10 Tons of Gravel Make You Feel Like a Man
Posted: March 22nd, 2005 | Author: dave m. | Filed under: humor joke, photography | 3 Comments »
That’s right, G. Rock hard. Cold as stone. Ten tons of 3/4″ gravel up in your grill. Don’t even try to front.
(Junkyard Alva makes her cameo in photo #2)
Oh yeah, and there were these pretty flowers blooming atop the driveway.
Looks rad, yo! Did you burn off all of the weeds underneath as originally planned?
Thanks, KJ! Several folks have commented that it “Looks professional” and I just let them know that I ain’t playin’ when it comes to laying down some gravel.
Alas, the weeds were stronger than anything I threw at them! The weed burner was a bust. Really, really frickin’ hot and uncomfortable process yeilding less than favorable results. Basically, it took about 4 hours to effectively “burn” about 8 square feet. Doing the whole driveway with that thing would have taken four months.
I attempted to cover large portions with cardboard, newspaper and a vinyl tarp on different occasions. This wound up making a mess. Kind of a multi-textual mud bog.
Salting the driveway killed about 50% — FOR A WHILE! Then some rain and a few warm days and it was returning to life. Much like Terminator 2.
All this was done to avoid using Round-Up and risking contaminating Carrboro’s precious water supply. And what was applied just 24 hours before the gravel was dumped? Round-Up. A big heaping helping of Round-Up.
Already there are freaking weeds growing up thru the new gravel. Nature can be a real bitch sometimes.
Fuck a bunch of nature, yo.
Round Up does break down and I guess would be overwhelming only used in huge quantities. But then again, you have to worry about people peeing Prozac into the water supply – and maybe in Carrboro there’s more of that weirdness going around. (Heh.) See this article at BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm