What up boys and girls??? Everyone up to their same old shenanigans?

That was for you Pete......lol

 

I'll pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans!

How's it been going, Brent? You've been quiet around here for a while.

 

Hey Brent, how ya doin?

 

Im alright guys, thanks for asking!! Lots of junk going on these days, none of it too great, just junk.
How have you guys been?!?

This place has been a bit slow.......

Hey Farva, whats the name of the restaurant you like???

 

Oh. You mean Shenanigans?

"Uhh yea. Gimme a liter of cola." "Literacola. Do we make literacola?"
"Liter is French for GIVE ME SOME F**KING COLA!"

So Brent is the yard thawed out yet?

 

Nice one Pete!!! Yeah, it's thawed, just siting under water these days. Lots of rain. Thinking about digging down to hard pan on the high side and doing a curtain drain into the city storm system. Think that would be wise?

 

Yup, washed. She was a bit dirty.

 

Atta boy, just the way I like her......

 

Here's what we would typically do:

1: Check the legality of tying your drains into the city storm system.
The rest of this is assuming that it is legal
2: Figure out where most of your water is coming from.
3: Regrade the yard to water tends to run off instead of pooling.
4: Dig yourself a little trench.
5: Fill the bottom with 3/8" stone.
6: Tie in all downspouts and any drains you might want using a decent sized perforated pipe.
7: Add in any drains you might want in the yard.
8: Run your pipes out to the storm drain and tie them in.
9: Fill over the top using more 3/8" stone.

From there you can add dirt over the top so grass will grow. You don't have to go crazy with the filter fabric either. The 3/8 stone acts as a natural filter.

If you can't tie into storm drains then you will have to use a different system.

It's commonly used in townships near Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. I know a guy there that installs them on a regular basis.

Basically they dig a large pit in the ground, line it with filter fabric, fill it with stone, lay filter fabric on top, and cover it over. They lead all their water into that area and it is able to disperse underground. They have a policy that no water leaves the property. Unless of course it's like a pond or stream or something.

I can get details on it if you need to do that.

Sitework isn't terribly complicated. Now if I was doing a job like that I would want a mini excavator for trenching and a skid for hauling the stone in. And if you can grade halfway decent with a skid then you can avoid a dozer. If I was doing a job like that I would bring in a dozer simply because it does a nicer job than a skid and we already own one.

 

Perfect!!! I can tie into the existing storm drain, city ditch. I still have an open stormwater permit on my house. So, sounds exactly like what I want to do then!

Thanks Pete!!!
Hey, you going into the family business or doing something else dude?

Also- what kind of site laser do you use? I picked up a nice CST Berger the other day.. Man it is awesome!!!

 

I don't know for sure at the moment.

For a while I was thinking about doing engineering, but I can't see myself liking that kind of work and if you don't like your job you might as well kill yourself because you'll never be happy.

I'm thinking of going to school for business and turf grass management and starting out doing landscaping then expanding out from there and gradually move up into larger equipment.

Start with the truck and a couple mowers. Then move on to skids and mini excavators along with the mowers and increase the size of the equipment as the need increases.

Another thought I always toyed around with was finding an industrial zoned site and starting a supply yard. Get my own grinder and coloring units and make mulch and get stone from a guy whose quarry is right over the hill who I'm sure I could get a deal off. Have a few loaders and a couple trucks.

So to answer the question in short: I have no idea what the heck I want to do.

Edit for your edit: It's a Spectra Precision Laser system we use.

 

Whats going on people....

Finally got my cell phone back on! What a pain in the buttocks!

 

For a job like that I would use my L-35 Kubota
Dig the trench,haul the rock and do the grading.One machine to move

 

No worries man, sounds like your head is in the right place. And yeah, if you dont like what your doing dont freakin bother. I agree 100%.

Sounds like you'll be staying within the trades though, so thats good. There is such a shortage of good tradespeople these days, everyone wants to go to college and avoid good ole' fashioned hard labor. We have adds on the radio all the time about it here.

My thoughts- The human body was designed to work, and then some. If your gonna sit at a desk you better be going to the gym or walking or something, or your setting yourself up for some health problems later in life. Now Im not talking about diggin ditches all day and killing yourself, but working hard, damn thats just good for you!

 

What up Nolan? tip shiny still?