View Poll Results: If you have a driveway, is it paved?
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I don't have no stinkin' driveway!
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03-01-2017, 06:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Colorado Mountains
Posts: 3,165
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Originally Posted by MRG
This was ours yesterday morning. The foreground is the driveway under a foot of snow. The county road runs in the middle, at 90° to the driveway. The piles on both left and right are about 6' tall, with 4' ditches underneath them. We really don't know where the ditches are now, I am just driving through the middle.
The grader operator left about 30" in the front of the driveway.
I have to find the operator and what flavor of free beer they like the best.
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That solution works for me! I plow the roads here and my only pay is a beer or a cup of coffee now and then... (I ask folks who seriously want to pay me to please send a donation to the Kid's Camp.)
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03-02-2017, 07:02 AM
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#42
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MRG
This was ours yesterday morning. The foreground is the driveway under a foot of snow. The county road runs in the middle, at 90° to the driveway. The piles on both left and right are about 6' tall, with 4' ditches underneath them. We really don't know where the ditches are now, I am just driving through the middle.
The grader operator left about 30" in the front of the driveway.
I have to find the operator and what flavor of free beer they like the best.
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One of my neighbors clears his driveway with a blade on his ATV. He'd push the snow out into the town road for the town plows to clear, which is illegal. Apparently the town officials talked to the guy about it, but the message didn't sink in. So the next big snow the plow driver hemmed in his driveway with a 6-foot snowbank.
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03-02-2017, 07:10 AM
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#43
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gone traveling
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 3,375
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
The city home does, the boondocks home doesn't. So, I cannot vote.
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Sure you can. Whichever you're at now is the answer.
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03-02-2017, 07:22 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 25,349
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Originally Posted by imoldernu
As a kid in the 30's and 40's, our driveway consisted of coal ashes from the old furnace. Dumped out there as they were removed from under the "shaker"... often while they were still hot.
Anyone here remember "clinkers"?
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You mean what Santa used to leave in my stocking?
When I was little, I used to follow my father out to the coal bin behind the house in the morning. He got a bucket of coal and I got a few lumps in my little bucket. Then we would go back in the house and get the small coal stove going to provide a bit of heat in the house for the day. Hard to believe nowadays, but that was life back then.
Come to think of it, those lumps of coal were also used to make the face on my snowmen, just like you see in cartoons even today. What do modern kids use, since coal is no longer available to them?
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03-02-2017, 08:00 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,176
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200 foot paved with a turnaround. It was getting badly out of shape (crumbling, depressed where it met to street so that cars would bottom out going out) after 25 years. Had it repaved a few years ago by a small local company that actually gave us the highest estimate, but were so professional and honest and seemed to take so much pride in their work that we went with them. The first week after we had it redone the mail/package delivery carriers left notes on how great it was.
We have been impressed by the quality and and continuing attention showed by the company. The company owner has stopped by a few times just to check on it.
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03-02-2017, 10:02 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
The small town/rural thread made me curious - if you have a driveway, is it paved*?
*Paved equals concrete, asphalt, chip-seal or other similar surface. Gravel, decomposed granite, shell, grass, dirt, etc. is unpaved.
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So, REWahoo, is your driveway paved? Are you thinking of getting it paved?
I love having a paved driveway but then mine is short since I live in the city. It is maybe 90 feet long at most. It would probably cost a lot to pave one of those long driveways out in the countryside.
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03-02-2017, 10:49 AM
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#47
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,021
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So, REWahoo, is your driveway paved? Are you thinking of getting it paved?
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No, my driveway is 250+ feet of crushed limestone. Paved driveways are for city slickers...
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03-02-2017, 03:32 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
...Come to think of it, those lumps of coal were also used to make the face on my snowmen, just like you see in cartoons even today. What do modern kids use, since coal is no longer available to them?
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I took my children up to snow country to play with snow when they were little. After making a snowman, they looked around for something to make his eyes.
The only things they could find were some deer droppings, and that was what they used.
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03-02-2017, 03:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: St. Charles
Posts: 3,919
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr._Graybeard
One of my neighbors clears his driveway with a blade on his ATV. He'd push the snow out into the town road for the town plows to clear, which is illegal. Apparently the town officials talked to the guy about it, but the message didn't sink in. So the next big snow the plow driver hemmed in his driveway with a 6-foot snowbank.
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Karma is a B*tch
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03-02-2017, 04:22 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 834
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Current house does, asphalt. Retirement home north we are building will have an asphalt apron around garage and then a 30' gravel drive....so both.
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03-03-2017, 10:12 AM
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#51
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Idaho
Posts: 63
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It is concrete and holds up to 8 cars which is awesome until I have to shovel snow off of it every year.
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