Alright, I'm checking out this. Driveway grading job and it looks like it's a Circle Drive that we have. Crushed rock AP C Class six on the road here and the customers asking for a grading job a little more material and some dust sealant and then checking all the Culverts for proper drainage so we can service all the culverts as well. And this is a nice little job. It's a quarter or 3/4 of a mile rather comes through here.
This is a nice property. Obviously they can they can handle. Some budget for maintenance of this road. It's an ice road to begin with but it does look pretty thin. So that's where I'm looking at the right tool for the job. I would love to bring in a little mini greater to take care of this grading job, and I would like to do with a roller a nice nice wide roller and work the greater and the roller in conjunction with each other and ideally we get a rewarder trailer in here, too. So Water trailer greater roller. That's our combo we can take care of all kinds of all kinds of driveways with that setup.
We're looking here doesn't look like we have a culvert here. There's some. Some poor drainage we could definitely use one. Ideal spot for the Culvert but I would also want to bring the road up right here to get across get over the Culvert probably go for a 12-inch Culvert and. Probably about well, really three two, two three loads of fill structural fill and then we can cap it with the class 6 road base. That's what I'd like to do here. There's obvious drainage problem.
So continuing on we have a lot of material is gotten pushed off of the Road by the plows. That's another reason why a mini road grader would be an excellent tool for this job. It is a tight Road. It's a small Road hardly warrants a full size. It doesn't warrant a full size road grader because it would just get too cramped in here, but. There is a lot of material here that we could just gently bring back onto the road. Without scraping down through it. And then cap up are thin spots.
From there. So nice roadway. For the most part over goodness decent job. This is another spot for a culvert Maybe. We're going to check this out. Yes indeed. Definitely could use a culvert right there as well. I didn't notice any other spots so far. I'm almost inclined to go back through it. But this embankment is also. Unsightly on the on the right hand side here. So just kind of cut and be nice to kind of feather that back into the hillside just to stabilize it a little bit and Define this these ditches. There's some drainage spot right there to catch drainage and plenty of fill dirt so we could actually use that to build up some of our spots where we like to do the convert.
It's not going to go very far, but it is something. And here is another nice little stockpile of road base. We can probably dip into not very much but not nothing. Here we need definitely another Culvert situation. This looks like there might be a culvert and place already the that no, I don't see any Culvert here. So there's basically a big tree right where the Culvert should be. That would need to be considered we could drain above that tree if we can build it up. We could take that tree out we could probably avoid it. It looks like somebody had an idea to do a culvert there. I could go poke around in the snow a little bit better. I'll probably go do that.
All right, I'm out here now and I do see that there is a culvert here doesn't look like we're getting really much runoff. This Culvert doesn't seem to be getting. Did L do this driveway is not that old it was done. Not that long ago. You can see by the still got scratches there and that should be covered with pine needles and erosions kind of washing that dirt those little clumps down. You can basically still see the teeth of the excavator. But yeah, this is not working. This should drain along this embankment down into here. That's not happening.
Obviously. It's just coming to right here. And then this one is well should come into here, but really I don't see a whole lot of water Gathering right there. It's an appropriate spot for a culvert cuz he just have this little bit of low spot here. But really the. The water is all just kind of going down right here. It's not doesn't seem to be a drainage issue per se but well we could touch up that drainage right there. So that's that's one one thing we'll do is we'll make sure that everything is draining in from both sides off the road and we don't have this puddle here in the bottom. We should really just build this up a little bit as well down here at the bottom and that will be easy to easier to push the the water into that Culvert then so I'd like to do a basically a tandem of road base right through here right in the bottom. Alright continuing on here got a nice little pull out just do a little that mean it's all in good condition doesn't really need anything. All along here.
This material could get pulled out. It'd be nice to kind of feather and make this tree really should go it's too close to the roadway. It's gonna continue to encroach on the roadway with branches big trucks are going to hit there anything on on those overhanging branches that tree really should be taken out for proper proper driveways backs. When a 14-foot Corridor 14 feet high might be 16. It's. Approaching there. Other than that so looking pretty good, you know, obviously the embankment could get cleaned up a little bit and shaped back right here is actually a great example of where this is cut back in a nicer way and you not left with a jagged edge. It does look better. It's holds up there the soil stabilized so we could do that on all of these.
All of these cots here. All this is looking pretty good. Definitely. Some money went into this driveway. There's little the fill dirt right there. This could all get shaped back. This needs ditches on the sides and to be crowned. So that's something this do that tree is kind of encroaching. These trees are kind of almost encroaching, but that can probably pass stay. He's Aspens are encroaching. Some work we could do to make this a better better driveway.
This could all just get crowned in this ditch along the uphill side to find a little better that tree should come out get clipped back at the very least. Can't really see the drainage on here. But obviously it's not working to plow guys and clearing this snow back far enough. It was a really heavy snow can't blame him. There's a ditch here. Basically, this is why you need grading done at least twice a year because no matter what you do you're going to have issues with your driveway up here in the mountains. It's going to require maintenance.
That's why roads get maintained and everything gets maintenance. Here's some good material. Would be nice to have a little more definition on the uphill side for a drainage ditch. It's not really doing anything right now. Not catching anything and drainage. This is pretty much non-existent throughout this whole driveway. Push all this material into these potholes roll it out should be good to go needs to be built up though. Go for a tandem right there through those potholes and what not. Just Build It Up keep it dry. Lost my dog. This is a steep spot. Be nice to not have that be so steep. Could be done there, but I guess we're going to go with it. It's already. It's what we got. It's not broken.
This tree is encroaching as well. There's some gorgeous rocks right there fun to build something. Oh that's just needs to get crowned ground and rolled. The point six. Of a mile hair is gorgeous property. I'm Blown Away. This is the some rehab center. It makes me want to go get rehab but you got to do before you can get rehab kind of get strung out about that. Very happy to say I just need rehab food Round to try and break the addiction food and farting. It's good. Just get it graded.
Great and rolled. Most of it can just get graded and roll down big nice. Gorgeous. I need a water truck actually is encroaching. He's he's got got Nick as well. It's about the end of the road. Nice. Nice lodger. This could get raised up looks like this would be a good spot for a culvert as well. Although I do we got some fire sister and over there. This is a tough drainage spot for sure. What are we going to do here? See we got basically like a sinkhole right there.
Right at the base of that wall. We got a drainage issue. Boy, are we gonna do really all this whole great needs to be brought up. Or I need to get out and go look over there and see if we can just keep going with that grade. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Oh, yeah, you can see it seeping through right here. Nice place that's got to be the leach field out there. Yep. You can see the septic out there in the distance. So this is where this is all draining through right here.
It's probably compromising the footing of this wall. Can I have some cracking? Well, it's a dry stack wall, which is super cool. Love this wall. Actually, this is all let's see. Yeah, there's a lock together dry stack wall fun. That's how we could build dry stack. You got some drain holes down there in the bottom. Guess that works. Just need to get a culvert in here. But in order to do that, we've basically just have to bring it up with probably about thinking about 3 3 tandems.
Let's bring this up. I would beat all through here and then. Get a culvert to drain all this water across and into the into the base of the wall. It seeps out over here. Basically. Looks like this is kind of a drag goalie. Looks like the septic is right up next to it. I don't know if that fly these days with Boulder County, but there it is. So we got a wet spot right down in here. It's almost surface water. It's a spring it's all going in right here and soak in all upstream and then soak in and then coming out of the hillside down there. It's cool hydrology. So yeah, that's what I think we should do here put a culvert in place if there's not one already and raise this up with water keep doing what it's doing.
And I don't see any signs of the Pollard anywhere and we. And to go to Crazy coming this way with all the water. You got to get up to here. I think that's a lot bigger material requirement. Just kind of keep it going in the same way. All right, that's it. Check out that driveway. Thanks for watching. Give us a subscribe. And day. Smash the like button like with an excavator bucket Smash It smash it that hard put a hole in your screen.