Rockin' the Causeway Part 2

Well – we ran out of rocks…

Okay – there are still rocks somewhere on our property but we ran out of ones that were close to the road and the right size, and obtainable without really scarring the landscape forever.  And we did get  layer along side the causeway on both sides – though the top was lower than the road surface.  From there the idea was to put on relatively coarse gravel out and over the layer of big rocks. 

All was well ?  (maybe?)

As it turned out all was not well.  We talked to the experts, our local sand and gravel guys, who know this stuff and they advised that more big rocks would be advantageous.  They can stack better and higher than the coarse gravel and will improve the stability.  So – we had them bring in another 3 truckloads of big rocks.

A dump truck's worth of rocks to deal with


It is way easier to build up edges with truckloads of rocks rather than trailer-loads of rocks.  No surprise I guess.  

The rocks still need to be moved one at a time though

So the causeway now looks more like this!  

Now doesn't that look firm and stable ...


Yes – this seems much more stable.

It will be interesting to see what the beavers make of the change.  I suspect moving from one side to the other will become a bit more challenging.  We have yet to see any evidence of the beavers moving from side to side (post change) but we did make note of this little guy making the trek.



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