After clearing the road, it was time to put the rock in. No problems back home, where you could rent a Cat or something to make things go faster and easier. Not so here.
At first, we brought in seven dump truck loads of large rock (around 4 to 12 pounds each) and sand. The loads were dumped at various points, and then it was up to Miguel, Keneth and myself to spread it around with shovels and large hoes. Back-breaking work and it was around 90
degrees with equal humidity. Once the large rocks were spread, then we had to go through and move them to the outer edges of the road, sort of a barrier for the smaller rock that was to come the next day.
After hauling and moving the big rock, the smaller rock was cake. We just took 4.5 loads of rock, and since it was smaller, the dump truck driver was able to tilt the bed and drive in a herky-jerky style and pretty much spread it out along the road. There were three of four areas where he just had to dump a big pile and we had to move it around and spread it out. Miguel and I were able to even out and spread an entire load before the driver returned with the next, so it was a relief after all the work from the day before.
You can see the results. We need to drive over the road a bunch of times to pack the smaller rock down, and that will come before and during construction with cars and trucks going in and out.
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