Today our landscape construction class at PCC set out to continue a gravel path that was started by the Tuesday night class.
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The excavation was already done for us and the
geotextile fabric was in place. While folks gathered up gravel and poured the first lift, I brought over the plate compactor on the
compact utility loader.
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After the lift was roughly level Juan Carlos used the plate compactor to jiggle everything into place. Pavers were used to edge the path with a lot of attention paid to keeping everything straight.
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After the edges were well positioned we filled the soil outside the path to support the edges while the next lift of gravel was poured in and raked to a rough level.
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This lift was hand tamped and cleaned up with the addition of a little more gravel as needed.
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In the end, it looked pretty good.
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