When Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina, it damaged/destroyed an unimaginable amount of driveways.  4 months later and many of these driveways are still not back to fully functional.  With the underlying soil base damaged, we have found we are often having to repeat repairs on the driveways after each new rainstorm.  Over time, the base will become more stable, and these issues will subside.  Until then, we continue repairs.

While federal funding is now becoming more available, most of this is still going to repair roadways and remove debris.  Homeowners are left footing the bill to repair their own property.  With many home insurance policies refusing to cover driveway repair, homeowners either have to pay out of pocket, do without a proper driveway, or hope for help from others.

We fully intend to keep providing this help in any way possible, but we can't do it without you.

While our skidsteer has been a wonderful addition to our toolset, using the bucket to spread gravel is not the most efficient.  Skid-Max has loaned us a grader blade and we have found it has been the perfect addition.  While they need to move that unit back into their demo fleet, we would like to purchase our own unit to continue using.  They have been extremely generous to give us a very nice discount, and have include multiple accessories and replacement blade edges to keep the unit operational well into the future.

Your generous donation will help us secure this vital piece of equipment.

As always, we are a 100% volunteer 501c3 organization.  Our members provide their time without compensation, they do the work because we want to help our neighbors.  Your full donation will go directly to purchase this piece of equipment.  Any additional funds we gather under this campaign will go for additional fuel, maintenance, and upkeep for our skidsteer.

THANK YOU!

P.S.  One of the questions we received is why not just use the bucket to spread material.  That is possible, and it is what we have been doing.  If all of our volunteers were highly skilled skid steer operators then the blade would save a smaller amount of time.  However, our operators are volunteers who have basic operational and safety training on the equipment.  They aren't professional operators who do this for a living.  We have found using this blade reduces the time to spread material by as much as 50%, while giving a more uniform and stable surface.