dibbons
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I have never been comfortable working on a creeper, i use this now.
Too much static. Lately I get shocked just touching the concrete. Never had that happen till recently.I use a corrugated cardboard/plastic sign Kitty got for me years ago. It hoses right back off if it gets something on it.
Boy, you must been rich!!! All my Dad could afford for the driveway was Gulf of Mexico discarded oyster shells. I say discarded but in reality they still charged you to dump a truck load of shells in your driveway. Oyster shells are as sharp as a razor when cracked and broken by the cars driving up and down the driveway. I still have scars on my back from laying on the broken shells under our cars when I was growing up. I guess we grew up tough, no whining when you were under the car wrenching on a bolt/nut!! I always saved the blood stained shirts for working under the car on our driveway so I didn't ruin any good shirts. And if you think I'm joking....the shells are still there in my Dad's driveway. By now they have pretty much been ground down into powder but if you dig a little with a shovel you'll hit the whole shells underneath. TrebligCardboard sometimes, gotten soft in my old age. Grew up on gravel, hard packed dirt with rocks sticking out of it, and suffering. Still do some things just knowing better...
There has got to be a bad joke about coming home smelling of clams in there somewhereBoy, you must been rich!!! All my Dad could afford for the driveway was Gulf of Mexico discarded oyster shells. I say discarded but in reality they still charged you to dump a truck load of shells in your driveway. Oyster shells are as sharp as a razor when cracked and broken by the cars driving up and down the driveway. I still have scars on my back from laying on the broken shells under our cars when I was growing up. I guess we grew up tough, no whining when you were under the car wrenching on a bolt/nut!! I always saved the blood stained shirts for working under the car on our driveway so I didn't ruin any good shirts. And if you think I'm joking....the shells are still there in my Dad's driveway. By now they have pretty much been ground down into powder but if you dig a little with a shovel you'll hit the whole shells underneath. Treblig
THIS IS HOW THEY LOOK WHEN THEY ARE FIRST DUMPED ONTO THE DIRT DRIVEWAY:
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Well I have to admit they did smell for a few weeks after they are first dumped but after a few rainy days and all the smoldering heat down here they dry out pretty quick. The only thing that will dull all the sharp edges is 20 years of driving back and forth.....but, not to worry, as soon as the shells start to loose their shape my Dad would have a new layer dumped to keep the mud holes from appearing here and there. THANKS DAD!!!There has got to be a bad joke about coming home smelling of clams in there somewhere
Boy, you must been rich!!! All my Dad could afford for the driveway was Gulf of Mexico discarded oyster shells.
Marines call those "rubber bitches": work great to keep you off 30 degree concrete, wet anything and weigh next to nothing to carry.
Well...to begin with....we were kinda poor. I live in a city where the ground is 70 percent clay (black clay). So if you're poor and you have a tiny house with a driveway and it rains (it rains a lot here) then you're gonna get these giant mud holes in the clay. Ever been stuck in clay?? It's slick slippery, goooey glue, if that makes any sense. We'd be out there on the weekends (all of us) pushing on the car to help get it out into the street so we could go to the store or ask a neighbor to get a chain and pull us out into the street. Anyway, the only way my Dad could afford to make the driveway usable was to use the cheapest method......Oyster shells!! You put a thick enough layer of oyster shells into the clay it will form a semi-hard layer to drive on. Remember, this was back in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, if you kinda poor, you also can't afford to pay a mechanic to fix your car sooooooooo, we had to do all the mechanic work ourselves, on the oyster shell driveway. I couldn't eat an oyster if you wrapped it in a steak!!!! And yes, from time to time we'd find a piece of cardboard to use as protection but it wouldn't take long for the cardboard to be cut to shreds. trebligWTH? What was the purpose? The worst I came across was under a raised foundation house that had busted up concrete as the floor, little concrete rocks the size of golf balls. PITA to crawl. I took a old boogie board down with me and just worked my way over the shards.