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I have been keeping up on reading but haven't been able to post anything in awhile. A new policy at work has been keeping me busy and the back yard has sucked up any and all of my free time at home.
Oh, and, congrats to the new mod. Gee, didn't see that one coming Rubi... Uh, Mr. Rubi, Scott...sir...
As far as my back yard goes, I'm not adverse to trying new things and so, when it came time to fix up my rear lawn with some new grass, I figured how hard could it be? You see, the power company did me a HUGE solid recently and cut down some of my trees near their lines and in return I allowed them to grind out the stumps and put up a new fence around the whole yard
. When done though, the back of my property had a big drop off which allowed my dog to get under my new fence and escape. Dumb guy's as disobedient as my wife and chasing him down the steet all the time is only amusing to my neighbors and my kids. So, my goal was to raise the grading to meet the bottom of my fence and then plant some grass seed. Easy. I had 8 yards of dirt delivered (the mathmetician deep inside me said that 8 was a good number) and with a trusted shovel and a 7.5 cubic foot wheel barrow I got to it. I proceeded to lug it from the front of the house to the back.
About three loads in I was tired. By fifteen I thought I could do no more. I finished the day at 27 and still had tons more dirt left in the front. Every now and then I had to take a break from the wheel barrow to level the dirt out and remove some huge roots and this
.
The next day I did 8 more loads and fertilized, seeded and threw some straw down. I ended up only using 6 yards and my neighbor got the other two (he was happy).
Bottom line is that I could have paid someone to do it but I would never have gotton the satisfaction of saying I moved 7 1/2 tons of dirt by myself. Then again, three weeks from now when I realize none of the seed germinates I'll be saying, "Why the hell didn't I just pay a landscaper to do it?" We'll see.
Oh, and, congrats to the new mod. Gee, didn't see that one coming Rubi... Uh, Mr. Rubi, Scott...sir...
As far as my back yard goes, I'm not adverse to trying new things and so, when it came time to fix up my rear lawn with some new grass, I figured how hard could it be? You see, the power company did me a HUGE solid recently and cut down some of my trees near their lines and in return I allowed them to grind out the stumps and put up a new fence around the whole yard
. When done though, the back of my property had a big drop off which allowed my dog to get under my new fence and escape. Dumb guy's as disobedient as my wife and chasing him down the steet all the time is only amusing to my neighbors and my kids. So, my goal was to raise the grading to meet the bottom of my fence and then plant some grass seed. Easy. I had 8 yards of dirt delivered (the mathmetician deep inside me said that 8 was a good number) and with a trusted shovel and a 7.5 cubic foot wheel barrow I got to it. I proceeded to lug it from the front of the house to the back. About three loads in I was tired. By fifteen I thought I could do no more. I finished the day at 27 and still had tons more dirt left in the front. Every now and then I had to take a break from the wheel barrow to level the dirt out and remove some huge roots and this
.The next day I did 8 more loads and fertilized, seeded and threw some straw down. I ended up only using 6 yards and my neighbor got the other two (he was happy).
Bottom line is that I could have paid someone to do it but I would never have gotton the satisfaction of saying I moved 7 1/2 tons of dirt by myself. Then again, three weeks from now when I realize none of the seed germinates I'll be saying, "Why the hell didn't I just pay a landscaper to do it?" We'll see.
