Rough Grading Parking Pad & Setting String Lines

earthbag and not undermining everything more than the first step will be to shaved the old driveway material off using the cat skid loader but when it comes to making the final sub cut we're going to switch and use the mini excavator simply because we don't want to drive on that sub base material any more than we have to because every time we put tracks on it we risk loosening it up so after we get the old material shaved off we'll make the final cut with the Mini X you'll see that in a minute [Music] drinking coffee oh geez I [Music] this parking pad we is not going to be flat it's actually going to have an angle throughout the entire thing to match up with the pitch that's going from the existing driveway up to the retaining wall so a string line is set up to make sure that we keep a consistent depth for our base material our sand and our pavers which ultimately will get laid [Music] so as Blaine is excavating down Sam simply measures from the string line down to the sub cut on top of that goes the base material on top of that goes the sand and then on top of that goes the pavers so he wants to make sure that the sub cut is right in the first place but before they get too far into the date they've still got a tricky corner they got to figure out here it's busy fishing down so we're gonna be below they can still do a little bit more of