Road Work Continues

Submitted by fyl on 22 April, 2008 - 09:01.
Road Work Continues

The roadwork continues on the Geek Ranch. We expect to be done with the section (about 700 meters) that lies adjacent to our property this month. We are also currently working on a drainage canal across an open field.

We then will do temporary work on the section of the road that connects us to the main Estelí-Tisey road with a permanent solution after all the delivery trucks have come to the property (and the rainy season is over).

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update?

Submitted by Che Guevara on 14 November, 2008 - 11:57.

new photos of the road?

"The vice of capitalism is that there is an unequal share of blessings; the virtue of socialism is that there is equal share of misery"....Sir Winston Churchill

Great work and choice of material!

Submitted by nuestragringa on 24 April, 2008 - 15:02.

How thick is the cement?

I am from Pennsylvania where some of the roads are cement and last for YEARS even with the heaving from all the freeze-and-thaw cycles. Asphalt lasts for one season, really, before repairs are needed.

Exciting, Phil!!!

But hey, that means no holes to get stuck in! AWWWW, you're no fun anymore...

I forget the word

Submitted by fyl on 24 April, 2008 - 15:19.

It isn't really a "cement road" but I keep forgetting the spanish word for it. Basically, you dig out the road level, throw a bunch of rocks in the space (bigger ones below and then fill with smaller ones) and then "glue" everything together with a cement/sand/water mixture.

The big issue is getting the vados and the gutters in right so the water runs off. I am sure we will have some "error correcting" to do after a rainy season.

Note that the public road where we got stuck and been sorta fixed. Not cement but at least leveled and some balastrade dumped on it.

I am sooooo jealous...

Submitted by Doug on 22 April, 2008 - 17:21.

of this road.

It totally rocks,

if only it was Yellow Bricks... ;)

-Doug

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate

It is

Submitted by Che Guevara on 23 April, 2008 - 15:34.

beautiful! doug, how far do you live from the yellow brick road? and do you have any pines in your neighborhood?

when government grows, liberty yields, thomas jefferson

Just takes money :-)

Submitted by fyl on 22 April, 2008 - 17:50.

I am pretty happy with what is happening with the road. But, the road is costing more than the average house. Looking at it in isolation, it is scary. But, when you put it into the total bill of the project, it makes sense.

That leaves the one big question: is the total investment going to work? That we won't know for probably five years.

its a purty road . . . good on ya

Submitted by webtrainer on 23 April, 2008 - 21:55.

infrastructure seems like a good area of investment to me, at least it is a real construct that is durable and adds value to the property. (says someone who is doing similar types of investment)

I got all sorts of road graded when we rented tractors to come in and move rocks from one part of the property to the other

--in the end we realized it would have been cheaper to have filldirt brought in--

. . . at least we got something out of that deal :)

Doors of hope fly open when doors of promise shut. -Thomas D'Arcy McGee