Laying the caliche

The trucks would dump the caliche out the bottom in windrows, Roel would flatten it out with the backhoe, Bralio kept the water truck going and directed the trucks, and I had rented a motor grader. In the evenings the Super from the reclamation job would come over and blade the runway for an hour or so to put the finishing touches. Roel was so goodon the backhoe that not many hours were needed on the (expensive) blade. The super was good on the blade, the runway finished smooth, with no hoop te doos, and nicely crowned. Everything was going good so I left for a couple of days to go try to make some money. They kept at it, adding material to low spots, and building it thicker. I had hoped for 8" of compacted material, wound up with 12 to 18 ".