From: Jim Newton (jnewton@laurel.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 10:08:17 PDT
Hi Bjorn...
>Parking on a slope, in general is probably not very desirable, you couldn't
>even check oil levels...
Yeah, you're right...I thought about that. I would need to drive it
up and out to do any type of maintenance. It is more a storage option
than an accessible parking area solution.
>Why not level the area. Build a retaining wall 5 feet high at the bottom of
>the incline, use concrete and build a well in the center for working below
>the truck and fill the remaining space with dirt and rocks sloping and
>landscaping the sides.
>A 5 foot high retaining wall is what you would need for a 25 ft long level
>area based on the 20% incline.
Oh, MAN! I would LOVE to build a flat parking area there with a pit
room below! But the slope is 20 degrees, not 20 percent. It would
need a pretty high retaining wall even at 25 feet, and a LOT of dirt
to fill it (about 1200 cubic yards for the whole 60' long area)! The
top of the hill is 21 feet high above the back yard level, and the
horizontal distance from the top of the hill to the bottom is about
60'.
>Of course living near SF may present problems with building permits etc.
>Cost wise, probably comprable to the steel.
>
>Just for the fun of it,
But expenses and yes, permits, require a simpler plan for now...hence
rusty PSP!
Thanks!
>Bjorn
>Meadows of Dan, Virginia
>
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>
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>>From: Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>Subject: Re: [MV] Landing Mats on a Dirt Slope For Deuce Parking...
>>Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 18:18:43 -0400
>>
>>At 6:00 PM -0400 6/9/03, James Stead wrote:
>>>Jim,
>>>
>>> I've never done anything like that, but it sounds like it would work.
>>>One
>>>more thing you could do after is was all down, would be to paint the
>>>landing
>>>strips with a sandy traction type paint. It would even look better than
>>>the
>>>rust too. A place called "WesternResources" used to sell surplus navy ship
>>>paints that would probably work quite well. I think they're still in
>>>business (AZ?) but I don't know the phone number for them. I don't think
>>>they have a web site.
>>
>>Westernresource@aol.com. No website that I know of. Joe is in TN.
>>
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