janb
LawnSite Senior Member
- Location
- Washougal, WA
I'm back at my least favorite job site.
This place is ALL football to basketball sized boulders with a little dirt mixed in to fool you into thinking it's flat. Any grading results in huge mound of 'one-man' river rocks, and not enough dirt to fill in the holes.
Also it was heavily timbered till the PO lost the place to the bank, and logged it and left town. I've ground ~ 40 stumps (~ 4' dia x 4' high, surface roots to < 10' radius... no dirt...) the stumps have rocks even 1 ft above ground level, really tough on stump teeth...
There are still ~ 10 stumps left, but I'm not gonna grind anymore HERE...they might need to be dug out with a LARGE trackhoe, then hauled off. It was hard enough to burn the soggy and dirty slash piles, I'm sure they couldn't have provided enough fuel for burning the stumps.
I just finished burning 2 'house size' slash piles, (5 yr old
from 3 acres of clearing) thus there is an abundance of 3" dia sticks 6" to 12" laying around. (they slip through the brush rake) I'\ve spent ~ 4 hrs of hand work picking some up.
The customer wants a lawn...
Can a guy rent a rock / stick screener?.
Unfortunatley looks you would have to take off a couple feet (~ 1 Acre lawn area) and screen the boulders out and spread the soil until it's deep enough to till. Or import a lot of expensive dirt. (this place is in the boonies, but I don't know of any dirt nearby.)
Thanks for any advice.
This place is ALL football to basketball sized boulders with a little dirt mixed in to fool you into thinking it's flat. Any grading results in huge mound of 'one-man' river rocks, and not enough dirt to fill in the holes.
Also it was heavily timbered till the PO lost the place to the bank, and logged it and left town. I've ground ~ 40 stumps (~ 4' dia x 4' high, surface roots to < 10' radius... no dirt...) the stumps have rocks even 1 ft above ground level, really tough on stump teeth...
I just finished burning 2 'house size' slash piles, (5 yr old
The customer wants a lawn...
Can a guy rent a rock / stick screener?.
Unfortunatley looks you would have to take off a couple feet (~ 1 Acre lawn area) and screen the boulders out and spread the soil until it's deep enough to till. Or import a lot of expensive dirt. (this place is in the boonies, but I don't know of any dirt nearby.)
Thanks for any advice.