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Tall T · May 20, 2016

. . . from the school of tractor road building that is.

New tractor access road to my back fourty.

I had all this firewood i couldn't burn because it was giving off sour gas from having drank salt water and lying in the bush pickling, so used it as roadbed filler to get rid of it and save me buying gravel.

I dug a trench underneath first and filled it with all my rock collection because that is a spot where water surfaces all winter.
Then I got rid of all all my ratty throw-away tarps and fitted the wood pieces together. the logs at the start I split this morning and they go from thin to thick up the incline.

How can you tell I'm pleased with my handiwork AND love this tractor. Now for my dirt bucket to scavenge fill from here and there to cover it all.

Ed S. · May 20, 2016

You, sir, are having *way* too much fun!

es

Tall T · May 20, 2016

(quoted from post at 13:58:37 05/20/16) You, sir, are having *way* too much fun!

es

Nah!

or is that spelled naa? :wink:

Cheerz,
Terry

2ruNgineer · May 20, 2016

Are those tarps going to hold water a bit too much and rot your wood out pretty fast? Looks like a fun project. Hope it works out well for you.

Tall T · May 20, 2016

Could be.

But by then the wood will have decomposed into a solid mass and I'll just keep adding gravel up top.

My thinking was that the water that pools right there from an underground stream all winter, is way more water than what comes down from the sky and mostly runs off anyway. So I have that long stone filled ditch catchment running the width underneath and draining off into a ditch on the left side.

We shall see.
I got the tarp idea from a web blog on the building of corduroy roads and I had to get rid of that wood anyway.

Thanks for the thought,
T

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