Neighborhood thugs go to war with the road department
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2021
- Update since filming this! Another one of our neighbors stepped in and took over the road department before we were able to. He's very knowledgeable and experienced in road construction projects so he's a great fit, and Grumpy and I will be helping him out taking care of all the roads in our district. This is kind of best case scenario for us as the old people are out, someone who knows what they're doing is in, and we get to be involved without having to be fully responsible for the entire district.
Guarantee the county commissioner’s brother owns the “grading” company that tore up your road
find out who the road commissioner is and then run for his office or out bid him on the contract, at a min Grumpy needs to get his numbers together and try to get some of it back!
We HAD back in the 1990's a GRAVEL ROAD that went by our Farm here in Northern Alberta. My Dad GRADED a 5 mile stretch of the road due to how bad it got. The County TRIED to take him to Court for "Severely Damaging a SECONDARY HIGHWAY". Well he was smart to take a camera and take pictures of how the road was and how it was after he was done. Thankfully(due to some weird luck), the Judge was the TRAINEE that my Dad trained to take over his grading Job 30 years PRIOR.
Sounds like the judge should have recused himself. Of course he would rule in favor of his trainer. By not doing so it would invalidate his own education & experience in the grading field, thereby putting his work as a grader into question. The judge had a personal interest in the case. He should have recused himself.
@@INEVURLOSE He did. He got another Judge to take the case. The Original Judge testified on my Dad's side that the roadwork was done in accordance with Road Allowance Regulations. We had all of the necessary proof of the grading angle(2.5% was what the road originally was graded at) and what it was afterwards(2.5%).
@@INEVURLOSE Sounds like the county should stop being a bunch of b*tches.
@@mattt5946 Gravel roads are typically County Jurisdiction, not State. @Joe Dorcas That makes sense. Glad it worked out that way.
Edit: He mentioned Alberta, so province maybe? In any case, he also said it was the County that took them to court.
@@INEVURLOSE fixed it, either way the point still remains valid.
Its so wholesome to see neighbors being neighbors. Working together fellowshipping with one another all to make the community better for all.
Unfortunately the county will get all kinds of upset with you for working on "their" roads.
This winter been going down to the mailboxes in pla2 and blowing in between the mailboxes and spreading salt and doing my best to try to clear out in front of the mailboxes where the mail ladies Park as well as as much as the parking area right in front of the bulletin board I don't do this expecting anything out of it I do this because I like helping my neighbors
This is the awesome side of communism.
I like your ol buddy "grumpy" seems like he just goes out and makes things right glad you help him out
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I live in Vermont where the law says that if you choose to live on a private road then you are REQUIRED to contribute to its maintenance. The dirt road is about 1/4 mile long and cuts across rugged mountain terrain. The road has twelve culverts and lots of ditching. There have been problems over the years with some neighbors, mostly seasonal people, refusing to contribute to keeping the road fixed. These are the same people who whine that the road is potholed, washed out, not plowed or blocked with a downed tree. There are twelve members of our road co-operative now and we have just laid down about $10,000 worth of stay-mat after having the road properly graded. One neighbor, who thought he was doing the right thing, did a lot of damage to the road with a makeshift tractor-grader and he has been warned not to bring his rig back onto the road ever. I also warned the same neighbor that if he pushes any more rocks into my front drainage ditches he is going to find them piled against his front door. I just spent $1200 to grade and stay-mat my very steep driveway and another $1100 to replace a damaged culvert that crosses the road near the east side of my driveway. I had previously replaced another culvert on the west side of my driveway so the cooperative members took that in good faith and exempted me from the road stay-mat fix. As you've guessed our road is private and no town official is allowed any say as to how we fix it. It is a fifty foot wide private right-of-way and we are taking good care of it. I spend a lot of time every summer cutting brush and trees away from the road so we don't have so many trees down across it in our wicked winters. Road cooperatives CAN work!
This isn't a private road, it's a public road that's part of a road district. Here in Missouri they're under townships, and I've seen roads they haven't maintained for decades. Usually because of low funds and low traffic
He isnt on a private road
After seeing how back country roads twist and turn through hills and connect it makes one wonder how much extra time it takes to go basic distances. Also how you describe road repair it makes me wonder more and more just what if any value at all you get from state and federal taxes.
here in the mountains of AZ we have the same problem with the seasonal people complaining and not paying so we only fix the road to make is passable with a 4X4. we actually want to keep it that way JUST because most of the seasonal people are not able to access their property. its nice, us full timers enjoy never having people coming and going
This shows there is hope for restoration, hope this attitude spreads across the nation.
Typical government... take something simple & complicate it, or take something that works and ruin it! 🤦♂️
If it works, fix it till it doesn't.
There's nothing the Government does correctly, but waste money!
You talking about their Road Commission or the US Government?
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Both in many areas. (Road commission) 9 flat tires and 3 windshields in a month. For the "road" in less than 2 mile section.
In Oregon, we voted to limit property taxes to the inflation rate in 1990. Believe it or not, that's not enough money to do great maintenance on most roads, but especially rural dirt roads.
The road district is a road that's maintained by the people who live in that district
Nice work guys, lovely to see neighbours working together and having fun. You two work well as a team. 💓👍
Everyone needs a grumpy for a neighbor 👍
The good thing about owning a tractor and scraper is the fun involved in shaping the road. It's one of the jobs where you can look back at the end of the day with satisfaction 'cause you can see what you did that day.
I lived on a 12 mile gravel road. You guys are doing a great job.
I know the feeling! And you two did a great job! I park in a dirt ally and I am the only one on my end that finds rock and brick, buys gravel, and fixes it by hand. Yep take and shovel. I can’t even get any neighbors to pitch in. Last gravel I got was only $25 a ton. That was river rock with dirt to cover the rocks and smooth it out. Glad I have 4x4!
I'm in Georgia and the county I live in the graders come along before it rains. They'll pull the ditches and leave the dirt piled up along the sides of the road. Sometimes they'll grade the roads and the roads were smoother before they graded the roads. So I know how you feel.
That dirt needs to be feathered out on the backslope of the ditch or rolled over into a farm field and spread out I've only met one farmer in my 25 years as grader operator that didn't want his own dirt back. there's a lot of work that goes into making a good gravel road and I have seen some really horrible maintenance (?) in other counties and states just a case of the taxpayers not getting anything for the money they've paid in.
Man, this reminds me of my back alley in the city. Our street has cookie cutter houses all the exact same. Our houses all have garages or garage pads with back alley access only. So when it snows the city often runs a truck with a blade down the center of the alley and frequently leaves a nice 2-3ft ice Hill in front of everyone's garages. So if we are lucky 3 of us on the street get our snowblowers out and clear the alley so it prevents these giant ice dams before they are built. I spent 4 1/2 hours one night already this winter blowing snow because it took 3 days before the city got to our alley and most peoples vehicles were trapped in their garages.
I can truly feel you guys pain in this. It's frustrating to say the least
I've been building roads 30 years in Florida, here we rip the road add material blade it back and roll it either with a roller or a wheel loader with a bucket full of rock,You county is just the same as mine here they make things worse, SND IT'S NICE TO SEE A VIDEO WITH SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING YOU SAID IS 💯 RIGHT
1:21 efficiency is key. If it is done right and saves you time that's not lazy in my book ;-) I have zero road build knowledge, I am super familiar with gravity and making dips in a road seems a dumb idea. I can only imagine how mad Grumpy got when he saw how they wrecked your street. that's the kind of stuff that makes me so mad. So glad you fixed it!
"Fine line between lazy and efficient" Love that.
This reminds me of when I was living on the farm. We had lots of dirt roads probably more than paved, when one town supervisor retired the next elected supervisor didn't like crowned dirt roads, which are designed so water on the road could run off into the ditches. He came along and graded all the dirt roads in town so they were flat. The next spring with all the snow melt and rain most of the roads washed out and became pretty much impassable. He didn't last long as supervisor.
I know someone that has a craptastic county job as her road is the dispute line between districts. I'm always out there fixing her drive. Since i have land in the country and a tow house, i deal with city BS. They chipped and sealed my road which was in perfect condition. Unlike the roads on the ither side of town which are in crater shape! All they had to do was fix their traffic problem they created which turned a residential road into a main road, not purposely, to where its a challenge getting in and out of my driveway. All because people want to avoid traffic! Takes actually less time to go the proper route hitting ever red light!
Have to love government politics and screwing up things that were just fine.
Great to see another video with you and Not so Grumpy in it. Good luck with your planned take over of the Road Department.🇬🇧😎
Read the update...
Congratulations
Nothing worse than having someone in charge that has NO CLUE of the How, What, or Why of their office.
The county tried to come and do the same thing they did w/ your road a few years back. So, I went to the county and purchased the equipment from them to repair my road instead and save them money. The road I take care of now is 5 miles long and it’s my responsibility to keep it in good condition for everyone. Keep up the great work, Casey!!
Good work lads!
In my birth town of Kalgoorlie (Western Australia) late eighties/early 90s the local! transport industry desperately needed a heavy vehicle bypass road to keep heavy traffic out of town, council of the day said sorry can't afford it, so over the weekend most of the earth moving and transport companies got together and construct the several kilometres of road to final trim spec, ready for sealing! What could the authorities do ha ha. People power!
@ 2000, on the island of Kauai, in the Hawaiian chain, beach access roads were damaged during a hurricane. Kayak boat operators asked the state to fix the access road they used for their business. State replied the cost would be $ 2 M and take a year. The operators got together, brought in heavy equipment, repaired the road over a long weekend. The difference between the public and private sectors.
"There's a fine line between lazy and efficient, I don't know what side I'm on, but there's a line!" :'D
If you make something easy you are efficient. If you don't do it at all you are lazy.
My dad used to say "to find the most efficient way to do something was to give the job to the laziest guy"
I’m maintaining a relatively short private dirt road myself too. Two of my neighbors have tractors but never come out to help. I’ve purchased a couple loads of crush-n-run and smoothed it out myself with just a scrape blade. With just a little maintenance I keep it very nice.
Whats with the goofy flag?
I like the way grumpy thinks big rocks will slow people down
At least there will be a tow truck nearby
“There’s a fine line between lazy and efficient”😂😂😂 Casey and Grumpy do stuff🎉🎉🎉 What a nice neighbor to have❤ Grumpy is the kind of neighbor you love to spend time with 😊 Keep the great videos coming and stay safe out there!❤️🙏
In first 10 seconds I recognized the terrain as Bend. I sure miss that place. Did my fair share of dirt road work. Thanks for the nicely executed instructional video.
I too live on a gravel road and the worst part is when it does rain people drive down too fast and make the pot holes even bigger I can't win.
A dirt or gravel road will always need maintenance!
It's now a year later, I would love to see an update to this story.
I live on a street here in Tucson Az. and both ends of my street has a wash that causes sand and dirt to build up sometimes 2 to 3 feet deep. people were getting stuck and I pulled them out. There were many calls to the road dept and they never responded. I told them I was going to clean it out with my front loader, they threatened me with arrest if I did it. I told them I was a police officer and in the current condition emergency vehicles could not get through and the county would be liable. They still didn't do anything. I finally put out cones and cleaned out both ends with my loader and sent pictures to the county. They still warned me not to continue. I told them the next pictures were going to the tv stations. he next day there was a crew cleaning the road.
What a wholesome set you guys are. Absolutely a joy to watch.
We had a similar situation with our town and the dirt road. My husband and our neighbor would grade the road with their tractors and the other neighbors helped with shovels and rakes. Then the tOwn told us to stop. They finally paved the road when they got tired of all of us calling every time it rained or they graded and left holes just like yours.
Where I grew up in Canfield, Ohio, every July 4 the town males would get together to fill any pot holes in the town roads. The mayor would drive the dump-truck, lay down the hot mix, the guys would smooth it out, and the mayor would drive the dump-truck over the patch multiple time, to compact it. Seemed to work for many years....
Living on a dirt road for nearly 30 years, 2 1/2 miles. We had lived here about 3 years when the county road dept. graded. They cut off the end of our driveway because we didn't buy a culvert from them! They only grade about every 3rd or 4th year and only use one small dump truck load on the 2 1/2 mile road! We have been told that they will sue us if we fix the road, so we don't. But we invested in a Road Boss and have a great driveway!!!
I applaud you both for your work great job!!
Lived on a dirt road for 30 years. Last 6 or 7 were unreal. They would brine the road to keep the dust down then after a few days they would then grade the road. NEVER had such bad dust in all the previous years!!!! Didn't have to know anything about road maintenance as long as you were related to enough people in the township.
Good job, guys. I wish I could have been there to enjoy the moment with you. Thanks for the video!
Good work guys! That is a huge improvement. I fight a similar battle here with a private road we maintain. There are 13 houses on it and two owners are forever screwing it up... At least I have projects to work on!
Thanks for sharing!
If it were me, I'd use crushed concrete at that transition onto the asphalt and pack that down.. we used it for the approaches to the shop doors and it set up like, well, concrete
A few loads of rc is good.
Y’all did a wonderful job with the road! Wish you my neighbors!!
As a tow truck/recovery guy, you’d probably love the county roads around here. Extra high crowns, narrow shoulders and a four foot deep ‘drainage’ ditch on either side. Every winter I’ve seen at least five vehicles down in the ditch, a couple on their roofs. I’ve nearly joined them a couple times. You have a great community taking care of each other. Rare these days.
Here in Texas. They can't even lay back top correctly. Dirt roads are really bad out here as well. Cheap labor equals cheaply done work.
There is No line between Lazy and Efficient. It's more of a Venn Diagram where Laziness, Effectiveness, and Efficiency overlap.
Now imagine this, you are responsible for taking care of your own road; you want to do the best with the least amount of time, money, and fuel.
It seems pessimistic, but the county road workers do not have the same incentive as those who maintain private roads. The worse job they do in maintaining the roads properly, the sooner they will need maintenance and the more job security for them.
This isn't maintained by the county
They have you figured out! They dump the materials in your area knowing you will distribute and grade it correctly. Ultimately saving them $$$
Yep, I feel for ya. I live on a 1200 foot access road that three homes must maintain. I am the oldest of all the men and when I was working 12/14 hour days, I was the only one willing to keep the road in shape. I have lived here for 25 years and for about 20 of those I did 95% of the maintenance, even though the one neighbor has a small tractor like yours. The only thing he would do is scrape snow off during the winter. I did get the neighbors to pitch in and bring in 20 yards of gravel and leveled it all out with a hand rake. The road was looking pretty good if I do say so. Then I fixed up my own 200 feet of driveway. When the first snow came, about 6", the tractor neighbor got out there after I told him to not scrape all the way to the gravel and scraped a bunch of the gravel to the side of the road. THat was about 5 years ago, and I now only work my own driveway. I am done working on that access road and someone else will have to make repairs. I am 73 and have a very bad back from a couple of serious back injuries. Those younger guys are going to have to get off their butts and take care of it. I tried to explain to the tractor guy, we can drive on two inches of snow, you don't need to remove the snow all the way to the dirt and in the process scrape the gravel off to the sides. We have more gravel on the sides of the road than we have in the center. grrrrrr!!!!! Yes, I know just how y'all feel!
You could recommend he get some edge tamers that keep the bucket just off the gravel.
@@court2379 This road needs to be re- formed, crowned and cambered again, with watering and light compaction, the only way to repair it properly, with ongoing basic road maintenance to keep it serviceable, sadly the cost of wet hiring a grader, vibe roller, water cart, tipper, loader, traffic management and material (if required) as well as mobe/demobe is high.
It's great when community members and machines pitch in for free (mates rates = beer and a BBQ)
@@rescueert I am not sure how your comment relates to what I said...
WE ALL LOVE OL GRUMPY HERE !!!!!!!!!! HE IS A REAL DOER LIKE U HERE HE NEVER COMPLAIN'S HE JUST DOES IT ALL !!!!!! LIKE U GREAT JOB'S GUY'S !!!!!!
Where I live we have boulders protruding out of the road and the county wont touch them , so we drag and fill where needed and hope for the best.
There are places where when it rains, it turns into a swamp withb10" of slimy muck.
Everyone here must have a high clearance 4×4.
Great vid.
County plans never make things better.
My family lives on a horrific road, low spots became holes that grew across 90% of the road to where its basically washed out now, rutted, full of holes and mud. My brother in law has been using his tractor to fix it as best he could but no one who lives on the road will help him, and no one will buy gravel and we are too poor. He had a heart attack a few years back and cant do it as much. Without rock, it just falls apart after he grades it. State refuses to fix the road no matter how bad it gets because a few of the land owners on the road refused to sign a petition allowing them to, most of which do not actually live on the road anymore. Its so easy to lose faith in humanity with neighbors like this.
God bless you guys!
I love the Feedin’ Trough! Great mushroom swiss burgers. Looking forward to when they open again in the spring. 🙂
I do this on our 1 mile stretch of dirt road in Ramona, CA.
The County Roads Department doesn't mind one bit and has even sent a water truck on occasion 😁
Great video, Grumpy is a nice guy. Nice team work
Grumpy is poorly named, he seems like a friendlier version of my grandfather.
just read the description! Awesome, was going to suggest you take over the street department, glad you have things better now, the roads stink here where i live as well and the street department are all criminals, and nothing ever gets fixed besides their pockets! ps. new sub here/bell clicked! I really enjoy the rescue videos as well, its how i found you lol, ok good luck out there!
This is the first video of yours TH-cam has suggested. I immediately thought to myself, "That looks like Central Oregon." Low and behold, it is.
🤣 That's why I stayed watching it! I'm like gotta be Central OR
Can feel your pain I live on gravel road and they also suck at maintaining it nice job
I liked and subscribed. My neighbors and I are all like family. We are always helping each out, or hanging out in one of our front yards.
nice work, fellas! i wish i had neighbors like you.
Dude. I feel your pain. I look after the road where I live.. MY neighbors are great and help out where they can.. It is only 1Km long (.6 Miles) but I have learned a lot over the years.. I typically rent a skid loader to do the work.. While I am not a road master - I have learned a ton.. Thanks for your vid's..
Casey something people do not understand that as the transition point is the breaking and acceleration is at its maximum the sub base needs to be more stable. I cannot believe they did not put any tail out drains along the road and most of all they did not use a grader. Good job and excellent explanations once again.
Definitely should have used a motor grader!
Reminds me of when our HOA president decided to chip and seal a perfectly good road leading to my lake house.. Ended up being 99% gravel and 1% tar. As expected all the gravel ended up on the sides of the road, vehicles slid down the hills, lost traction trying to go up the hills, and the President magically had a nice poured concrete dock access path done by the same company days after they received a hefty check for a sub par job.
Great video like always, have a merry Christmas
I can hear you clearly.
Good cause. Good work
Take care of your self.
So why do they pay their taxes if they are required to repair roads, the gov should pay them, something ain't right here...
Grumpy seems like a pretty nice guy… thanks for your videos buddy…
Oh a very merry Christmas to you all
I built houses for 35 years. Our mantra was, "Pretend you're water!", from the foundation footer to the top of the chimney.
Give it a tune-up LOL love the videos thank you used to live in Bend Oregon now in AJ Arizona hot dry no snow just cactus javelina coyotes and dry LOL
I worked for an outfit that did the city's street paving plus the installation of the infrastructure beneath the street, water pipes ,sewer lines, storm pipe etc.
I enjoyed the way you described the subtleties and importance of a proper subgrade. Having a good foundation is the only way to build anything that you want to last. Throwing stupid ( non-existent) money at your District's road problems won't solve them. It's good that you and 'ol Grumpy have the camaraderie and equipment to keep your section passable. Too bad you have to spend your time and resources trying to undo what the knuckleheads did. With that being said, on the subject of subgrading ,I'll end with a quote from my old "motorgrader yogi," Bob was his name.
Bob told me " Pete, don't ever dig a hole to fill a hole." " 'cuz now you have another hole to fill up." "Go scratch you some dirt
off a high spot."
Yogi was right I've been a grader operator for years and he sounds like a real operator 👍
Isn't it ironic that whenever government steps in they foul up what does not need to be "fixed" ?
Now sent the bill of your time/equipment use and fuel expense to them for immediate payment!
Why I'm watching a video about a couple of neighbors fixing a dirt road and educating on how to properly do it, I dunno. BUT!! Seeing the thumbnail for the follow up video saying: "We're in charge now!" with some heavy machinery, got me exited to see what should have been done in the first place!
Although I get that working together against a common enemy builds loyalty and a good neighbourhood, it really sucks that the so called road department made such a mess of it. I was already wondering how you guys were going to deal with those fumblers! But yes, taking it over might not be the worst way to deal with that! Good luck getting that plan to work!
(And I resent that remark about 50 year olds and starting up in the morning: I'm (just) over 50! ;-) )
Over 50 here. It's 630. School bus just went by. Been up an hour.
Oh the joy of some county seat warmers beeing experts on road construction. 🤝👍
You and grumpy did a wonderful job it would be nice if you guys took over the road we're the road department there it would be done right
This just made me flash back to my childhood at my grandparents, who are no longer here 😪. They used to go through and do this to the roads by their then house. And the city workers would come and tar the roads. That was the worst smell EVER!
Funny how some things take ya back to memories.
Yes!! The old smokey truck with the sprayers on the back. Ugh! Then Pawpaw would have all of us kids go out and spread sand over the fresh goo that never seemed to solidify.
I worked for a landscaper TJ literally right down the road from this store. I ate there alot last summer. Love seeing local areas on TH-cam.
Good video, I liked learning about road work
Need to send them a bill...
That's pretty cool too see you two to work together and at the same time sad for you guys that you have too actually take Upon yourselves to make it,way to go government
The hiway crew in the Yukon use to put gravel down on my driveway in spring and plow it in winter because I let them park their equipment at my cabin when they're out there working! My driveway was one and a half miles long! They didn't have to worry about vandalism of the equipment! It would be sitting there for 2-3 weeks at a time!
Is this the town motto. "We don't have enough money to do it right, but we can always go it again "
No town or county involved, but basically yes
I work for nebraska dot and this is absolutely horrible! I wish you could've put in something so they didn't touch it. Hope yall can get that mess of a road fine tuned so it's not a complete incompetent mess "down the road". Best of luck!
Love your tractor! She moves pretty good!
We are from the government, and we are here to help.
I sure thought this was going to turn out to be a funny video and in some cases it was but I'm telling you guy's that your road department and mine have to be related they come out to put rock down and miss every low spot and holes in the road you guys really need to become the road department both of you did a bang up job from what I can see best of luck
In my home county the townships or divisions of the county were in charge of the gravel roads. Some of the gravel roads were county roads and the smaller roads like the one in this video were township roads. The county set up a county garage in each township and Gravel and tar roads were maintained. Snow removal in winter and gravel in summer along with junk pick up and disposal. It costs money and the townships are the place to start placing responsibility for infrastructure of road maintenance equipment and the hiring of crew and mechanics. But, it is sometimes hard to get bureaucrats to agree. It takes some sort of a political movement to make these things happen. Congress and State senate need to be involved. There might be a certain amount of federal and state money appropriated for these things. Bridges, guardrails, signs, etc. People with skills need to be in the positions to make sound road decisions.
My dad got tired of driving on a crappy road and stole the township blade before he had our 5 miles fixed the board members stopped him and asked if he wanted a job 27 years later he just trained his replacement the best people for the job is farmers or people who live on the roads and understand where the water needs to go and how to get it there not government officials hell even the county engineer couldn't figure out if you put a culvert straight across a road where a ditch hit it at an angle it wouldn't work when replacing a small bridge
Nice work on the road. We have oil equipment on our private road in Texas and the oil company comes and does an excellent job maintaining it. It sucks to have an oil well on the property but no road maintenance is nice.
Excellent video.
Although I totally understand budgets, a tracked skid steer with a Harley rake would knock that out pretty quickly, im an operating engineer so i have some road maintenance/earthwork experience, also if the board hired a company to do this work and thats what you got it sounds like a major breach of contract and that company should be held liable for all damages done as well as all work expenses you and Grumpy have had to shell out
Nha thats over kill. This is literally exactly what a box blade or rear blade is made for. They're grading stone, not doing topsoil.
Your dirt and gravel road is smoother than the paved roads in my neighborhood in a unincorporated area of Tucson. In 50 years the road has never been repaved. It's just a quilt of filled potholes and patches.
I live in south Tucson and it was smoother BEFORE they fixed it!
Good for you guys!
You and Grumpy are the best neighborhood thugs EVER!
i know i don't live where you do but sincerely thank you for correcting the shotty craftsmanship so that not only does it last but also creates fewer problems "down the road" with drainage compaction leveling etc if i had the power equipment company i wish i had id ship you down the road maintenance vehicle you require big ole vibratory compactor drum roller gotta help the neighbors out also a dumptruck to place the gravel and fill for the low spots
Check back later today for the update video
Problem box scraping with smaller\shorter tractors I discovered was they usually aren't long enough and so it requires a good eye or an electronic level. I had a cutting blade like yours too.. never did use it alot..
Love the suspenders Grumpy! ❤
My dad was lucky enough a few years ago when the county redid the road in front of his driveway, to get the asphalt they pulled up dropped off for his driveway for free. We used to have to do a lot of our roadwork as a kid too
Used to eat at the feeding trough every day for lunch after at work. Built a lot of house foundations at brasada ranch!
Great work gentleman. The government had no idea. I am sometimes you just need to leave things to the people to handle.
You live there. You care. The rd dept people for them it's just a job and don't care about the finished rd. Doesnt effect them.
When I lived in La Pine, our road never got touched. No gravel and so much dust in the summer leaving the windows of the house open or closed made no difference on how much dust was in the house. Then no plows in the winter. Fun Fun. Miss that place.. lol
Agreed ,Lived in a subdivision off Burgess rd 1990-1995,Worst time was spring thaw
Wow someone who care about quality, skilled work