Games
How Online Game Portals Fill the Downtime on a Grading Crew Day
A grading job is not constant motion. There are long waits for concrete to cure, for an inspector to arrive, for a delivery...
Founding grading contractor, page 3 of 9
Roy has run an excavator and a dozer for over twenty years, starting with basement digs on his father's crew before taking over the business himself. He writes about grading the way he explains a job to a homeowner standing in the mud next to him.
Games
A grading job is not constant motion. There are long waits for concrete to cure, for an inspector to arrive, for a delivery...
Driveways and Access Roads
There is a driveway about six miles from my shop that I have been asked to look at three springs running.
Games
I grade residential sites for a living, so I did not expect a golf game to teach me anything about slope.
Games
Spend an evening with a tower defense game and you are, whether you realize it or not, solving a routing problem.
Drainage and Runoff
When a driveway crosses a ditch or a natural drainage line, a culvert is what keeps the water moving under the crossing instead...
Games
A grading crew lives on advice. Which contractor to call, which machine to rent, how a tricky slope was handled on the last...