Alan in Vermont
01-17-2014, 03:14 PM
On 1/6 we started a long delayed range improvement project at the Sportsman's Club of Franklin County in St. Albans Bay, VT
The only sure time we can drive heavy trucks on the property is when the ground is frozen. We cleared the snow off the week before, when temperatures were below zero at night and got the frost cover we needed.
Work was done primarily between 1/8 and 1/13. Bad weather on 1/6 and 1/7 prevented getting heavy equipment trucked to the site but on 1/8 we had a D5G Cat dozer and a 320EL excavator to work with and four tandem dumps hauling fill.
The fill was used as base for a new 6,000 sf. parking area and for additional cover over drainage lines on the 25, 50 and part of the 100 yd ranges.
Side berms were added on the south boundary and between 25-50 yd and 50-100 yd firing lines. Additional material was placed to make the backstops at 25 and 50 yds. both longer and higher. That material was dumped but no attempt was made to bring it to final shape because we had a day of heavy rain and two days of thawing weather and everything was just mud by that point. The final shaping will have to wait until everything thaws/dries out in the spring.
The only sure time we can drive heavy trucks on the property is when the ground is frozen. We cleared the snow off the week before, when temperatures were below zero at night and got the frost cover we needed.
Work was done primarily between 1/8 and 1/13. Bad weather on 1/6 and 1/7 prevented getting heavy equipment trucked to the site but on 1/8 we had a D5G Cat dozer and a 320EL excavator to work with and four tandem dumps hauling fill.
The fill was used as base for a new 6,000 sf. parking area and for additional cover over drainage lines on the 25, 50 and part of the 100 yd ranges.
Side berms were added on the south boundary and between 25-50 yd and 50-100 yd firing lines. Additional material was placed to make the backstops at 25 and 50 yds. both longer and higher. That material was dumped but no attempt was made to bring it to final shape because we had a day of heavy rain and two days of thawing weather and everything was just mud by that point. The final shaping will have to wait until everything thaws/dries out in the spring.