Screening my soil of big rocks

[DeeK]

Originally posted by Kritafo


Maybe your house was part of the Happy Valley Site...we are back onto the greenspace of the highway and stoney trail...it's freaking brutal.

Funny how it can be so different. We are 7 years Valley Ridge, so not the first phase. Anytime we even talk about trees and shrubs my husband freaks at the thought of all the rocks.

OH! that explains it. Yea, that side is brutal. I built alot of houses on that side. It's really really rocky. Where I am, we get the occasional rock, but nothing major.

[Benny]

Bobcat that fucker right down and toss on at least a foot of soil all around. It's what we did all last summer when people needed sod put down and their yards were covered in rocks. You could try to pick them all out, but it SUUUUCCCKKKSSSS!



BTW don't do this:

now...the fun part.. we bought a full size tree, it required a 5 foot deep hole by 5 foot wide. We thought a couple nights of digging would do it. 3 piks and many shovels later, plus 8 nights of digging until the sun went down we had our hole.

Need something with an engine for digging in Calgary. Even those 'hedge-hog' augers with the lawn mower engines in them ain't the greatest. It goes a lot smoother with a BIG tree hole auger attachment and ~6000lbs of Bobcat behind it.

[redline_13000]

Let me know if you need to get something done, All the machinery needed is only 20 feet away from me

[Kritafo]

Originally posted by Benny
Bobcat that fucker right down and toss on at least a foot of soil all around. It's what we did all last summer when people needed sod put down and their yards were covered in rocks. You could try to pick them all out, but it SUUUUCCCKKKSSSS!



BTW don't do this:



Need something with an engine for digging in Calgary. Even those 'hedge-hog' augers with the lawn mower engines in them ain't the greatest. It goes a lot smoother with a BIG tree hole auger attachment and ~6000lbs of Bobcat behind it.

I forget which tree farm we had bought the tree from but they tried to dig the hole they had to stop and tell us it needed to be done by hand so it wouldn't wreck the equipment they had to do it. They had a bobcat with something like a post hole digger and it kept stopping...sparks were flying..most entertaining!

[clem24]

Man that looks like my yard alright... Except now imagine it was a fucking pie lot. Total square footage of whole lot including house is 6,800 sq ft. Check out the pics:

Down the right side (you can see where the lot line is.. just look at where all the big rocks are):

[clem24]

Down the other side:

[clem24]

The pile that's taken me about 4 hours to collect so far (and I've been hauling it up the side of the house which happens to be steep b/c of my walk out basement):

[clem24]

And finally the actual yard.. My lot starts where the fence bends at 45 degrees, and goes right to the ride side of the photo.

Umm... I am going to try and see if I can pull some strings with the land developer since my wife works there, but it's not looking good. Yeah redline_13000 you've got PM..

[Kritafo]

this your ad Clem?

Free River Rock (Calgary NW)
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Date: 2008-05-01, 12:15AM MDT


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[clem24]

Nope. Redline_13000 is gonna come screen my loam and haul the shit away!!!

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Ah, should've just had your wife do it.

[redline_13000]

Ya Ill be getting it done for clem next week, if anyone else wants the same thing done shoot me a pm!