Comments on: 10 Tons of Gravel Make You Feel Like a Man http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/22/10-tons-of-gravel-make-you-feel-like-a-man/ Don't shoot the bodhisattva, man. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: KJ http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/22/10-tons-of-gravel-make-you-feel-like-a-man/comment-page-1/#comment-28 KJ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:32:12 +0000 http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/15/indier-than-you/#comment-28 Fuck a bunch of nature, yo. Round Up does break down and I guess would be overwhelming only used in huge quantities. But then again, you have to worry about people peeing Prozac into the water supply - and maybe in Carrboro there's more of that weirdness going around. (Heh.) See this article at BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm Fuck a bunch of nature, yo.
Round Up does break down and I guess would be overwhelming only used in huge quantities. But then again, you have to worry about people peeing Prozac into the water supply - and maybe in Carrboro there’s more of that weirdness going around. (Heh.) See this article at BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm

]]> By: dave m. http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/22/10-tons-of-gravel-make-you-feel-like-a-man/comment-page-1/#comment-15 dave m. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:29:38 +0000 http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/15/indier-than-you/#comment-15 Thanks, KJ! Several folks have commented that it "Looks professional" and I just let them know that I ain't playin' when it comes to laying down some gravel. Alas, the weeds were stronger than anything I threw at them! The weed burner was a bust. Really, really frickin' hot and uncomfortable process yeilding less than favorable results. Basically, it took about 4 hours to effectively "burn" about 8 square feet. Doing the whole driveway with that thing would have taken four months. I attempted to cover large portions with cardboard, newspaper and a vinyl tarp on different occasions. This wound up making a mess. Kind of a multi-textual mud bog. Salting the driveway killed about 50% -- FOR A WHILE! Then some rain and a few warm days and it was returning to life. Much like Terminator 2. All this was done to avoid using Round-Up and risking contaminating Carrboro's precious water supply. And what was applied just 24 hours before the gravel was dumped? Round-Up. A big heaping helping of Round-Up. Already there are freaking weeds growing up thru the new gravel. Nature can be a real bitch sometimes. Thanks, KJ! Several folks have commented that it “Looks professional” and I just let them know that I ain’t playin’ when it comes to laying down some gravel.

Alas, the weeds were stronger than anything I threw at them! The weed burner was a bust. Really, really frickin’ hot and uncomfortable process yeilding less than favorable results. Basically, it took about 4 hours to effectively “burn” about 8 square feet. Doing the whole driveway with that thing would have taken four months.

I attempted to cover large portions with cardboard, newspaper and a vinyl tarp on different occasions. This wound up making a mess. Kind of a multi-textual mud bog.

Salting the driveway killed about 50% — FOR A WHILE! Then some rain and a few warm days and it was returning to life. Much like Terminator 2.

All this was done to avoid using Round-Up and risking contaminating Carrboro’s precious water supply. And what was applied just 24 hours before the gravel was dumped? Round-Up. A big heaping helping of Round-Up.

Already there are freaking weeds growing up thru the new gravel. Nature can be a real bitch sometimes.

]]> By: KJ http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/22/10-tons-of-gravel-make-you-feel-like-a-man/comment-page-1/#comment-14 KJ Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:16:35 +0000 http://dave.matusiak.org/weblog/2005/03/15/indier-than-you/#comment-14 Looks rad, yo! Did you burn off all of the weeds underneath as originally planned? Looks rad, yo! Did you burn off all of the weeds underneath as originally planned?

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