The soil on my place is fine decomposed granite - almost sandy, and there are zero rocks. That's great, and makes it easy to work, but made us a little nervous about the grading work we did a couple weeks ago. I personally wasn't comfortable with how careful we had been about making sure the "fill" part of the pad was compacted adequately. So the boys agreed to come back this weekend with two bobcats, one heavier one with a bigger bucket and bulldozer-type treads instead of tires.
They dug out all the fill and piled it up, scraped the entire pad a little deeper, and then laid the soil back down in layers, running back and forth across each layer with the heavy tracked cat while I kept it wet with a hose and big sprinkler.
Hopefully we'll start on the foundation next week and I can post something besides pictures of dirt!
They dug out all the fill and piled it up, scraped the entire pad a little deeper, and then laid the soil back down in layers, running back and forth across each layer with the heavy tracked cat while I kept it wet with a hose and big sprinkler.
It's very nice dirt though - and I assume that's the product of your hose!
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