Driveway – DriftlessinWI

I slipped a track for the first time in nearly 10 years of ownership of my Gehl RT210. It happened when working on the shoulder of my driveway. I have discovered that the Gehl undercarriage doesn’t like breaker rocks used for the sub grade on roads.

I plan to make another video on that soon, but in this one I show how I was able to get the track back on even while the machine was perched precariously on a slope. While I tried to do it all with hand tools, I had to resort to using my wheel excavator because the machine kept sliding off the jacks and I couldn’t get it high enough off the ground to slide the track under easily. On a flat solid surface, the Gehl system is easy to use to change, remove, or reinstall a track.

Enjoy! Thanks for watching!

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I finally received my erosion permit and finished my driveway to the new homesite. After making over 4000ft of driveway, I learned how to drive a dozer, a CAT D6, and got a lot of use out of my CAT 323. I have come to appreciate how hard being a dozer operator actually is (especially if you don’t have Slope and Grade assist tools) and can’t believe how much effort goes into to putting up silt fence 🙂 I need to keep the driveway under 13% to be in compliance with our town ordinances and had to make a switchback in an area that was over 20%.

This took me over a month, 100 truckloads of breaker rock, 4000 ft of geomat, 1500 ft of silt fence, about 30 silt socks, 6 culverts, 200lbs of grass seed, 60 hay bails, and 20 rolls of erosion mat. I hope it was worth it, so far so good with holding up to rain storms, but this winter may bring a few headaches with snow and ice. You can find the generator and jackhammer here:

Generator: https://amzn.to/3BiEZY0

Jackhammer: https://amzn.to/3BiEZY0

Enjoy!

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