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First Gravel Dump and Initial Inspection

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What happens here

Observe as the gravel dump truck proceeds to dump its first load of "crush run" gravel onto the designated area of the driveway. The driver attempts to spread the material by slowly driving forward while raising the dump bed. Note that the consistency of the crush run gravel, which includes varying rock sizes and dust, may cause it to not spread as smoothly as desired directly from the truck. After the truck has completed dumping, use a UTV or similar vehicle to ride over the newly laid gravel. This allows for an initial assessment of the spread, identifying any areas that are excessively bumpy or require more thorough leveling later on with a tractor or skid loader.

Goal: Distribute the first load of gravel and evaluate its initial coverage.

Tools and materials

  • Gravel Dump Truck Shiloh 13 Group — Dumping the gravel
  • John Deere Gator UTV John Deere — Initial inspection and riding over the gravel
  • Tractor — Later spreading and leveling the gravel
  • Crush Run Gravel — Forming the initial layer of the driveway

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operation so here's the truck and there's the power line so I'm gonna get here and I'm gonna guide him dump this truck back [Music] this thing set up with chains on the back of it and the chains hold it open as far as they can hold it and the issue is down here we had some washing there he goes he's gonna go as fast as he can go and the rock snot coming out quite as smooth as we'd like it go go go it needs to go faster so we're trying to get away with only running three loads of rock today but we might end up running five loads of rock if he goes faster it'll be a big help to me that's it that's the load so what he'll do he'll go back to the quarry he'll be back here in about 45 minutes and we'll do our second load we're gonna ride down here and talk to him about the way he dumped and everything like that and make sure that he knows exactly what we're looking for good communication is very important here but it looks pretty good I'm riding over it now looks really good so let me show you a little bit about what kind of rock we're putting down here so this is called crush run and it has rock dust in small gravels and larger gravels in there and this is what you build your road base with okay so around here where we live the soil has a lot of clay in it now clay tends to draw in or soak up Rock okay so driveway maintenance is going to be a huge thing for us if we don't do it right when we get started when the ground is wet and muddy and mucky and snowy and nasty in the wintertime the gravels tend to sink down in there so you want to keep a good base in that way you don't have a driveway that's all rutted out and nasty I don't know if you guys have ever pulled into anybody's gravel driveway or long gravel driveway and it's all washed out and nasty well it's because they don't have a crown okay so crown meaning the driveway surface here needs to be high on the top and crown down to the sides and have like two inches of drop on each side so it's a fine art to making a beautiful driveway well ride over here and you'll really be able to tell how much gravel that he put down this is 16 tons of gravel so it it's a pretty wide area coverage we're going to get or three or four loads as much time as he has on his hands is how much rock we'll have today so there's the new rock and that will turn the same color gray as this it's a little bit moist so normally when you get rock from the quarry gonna be a little bit moist it's always a little bouncy the first few times…

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