Posted on 10/13/2010 12:03:54 PM PDT by Feline_AIDS
Hey Freepers,
I solicit your advice yet again. Here's my predicament:
I live in a city where I park behind my house. I drive down an alley to get to the place where I park. My parking area is gravel, and about six+ inches below the alley. However, there is usually enough gravel there to make a makeshift ramp of sorts, so I'm not driving/backing off/up a cliff.
However, recently, a neighbor moved into the sketchy apartments across the alley, and he drives a jeep wrangler. He discovered not long after moving in that he can take a very sharp left turn out of his driveway to go the "wrong way" down the alley and get out to a different street. Each time he does this, it pushes the gravel away from the incline. Now all that's there is rock-studded mud and a giant wave of gravel that his mud tires have created.
Driving over the huge bump knocks my tires out of alignment. I've asked the landlady for more gravel, but I doubt it's forthcoming.
Any ideas? (I'm not talking to him because he is very sketchy.) I'm not looking to damage his car, just discourage him from turning the wrong way.
Yes, I know it's trivial, but getting my car aligned costs way too much money, and new tires cost even more.
Thanks!
Buy some gravel or buy some cement and fix the driveway. Don’t expect anyone to come to your aid just because you are in the right.
(Mamzelle the upper-body-strength-challenged frustrated engineer)
;)
Get three or four bags of fast drying concrete (about $3 a bag) and make a permanent ramp there. Press some of the gravel into the wet cement before it drys to give it a blended in look. Most fast-drying concrete sets up in about a hour, so work fast.
You can mix it on a sheet of plywood with a shovel right there or do it in a wheel barrel or even in smaller batches in a 5-gallon bucket.
Do when you know it will have at least a few hours to cure until the idiot drives on it.
Pseudo-church?
sudo chmod -R 755 church
Sounds like too much work.... I'd just put the whole tie into a hole that's dug so that the railroad tie slanted down.
Are you serious?
Drinks water?
100 mph???? Come on!!
On Earth???
You've never been to Tijuana!
Good luck.............
4) someone or something that gives off a bad feeling
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sketchy
1) Get approval from the landlord to remove the curb.
2) Go to the local home improvement store and buy a big sledge hammer.
3) Offer said sketchy neighbor a pizza of his choice and a six-pack of his choice to knock the curb out of the way.
Win-Win!
Well that right there is your problem. You need some strong male friends.
Sounds like you need a gun. Seriously though this is pretty easy. You need to mix the water and Quickcrete together, a hoe is easier than a shovel if you use the dump it all on the ground method. If you have a wheelbarrow you can mix it in that with a shovel like you would mix cake batter in a bowl with a spatula. Cement is the batter, concrete is the cake. You want a pretty smooth batte,r not to runny but definitely not grainy. A couple of pieces of rebar set up on rocks or wood blocks about 3-4 inches from the ground sounds like about right for what you are doing. The rebar keeps the concrete from breaking up under say a jeep’s weight. THe gravel will add volume and grip if you want to mix some in. Any hardware store worth a dang will be able to give you DIY directions. Now you will have to keep vehicles off the concrete for a day or two while it cures. Good Luck on that. My guess is this particulkar problem won’t be around long given the discription you have given.
Get yourself some protection.
Akkkk! My eyes! Eww.
They are used a lot for landscaping, especially if you have a house on a slope. They are also great for deck foundations.
I like Menards and Lowes. I can’t stand Home Depot.
speaking of railroad ties, my buddy’s dad has his own operating steam engine locomotive about 30 miles north of me.
I was ‘workin on the railroad’ when I was a yute.
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