10 Tons of Gravel Make You Feel Like a Man
That’s right, G. Rock hard. Cold as stone. Ten tons of 3/4″ gravel up in your grill. Don’t even try to front.
(Junkyard Alva makes her cameo in photo #2)
Oh yeah, and there were these pretty flowers blooming atop the driveway.
March 27th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
Looks rad, yo! Did you burn off all of the weeds underneath as originally planned?
March 28th, 2005 at 12:29 am
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.
April 7th, 2005 at 11:32 pm
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