Someone has gravelled my drive!
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My next door neighbour accesses their house through my back garden (it’s a tarmac road, they’re not driving over the wife’s begonias). I came home from work one day and they’d replaced all my fence panels, they were obviously fed up with looking at the old battered panels as they drove by.
AJL308 said:
Isn't that just likely to be the council repairing what may be a dangerous wall before it fall on someone?
Who owns and has responsibility for the wall? valiant? Council?The Council wouldn’t repair someone’s wall for free! There was a house near us with a wall that was becoming dangerous. The Council got the owner to initially fence it off before he repaired it.
ferrisbueller said:
The lack of pictures is letting the thread down.
To the OP: The driver got the wrong address. As for this thread needing pics, I'm in New Zealand and have two properties with a combined driveway length of nearly 1/2 a km. Owing to the rain I get at one of them, I'm forever breathing life into it as it just sinks into the clay. Originally it had about 12" deep of sub base and top course but it rains for months at a time sadly.
So last summer I bought a couple of wrecked baby crawlers (Oliver OC3) and made it into a bulldozer purely for driveway maintaining. The original flathead was only 20hp and seized, so I managed to source a Triumph TR2 engine. I left the pistons alone and had the head skimmed for compression and put in a sporty cam because reasons. The plan was to run it on side draft bike carbs but it is too fast as it is so I won't be doing that.
Anyway, here are some pics of it in action:
Made this ramp to get it on and off the truck easily.
I fill the roller from the bore and it gives it a little more weight. I might fill it with bricks and concrete if I could be bothered but it does a job.
For reviving the driveway, I carve it up the centre and then push it in from the sides into the wheel ruts. Then drive over it for the rest of the day.
sospan said:
AJL308 said:
Isn't that just likely to be the council repairing what may be a dangerous wall before it fall on someone?
Who owns and has responsibility for the wall? valiant? Council?The Council wouldn’t repair someone’s wall for free! There was a house near us with a wall that was becoming dangerous. The Council got the owner to initially fence it off before he repaired it.
Just weird. No neighbour owned up to it. Done when we weren’t in. All done from the street side hence dodgy mortar on our side (but well done from the street side) but clearly someone felt a bit guilty about their kids wrecking our wall. I would have had to fix it eventually but was far, far down on my to-do list. (Was a wall about six feet in length and about eight feet tall separating two garages that occupied a bit of non-space in my garden).
Kids there were as good as gold so I never did the old ‘Get orf my laaaaand’ routine as it’s what kids do as we’ve all done when younger which may have caused a bit of guilt when little Johnny came home with yet another of my bricks.
Like I said, just plain weird.
Rostfritt said:
Taylor James said:
Certainly the most interesting story to have emerged from NZ in the past two decades. Did they use the correct type of gravel?
Indeed, absolutely nothing has happened around Christchurch of any note at all in the last two decades.dartissimus said:
Rostfritt said:
Taylor James said:
Certainly the most interesting story to have emerged from NZ in the past two decades. Did they use the correct type of gravel?
Indeed, absolutely nothing has happened around Christchurch of any note at all in the last two decades.Wacky Racer said:
netherfield said:
Some poor bugger outside Bournemouth is waiting for his new drive.
Christchurch NZ you plonker,,,,,,,,
Mikebentley said:
How can they have internet and no cameras in Christchurch NZ. I want pictures of wife and drive both covered in custard.......am I on the wrong forum.
Yeah, you need the crims for that. It's over that way -----> across the ditch.We're too busy shagging sheep and drinking Steiny.
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