A NEW DRIVEWAY

The first two photos are the "before" shots, showing the driveway as it existed before yesterday morning.  The main problem with the old entrance to our property, was that half of it was not ours!  The second picture shows the top of the driveway, where the property line is right in the middle.  The first goal was to move the entrance over next to the post, and get the entire access on our side of the line.  The second reason to do the driveway improvements, was to make the transition from the street to the driveway a little less steep.  As it was, the motor home was within about an inch from high centering at the top of the driveway.  When I first drove the RV onto the property, I had Marc watch to make sure I wasn't going to scrap the bottom.
 

The road base dirt started arriving around 9am, and by mid afternoon, 3 trucks had dumped 10 loads (approx. 180 tons).   Watching the Bobcat operator move the dirt was a lesson in efficiency.  This little machine is so much better designed for this type of job, as opposed to my tractor, or the standard backhoe. 

One of the unexpected pluses was that George, the owner of Advanced Excavating, had his employee remove most of the gravel for the first 250 feet of the driveway, and pile it up in the yard.  I ended up with several tons of gravel that I'll be able to re-use around the house.
 

Another added bonus was that when Glen, the Bobcat operator was waiting for another load of dirt, he moved a small excavator over near the house, and dug out an area of dirt that I was going to do with my tractor.  With the bobcat, he moved the dirt over to the lower side of my circle drive, and also smoothed out the last load of dirt that was dumped in the same area.  

By the time the last load of dirt had been delivered, and it had been pushed into place, it was mid afternoon.  One load of screened, recycled asphalt was delivered, with 4 more loads coming today.  

The salvaged gravel pile is shown below.  After the guys left, I moved a few bucket loads over to the concrete pad in front of the garage.

The last picture shows the first load of recycled asphalt being dumped about 250 feet from the driveway entrance.  Four more loads today will add about 4 inches of the material, and once watered and compacted, the surface will be somewhere between hard asphalt and gravel.