Mid November Rocks, Tons and Tons

LEAF SUCKING TRAILER

This beauty makes fall clean up much easier and will save the customers a few bucks as we are more efficient removing leaves.  Oh giant leaf sucker truck where have you been all my life? Seriously this is just one more advantage of having sold our business, the mother ship has lots of groovy tools that make life easier.

LEAVES DUMP OUT

We are wrapping up leaves but will make one more pass over the properties we manage to collect any stragglers.  The weather today is supposed to be severe with high winds even possible tornadoes so if that does not drop the rest of the leaves I don't know what will.

The team of Ryan and Scott took a break from their difficult job on Coldwater Lake and installed some snap cuts and a rock wall for a job the boss sold on Lake Gage.  I think they were happy to be away from Coldwater Lake, Ryan says he moves 3 ton of dirt to install 4 snap cut stairs.  We should finish this week with the most of it.

SNAP CUT STAIRCASE

We concentrated on building new block walls, finishing the dry creek bed and installing snap cut stairs on the Snow Lake job this week. We replaced ugly red block with Versa Lock block, added to the old Versa Lock wall but had trouble matching block color, to eliminate the problem I decided to use the old block as a color band on both walls unifying the theme, looks great.

COLOR BAND ON BOTTOM & 4TH COURSE

The dry creek bed is an efficient, simple easy care choice for a hillside all you need to do is blow it out once in a while.  The creek looks like it terminates behind the new block wall.  In the spring the homeowner can decide if he wants to add some plant material, I think some ever greens would be stellar.  This installation was crazy hard because the entire hillside was back filled with 100% number 4 stone, as usual we were up to the challenge.

DRY CREEK BED FILLS STEEP HILL

As I have said before you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet and we made some dust and dirt running the wet saw and the concrete cut off saw on this job so blowing created a dust storm.  When I am on site at a job I try and do the lighter tasks these days and blowing is one, I was wishing for a breathing mask when I finished and I am certain that back pack blowers are getting heavier.

A TINA MADE DUST STORM

Bill and I went round a bit on the design and concept of the dry creek bed but it worked out just as I had envisioned.  There was nothing easy about the execution but you are not always sure what you're gonna get into when you open up the earth, especially if another human has been there before you.