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[mALX]

That´s not mine, though. My own puppy is a little smaller...

Well, I thought yours was a track-o, but thought I must have been wrong when I saw the wheels. I love the yellow and black colors a lot, I thought they were unique to your new baby!

[mirocu]

The road is done! Well, not exactly good for a car´s tyres but it´s basically ready!


Before
After

Before
After

Taking my own ´cavator out for a spin




Quite an improvement don´t you think?

[Acadian]

... Quite an improvement don´t you think?

I sure do - it looks great. Nice job!

[mirocu]

Wish my own machine could claim all the credit, but at least it got a few rocks out to start the ball rolling


It´s so great to finally have this road!!




I wish McB was here, he´d like this project

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jun 11 2015, 12:44 PM

[ghastley]

Taking my own ´cavator out for a spin

Do not spin that thing, or you'll dig up the road!

[mALX]

The road is done! Well, not exactly good for a car´s tyres but it´s basically ready!


Before
After

Before
After

Taking my own ´cavator out for a spin




Quite an improvement don´t you think?

It looks so pretty with the crushed bricks! Great Job, Mirocu!

[mirocu]

It looks so pretty with the crushed bricks! Great Job, Mirocu!

It´s the Yellow Orange Brick Road!

[Grits]

Looks great, mirocu!

[mirocu]

Looks great, mirocu!

Thanks


Unfortunately the road has to settle a bit before they can come and put the fine gravel on so it´s not done before Midsummer´s Eve. But that gives us good time to drive back and forth with the tractor and ´cavator which is fun enough

[mALX]

It looks so pretty with the crushed bricks! Great Job, Mirocu!

It´s the Yellow Orange Brick Road!

[mirocu]

I just drove my car on the new driveway!!


I have been driving back and forth with the tractor and the ´cavator all day in order to cut any sharp edges and to pack it down. Must have made at least 25 turns all in all. Driving with the car felt a bit risky but so far the tyres seem to be fine. We´ll see how it goes *cough* further down the road *cough*

[mALX]

I just drove my car on the new driveway!!


I have been driving back and forth with the tractor and the ´cavator all day in order to cut any sharp edges and to pack it down. Must have made at least 25 turns all in all. Driving with the car felt a bit risky but so far the tyres seem to be fine. We´ll see how it goes *cough* further down the road *cough*

There goes your new car's paint job? "POP" goes the tyre? "BAM" = "Oh no, there goes the oil pan...?"


But it looks so gorgeous! Maybe it needs driven over by a real crusher, but those will kill your kidneys.


In Florida (USA) they made the streets of coral, which is sharp as glass. I wonder how they smoothed it for cars and got it so compacted?





This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 13 2015, 03:47 PM

[SubRosa]

In Florida (USA) they made the streets of coral, which is sharp as glass. I wonder how they smoothed it for cars and got it so compacted?

They just crush it up, and pour it like sand. The Seabees used crushed coral to build airstrips in the Pacific during WWII.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 13 2015, 05:40 PM

[mALX]

In Florida (USA) they made the streets of coral, which is sharp as glass. I wonder how they smoothed it for cars and got it so compacted?

They just crush it up, and pour it like sand. The Seabees used crushed coral to build airstrips in the Pacific during WWII.

It (coral) must be tough material, because the streets in Florida never need repairs, always look beautiful.

An embarrassing tidbit of info: When I was writing "coral" above, I spelled it "Chorrol" and couldn't figure out why it showed red,

@ Mirocu - I love the color of the bricks, it looks gorgeous. How did you find so many clean bricks to lay such a long drive? Awesome!

[mirocu]

@ Mirocu - I love the color of the bricks, it looks gorgeous. How did you find so many clean bricks to lay such a long drive? Awesome!

The guy we hired has tons of material, after all that he still has a lot left. His company secures leftovers when buildings gets demolished or changes the roof tiles.


Just for poop and laughter, here´s some extra pixies.

Backing up

They came down like a ton of.... Yeah, you know what they came down like

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jun 14 2015, 04:11 PM

[haute ecole rider]

They came down like a ton of.... Yeah, you know what they came down like

[mALX]

@ Mirocu - I love the color of the bricks, it looks gorgeous. How did you find so many clean bricks to lay such a long drive? Awesome!

The guy we hired has tons of material, after all that he still has a lot left. His company secures leftovers when buildings gets demolished or changes the roof tiles.


Just for poop and laughter, here´s some extra pixies.

Backing up

They came down like a ton of.... Yeah, you know what they came down like

Oh yeah, that big heavy dump truck aught to crush those larger bricks down real well too! What a great find! We have a demolition guy in town here that is always getting bricks too, but his bricks never look so clean and pretty! Those look new!

[mirocu]

So, another project report!


I haven´t been talking about this one because frankly I have been rather -Jameson- about it, but now when it´s all said and done I feel I can disclose the details

Excavator - the dozer division

My ´cavator is a so-called XTV, meaning its tracks are extendable for better stability. This of course means the dozer part has to be extendable too and it is like in this picture (not mine), but the sprints that hold those parts were rusted shut and impossible to remove. I have hit them from underneath with a sledgehammer for months without result (I drove close to a pit I dug up to get room). I have used up five or six spraycans of WD-40 and another anti-rust agent that freezes the rust down to -40 C, still nothing.

Eventually I´d had enough, removed the whole carriage, flip it over, and went to town on those sprints again but from above this time (sort of). I used a much smaller hammer but lo and behold, they loosened up! Two were easily removed but the other two demanded much more work, but I did it! I got them all and finally I can use the extensions!!




My next project is figuring out what else there is to do in life now that this project is finally over

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jul 22 2015, 01:54 PM

[Uleni Athram]

1.Mixed Martial Arts (mainly Greco-Roman Wrestling and Boxing)
2. Several books on how to be competent in my new construction job
3. Aaaaand the Promise of the Hydra.

Yeah
Got a lot on my hands right now, but I'm thriving in it; idle hands lead to HERESY!!! after all...

@mirocu: If you don't know what to do next, do drugs and kill a bear. You have 30 minutes to search this reference... USING INTERNET EXPLORER! Raaagh

[ImperialSnob]

I'm making great progress on improving my procrastination and the skill of self pity