A year ago my youngest brother who lives 2 houses down from me purchased 14 acres that had been logged back in 2018. Ever since then it just sat, ****ed up and flooded from a typical poorly performed operation. My wife and I at the time were in the process of purchasing a different 14 acre tract about 6 miles away in a different school district but weren't excited about not having all of our kids together anymore. We have 9 children and my brother & his wife have 3, all of the cousins play and fish together daily so they weren't very excited either. Talking around the campfire at the house one night he made mention of selling us half of the property they had purchased so we could all stay together so my wife and talked and decided to take him up on the offer. We backed out of the property we were buying and that's where the adventure begins. First things first we had to get us a place to park.
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Like I said the property was holding water badly so we needed to get some more area opened up to help with draining the property. We rented a mini ex and scraped the front entrance area so that we could punch some sump holes and cut ditches to start draining the property. We got a little reinforcement from my youngest set of twins too.
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Little rain moved in and delayed getting some crushed concrete in to start a driveway. Once I got the rock put down I hauled some dirt in to build up the shop pad and only found one stump hole. Got the slab formed up this past weekend and scheduled trucks to pour this Friday....not sure if that will happen as we are forecasted for rain everyday for the next 8 days so we shall see.
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Originally posted by scott1022 View PostThat's going to be quite the project with all of the drainage issues, but it looks like you ain't scare one bit. :-)
Enjoy the process and I look forward to following along. Lots of pictures already, so I'm sure that this will be a good one.
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Originally posted by Chew View PostFollowing. Nice work so far. What is that material/liner you put down under the driveway rock. I might need something like that.
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Originally posted by Mbbriggs05 View PostGot it for a really good deal due to the drainage issues scaring a bunch folks off. Nothing a little time, some equipment and big pond can't fix. There is a drain that enters the back of the property and exits the front. It was all dammed up from the pile the loggers left and trees blown down from a tropical storm and a hurricane. We will put a pond in towards our west property line and redirect drainage towards it.
Happy for you and the family. I know that I personally would want the same situation... Lower price & More time to operate heavy machinery... WIN WIN! :-)
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