It may be too late but I would recommend that you use a heavy road fabric in your muddy sections at least. Just smooth it out a bit and lay in road fabric then your fill. Otherwise it doesn't matter how much rock you haul the rocks will work down in the mud and the mud will work up till it's a muddy road again. Good heavy duty highway fabric will keep your fill separated from the mud and allow the water to flow through the rock and away. And as a side note Courtney that long red hair is fantastic. Good luck with all your endeavors this summer, I enjoy watching a young couple that can work together like you two do.
Dyed diesel is for farm equipment use only and is CHEAPER than regular diesel with the green cover on the handle. Regular diesel has high flow for semi-truck tanks. Healthy fine ($1,000 first time here in Montana) if any state’s Highway Patrol / Dept. Of Transportation catches someone running dyed diesel on the roads 😁. Happy belated birthday Courtney!!!!
Happy Birthday! ! ! Restless Redhead indeed. A 4WD without lockers is only 2WD when you need 4WD most. Love the road plan. Very practical. In fact, that is one of the things I like most about your videos is that you two are very practical.
Happy Birthday, Courtney! Beautiful, hard worker, great personality. Coming out the door and into the sun, gorgeous hair! Here’s to many more exciting birthdays.
Just a suggestion you should use the white hoses that are designed to have water through them mostly garden hoses don't have a proper lining just a suggestion one of your fans
You could get fuel cheaper if you bought the off road or agricultural versions no taxes. At least in Florida you can get it. Diesel is about 3 bucks Herr no tax.
Happy belated birthday. Have you thought about getting some cheap 12v winches and leaving them hooked up to trees on the bad parts of your road, so you don't have to run back and forth for the truck or excavator? Or even better, get some remote trailer assist motors; I know they are really meant for parking, but hey they could help.
Why not just a winch bumper on the jeep and the duramax at a minimum. Then if you get stuck those are the rigs you go get. You guys are offroaders you should know better. Lol
1 a.m. thoughts. Just saw you buying fuel for the excavator and the army truck utilizing your new transfer tank. Since it's for off-road use you may be able to buy diesel without the Road use tax. My family bought gasoline and Diesel this way for the farm equipment. I hope this helps!
Happy Birthday, when its time to concrete the shop lay down vapor barrier and 1 or 2 inch rigid styrofoam and tape the seams. Make sure the barrier goes up the sides of the walls 6 to 7 inches and cut off the excess when the concrete is cured then seal with caulking or mastic.
Having worked at a Fuel station many years ago...It doesn't matter which hose if its from the same pump. You would have to move to different pump stand. Not even the opposite side of the pump will pump faster. It's literally the pumps GPM that dictates how fast. Hope that helps.
I think the next equipment you need is a small tractor with 4wd and a front loader attachment. It can also be swapped with forks to make loading/unloading on the trailer with the use of pallets.
Tip: Keep your Diesel Tanks as full as possible. All seasons but especially Winter. Full tank =less room for condensation to form AND when you aren't going to use the equipment for a while. put stabilizer in it.
Always trench a road on the high side to catch water coming off a slope. add trenching on the low side to prevent any standing water. Crown your road, that is make the center higher than the sides for drainage. Anticipate where you will put snow in the winter and widen areas to accommodate that. If your excavator has tilt to the blade use that to help achieve a crown, if not consider renting one to help with that . Learning to work with the material on site should minimize your expense of bringing material in. If you have the cleared width then roll that material from the sides in to build up the center of the road. A dozer is your best friend when building a road in an area such as you have shown. With the talent you show it will be interesting to see your refinement in technique as the road project continues.
Hi Look into getting the washout from concrete trucks in your area. THey usually give it away and it makes good fill for muddy places like you have. I haul it and use it to put in old septic fills and well fills. Next look into crushed concrete Usually about half price of new rock around here, Makes a great base
if I may suggest, on the "Hard" parts of the road get old used tires and mesh them together to a large matrix with bolts and big washers, fill the tires with dirt or gravel (better) and get a stable substrate that you can drive on as much as you need. Good luck with all your endeavors👍
Hey Guy's with the road you guys have here is an Ideal that could be helpful if you haven't though of it yet. 1. change the bed on the army truck to a dump bed. and #2 find a good used Skid steer. By getting your stone you will need a way to put it where need a tri-axel will never make the driveway but the army truck can and a skid-steer can put the rock evenly where you will need it.
Happy belated Birthday Courtney May 1 st same as my daughter's birthday! I'm enjoying watching what you guys come up with and how you tackle all your builds
you might want to use some of the materials you have on hand on the road. you have what looks like Shail. if you dig it out with the excavator then put it as the base for your road. then put the smaller gravel over top of it. Oh! belated happy birthday Courtney.
I would suggest making it a point at least 2 times per week to check for beaver dams causing water to be closer to your road than it normally would be. Part of that drainage problem could be that beavers have raised the water table higher than it should be by making beaver induced swamps. Also, I don't know if anyone suggested this, but before next winter, start clearing some large spaces along the side of your road within every 50 meters or so to push snow off the road. This is something you can a little bit every week and when winter rolls around you guys will be ready,
You need to put large rock for the base. If you spread the gravel you had delivered, it is just going to sink into the mud. Broken concrete or large quarry rock makes a good base.
Courtney looks very different after having her baby! She does have one the best personality, always pleasant, smiling, and cheerful. Been looking for a woman like her all my life! She is great with the dogs!
With the heavier hauling up that grade, would use bigger base and top off with the pack gravel. Just using smaller minus will smoosh during wet season.. If you take ride to a logging area, make notes on how those roads are built. Larger shale is used. This will also lower yearly maintenance from heavy usage and washout... HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUURRL!
The smoke @18:18 is exactly why burning stuff like that is forbidden in Germany. Oh and 19:39 is especially forbidden in Germany. :D Also cutting down trees is forbidden because of bird-breed, except from october-february. x) USA is the place to be. :)
Come on, stuck on 169k, subcribe people! Yep, the road might be a good idea and Happy Birthday. I have a 75gal tank hung off my container, gravity works great! I can use off road fuel too. Without that I spent almost $400 this weekend on fuel. Put a tote in the truck next time or take the 1078, no trailer.
You both and the dogs look so happy all the time and I know it's not like that all the time when things go south once in awhile. Just keep up the good work thanks for the entertainment
I have been binge watching Ambition Strikes for the last few days. Happy memories. We lived in central Idaho,but we made many trips up the Idaho pahhandle, as my wife had a client in Bonners Ferry. We used to camp in Farragut camp ground. We had to save a special non wrinkle place in our old Jeep Wagoneer and our tent, for her business suit. Your collective adaptive skills and smarts will win over the road project. In our time the moon dust you spoke of in one episode, was actually ash from a more recently erupted Mt St. Helens. Enjoy your lives!
Happy Birthday Courtney! Congratulations on your home. Love the channel, been watching since you found your property. Couple of suggestions, as others have mentioned you should definately use road fabric on your soft spots at the very least. Otherwise you'll be adding rock every year to the same spots. Place at least 10" of 3 to 6 inch rock 9ver fabric, should compact to roughly 6 inches thick, cap that with a couple inches of 1 or 2 inch minus for traction. Culverts and serious ditchlines will go a long way. You two already have a solid plan for the worst parts of your road. You may find that after fixing the worst parts the rest may hold up fine. Built a hundred or so miles of logging roads, seen worse than yours! Put the transfer tank in the back of your pickup, it'll walk right up the steep part with a loaded trailer if ya do!
Regarding the Army Truck, have you thought of installing a On/Off switch instead of disconnecting physically? you can use the same On/Off switch used on the solar batteries as it has the same type of connectors.
The first 1,000 people to use the link or our code ambitionstrikes will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare skl.sh/ambitionstrikes05221
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Thank you Darrell! 😊
It may be too late but I would recommend that you use a heavy road fabric in your muddy sections at least. Just smooth it out a bit and lay in road fabric then your fill. Otherwise it doesn't matter how much rock you haul the rocks will work down in the mud and the mud will work up till it's a muddy road again. Good heavy duty highway fabric will keep your fill separated from the mud and allow the water to flow through the rock and away.
And as a side note Courtney that long red hair is fantastic.
Good luck with all your endeavors this summer, I enjoy watching a young couple that can work together like you two do.
The fabric goes over the full between the rock and fill
Happy birthday 🤘
Dyed diesel is for farm equipment use only and is CHEAPER than regular diesel with the green cover on the handle. Regular diesel has high flow for semi-truck tanks. Healthy fine ($1,000 first time here in Montana) if any state’s Highway Patrol / Dept. Of Transportation catches someone running dyed diesel on the roads 😁. Happy belated birthday Courtney!!!!
Happy Birthday! ! ! Restless Redhead indeed.
A 4WD without lockers is only 2WD when you need 4WD most.
Love the road plan. Very practical. In fact, that is one of the things I like most about your videos is that you two are very practical.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CORTNEY!!!💏 👍👍👍✌☝
Happy birthday!!!! 🥳🎂🍸
Happenings birthday!
Happy birthday 🎉
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday Courtney! Your "Kids" are the happiest dogs You'll see this morning!
Happy Birthday, Courtney! Beautiful, hard worker, great personality. Coming out the door and into the sun, gorgeous hair! Here’s to many more exciting birthdays.
I know that taco bell! And the Co-Op! Welcome to the area!
Happy Birthday.
Happy Belated Birthday. Look forward to seeing the road progress. Keep smiling
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Oh and Happy Belated Birthday 🥳
Happy Birthday.!.!.
Happy Birthday. Many happy returns.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, mine was may7
Happy belated birthday!
Glad to see you use the military truck for something useful.
Just a suggestion you should use the white hoses that are designed to have water through them mostly garden hoses don't have a proper lining just a suggestion one of your fans
You could get fuel cheaper if you bought the off road or agricultural versions no taxes. At least in Florida you can get it. Diesel is about 3 bucks Herr no tax.
Good you ordered the filter housing. Happy Birthday 🎁
Happy belated birthday. Have you thought about getting some cheap 12v winches and leaving them hooked up to trees on the bad parts of your road, so you don't have to run back and forth for the truck or excavator? Or even better, get some remote trailer assist motors; I know they are really meant for parking, but hey they could help.
Why not just a winch bumper on the jeep and the duramax at a minimum. Then if you get stuck those are the rigs you go get. You guys are offroaders you should know better. Lol
happy belated birthday Courtney
Happiest of Birthday young woman ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Life is grand. Enjoy the fruits of your hard labor!
Happy Birthday Cortney !!!
Happy Belated Birthday, many more
In this video if you look behind Courtney when she's sitting there watching the fire there's a lot of rock there you could be using for your road
Happy Birthday ,
Awesome thank you
HAPPY B DAY!... LOOKING GOOD U2!...thanks 4 video. be kind.
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You know it's your Birthday
Happy birthday to ya
1 a.m. thoughts. Just saw you buying fuel for the excavator and the army truck utilizing your new transfer tank. Since it's for off-road use you may be able to buy diesel without the Road use tax. My family bought gasoline and Diesel this way for the farm equipment. I hope this helps!
Awesome 👏
I know it's late but I just watch the video, Happy Belated Birthday!
Happy Birthday. Courtney
Happy Birthday, when its time to concrete the shop lay down vapor barrier and 1 or 2 inch rigid styrofoam and tape the seams. Make sure the barrier goes up the sides of the walls 6 to 7 inches and cut off the excess when the concrete is cured then seal with caulking or mastic.
Having worked at a Fuel station many years ago...It doesn't matter which hose if its from the same pump. You would have to move to different pump stand. Not even the opposite side of the pump will pump faster. It's literally the pumps GPM that dictates how fast.
Hope that helps.
Happy birthday
Great Burnday on your Birthday Courtney!
I think the next equipment you need is a small tractor with 4wd and a front loader attachment. It can also be swapped with forks to make loading/unloading on the trailer with the use of pallets.
Watching the water bombers is fun too!😂🤣
Restless Redhead with the beautiful hair. Love u couple.
Ruthless redhead sounds better
The muffin man! Yesssss!
Good morning! You two are a breath of fresh air this morning. Having my coffee ☕ and watching TH-cam
Tip: Keep your Diesel Tanks as full as possible. All seasons but especially Winter. Full tank =less room for condensation to form AND when you aren't going to use the equipment for a while. put stabilizer in it.
Always trench a road on the high side to catch water coming off a slope. add trenching on the low side to prevent any standing water. Crown your road, that is make the center higher than the sides for drainage. Anticipate where you will put snow in the winter and widen areas to accommodate that. If your excavator has tilt to the blade use that to help achieve a crown, if not consider renting one to help with that . Learning to work with the material on site should minimize your expense of bringing material in. If you have the cleared width then roll that material from the sides in to build up the center of the road. A dozer is your best friend when building a road in an area such as you have shown. With the talent you show it will be interesting to see your refinement in technique as the road project continues.
happy birthday courtney...
Happy BD! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Hi Look into getting the washout from concrete trucks in your area. THey usually give it away and it makes good fill for muddy places like you have. I haul it and use it to put in old septic fills and well fills. Next look into crushed concrete Usually about half price of new rock around here, Makes a great base
if I may suggest, on the "Hard" parts of the road get old used tires and mesh them together to a large matrix with bolts and big washers, fill the tires with dirt or gravel (better) and get a stable substrate that you can drive on as much as you need. Good luck with all your endeavors👍
Hey Guy's with the road you guys have here is an Ideal that could be helpful if you haven't though of it yet. 1. change the bed on the army truck to a dump bed. and #2 find a good used Skid steer. By getting your stone you will need a way to put it where need a tri-axel will never make the driveway but the army truck can and a skid-steer can put the rock evenly where you will need it.
The two of you make a great couple, look forward to the day when you add a little one to the mix. Now that would be a project and a half!
It's a chevy lol Happy Birthday kid !!!! There's alot of good fire wood there. lol
happy BIRTH DAY
Great video, you two are having too much fun!
Another awesome video brother stay strong and God bless
Oh yeah happy belated birthday Courtney
What no hot dogs. Happy birthday girl🎉🎉🎉
Good One!
Happy Birthday, Courtney! Looking so good. Thanks for sharing
you should get red diesel for off road no hwy tax and Happy Birthday
Happy belated Birthday Courtney May 1 st same as my daughter's birthday! I'm enjoying watching what you guys come up with and how you tackle all your builds
You need some mud terrains on that truck. Those road tires won't cut it.
Happy Late Birthday Courtney!! 🎂🎂 I must admit I have a HUGE crush on you!! You are the perfect woman who can do it all!! ❤🩹
you might want to use some of the materials you have on hand on the road. you have what looks like Shail. if you dig it out with the excavator then put it as the base for your road. then put the smaller gravel over top of it.
Oh! belated happy birthday Courtney.
You can get lower cost off-road/farm diesel for anything not driven on the roads. It’s dyed so you can get fined if used on road.
Hi guys I am so jealous of you two also Courtney you have wonderful hair
I would suggest making it a point at least 2 times per week to check for beaver dams causing water to be closer to your road than it normally would be. Part of that drainage problem could be that beavers have raised the water table higher than it should be by making beaver induced swamps. Also, I don't know if anyone suggested this, but before next winter, start clearing some large spaces along the side of your road within every 50 meters or so to push snow off the road. This is something you can a little bit every week and when winter rolls around you guys will be ready,
Great video Riley and Courtney
You need to put large rock for the base. If you spread the gravel you had delivered, it is just going to sink into the mud. Broken concrete or large quarry rock makes a good base.
I thought of Semi Sonic Closing Time song: “every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end”
Amazing that you did all this in a year. Inspirational!!
Courtney looks very different after having her baby! She does have one the best personality, always pleasant, smiling, and cheerful. Been looking for a woman like her all my life! She is great with the dogs!
Happy birthday dear Courtney! What a great day you had! Riley took good care of you, and you deserve a special day!
Anything is better than hauling water especially in the winter Tim I know. I did it for 30 years
Just beautiful..
Happy birthday....
With the heavier hauling up that grade, would use bigger base and top off with the pack gravel. Just using smaller minus will smoosh during wet season.. If you take ride to a logging area, make notes on how those roads are built. Larger shale is used. This will also lower yearly maintenance from heavy usage and washout... HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUURRL!
The smoke @18:18 is exactly why burning stuff like that is forbidden in Germany. Oh and 19:39 is especially forbidden in Germany. :D Also cutting down trees is forbidden because of bird-breed, except from october-february. x)
USA is the place to be. :)
All cardboard should be saved and grass or mulch on top . The worms love it and your garden gets a head start
Or at least firestarter
Happy Birthday young lady ! Enjoy!!!
Great footage of the dogs jumping into the truck! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!! Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Come on, stuck on 169k, subcribe people! Yep, the road might be a good idea and Happy Birthday.
I have a 75gal tank hung off my container, gravity works great! I can use off road fuel too.
Without that I spent almost $400 this weekend on fuel. Put a tote in the truck next time or take the 1078, no trailer.
This reminds me of that old saying or proverb Indian make small fire and sit close, whiteman make big fire sit far away! Happy Birthday!!
Riley, you need to get rid of the street tires on the Duramax. You could easily make the drive easy then.
Love the channel
I’d recommend a retaining wall with drainage built in for the areas with the steep or compromised spots along your road. Should help considerably
Happy birthday smiles 😁 😁😁
You both and the dogs look so happy all the time and I know it's not like that all the time when things go south once in awhile. Just keep up the good work thanks for the entertainment
I have been binge watching Ambition Strikes for the last few days. Happy memories. We lived in central Idaho,but we made many trips up the Idaho pahhandle, as my wife had a client in Bonners Ferry. We used to camp in Farragut camp ground. We had to save a special non wrinkle place in our old Jeep Wagoneer and our tent, for her business suit. Your collective adaptive skills and smarts will win over the road project. In our time the moon dust you spoke of in one episode, was actually ash from a more recently erupted Mt St. Helens. Enjoy your lives!
Happy belated birthday Courtney💃🙏💯💖
Happy Birthday Courtney! Congratulations on your home.
Love the channel, been watching since you found your property.
Couple of suggestions, as others have mentioned you should definately use road fabric on your soft spots at the very least. Otherwise you'll be adding rock every year to the same spots. Place at least 10" of 3 to 6 inch rock 9ver fabric, should compact to roughly 6 inches thick, cap that with a couple inches of 1 or 2 inch minus for traction. Culverts and serious ditchlines will go a long way. You two already have a solid plan for the worst parts of your road. You may find that after fixing the worst parts the rest may hold up fine.
Built a hundred or so miles of logging roads, seen worse than yours!
Put the transfer tank in the back of your pickup, it'll walk right up the steep part with a loaded trailer if ya do!
Happy Belated Birthday Courtney!
Merci !
Thank you very much!
Regarding the Army Truck, have you thought of installing a On/Off switch instead of disconnecting physically? you can use the same On/Off switch used on the solar batteries as it has the same type of connectors.
Happy Birthday young lady