Thursday, September 25, 2014

Lot grading and grass seeding!

Big, big, big working weekend. The plan was to 1) finish the landscape wall and 2) get the entire lawn seeded. I finished up the wall, on Friday morning, by installing the 2 x 8 top cap, putting in some additional bracing, dropping in some drain pipe and finally back-filling to cover all the pipes.

Below is a photo of the finished wall, just waiting on final back-fill.

Landscape wall from front-to-back

Landscape wall - direct view

The work crew involved Chris and Tim Arnold plus Brian and Brandon Biltz. Here is a shot of Brandon on the Bobcat working on scraping and leveling the front yard.

Brandon on the Bobcat

Friday night, since Tim was staying at a cottage on the beach in trade for other work done on the island, he invited us over for a beach fire.

Beach fire with the crew

Saturday morning, we were back at it working all day with the plan of getting the seed down before dark.

Brian and Brandon working the property front-n-back 

Part of the new landscape wood wall was the backside of the dirt mound needed to cover the large drain pipe. Chris, Tim and me built a short 3-course stone wall to catch the dirt mound behind the cottage. Here is a series of photos...

Stone wall looking across towards Chris's new cottage

Stone wall from the patio door area

Stone wall and pipe hidden

Stone wall and septic

Shortly after dark on Saturday night, we finished up the seeding just in time for a light rain. The timing couldn't be more perfect. There were minimal to no visible rain puddles = job well done. Here is a photo from Sunday morning of the finished product!

Graded, leveled and seeded

 
Front driveway view

Since we had the heavy machines on site, we decided to push back the overgrown wooded area on the back edge of the property. So not only did we push back all the poison ivy and other junk foliage, we have like 15 more feet of yard to use.

New extended yard thanks to Brian and his tractor work

 Another shot of the extended back yard

Wishful thinking, the grass seed takes and comes in green and full...

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