This video above is transcribed below.
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All right. I'm up here at the top of four mile Canyon or yeah, four mile Canyon up here, just off the upper Boulder Canyon drive. You start climbing up the road and come up here. So I'm going to show you guys around. We're going to try to dig out a little bit back in there, pick out some of these rocks here. Um, we're going to leave this one, this big one. We'll just take some of these here. Try to grab those there, grab that one, and then we'll dig out as much of this dirt as it will give us. We'll bring the rock camera up here too, just in case. Um, in case we want to use it.
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So we'll bring the three Oh five and the rock hammer up here. Um, we'll try to just dig everything out. We're going to be real mindful of the budget.
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We're not going to bust out the rock hammer unless the customers decided they want to, that'll be an extra charge. And then they're trying to get some more parking over here. So basically what we're looking at is I went around and around with them coming up with different ideas, talk about retaining wall and this and that and the other, but so what we're actually gonna try to do is, uh, bring in, you know, for maybe four to five, potentially loads of three quarter inch crushed rock that'll slide down the mountain right there and go basically right down to somewhere in there.
• 1:20 - 1:52
Let's see right at about, let's see, right. Kind of right about in there. We want to cut it off and then it's going to fill all the way in up to here and then try to give us about three to four, maybe five extra feet of parking area. If possible, we're going to pull this rock out. That rock, that rock, probably leave that rock and leave all that stuff there.
• 1:53 - 2:09
We'll set these nice, beautiful moths rocks. Aside over in the driveway over here, customers are going to deal with all this and remove this for us, or if it's not gone, they said they would gladly just push this into the fill down here. Um,.
• 2:13 - 2:40
Then after we put the gravel in here, the reason why we're putting the gravel in here is we're going to hope that these chokecherries will continue to survive and stabilize the slope and also provide a bit of a visual beautification of the hillside here, and also creates a little bit of a sense of safety from falling off the edge as these things continue to grow and, and establish themselves and get bigger. Hopefully. So there'll be, you know, a few feet.
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Of gravel at the bottom there.
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Around the basis of these things that will hopefully just flow through and not disturb these chokecherries too bad. And then we're going to come in with one to two loads of topsoil over the top here. And then we'd like Chris Korber to come in and do some hydromulching and seeding on this hillside here to see if we can't get some grasses to take. And, uh, this is a pretty steep we're going to have this be maxed out in terms of the, um, stable angle of repose on this hillside here.
• 3:17 - 3:32
So we'll probably be pretty close to 45 degree angle coming off here and then capping off here. And then we're going to take whatever rocks that we can harvest from over there, as well as these ones. And we're going to plant them right along the rim. We'll Nessel them into the right close to the edge.
• 3:32 - 4:13
We'll let NASA them into the gravel about six to eight inches, give or take, uh, you know, you want to have basically a quarter to a third of that rock nestled down in, and then graded right up to it. And, uh, and then for our cap layer, we'll probably for the driving surface, we should probably plan on not top soil. So the top soil will be all beyond the slope and the top layer will basically be gravel. So we'll just leave that as gravel up here on top, and that will all drain and just drain out the hillside and drain into the, uh, the choke cherries here in grain drain into the grasses.
• 4:13 - 4:49
And we'll basically be a good, uh, introduction of, of water into there. And we could actually capture some of this roof water here and send it in and like send some of this driveway drainage through here and kind of bring it this way, just ever so subtly. So that's the full project here. So it's a really, really gorgeous job site, overlooking Boulder Canyon and see all the way down into the Canyon down there off of the porch, this project.
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So for the fun.
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So this is the dozer blade that the customer here said he would consider selling us. So he said he bought this for a few hundred bucks and, uh, this looks like a six way grading blade, dozer blade. That could go on a skid-steer and it has what looks like good tight hydraulics.
• 5:29 - 5:57
I don't see any agregious signs of leaking hydraulics anywhere. I don't see any major dents or anything that looks like this thing as had suffered much abuse. There's a little bit of cracking in the hydraulic lines that doesn't look too bad there isn't an electrical feed here. So I'm curious.
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If this could be.
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Somehow adapted, have a laser laser guiding, it looks like this is a six way blade here. Basically it goes that way, that way and that way, that way. And then you can lift it up the whole thing up and down.
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Pretty cool.
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No, this is their skid-steer that they're running.
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Major, major chains.
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The plow is pretty nice.