Using Sand To Level Potholes In Our Mobile Home Lot...

My Brother Donnie
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We bought a bunch of sand so we could use it on the brickwork skirting on our mobile home. When we were done building the porch and the underpinning on the manufactured house, we still had a lot of sand left over, so we used it to level some of the uneven places in the yard.
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And just like that, she's loaded.
What you playing with there, Donnie?
Well, we got a little tractor.
We got to go do some work.
Y'all want to stay tuned to see what
we're going to do.
Donnie left me out here with a rake and
he said that, "Oh, today we're going to
move all of this sand and get it out of
the way." And he I'm out here with a
rake trying to get it to do what it
does.
He's all lolly gagging.
I don't even know what I'm doing here.
If I pull it a little bit.
Oh, that's what he was talk. Oh. Oh,
yeah. That Yeah, that'll do it. Hell
with this.
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I got it.
Donnie, it's it's rolling.
It It's You're supposed to be in the
seat.
It's rolling towards that donny. It's
still rolling.
It's rolling toward Come on. You're not
supposed to do that.
Have to keep this stuff nice and flat.
Maybe we'll put a pattern in it or
something.
See here.
Heat. Heat.
Heat
up here.
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You know,
standing around watching Donnie work,
holding up this stick,
I kind of feel like I'm working for the
government.
Ronnie.
Yeah.
Wasn't you just right here racing?
I did not see that.
Almighty.
That don't want to work. Huh?
What are you doing?
Oh, there we go.
They'll both be right there when I come
back for
All right.
All
right, Ronnie. The uh
Everybody's going to ask why we bought
this big old mound of sand.
Basically, this is the deal. I can go to
Home Depot and I can get one of them
little tiny Well, I can get a little
tiny bag of sand
and it cost me about $4.
I can get a half or quarter. I think
they're a quarter yard of sand at Home
Depot and they charge me uh
I think it was $55.
Or I can get a dump truck load delivered
dumped out here for $200. Mhm. Now I'm
going to have to go to Home Depot and
pick that bag up and put it in the back
of my truck. And it's going to take
to do these bricks. It probably took uh
it probably took uh
50 bags maybe.
Mhm.
So do the math on that and you'll figure
out what that cost is or it would have
took probably two of two or three of
those bags of sand. But I'd had to go
get them. The big bags quarter quarter
yard bags. I'd had to go get them and
get them down here and try to figure out
how to get them off the truck and had to
pull a piece of equipment in to get them
off and yada yada yada or
I could do this and then I got extra to
fill in dirt and all.
Mhm. But what we should have done, the
first one, first house we did, go back
and look, we bought bags of sand.
The second house we Well, the first
house we did actually, we bought
premixed
mortar.
Mhm.
Then about halfway through it, we
decided we'd buy we'd be better off
buying bags of sand and mortar.
When we did this house,
we bought the big bags.
What we should have done when we did
that house was got the dump truck load.
Mhm. And we could have done both.
We could have done both, but this is
only our what? Third one.
Third one we've done. So,
we're learning as we go.
Mhm.
So, it's a lot easier
to get a dump truck load to dump.
Mhm.
And you ain't got to mess with it. And
you have extra to fill in little cracks
and crevices and low spots and that kind
of stuff. Mhm. So, we got all this stuff
knocked down and pushed down and looking
pretty good. If you remember, that's
where our septic system was. So, he
didn't get it graded out the best. So,
we went back in there and filled it up a
little bit. So, we got a couple septic
lines in there.
Mhm.
But it's looking good, I think.
Yep. Looks nice.
But we still got a little bit more. You
see this here?
I think we let the rain do that.
I got to open house tomorrow though.
Blame it on the rain.
What do I do about the open house
tomorrow? It ain't going to rain between
now and then.
They'll be all right. Just tell them
that the uh We're waiting on the rain.
We're waiting on the rain. You know, all
summer we ain't had that much rain.
Exactly. It's been kind of dry.
It's been real dry. Pond's about empty.
Mhm.
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