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xoxoxoBruce · 01-23-2020, 08:09 AM

I was surprised, 35 years ago I had a paved pull off to my mailbox so the mailman could stop out of the line of fire with people cresting the hill 40 feet away. Over the years they've repaved the road a couple times so it became higher than my pull off and dumped the water from the road to my side making a long mud bog by the mailbox.

I figured I'd have a load of stone dumped, and I asked the guy if I should go with small stone, say half inch, or bigger stuff like inch or inch and a half. He said nope, four inch. I thought that was nuts and would make it rough as hell. But he was right. After the mailman, heating oil truck, and UPS truck rolled over a couple times it all packed down tighter than an bulls ass at fly time. This is the second winter and we've had double the normal rain last year. It's still tight.

The pros know.

01-23-2020, 08:09 AM	#2057
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I was surprised, 35 years ago I had a paved pull off to my mailbox so the mailman could stop out of the line of fire with people cresting the hill 40 feet away. Over the years they've repaved the road a couple times so it became higher than my pull off and dumped the water from the road to my side making a long mud bog by the mailbox. I figured I'd have a load of stone dumped, and I asked the guy if I should go with small stone, say half inch, or bigger stuff like inch or inch and a half. He said nope, four inch. I thought that was nuts and would make it rough as hell. But he was right. After the mailman, heating oil truck, and UPS truck rolled over a couple times it all packed down tighter than an bulls ass at fly time. This is the second winter and we've had double the normal rain last year. It's still tight. The pros know. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.