Choctaw driveway repair

This project was one of three different projects I've done so far for this customer/new friend.

The young couple is an Air Force family who lives on several acres in a wonderful little house in the middle of the property.  Their driveway had reached the point where their passenger car could almost not navigate it anymore.

When I arrived, here is what I found. The end of their driveway was constantly under water anytime it rained.  The tin horn was also plugged on both ends.

After a few hours of work, the driveway looked great.

Aside from grading the driveway (the customer was not ready to pay yet for gravel), the most important thing I did was build a swale on the uphill side of the road. Flowing water is terribly damaging so we want to keep it OFF the driveway in as much as possible.

Even after heavy storms, this is what the driveway looked like a few weeks later.  When the customer is ready, it'll make a perfect bed for some good crusher run gravel.

Piedmont fenceline follow-up

The primary reason this great customer in Piedmont had me out several times was, among other things, to clear the way for a new fence.

Here is where we started:

And here's the latest view.  Looking good Mr. O!

Downtown drainage project - Phase II

When the customer was ready for round 2, we moved fast to beat the rains that were headed our way that same evening.  It was a definite rush to action and we beat the weather but just a couple hours.

HERE is a description of Phase 1 of the project.

On Phase II, the customer wanted an unsightly hill taken down on his yard.  Turn out, it was full of construction debris and lots of concrete refuse. You can see the hill in red in this picture. He also wanted it to roughly match grade with the blue circled area in the center right of the pic.

After I was finished with the project, I drove by the next day during the rain to see how things looked.  Drainage was PERFECT, just as we'd spec'd out.

The water used to back up and cover almost the entire concrete part of this driveway.

There was no longer ponding in the yard, either.

The view from the street shows a very even flow through the entire area.

Small jobs are fun, too

As part of a small brushhogging job, this customer had a tangled mess right in their backyard.  The pictures don't tell the whole story about how thick the mess was with thick shrubs, small trees, and fallen limbs.  It only took about 20 minutes with the tractor to do what would have taken several hours to do by hand.

Here are some before and after pics: