Wow! 2″ inches in 24 hours!
I’m kind of glad we hadn’t just finished the road. Especially if we hadn’t done due diligence on the drainage, bar ditches and crowning and rolling. It would have all ended up at the bottom of the road…
A note about the complaint to Entact. It’s all cleared up. The complainer even donated $100… all’s well.
We aren’t getting as many big donations as we had hoped. If anyone wants to donate more, this would be a good time…
We want to rent a full-size skid steer and operator for a day, to fill in the big holes and clean out the drainage. Directing the water off the road as quickly as possible as it rains is the way to go.
The best price we’ve gotten so far for a full-size skid steer operator and machine is $1500 for 8 hours. The $280/day skid steers at CarQuesta are toys compared to our job.
THE PLAN is becoming clear, although I’m not sure where the money will come from. Here’s what must be done.
- Finish Entact deliveries (FREE) for lower and upper Llano Road big holes.
- Major holes filled in and drainage opened up by skidsteer.
- Hard swails at each place where a driveway comes into the road, instead of culverts.
- Map out and create additional drainage away from the road.
- Backhoe a water-holding area on unused land for extra runoff.
- THEN we’re ready for the BIG DAY (or two, but this part has to happen fast)
- Belly dumps of material, pit run and/or base coarse from MTC.
- Grading by Granite (FREE), same day as MTC deliveries.
- Lifting the road as much as we can with the material we can afford.
- Creating a crown down the middle of the road to direct water to:
- Bar ditches along the sides.
- “Speed bumps” to divert the water into drainage at intervals.
- Roller the finished road and hopefully be ready for winter.
- We may want to roll again in the spring after freezing has loosened the road.
It’s a lot, but that’s what it takes to do it right, if we’re to have a chance in the next deluge…
Belly dumps of material from MTC cost approximately $160 – 210 a load, delivered.
Let us know if you’d like to sponsor a load (or 5) of road material.
If I get time, I’ll go over all this in detail on the website. It’s actually pretty interesting, the physics of water wanting to flow downhill vs maintaining a dirt road that goes downhill. It’s a simple goal, but it gets complicated fast.
It is a bit easier to work on the road when it’s slightly moist, so that’s good…
Let’s do this!
Dan
