{"id":1333,"date":"2020-10-05T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:56:12","slug":"land-grading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/land-grading\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Grading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last several weeks, our land has been changing a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They used an excavator fitted with a 5 ft. wide, 2 ft. deep rake which pulled piles of roots and hundreds of giant rocks out of the soil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the loggers finished, the field was still very rocky and filled with roots. We had a grading company come out and rake the field to make it smooth, flat and free of debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The logging company actually did an amazing job considering, but loggers tend not to be focused on details.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also had them clean up and shape the pond, which the loggers left covered in debris and only roughly the right shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used cardboard as a weed barrier under the 2 ft. wide strip of gravel along the front of the house, which helps reduce erosion and backsplash when it rains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They also removed the giant stumps and raised the grade of the front-yard over a foot to help the water drain away from the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The studio pad was also expanded a bit using dirt from the pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally they used the rocks pulled from the field to build retaining walls around the side yard of the house and the studio pad to prevent erosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The silt-fence, which delineated the wetlands setback, can now be removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The field is now very smooth, ready to be planted with grass and worked with a small tractor. There are also now pads for a barn and two poultry houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last several weeks, our land has been changing a lot. After the loggers finished, the field was still very rocky and filled with roots. We had a grading company come out and rake the field to make it smooth, flat and free of debris. We also had them clean up and shape the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}