I will shortly be taking a splicing lab home to get to cable failures more quickly but i had a very small driveway. So time for some manual labor. Unfortunately I didnt think to take photos of measuring and markouts both of the property line and the new driveway area or the placing of our border. To create the border for our slanted yard I used bumper blocks that had been given to me when they upgraded to the newer rubber style. These were perfect as they are very durable and massive and 8" tall.
I would say these are about 200lbs. One they were lined up we dug out the slope to get a reasonably level base.
There are some vent pipes of some sort near the street so we had to narrow the start of the new driveway and also only dug down 4" to follow the grade. After some debate we decided to use the excavated soil to create a berm on the other side of the bumber blocks so soften the hard edge.
I followed several peoples advise and used landscaping material to keep weeds from quickly regrowing.
The last block was too long and I dont have a large demo saw, so we used a breaker bar to score a line 1/2" deep around our measurement and hit the unwanted side with a sledge hammer till we exposed the rebar. Each of the three rebar took a few seconds with a cutting disk on the angle grinder.
I ordered 5 yards of 3/8 clean stone gravel which was shoveled, raked and cursed into place.
well as we spread it out we realized we didnt have enough. My new calculations said 2.36 yards to fill the remainder but you have to order by the yard so I only ordered two.
We made it fit
From the street view.
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From the top:
And with some cars.
