that is at home ande, i'll be leaving in the morning for the hauling. went through everything today, greased hoist, tipping sils, walking beams(suspension) topped up air in the tires. this is the first trip out with it this year so I wanted to go over it and make sure everythings in good shape for the summer. and there is always good eats at the end of the day ande, the wife runs her own catering co., she do's autions, weddings, funerals, we built her a trailer for going out and doing auctions, barbacues burgers, hotdogs etc. I am wolfing down poppy seed cake as I type this :lol: mmm yummy.
ok greg will post pics of the hauling tomorrow, but this has already been dug out of a wet boggy area that was developed into a campground. there was about 12 to 16' of peat just under the surface that had to be dug out and then backfilled with clay and gravel. the peat moss was hauled to a gravel pit just north of me and stockpiled and this is where i'm getting it from. there are a few commercial peatmoss operations about 50 miles to the west on highway 16, they usually start with going in in the winter when it's frozen and dig drainage ditches to drain the water (peat is found in wet boggy ground) then they strip the top off, dig and haul the peat to a plant where it's screened, run through huge furnaces for drying, bagged and then shipped all over Canada and the u.s. it usually runs any where from 6' to 20' deep or more. looks very similar to the bags of potting soil you see in green house stores.
WOW teri/greg now that was a great read! sue and I read the entire post, that is a cool story on the pool room burger! we will give it a try, ( wonder if you used that reciepe for a meat loaf?) some of the responses where amusing (I wonder if they where ever near the place?) that's a memory triggered by the smell of those cooking burgers and the sounds in the pool room. the great part was sharing those moments with your grandfather.
thanks for the heads up on the griddle :lol:
thanks sv. I lucked out on the dump trailer, it's a 2007 trailtech really strong hydraulics, the wife showed it to me one night when she was on facebook! seller had it on for $7000.00 that's less than half price of a new one. called the seller and 2 days later drove down with the dually and picked it up in drumheller alberta, landscaper that was retiring and selling out. 21000. gvw will haul about 7 yards of peatmoss, about 6 yards of gravel, and has lifted and dumped every load I have hauled. cheaper ones if you load to rated capacity you end up shoveling half the load off to get it to dump
found that out when I borrowed my neighbors pj dump trailer and wound up shoveling!
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