Need a Bigger Hammer

[bcguide]

Up north in muskeg country we used corduroy to make roads and horse trails.
Its basically a log road, lay the logs 90 degrees across cover with the branches then gravel.

[bcguide]

Pic stolen from the net

[SweetMK]

Up north in muskeg country we used corduroy to make roads and horse trails.
Its basically a log road, lay the logs 90 degrees across cover with the branches then gravel.

Here is a pic of my corduroy road,, 160 empty, then loaded 18 wheeler trucks went over this during the wettest year we ever had,,



That was in 2016, the logs, and road are still in perfect condition.

[Tool Junkie]

Anyways.............THANKS GUYS for the compliments. Always a nice thing.

Sometimes I get a bit of flak for the amount of tools I own, including the machine tools. Ya gotta remember,, this really isn't a hobby. We run a business here. Raising, and selling cattle, sometimes selling surplus hay. Given the tight margins, DIY is about the only way to survive, given the tight margins.

I do think al lot of you guys are correct in saying that the delays caused by the DIY process are sometimes outweighed by the cost of buying new stuff. It's something I'm just stubborn about I guess............but at the end of the day, I still have more money in my back pocket. We mostly always manage to work around the delays, unless they're absolutely catastrophic.

It's all put together now,, so I imagine I'll toddle out to the Oliver, and try to get it out of the mud rut.

Yep! That's how I got into fab and machine work. Without the tools to make repair parts and attachments for older equipment, we would probably have been broke early on.
I don't have that excuse now, but the tool disease has a hold of me now!