I saw you at the local ice rink last weekend. This would be your chance to shine.
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Well I took 4 hours this morning to make a temporary driveway out of 3/4 gravel. Dug about 4 inches down, put some medium duty weed tarp to hold down the dirt and let the water drain, a side guard to hold the rock in, put 3 tons down, and packed it! Best part it was only about $200 bucks
Later this year I’ll have some concrete with rebar installed. Happy with the results and gesh i’m tired lol. But no more mud all over the road and drive. I’ll wash the drive tomorrow probably
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That was a boatload of work by hand. I did something like that for the area where I park my mowers last year. Shoveling that gravel by hand is no joke. I used that decorative river stone medium size and that stuff is heavy.
Did you get a price on concrete? Just curious what it would have been. As meticulous as you are that wavy left side going to be bugging you soon, lol. Looks good though.
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My father in law connected me with someone he uses after he does plumbing work. He believes it will be around 2k
And oh absolutely. I thought the dirt was heavy until I started shoveling the rock! That dirt was feathers compared to the gravel lol.
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When you have concrete poured have them rip out that little triangle. That’s gonna crack real quick
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I’ll have 2 square pads put in 
so yes that triangle will be taken out
@Racer did you just wire it up straight to the battery?
Wire what up to battery?
Lol sorry, I think it was an older thread. The voltmeter you posted, to put on outside of your battery box.
I wired my volt meter between my battery on / off switch and my bus bar which is where I distribute my power to all my equipment.
It goes Battery > On:Off switch > volt meter > busbar > all electronics.
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@DJPWS OK thanks…
Yes, just wired to my batteries I keep inside of boxes
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For anyone wondering, on the DC8540KG Hydromax unit I got, the pump is a General Pump TSF2021.
BCE takes the model number off and put their own stickers and logos so. I called and got the info for you so you can carry spares. Just for your knowledge
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Not sure if you’re interested but I decided to add some fuel gauges to my Hydromax tanks. At first I wasn’t sure if I thought it was gonna be worth the expense just because I can open the caps and look at the level but it’s really nice to be able to glance at the gauges when I’m running. Especially when doing some of my commercial work where I burn through the fuel. I hung led flood lights on my ladder rack so decided to have a panel that houses the rockers, gas/diesel gauges, and battery gauge. I’ll probably add a few more lights that are positioned more for seeing in the toolbox and around the machine.
I did have to make a new fuel tank hold down so I could removed the stock hold down strap. That was to gain to the gauge cover (or whatever they’re called). I had to drill a hole in the aluminum cover. I’m sure they sell the correct diameter to fit. Aluminum drills easy enough tho. You could probably just make a new hole in the plastic and either tap bolt holes, rtv it down, or both. That would keep you from having to make a new tank hold down. The sender is 17½ long which gives it the required 1" off the bottom of the tank.
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Awww getting all MR fancy pants now huh @marinegrunt ?
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Me fancy? Pretty sure I copied the led idea from you. Fuel gauges are old technology. They’ve been around longer than you Arkansassies starting intenionally getting your farm animal’s heads stuck in barbed wire.
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Show the backside. how deep are those gauges? Think they could be mounted on front panel of machine somewhere, only part I can see?
You ever wonder why the Arkansassy boys tuck their jeans into their boots?
Are the switches IP rated at all grunt? I would recommend a minimum of IPX4 for what we do, I’ve had a few of these switch boards installed over the years in many boats and they just couldn’t stay alive, learnt to go with individual switches IPX4 and up for ease of replacement if they do crap out instead of rewiring replacement boards. Neat work 
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Is that true @Hotshot ?
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