The 'Buried My Equipment' Thread

[Iwawoodwork]

I like a road wide enough to be able to half track it , that way I can keep the road more level rather than just 2 ruts/tracks.

[Roundhouse]

a good road is worth what it costs ya, and no one knows what they cost until they build a bad road before they redo it a few times.   Wider just means more room for ditching and accents/asthetics.  

So true, I picked up a lot last year and road building has been job #1. In line with the topic here is a photo from last fall. No match for some of the larger items more buried seen earlier in this thread, but it took me many hours of jacking and piling of wood beneath the wheels to get it out:



Now that the saturated ground of last fall has subsided I'm back to filling in all the low spots. The trail is an old skidder trail that I'm improving, farther into the lot the trail crosses a small ridge where there is an old cut just wide enough for a skidder to come out with a hitch:



In the above photo you can see a new culvert positioned where I would soon plant it in a low spot along the road. The birch tree that forks into two stems seen at left is where the cut is set to be widened.
This month I was able to get my skid steer in to this spot. As I dug into the side of the cut I used the dirt to build up the fill on top of where the new culvert was placed. The below photo is looking the other way though the cut. The birch tree has been cut (although a tree beyond gives the appearance that the stem on left is still there, it is not). I've cut away the ground on both sides of the stump and will see how much the rain and weather works away at it by the next time I return to this project. 



Wider is better.