Laying Stone Down Around A Large Hay Shelter

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:01]Well, good morning everybody. We are back down here. This may look familiar.

[00:00:05]This is the big hay barn shelter that I graded out over Thanksgiving of last year during that time frame. Well, they got the building up. I think I made a little video of that as well. Came back over here to get the equipment one day.

[00:00:20]So, what we've got to do is I've got the motor grader. Robert's got the skid steer and the roller on the trailer.

[00:00:26]Going to come in here and regrade under here. Uh finish grading this off if we need to put any stone to finish it off where it got tore up during the construction process cuz they are ready to start cutting hay. Getting it stacked under the shelter. And if I need to cut any of this out right here, we're going to go ahead and try to get stone out away from the building right here as well. So there is a nice parking and unload area. So that is the plan for today. We'll get this stuff unloaded.

[00:00:56]I'm supposed to meet with the owner and kind of get a game plan on how we want to do this. But as you can see, it was very wet when they put the building up and running around with the forklifts and the teleahandlers that kind of really rudded this up. So, get in here with the grater, get this sllicked up and cut down if we need to get any drainage in to put stone down.

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[00:06:46]I got everything graded under the shelter right here. Just need to run down the edges with the skid steer.

[00:06:52]Robert's already brought one load of rock for right there. I got a little bit of a low spot around that one. needs a couple inches. So, I'll scoot that over there with the skid steer. But, I'm going to take the motor grader right now, run down here, and kind of notch this in a little bit more so that uh our stone doesn't stick up too high and we get good drainage away from the building. I'll just row everything down there to the end.

[00:07:18]It's right nice working under a shelter when it's going to be 95° today.

[00:07:24]So, I was uh able to get all this bladed over and this over here. Robert is still hauling rock. And I met with the owner and his guys. We are actually going to They got a bunch of land over here. And this used to be the old access path to access this other half of the farm over here. And since we built a building here, the path pretty much got unusable because now we're like 12, 13 ft higher than the road. So, what he wants to do is punch another trail in the woods up there and go through the woods and then we'll come out to that field down there, go down the edge of the field, and then back around and through the woods uh all the way up there to the main farm entrance over there. So, got a fair amount of work to do over there. I'll end up having to cut that whole ridge out over there to get dirt for that road, which is kind of what they're shooting for. Cuz if we cut all that dirt out, the trucks can come in here then, get unloaded, and then back back around the corner right here out of the way. So, I think that's going to work out good. And we've got a great supply right there of buildable clay for a road. So, I'm going to jump on the skid steer. I got a little bit of a low area right there. And then start spreading this stone out right there. I might get it where he can start tailgate spreading it and then I can just hit it with the motor graater. We'll see. I had to uh get all that graded out first. So, let's get to it.

[00:09:31]All right. Well, getting the parking area covered.

[00:09:36]kind of working on getting it back filled around these columns and down the hill. So, it's going to take a fair amount more, but we'll get it done.

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[00:19:14]Well, it was a busy day today. We got a bunch of rock hauled in. Got it graded under the building, dressed up around it, the back slope, and all of this stone right here spread. We'll be back in the morning to finish hauling the rest of that rock down there. Get that graded out and rolled in. I'm going to leave the roller here. We got some rain coming later in the week. That way, once it gets some moisture in it, I can roll it in. It'll set that up really nice.

[00:19:39]So, before I leave, I'm go ahead and finish rolling under the shelter as they're going to have to probably start putting hay under there tomorrow or Wednesday. that way they're not waiting on me.

[00:19:50]Well, good morning to everybody. I'm back down here to get this finished up.

[00:19:53]Robert's already gotten one load and went and dumped that out. Going back to get another one. I'm going to go ahead and spread that. I went ahead yesterday before I left and rolled majority of this in. I need to bring a few more scoops around to the backside right here. I'm just going to kind of blend this slope in just a little bit better so when the rain pours off, it is actually splashing on the stone and not in that red dirt splashing that red mud all over everything. So, we'll jump on the skid steer, go ahead and spread that out. Looks like we need probably another six loads after this one. Maybe that should finish that up. So, should be able to get that knocked out around lunchtime and we'll get out of here.

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[00:28:35]Well, that is a wrap. Got all the stone put down. I don't even know how much stone we put down. I'll find out when I get all the scale tickets. But we pretty much added 60 ft by about a little over 200 ft for the whole length of the building. Regraded inside under here.

[00:28:51]They're going to start putting hay in here tomorrow. And we got a nice area right here to be able to drive, access the building, either back stuff in, pull it out, and stay on stone the whole entire time. That way, we're not tracking red mud in and out. So, I think it turned out really good. Customer should be happy. We did win the uh bid on the road job back over there. So, we'll be back in about 3 weeks to a month to punch about a 1,400T long road through the woods, move a bunch of dirt, put a bunch of rock down, some covert pipes, clearing. Good little project.

[00:29:27]So, we'll be back in about a month here to do that. So, everything went well and we got to go get started on another project.