. I'm with you on the cost factor, just thought you should include "all of the cost" not just the stone.
On another note, I love watching your channel, the content is great. I'm glad that Eva is doing so much better, it is definitely an answer to all of the prayers. Have a great week and I'm waiting on an xl sweat shirt so that I can get my ODWTM gear.
I live rurally in New England and when I first got my house (haas for you in PA), the driveway was a goat trail. Your vids on tractors are partially why I bought a tractor. I went with a gravel drive over paved because of the frost heaving, ice conditions and the mud/thaw season.
Gravel pros, I just leave the snow if it's below the axles. The gravel drains very well and all I do is every Spring I get the York rake and blade out, grade and crown and then rake it out and I have a new driveway again. No matter what happens to it, plow damage, ruts etc, I just fix it in about two hours.
The down side to gravel is, everything is dusty, it tracks into the house, you can get puddles if you need to re-grade it. If you wash cars or equipment it puddles up and gets mucky etc. It's nice to have a well done concrete pad somewhere for cleaning things or working on jack stands etc.
If you want gravel that will last forever, grade everything out for the base, throw some 3"+ stone down and compact it, then top it with crusher run and compact it again. Rent a roller compactor, it's really worth it. You can drive a cement truck over it...basically a road base.
Oh and I keep about six or eight yards of spare stone in a pile, very handy to have it around if you have the space.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa, my wedding anniversary is today, the16th, 37 years of wedded bliss also. Happy to see daughter Eva doing so well, you go girl!!
Great to see Eva is back to 100%. One thing for sure, when you do concrete or black top your going to have a great base to start with. The base is more important then the final finish
Biggest problem with asphalt is that any oil or gas gets dripped on it it dissolves. You kid overflows the lawn mower, delivery truck stops in. Car leaks oil ect, ect. Then you get holes.
@@douglasmiller7618not with sealcoat
I love watching you think.....Great to see Daughter Eva's big smile.....
This helped me decide which way to go on my driveway in front and the back of my house. We use crushed austin stone around here. That is the route I am gonna take. Thanks for the video
I'm so excited to see Eva doing so well , Thankful For the Speedy Full Recovery! God Is Good!! Nice seeing Melissa with that Heart Warming Smile!! 😊👍👊
Happy Anniversary!!
If you would place a quality geo-textile fabric on your soil and then place 2+" of stone rolled down I think you would not need as much maintenance annually as you suggest. The biggest issue is usually steep slopes and bends in the road, on a slope some catch drains may be needed to control washouts with heavy rains or storms.
Congratulations to both of you on your anniversary. Best wishes to Eva on her continuing recovery.
Eva looks FANTASTIC! So happy for your quick recovery!
Good to see Eva feeling better and getting around. Hope you two have a great anniversary and enjoy a nice evening out together. Thanks for the videos.
Hi Mike.
I have a 1000' driveway. I put stone down first. Years later I was able to get road millings. They hold up really well and pack down almost like a paved driveway. Don't have all the stone to rake up in the spring either.
It's really great seeing Eva doing so good. I looked into doing concrete but then went with asphalt. After years of doing stone the asphalt was a good choice for me. Yep stone is cheaper but I'm getting older and was tired of working with stone every year. I know you love stone. Me...not so much. Also you make spreading stone look easy. Folks it's not that easy. Mike definitely knows what he is doing and is a great operator. Thanks for sharing.
In August of 2021, we paved with blacktop our driveway and parking area around our barn in northeast PA. The total area was 6,000 sq. ft. for $24,500 with a commercial grade blacktop since we have heavy equipment, the propane and garage truck driving on it. We edged the blacktop with road modified to protect the pavement when driving on and off it. We are very happy with it plus everything is cleaner and NO MORE MUD!
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa! One thing to consider in the concrete vs stone equation is if open concrete is taxed as part of your property tax bill every year. When our first appraiser came out from the county he ask about future plans and I said after the shop the house would be next then concreting the circle drive, he said it would be taxed, so I said asphalt then and was told they were thinking about taxing that too. So stone it was and always will be.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. Congrats on 31 years together.
Hi Mike, Melissa. I just received my orange hoodie. I was pleasantly surprised by how quick I got it and thanks for the handwritten note. I look like Mike now when I’m working and Melissa you are amazing.
Happy Anniversary, you two. Wow, I wish I could make it that long with my wife. Unfortunately, we got a late start, and time may not be on our side. But we will enjoy the time God gives us.. I love my Morgans shirt. I just got it Monday!!!!! Thank you!
Great to hear how Eva is doing!! People don't realize how much the price of concrete becomes when you do a large area!! In my area I paid $35 for Two yards of stone this fall, and that was from a Ready-mix plant.
Happy Anniversary to you both! My wife and I just celebrated 31 years in October, time flies when you're in Love!!
Great to see Eva up and running again 👏👏. You know Mike I've never owned a tractor in fact I've never even driven one but have discovered I have a thing for Farmall tractors, perhaps not so strange I love 50's trucks too. Everyone stay safe there and best to Hunter. Regards Jim UK.
Love the videos and watch every one of them. Happy Anniversary 🎉.. I love playing with the numbers, old baseball stats guy.. 54 Years of stone = 60k of concrete.. if you spend 30 hrs a year spreading and maintenance on a stone driveway that's 1,620 hours in 54 Years.. Your time is worth something so let's put it at 25$.. Just for maintenance of stone driveway for 54 Years in just labor $40,500. Add in fuel cost, new tractor cost, maintenance of machines, rising prices of materials over that 54 year period and it's a no-brainer.. Concrete all the way. Once it's done it was paid for at today's prices . The way inflation is going nowadays. A ton of stone might cost you $200 in a couple years. Come on Melissa buy him a concrete driveway!!! I'm trying to apply the Mike lumber price savings angle on the concrete for ya.. Just having fun. Keep up the good work.
Happy Anniversary! Great to see Eva has recovered and is getting out to the gym again. While I agree that gravel is much less expensive, I’m not sure you did an apples to apples comparison. The $11 for concrete has a lot more calculated into it that your number for the stone. You really need to include the cost of all the equipment required to get the stone and spreading it along with your labor. I realize it’s a sunk cost for you and you work cheap, but gravel is more that just the cost of the stone. Love the channel. Have A Day!
Happy anniversary Morgan's. Good to Eva getting back to her old self. Good doctor and parents sure helped
Happy Anniversary Morgan's. I agree with your concrete math. Then also consider it cracking etc. Heavy machinery will Crack it unless much thicker. Asphalt same problem. Stone drained better and not as slippery in winter or when wet. Stone is the way to go.
Great to see Ava looking so good. Hope she continues good health. God Bless you.
Congrats to Eva!! Mike you are a master tractor stone spreader. Well done. Happy Anniversary to you both and many happy returns.
Happy anniversary. Glad to see Eva is doing great. Rock is a lot cheaper and it works for you and that is all that matters.
Eva, Glad to see you smiling again👍🏼 Your Blessed with great Parents, Take Care young Lady👍🏼🇺🇸
Beautiful!! That smile is total sunshine Eva!! Feels good to see you so good!! Bless you!!
Congratulations!!! 31 years is a milestone for sure! You two don't look that old!
We do general contracting in S/W Florida. My average cost all in. Meaning forming , labor, concrete pump etc runs us about $5 a square foot. That is based on a four inch slab. Site work and grading is already completed at this price,
Happy anniversary, nice to see Eva back in her happy, healthy , helpful routine!
16:00 international Farmall A , my dad's favorite tractor. Not his most-used is poppin Johnny two lunger with the tricycle front end. He built a angle iron with expanded sheet metal basket attached to the rear axle and with a rubber grommet where the headlight is attached. So it free floated on the front axle. He had a wooden box in the corner closest to the driver with steel post clips and Staples, with a fencing plyer and a hammer in a ice cream bucket. The rest of the Fencing Equipment lay in the basket. He called it "His Communing With God Tractor" I haven't before or since seeing a person so happy by himself fixing fence!
I still own a Super A (an A with hydraulics) which belonged to my grandfather. My 27 year old son pulls a 5' John Deere brush hog with it to mow our timber roads.
Mike, we did recycled asphalt for a fraction of the gravel cost and it works awesome
Great video guys. Glad to see daughter Eva is doing well. Happy Anniversary to the BEST couple on You tube !!!
Happy Anniversary guys, Melissa that is some nice rock Mike got for you. Told my wife I was getting her a Mike Morgan Rock for our anniversary, she is so excited.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. Congrats on 31 years. Truly an feat especially in this day and age. Great stone vs concrete video mike. Here in SC I pay $36 a ton when i pick up crush and run but still cheaper than concrete and it doesn't crack.
Great to see daughter Eve back to normal! Prayers work. Happy aniversary!
Happy anniversary, good to see Eva back to normal,what ever that is. Here in Southwest Mt. I get road mix right off the crusher, 10/ton if I haul it in my dump trailer.
Numbers on paper always made sense to me. Thanks Mike for doing the numbers and making it clear why stone is better!! Happy Anniversary! I'll be sending an e-card to your email address.
Happy anniversary to both of you and it's fantastic to hear about Eva
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. So glad to see Eva doing so well.
Good morning everyone, 58º in Kansas City. Enjoying my coffee while watching OWTM. Stay safe, be humble & kind and have a day. 255k
Morning Phil :-)
Good morning Phil! Hope you have a wonderful productive day!
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Good morning from South Carolina Happy Anniversary and I'm glad daughter Eva is doing great God bless you all
Awesome seeing Eva. Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa.
Research, True Grid. I live in the city and will be using this this year. Been using 1ft by 1ft paver blocks but these true grids last forever and absorb the water run off when it is warm. I live in Bismarck, ND. It sure has been a weird winter here again. Warm, cold cycles when usually it stays cold Jan and Feb. I enjoy your videos, keep up the good job. Take care.
Happy Anniversary and happy to see Eva doing so well. As far as the concrete I live in indiana pa not far from you this is the land of taxes here or I would not be cleaning mudd up all the time ...hate mudd.
Good morning from Upstate South Carolina. As a mathematician, I love the calculations and comparisons. Have a productive day.
So much for the concrete vs stone controversy! You Morgan folks sure are a pleasant, hard-working, decent bunch! Great to see Eva doing so well. How's Hunter holding up? God bless you all.
Happy Anniversary to you both. Love your videos. My wife and I have been married in June 53 years
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! 31 years that is great! It's great to see couples who stick together through thick and thin. Your right about the thickness, with the log trucks coming in you'd have to go at the least six maybe eight inches. Now if you have a alternate way to get to the wood yard you could concrete the main driveway and have all the heavier things come in a different way. Congratulations to success, prayers for the both of you, and your family. Stay safe!
Glad to hear from Eva is back to working out. Happy Anniversary to you both.
How good was it to see daughter Eva looking her radiant best. Hope all is going OK for her. Thanks for the video.
Forget the groundhog day, you know spring is around the corner when Mike starts to spread some gravel!😀 Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I love those videos. 🙂👍
Thumbs up to Eva’s recovery! Happy anniversary! Don’t ever forget it (been there, done that). As for the concrete vs stone… the reality of economics wins. It’s not only the concrete costs, but don’t forget the cost of the new wood lot road. Great video, keep up the good work!
Happy Anniversary! Hope you folks have a great one! Hello to all! God bless!🎚🙏🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
Another good video. Love to hear and see that Eva is doing so good and getting back to doing what Eva does. Thanks again for the tractor pics. Stay well, stay safe and yall HAVE A DAY
😊How terrific to see Eva back in the saddle and you and the Mrs. with a bountiful 31 years!!!!!!!!
Great to see Eva and her beautiful smile,glad she's doing great.
And you do a great job spreading… very patient!!!
I wish the limestone rock was that cheap here. In lower Alabama we pay $1100-$1300 for a 22 ton truck load. Great to see Eva back in gym and healthy. Still trying to decide on which shirt or shirts to get. Keep them videos coming.
It was so good to hear that Eva has been able to start going back to the gym already. Looks like she was able to fast track her recovery.
M&M...its great to see Eva doing so well I for one am very glad that she is and so fast, WOW! 2nd ... ~ Happy Anniversary ~ May you have many more! BTW I hope that Melissa is getting a medal for putting up with Mike all these years. From my own experience save your money and stay with the stone drive. WHY? Concrete in almost any large pad has two things. 1) its very hard and 2) it cracks, shifts and moves. Yes afraid it does as my large concrete drive is having issues at the expansion joints where one pad is rising and the next is sinking.
Mike I know exactly what you are saying. When I purchased my driveway it needed to have gravel put down. I was shocked when I found out how much it was. Then I saw a video on TH-cam where they spread out ground up asphalt! Maybe you should look into that instead? I believe that was the best decision for me. It has been three or four years now and I am just now needing another layer but nothing like I’d need with gravel!
We’re so glad Eva is doing good. You are right on the cost of rock versus concrete. I myself would go with blacktop or chip and seal before I would go with concrete. It’s so slippery in the ice and it’s costly. You know bridges freeze up before the road does. In fact we had our driveway chip and sealed in our homestead before this one and it was still good when we sold and moved. Anyway food for thought. Rock does us good and is a lot cheaper like you figured. Great video Mike. Thanks 👍👍👍❤️
Great news Eva 👏 Glad to see you are progressing so well. Mellisa I don't know how you did it. Trying times for sure. Put it down scrape it off seems effective! Thank God for you-tube dollars 💸
Happy Anniversary you two! I think paving with asphalt would be the best option as it is much cheaper than concrete. In CT there arent many concrete driveways. Pretty much all asphalt which we like and are very durable!
Then comes the resealing every five years which can be a diy project. Just need to park in a different place for a day or so.
Happy Anniversary, Mike And Melissa!!!!
Mike, Love your videos. My wife and I were married February 17th 1973 so Happy anniversary to the both of us. Dan & Sue from Hale, MI
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Eva great to see you’re doing fine just a beautiful smile hope it keep getting better for you .
Glad to see Eva doing so well! I’ve got you two beat by one year on marriage and the word “bliss” says it all😜. Seriously though, happy anniversary Mike & Melissa, many healthy & happy more.
Great to hear that Eva is doing great!
Happy Anniversary! Great seeing Eva out and about. She sounds real good.
Wow !!! I'm glad that I'm in Missouri!! The 2 local chat quarry both are $9.50 a ton!!! I usually get 1in or 3/4in clean stone.
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa. SO glad to see Eva getting back to doing the things she loves. I'm sorry everyone has to "sell" their opinion to you. Concrete, asphalt, crushed rock. What's the difference. You do you, and keep making videos doing the things YOU love to do. We'll just keep watching. Thanks, and Have a Day!!!!
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa🎉 May God Bless Ya'll with Many More Healthy Years..
Happy Anniversary !!!
A thought on the driveway…..
We have a mile long dirt road up here in Maine and had fought mud sections for years until my buddy told me about bituminous asphalt. It’s more expensive than stone, but less than concrete. We chose to do sections at a time over a few years, but now it looks and acts just as if it had been paved. I’m not sure the cost of it in your area, but just my two cents.
Which I’m sure if you had the two cents from everyone’s ideas offered to you you’d be able to afford to gold plate the driveway.
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Keep the great videos coming !
Thanks!
Happy Anniversary Mike and Melissa!! We celebrated our anniversary on 02/12 it was 28 year's for us. Enjoy your day guy's.
Great to see Eva and her smile that made my day
Good news on Eva!, nice to see her smile !
Happy anniversary Mike and Melissa and have a wonderful day . I enjoy watching your video every day
Another great post, Mike. So glad to see Eva is back into high gear and doing so well. Great comparison between concrete and stone. I could live with the stone when you factor in the cost of doing it in concrete!
Hi Mike , Happy Anniversary . Stay with gravel , no cracks from heavy trucks and big tractor’s . Mike , check your vehicles , you got a oil leak in your driveway . Have a day !
Happy Anniversary Folks! Spot on about stone.Asphalt and concrete need yearly maintenance. A yearly dusting of stone gives a nice fresh look! Mike you forgot to include the price pf the radiant heat tubing!
Great to see Eva doing so well. You are right Mike, gravel is much more cost effective than concrete. If I ever win the lottery, I will have my 900 foot driveway concreted, but until then gravel and my land plane work great. Thanks for including the picture of our tractor at the 15:57 mark. Keep up the great work with the apparel business Melissa!
Happy Anniversary ! Happy for Eva !! Great explanation gravel vs. concrete. I arrived @ same conclusion for my long driveway years ago. I had quote for asphalt and figured I can get a big load of gravel every 4-5 years = cheaper plus we like the gravel driveway look. I don't have all your equipment so the dump truck driver(s) set the tailgate chain to thickness I want spread (1-2 inches usually) as they drive and dump. NO work on my part. 👍
My wife and I will celebrate 41 years on the 21st congratulations to you guys.
Since stone is the Hot topic for the day. You 2 should invest in a rock Quarry 🏡 you all are doing great. Keep it up.
Happy Anniversary, and glad to see Eva getting back to her routine, I am with you concrete is nice but man what would we do if we couldn't see Mike spreading rock... Lol
Great to see Eva back in the saddle! Happy Anniversary!!!
Happy 31st Anniversary Mike and Melissa! You’re two of the good people and have a good day!🙂
Great to see Eva back, beautiful as ever! Glad you're doing well!!