Mr Crudley
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They are more like 30cm+ potholesYou should make dirt jumps.
They are more like 30cm+ potholesYou should make dirt jumps.
Yeah pretty much where you can see red dirt up to the grass was the slope before - plenty of room for a container nowWas the natural ground a slope from the back fence to the grassy area? A la the side fence? If so you have done a mighty fine job. Hard to imagine you did this with a bucket and spade.
I have, pics hereHas anyone built a pump track in their backyard? I'm thinking about building one for kids and incorporating it into the paths around the veggie garden in the middle of my backyard. Looking for inspiration if anyone has pics.
Nice! Love it. What size area is taken up by a track like that? Can't quite read the scale on your plan.I have, pics here
Still not planted out but the design is here
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Our block is 40m x 50m and the track takes up just under half in each direction so roughly 20m x 25m.Nice! Love it. What size area is taken up by a track like that? Can't quite read the scale on your plan.
Amazing job.So the digger finished up this morning would’ve been finished yesterday except for the fan belt breaking, owner knocked $100 off the hire down to $300 and then we slipped the eldest boy some money to cover his time and diesel. Now I need to get the bloke over to the retaining wall, going to probably go with sandstone coloured stackstone or brown timber look concrete sleepers. There is a lot of soil left over but by the time we back fill the retaining wall and fill the garden beds then whatever is left over will go into the backyard so I can level out the grass area and build another couple of retaining walls but only 400mm, I hope.
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Thanks, this is a before shot as I had pull everything out out after the poisoning, plus a current google earth shot with all the hedge dying, that’s not mulch on the fence line that’s dead trees that were 2 meters tallAmazing job.
I hate parting with money and I’m a bit of control freak but time is money, I was lucky enough for my son to be able do the job and have access to the digger bonus it was cheap. The next part is going to be costly but we are going to do it once, the concrete sleepers are twice the price but won’t rot and hopefully look better, as we are looking at the stone finish, second from the top to match the rest of the garden.@cammas, good work getting the digger in. I've been 'preparing' an area for new paving in my backyard for a year now. I have a problem with DIY; often think it's a failure on my part to call someone else in to do a job. Just sent off an enquiry to a landscaping company to come in and level it and pave it for me. Time is precious and I don't have a lot with 2 young kids now. Don't have a lot of money either, but can always make more of that
Nicely laid.Time for an update on the front yard, my sons mate was a bust for doing the retaining wall as he’s currently flat out with work as he’s behind due to the rain. So we called in a company for a quote and he looked and said why don’t you go with a rock wall instead of sleepers, cheaper and minimal risk as you don’t have to bore holes down. So we took his advice and they went to town, it a company called Earthcon Group and they did it in two days with 3 blokes, my neighbour across the road even come and got a card, as he liked the work they did.
So they did a wall along the front fence line and when they got to my neighbours they did a right angle down to the road so their dirt and driveway doesn’t wash away, bonus is the bogans won’t be able to drive on my side, so a score for us.
Anyway here’s some pics, next section is the top part which should be a little easier there’s a small retaining wall to be done to support a garden bed, then brick frontage on them which will be the same as the current round garden bed in the middle, a front fence and plants. I have just put some salt creek rock down for now but that will end up getting down toppings of the same rock, the gravel turns purple after all the dust washes off which will look good with some pig faces we are going to plant in the gaps of the rocks.
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