It may be too late but I would recommend that you use a heavy road fabric in your muddy sections at least. Just smooth it out a bit and lay in road fabric then your fill. Otherwise it doesn't matter how much rock you haul the rocks will work down in the mud and the mud will work up till it's a muddy road again. Good heavy duty highway fabric will keep your fill separated from the mud and allow the water to flow through the rock and away. And as a side note Courtney that long red hair is fantastic. Good luck with all your endeavors this summer, I enjoy watching a young couple that can work together like you two do.
Dyed diesel is for farm equipment use only and is CHEAPER than regular diesel with the green cover on the handle. Regular diesel has high flow for semi-truck tanks. Healthy fine ($1,000 first time here in Montana) if any state’s Highway Patrol / Dept. Of Transportation catches someone running dyed diesel on the roads 😁. Happy belated birthday Courtney!!!!
Happy Birthday! ! ! Restless Redhead indeed. A 4WD without lockers is only 2WD when you need 4WD most. Love the road plan. Very practical. In fact, that is one of the things I like most about your videos is that you two are very practical.
Happy Birthday, Courtney! Beautiful, hard worker, great personality. Coming out the door and into the sun, gorgeous hair! Here’s to many more exciting birthdays.
Courtney looks very different after having her baby! She does have one the best personality, always pleasant, smiling, and cheerful. Been looking for a woman like her all my life! She is great with the dogs!
if I may suggest, on the "Hard" parts of the road get old used tires and mesh them together to a large matrix with bolts and big washers, fill the tires with dirt or gravel (better) and get a stable substrate that you can drive on as much as you need. Good luck with all your endeavors👍
you might want to use some of the materials you have on hand on the road. you have what looks like Shail. if you dig it out with the excavator then put it as the base for your road. then put the smaller gravel over top of it. Oh! belated happy birthday Courtney.
Happy belated Birthday Courtney May 1 st same as my daughter's birthday! I'm enjoying watching what you guys come up with and how you tackle all your builds
With the heavier hauling up that grade, would use bigger base and top off with the pack gravel. Just using smaller minus will smoosh during wet season.. If you take ride to a logging area, make notes on how those roads are built. Larger shale is used. This will also lower yearly maintenance from heavy usage and washout... HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUURRL!
I have been binge watching Ambition Strikes for the last few days. Happy memories. We lived in central Idaho,but we made many trips up the Idaho pahhandle, as my wife had a client in Bonners Ferry. We used to camp in Farragut camp ground. We had to save a special non wrinkle place in our old Jeep Wagoneer and our tent, for her business suit. Your collective adaptive skills and smarts will win over the road project. In our time the moon dust you spoke of in one episode, was actually ash from a more recently erupted Mt St. Helens. Enjoy your lives!
Tip: Keep your Diesel Tanks as full as possible. All seasons but especially Winter. Full tank =less room for condensation to form AND when you aren't going to use the equipment for a while. put stabilizer in it.
Happy Birthday Courtney! Congratulations on your home. Love the channel, been watching since you found your property. Couple of suggestions, as others have mentioned you should definately use road fabric on your soft spots at the very least. Otherwise you'll be adding rock every year to the same spots. Place at least 10" of 3 to 6 inch rock 9ver fabric, should compact to roughly 6 inches thick, cap that with a couple inches of 1 or 2 inch minus for traction. Culverts and serious ditchlines will go a long way. You two already have a solid plan for the worst parts of your road. You may find that after fixing the worst parts the rest may hold up fine. Built a hundred or so miles of logging roads, seen worse than yours! Put the transfer tank in the back of your pickup, it'll walk right up the steep part with a loaded trailer if ya do!
Happy bday! Highly recommend using road fabric at least over the muddy areas or it'll always suck up the stone "mud pump" (even if you use #3 rock). It's pricey but you won't regret it.
You both and the dogs look so happy all the time and I know it's not like that all the time when things go south once in awhile. Just keep up the good work thanks for the entertainment
Hi Look into getting the washout from concrete trucks in your area. THey usually give it away and it makes good fill for muddy places like you have. I haul it and use it to put in old septic fills and well fills. Next look into crushed concrete Usually about half price of new rock around here, Makes a great base
Just a suggestion you should use the white hoses that are designed to have water through them mostly garden hoses don't have a proper lining just a suggestion one of your fans
Hey Guy's with the road you guys have here is an Ideal that could be helpful if you haven't though of it yet. 1. change the bed on the army truck to a dump bed. and #2 find a good used Skid steer. By getting your stone you will need a way to put it where need a tri-axel will never make the driveway but the army truck can and a skid-steer can put the rock evenly where you will need it.
Happy belated birthday. Have you thought about getting some cheap 12v winches and leaving them hooked up to trees on the bad parts of your road, so you don't have to run back and forth for the truck or excavator? Or even better, get some remote trailer assist motors; I know they are really meant for parking, but hey they could help.
Why not just a winch bumper on the jeep and the duramax at a minimum. Then if you get stuck those are the rigs you go get. You guys are offroaders you should know better. Lol
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, Courtney! Great to be doing what you want to do, instead of what you "have to do." Riley is right, what a great pair you two make. (Plus B & B, of course.)
Happy Birthday, when its time to concrete the shop lay down vapor barrier and 1 or 2 inch rigid styrofoam and tape the seams. Make sure the barrier goes up the sides of the walls 6 to 7 inches and cut off the excess when the concrete is cured then seal with caulking or mastic.
Happy birthday Courtney! Somehow I knew you guys would keep the army truck. It's just too cool! Also when you bought it was the first video of yours I saw.
Always trench a road on the high side to catch water coming off a slope. add trenching on the low side to prevent any standing water. Crown your road, that is make the center higher than the sides for drainage. Anticipate where you will put snow in the winter and widen areas to accommodate that. If your excavator has tilt to the blade use that to help achieve a crown, if not consider renting one to help with that . Learning to work with the material on site should minimize your expense of bringing material in. If you have the cleared width then roll that material from the sides in to build up the center of the road. A dozer is your best friend when building a road in an area such as you have shown. With the talent you show it will be interesting to see your refinement in technique as the road project continues.
The duramax system pulls the fuel from the tank through the fuel filter. So the base or even the o ring on the filter can let air in and fuel to bleed back. If you "repair" whatever you have ordered and it still happens, you should install an electronic lift pump to help it reprime when you start it.
Happy birthday! As ya'll improve your road you might want to add some road geotextile under the rock base. Doesn't have to be the expensive commercial kind. Home Depot has some online. This will keep the dirt 'fines' from moving to the top as the rocks are pushed down over time. Less maintenance.
1 a.m. thoughts. Just saw you buying fuel for the excavator and the army truck utilizing your new transfer tank. Since it's for off-road use you may be able to buy diesel without the Road use tax. My family bought gasoline and Diesel this way for the farm equipment. I hope this helps!
Happy belated birthday Courtney, glad you had a great day!! I’m not sure if you have contacted the fire service in your area, to find out what they want to see for a fire line around your buildings. Because some area, won’t even try to save your property if you don’t have a proper fire line! With all your guys hard work and putting your life savings into your property I wouldn’t want anything to happen to your property. Keep living your dreams and thanks for taking your RUclips community along for the journey!!
You could get fuel cheaper if you bought the off road or agricultural versions no taxes. At least in Florida you can get it. Diesel is about 3 bucks Herr no tax.
I know the feeling. We built our house over a year period and when we moved in it was an unreal feeling. We still have tons of stuff to do but we are in and enjoying it!
I think the next equipment you need is a small tractor with 4wd and a front loader attachment. It can also be swapped with forks to make loading/unloading on the trailer with the use of pallets.
Having worked at a Fuel station many years ago...It doesn't matter which hose if its from the same pump. You would have to move to different pump stand. Not even the opposite side of the pump will pump faster. It's literally the pumps GPM that dictates how fast. Hope that helps.
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It may be too late but I would recommend that you use a heavy road fabric in your muddy sections at least. Just smooth it out a bit and lay in road fabric then your fill. Otherwise it doesn't matter how much rock you haul the rocks will work down in the mud and the mud will work up till it's a muddy road again. Good heavy duty highway fabric will keep your fill separated from the mud and allow the water to flow through the rock and away.
And as a side note Courtney that long red hair is fantastic.
Good luck with all your endeavors this summer, I enjoy watching a young couple that can work together like you two do.
The fabric goes over the full between the rock and fill
Dyed diesel is for farm equipment use only and is CHEAPER than regular diesel with the green cover on the handle. Regular diesel has high flow for semi-truck tanks. Healthy fine ($1,000 first time here in Montana) if any state’s Highway Patrol / Dept. Of Transportation catches someone running dyed diesel on the roads 😁. Happy belated birthday Courtney!!!!
Happy Belated Birthday. Look forward to seeing the road progress. Keep smiling
Happy Birthday! ! ! Restless Redhead indeed.
A 4WD without lockers is only 2WD when you need 4WD most.
Love the road plan. Very practical. In fact, that is one of the things I like most about your videos is that you two are very practical.
Happy Birthday, Courtney! Beautiful, hard worker, great personality. Coming out the door and into the sun, gorgeous hair! Here’s to many more exciting birthdays.
Happy Birthday Courtney! Your "Kids" are the happiest dogs You'll see this morning!
Courtney looks very different after having her baby! She does have one the best personality, always pleasant, smiling, and cheerful. Been looking for a woman like her all my life! She is great with the dogs!
I know that taco bell! And the Co-Op! Welcome to the area!
Happy birthday!!!! 🥳🎂🍸
Happy Birthday, Courtney! Looking so good. Thanks for sharing
if I may suggest, on the "Hard" parts of the road get old used tires and mesh them together to a large matrix with bolts and big washers, fill the tires with dirt or gravel (better) and get a stable substrate that you can drive on as much as you need. Good luck with all your endeavors👍
Happy birthday!
you might want to use some of the materials you have on hand on the road. you have what looks like Shail. if you dig it out with the excavator then put it as the base for your road. then put the smaller gravel over top of it.
Oh! belated happy birthday Courtney.
Good morning! You two are a breath of fresh air this morning. Having my coffee ☕ and watching RUclips
Happy Birthday!!
Happy belated Birthday Courtney May 1 st same as my daughter's birthday! I'm enjoying watching what you guys come up with and how you tackle all your builds
Amazing that you did all this in a year. Inspirational!!
Great video Riley and Courtney
HAPPY B DAY!... LOOKING GOOD U2!...thanks 4 video. be kind.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy birthday 🤘
Happy Birthday.
With the heavier hauling up that grade, would use bigger base and top off with the pack gravel. Just using smaller minus will smoosh during wet season.. If you take ride to a logging area, make notes on how those roads are built. Larger shale is used. This will also lower yearly maintenance from heavy usage and washout... HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUURRL!
I have been binge watching Ambition Strikes for the last few days. Happy memories. We lived in central Idaho,but we made many trips up the Idaho pahhandle, as my wife had a client in Bonners Ferry. We used to camp in Farragut camp ground. We had to save a special non wrinkle place in our old Jeep Wagoneer and our tent, for her business suit. Your collective adaptive skills and smarts will win over the road project. In our time the moon dust you spoke of in one episode, was actually ash from a more recently erupted Mt St. Helens. Enjoy your lives!
Happy belated Birthday
Happy Birthday. Many happy returns.
Happy birthday dear Courtney! What a great day you had! Riley took good care of you, and you deserve a special day!
Tip: Keep your Diesel Tanks as full as possible. All seasons but especially Winter. Full tank =less room for condensation to form AND when you aren't going to use the equipment for a while. put stabilizer in it.
Happy Birthday Cortney !!!
The two of you make a great couple, look forward to the day when you add a little one to the mix. Now that would be a project and a half!
Happy belated birthday
Life is grand. Enjoy the fruits of your hard labor!
Happy Birthday Courtney! Congratulations on your home.
Love the channel, been watching since you found your property.
Couple of suggestions, as others have mentioned you should definately use road fabric on your soft spots at the very least. Otherwise you'll be adding rock every year to the same spots. Place at least 10" of 3 to 6 inch rock 9ver fabric, should compact to roughly 6 inches thick, cap that with a couple inches of 1 or 2 inch minus for traction. Culverts and serious ditchlines will go a long way. You two already have a solid plan for the worst parts of your road. You may find that after fixing the worst parts the rest may hold up fine.
Built a hundred or so miles of logging roads, seen worse than yours!
Put the transfer tank in the back of your pickup, it'll walk right up the steep part with a loaded trailer if ya do!
Great footage of the dogs jumping into the truck! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday
Not Taco Bell!! Wow! That is a big gas bill! Happy Belated BIRTHday Courtney! You get cool Birthday presents! Those ants look dangerous!!
Squirrel!
Happy Belated Birthday I enjoy watching your videos can't wait to see what you guys do this spring and summer with the property and homestead
Good you ordered the filter housing. Happy Birthday 🎁
Happiest of Birthday young woman ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happy bday! Highly recommend using road fabric at least over the muddy areas or it'll always suck up the stone "mud pump" (even if you use #3 rock). It's pricey but you won't regret it.
Happy Belated Birthday Courtney have a awesome day 🥳🎉🎂
Happy Birthday Courtney! Thank you for the great videos! I can't wait to see your next projects. Stay safe, and keep up the great work!
Happy birthday mountain girl🎂 and great job on the improvements!
I'm so happy to see u two clearing out the trees and brush for fire prevention. And Happy Birthday.
Oh and Happy Belated Birthday 🥳
Happy birthday, Courtney! All the best! Enjoy the fruits of your labor. Cheers guys!
You both and the dogs look so happy all the time and I know it's not like that all the time when things go south once in awhile. Just keep up the good work thanks for the entertainment
What a smashing pair you two are ! Loving the ongoing project-fest, Happy Birthday Courtney x
its been a year watching this amazing couple…happy birthday courtney..
Hi Look into getting the washout from concrete trucks in your area. THey usually give it away and it makes good fill for muddy places like you have. I haul it and use it to put in old septic fills and well fills. Next look into crushed concrete Usually about half price of new rock around here, Makes a great base
Happy birthday!! Happy Mother’s Day!!!
Happy Birthday young lady ! Enjoy!!!
Just a suggestion you should use the white hoses that are designed to have water through them mostly garden hoses don't have a proper lining just a suggestion one of your fans
Happy Birthday Cortney...
Riley....You Got Something Special....Beauty....Sweet....and So Talented at The Things Ya'll Need To Do. God Bless
Hey Guy's with the road you guys have here is an Ideal that could be helpful if you haven't though of it yet. 1. change the bed on the army truck to a dump bed. and #2 find a good used Skid steer. By getting your stone you will need a way to put it where need a tri-axel will never make the driveway but the army truck can and a skid-steer can put the rock evenly where you will need it.
Happy Belated birthday Courtney.
Happy belated birthday. Have you thought about getting some cheap 12v winches and leaving them hooked up to trees on the bad parts of your road, so you don't have to run back and forth for the truck or excavator? Or even better, get some remote trailer assist motors; I know they are really meant for parking, but hey they could help.
Why not just a winch bumper on the jeep and the duramax at a minimum. Then if you get stuck those are the rigs you go get. You guys are offroaders you should know better. Lol
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, Courtney! Great to be doing what you want to do, instead of what you "have to do." Riley is right, what a great pair you two make. (Plus B & B, of course.)
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday, when its time to concrete the shop lay down vapor barrier and 1 or 2 inch rigid styrofoam and tape the seams. Make sure the barrier goes up the sides of the walls 6 to 7 inches and cut off the excess when the concrete is cured then seal with caulking or mastic.
Happy birthday Courtney!!🎊💕🥂 cheers to many more ! Thanks for keeping us updated it’s looking fabulous
Happy Birthday Courtney!
Happy birthday Courtney! Somehow I knew you guys would keep the army truck. It's just too cool! Also when you bought it was the first video of yours I saw.
Happy Birthday Queen .. wishing you best of health and wealth , be well and be safe to all of you..!!
Happy Birthday Courtney. Good job you guys, be safe out there and can't wait for the next video.
Always trench a road on the high side to catch water coming off a slope. add trenching on the low side to prevent any standing water. Crown your road, that is make the center higher than the sides for drainage. Anticipate where you will put snow in the winter and widen areas to accommodate that. If your excavator has tilt to the blade use that to help achieve a crown, if not consider renting one to help with that . Learning to work with the material on site should minimize your expense of bringing material in. If you have the cleared width then roll that material from the sides in to build up the center of the road. A dozer is your best friend when building a road in an area such as you have shown. With the talent you show it will be interesting to see your refinement in technique as the road project continues.
We have had a temp kicthen for a year and half. Come June I get cabinets too. I feel your excitement.
The duramax system pulls the fuel from the tank through the fuel filter. So the base or even the o ring on the filter can let air in and fuel to bleed back. If you "repair" whatever you have ordered and it still happens, you should install an electronic lift pump to help it reprime when you start it.
Happy birthday!
As ya'll improve your road you might want to add some road geotextile under the rock base. Doesn't have to be the expensive commercial kind. Home Depot has some online. This will keep the dirt 'fines' from moving to the top as the rocks are pushed down over time. Less maintenance.
You are my favorite RUclipsrs. I look forward to each of your videos and I am always excited for all of your progress.
Just beautiful..
Happy birthday....
Happy Birthday Courtney hope you had a great day!!!!!
Happy birthday Courtney!!!!!
Wow isn't that the way it always goes ...🎉 happy belated
birthday 🎉
Happy Birthday 🎊🎂 joyful 😀
Happy Birthday from my wife and I!! 🎈🍦🧁🎂
Thank you!!
glad to see you guys clearing bush around your house!!! good on you!
Happenings birthday!
Happy Belated Birthday Courtney!!! I'm glad that you got to relax and do whatever you wanted to do on your Birthday.
Happy Belated Birthday Courtney!
Happy Birthday, Courtney!
Your road reminds me of old farm roads in upstate NY.
Good luck on road repairs.
Thank you!
I’d recommend a retaining wall with drainage built in for the areas with the steep or compromised spots along your road. Should help considerably
Nothing more satisfying then a sense of accomplishment. Well done.
Great video, you two are having too much fun!
1 a.m. thoughts. Just saw you buying fuel for the excavator and the army truck utilizing your new transfer tank. Since it's for off-road use you may be able to buy diesel without the Road use tax. My family bought gasoline and Diesel this way for the farm equipment. I hope this helps!
Happy Belated Birthday, many more
Happy belated birthday Courtney, glad you had a great day!! I’m not sure if you have contacted the fire service in your area, to find out what they want to see for a fire line around your buildings. Because some area, won’t even try to save your property if you don’t have a proper fire line! With all your guys hard work and putting your life savings into your property I wouldn’t want anything to happen to your property. Keep living your dreams and thanks for taking your RUclips community along for the journey!!
Excellent reminder! We have actually spent this past week clearing around our building site for that exact reason.
Another awesome video brother stay strong and God bless
Oh yeah happy belated birthday Courtney
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Courtney! Another great video, guys.
And we enjoy watching you guys doing what you do!
You two are tough! You made it through an Idaho winter? I'm truly impressed with your can do attitudes. May your lives be blessed with abundance.
You could get fuel cheaper if you bought the off road or agricultural versions no taxes. At least in Florida you can get it. Diesel is about 3 bucks Herr no tax.
I know the feeling. We built our house over a year period and when we moved in it was an unreal feeling. We still have tons of stuff to do but we are in and enjoying it!
Congratulations on the huge milestone! 👊
I think the next equipment you need is a small tractor with 4wd and a front loader attachment. It can also be swapped with forks to make loading/unloading on the trailer with the use of pallets.
happy birthday!!! love it when a plan comes together!!!
Having worked at a Fuel station many years ago...It doesn't matter which hose if its from the same pump. You would have to move to different pump stand. Not even the opposite side of the pump will pump faster. It's literally the pumps GPM that dictates how fast.
Hope that helps.
Happy Happy Birthday, Courtney❣️❣️❣️
Happy Birthday Courtney!! 🎂