rain and mud

Been helping on a project the last few days that should nave beed done this fall before the rains! It's been raining and trying to snow everyday. I've been running the dozers cutting a pad and placing rock on a new road to a greenhouse pad. I have to push the dump truck about 300 yards back up a little hill everyload. Pad is 200 x 400 for greenhouses to grow some of Oregons mumber one cash crop. Dick
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Its pretty hard to make a descent road with mud and water as a base. I'm surprised its working as good as it is!Taking a lot of rock I bet.What happens with all the dirt piled to the side of your road? Looks like your doing the best you can under the conditions.Is that a case excavator in the first picture? I work on the culvert and road crew in ne NE and mother nature can really through some nasty weather at us at times.
 
Concidering, The road is coming out pretty good. Pumping in a few spots from heavy dump truck. Worked today in some of the heaviest rains I have seen. 1 3/4" of rain today. The Excavator is a 240 Samsung. pretty good old hoe for 7000 hrs.
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Hello Dick!
It's 8F and lake effect snow here so I'm procrastinating on getting my chores done and goofing off on the old computer. Color me naive but when you say OR's number one cash crop are you implying what I think you're implying? Here you can only grow 12 plants per person and you have to have a doctors permission and register with the state. I think there's a provision that lets you grow for up to six people tops; so 72 plants max. I get asked about this from time to time and I have no interest in this until they straighten things out more. Too many conflicting laws that need to be settled first. So that green house seems kind of big to me.

What are you using for gravel? It looks like crushed concrete to me. I had to build a driveway when I bought the farm and it was a learning experience. I have very heavy clay soil, you could almost make pottery out it! I found that crushed concrete works the best.

Boy what I could do with that excavator for two or three weeks! So ah...what's the top speed on that dude, and how long do you think it would take to drive it over here? You know if you have a spell were you weren't using it for awhile. I realize it might take a little longer as you'd probably have to travel mostly back roads. Anyway, have fun playing in the mud and thanks for the post. JD
 

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