Project Introduction and Site Assessment

good morning good evening good afternoon you guys today we're going to be starting a brand new project we're up at shangri-la douche and this is a property that i bought last year that's in dire need of help the former driveway or current driveway is basically what i call a bobsled run so we've got a really steep hill and then everything just straight down last year i re-graded that to make it so it was accessible temporarily but this year we're going to be putting in a primary driveway something more permanent we're going to be doing something just a little bit different we're going to be experimenting with today's job and let me just explain what i mean by that if i was going to be doing this for one of you guys you called me up on the phone and said hey i got a steep driveway dangerous property i need to cut something in and change it what i would do for you is going to be different than what i would do for me now what i would do for you some of you guys may recognize and i'll just walk you through the process of what i would do for a customer is i would strip down all of the vegetation until i got to the non-organic layer and then depending on what kind of soils we would have i would start layering and sandwiching the soil back in and putting in geogrid if i felt that it was necessary to stabilize the soils and then i would put that grid in every two feet of vertical height and as i was placing the soil i would be compacting it probably six to ten inches and i would be using compression compaction if the the conditions allowed me to meaning basically compression compaction is i would be using a skid loader to drive over it and put in micro thin lifts if you guys have watched my pool demos in the past it's the exact same process just wash rinse and repeat it'll work for a road it will work for a pool demo and it also works for retaining walls that's what i do for you guys this is my own property and i said we're going to experiment and we are now we are basically living on a giant pile of sand up here in northern minnesota everywhere you go you are contending with shifting moving soils and so what we really need is something to uh as a cohesive binder aka the geogrid would be perfect if i'm doing it for you but i don't want to try to do that for myself i'm going to experiment and we're going to find out together whether this experiment passes or fails over the course of the next year maybe 18 months we're going to be able to see how well it holds up and…