Nelson Contracting

Another big landscaping job in Tamahere over the last 2 weeks with Ro & Rob
Front entrance transformation, huge privacy mound made a lot taller & fully planted, tons of topsoil shifted to creat mound, rocks placed, trees transplanted, flaxes removed & entire area bark mulched to finish

Job I did last week
Clearing out tree trimmings from drains & between trees, raking sprayed grass out of drains to reform
Put everything into a windrow for the mulcher to chew up

Cleaning up tree trimmings from the hedge cutter using Tiltman landscaping rake & grab attachments

Shed pad dig out & backfill, shape soil around end of pad to blend into lawn
Topsoil around front of house to bring up levels to garden beds & concrete patio

Big job last few weeks, scrapping out all paths in this massive garden in Tamahere
Cleared out old material, widened paths around perimeter hedge line, shifted sleepers, drilled holes for new fence then put new GAP20 metal down (approx 110t) & compacted to finish

New playground at Tamahere school with landmark design
Formed all the mounds & paths, put up the arches , fence, placed rocks & installed the koru ready for families to complete

Concrete driveway prepped & boxed, topsoil in for lawns after concrete pour

Retaining wall drainage retro install
1.8m deep 500mm wide, drain flow pipe, drainage cloth to protect aggregate, recycled crushed concrete & topsoil to finish

Interesting job
Shaped up an old well used driveway & coated it with asphalt road millings from Wayne Annelies Baker at Ace tree recycling
The millings were predominantly top coat asphalt with lots of tar to bind together
Once laid down & shaped the roller compacted into a beautiful smooth driveway that should be good for years & at a fraction of the cost of new asphalt
It’s also great to recycle!

Rather a large post but needed to show the challenge of this job

Put in a track for Down to Earth - Waitomo Eco Cave Tours to get to the cave exit point
This involved shifting limestone rocks & slabs to form a bench to sit the digger on & progress forward
After I got a rough track cut in, I then had to metal the whole thing so it was safe to walk & drive a side x side down
There were times I didn’t think I could get any further & many times I thought I was stuck as it was very greasy
I carted 72tonnes of limestone gravel on my side x side from up top all the way down, only a couple of scary moments & only stuck once
It’s very steep in places but happy how it turned out

Awesome job, super fun & challenging 😊