After we cut down our tree, we decided to put a driveway on the east side of our property. I will park my truck in this driveway and get it off the street.
I got this white pipe for free, and cut it in half. It was not long enough, so I put some old, rusty tin roofing in the middle.
I used some discarded rebar that Dad had lying around. The driveway is 10 feet wide, so I did 5 feet at a time. I mixed all the cement by hand in a 10 gallon container. The first night I did 30 bags of cement.
The next day Dad helped and it went a lot quicker with one mixing and one troweling it smooth. The first batch was not 100% cured, so we knelt on a wide board to spread out our weight and not have our toes make divots.
Getting just the right consistency is important. Less water means strong cement. Dad had a tendency to add too much water.
Mixing cement is a dusty job.
60 bags of cement later, this is how it turned out.
2 loads of gravel equaling 1 1/2 tons. Seth was there to help. I over loaded the wheel barrow a few times. It made breaking noises as it rolled along.
Black ground cover went down first, to stop weeds. I used a rake to spread things out nicely.
If cement is laid too thin it breaks. I framed the cement in so that it was 2 inches thick along the front edge that I will drive over. Then I got rotomill to make a ramp with. Rotomill is asphalt that has been torn up in order to resurface a road. Put the rotomill in place and soak it in diesel fuel, then tamp it in place.
Now we each have a parking spot. One more project down. On to the next.
