Snort to the Rescue

Book "Are You My Mother" by PD Eastman
But whatever you want to call it, the Ram insisting it's a Excavator with a Thumb, we think it's well worth the $400 a day rental fee. You are going to think so to.

While hauling the last of the trees off was certainly a luxury, it's not why we rented the snort.

And it's not why we rented a loader for another $500 a day.

Sounds like a lot of money for the boys to play on the sand hill for a day . . . right?  

It IS a ton of money.  

But somehow, we have to figure out how to get to this view, on a hill with clay dirt.  

I grew up on a bad road in Alaska, and regularly, we would have to park our car at the nearest state maintained road about a mile away and walk home.  If the wind blew drifts in, when the snow melts, or after heavy rains the road became undriveable.  And that's the last thing we wanted for our moms.  But to have this road built for us, it would have cost upward of $10,000.

Snort to the rescue.  As you will soon see, building anything starts with a big hole in the ground to construct the foundation.  And that gravel has to go somewhere.

Why not the road?

And that's what we did.

Estimated Contractor Cost with Labor: $13,000

Approximate DIY Cost: $3,000

That'll earn our DIY crew a day of fishing in Alaska in June . . . bring your cold weather gear.

Even though I suspect they didn't mind too much a day of playing trucks on the sand hill.