More Carport/Driveway Progress

Randy spent 13 hours on this rented "toy" tractor from Home Depot trying to dig down 12 inches where we decided to put in gravel in the carport where we park the motor home and out in front of it where the asphalt was all broken up from the MH.  It was a new experience for him.

It was a long long HOT day, with not nearly as much progress as he had hoped for.  We are replacing a lot of the yard with gravel too out in front of the carport to use when backing in the motorhome. So he decided to hire a company on the recommendation of a neighbor friend (owned by Scott Robertson and Matt Spears, two former students of ours in Ryan's class) to come with their "big guns" and get 'er done!

They actually started digging in the carport that very afternoon that they came to look at the job and the next day started pouring in the gravel once it was leveled out.

They moved the gravel from the road to down below so fast the next day!

They ordered four loads (96 tons!) of a variety of gravel from their source the next day that were delivered as they were ready for it.

This is in the carport after they'd put down four loads and smoothed it out.

It extends right over to the house.  The pipe you see on the ground at the bottom of the picture is new and what Randy had to replace underground from the downspout that got torn up when he was digging.

So they dug the ditch for the new pipe, put in gravel under the pipe that Randy then laid in, and they covered it with gravel and then smoothed back over the soil.  That just left re-seeding for us which we did the next day.  It's been so rewarding to see how fast the new grass has come up.  

They worked from 7 a.m. till 2 p.m. and had it done!  Randy bought 7 bales of straw that we put down over the grass seed.  Now we wait for the paving company to come to put down 2.5 inches of asphalt on the rest of the driveway.  They'd told us they'd be here sometime during the first two weeks of September.  But then they emailed a few days ago and said they'd had some equipment failure so may not get here by then. . .