Slope and Erosion Control
What Hillside Terracing Teaches About Holding a Slope
A homeowner called me two years ago about a slope behind a new addition, roughly a 2 to 1 grade dropping about eleven feet from...
Founding grading contractor, page 7 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.
Slope and Erosion Control
A homeowner called me two years ago about a slope behind a new addition, roughly a 2 to 1 grade dropping about eleven feet from...
Site Grading
A homeowner called me last spring wanting a quote for "just a small slab," and when I got out there the small slab turned out...
Grading Equipment
My first winter running my own grading crew, I budgeted my household spending the same way I had when I worked for someone else...
Site Grading
A client called me last spring after his steel building kit had already been delivered, sitting in pieces on his property,...
Grading Equipment
A grading crew I subcontracted to years ago folded not because they lost work, but because a brutal wet winter shut down three...
Grading Equipment
A woodworker who had just bought a rural half acre called me about grading a pad for a detached workshop, and his first...