Cement tees in heavily wooded areas?

[mattc]

My suggestion:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbrande...crete-Step-Stone-71200/100333077#.Un7JdxaMFhA

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http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Patio-Pavers

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Great cement tees for a fairly low cost. Instead of the machine tamper you would have to get your hands on a hand tamper. You would need 60 of the bricks for a 5' x 12' tee pad and you could probably get a discount if you ordered them in pallet form. Also, you could shorten the tees down to 8' for holes 250' and less or downhill shots. My one suggestion though that the wiki article does not include is gardening weed paper. Really cheap, just lay it down before rocks to prevent weeds from growing up between your bricks.

this is ok, if you use bigger than 12" pavers
but concrete is best

 

[New013]

Sometimes for heavily wooded areas and especially areas that have a lot of elevation and water runoff concrete isn't even the best idea. Personally I'd rather see the compacted gravel with the rubber pads that have hexagon patterns in it. They are just as flat and they offer far more grip in wet conditions than concrete pads, especially ones that will have runoff flowing over them.

 

[DiSCRoCKeR]

Well, obviously it would be a dumb idea to put a pad in a run-off area to begin with. Best to keep those elevated and away.

 

[Almighty_Ed]

For the quickcrete approach your looking at 30 80lb bags per 5x10 tee pad. A small 4x8 tee pad is right at 20 bags. With the amount of water you'll also have to haul in and the amount of work it is to mix that much quickcrete I'd try to find an alternate method.