Load of 3/4" road stone

Here I can get 1" clean for $10.50 /T at one quarry.  the other two in the area are $3 dollars higher.

I don't buy crushed rock (limestone) anymore...I buy crushed concrete, it don't melt away like the limestone rock does and it's cheaper. i'll order a couple loads as soon as i'm sure i'll shut the machine down for the season. dunno what the cost will be for this year yet, but the guy selling it says it's still cheaper than the limestone rock, i'll prolly need about 200 more ton on my lot in town.

shameless dude wrote: I don't buy crushed rock (limestone) anymore...I buy crushed concrete, it don't melt away like the limestone rock does and it's cheaper. i'll order a couple loads as soon as i'm sure i'll shut the machine down for the season. dunno what the cost will be for this year yet, but the guy selling it says it's still cheaper than the limestone rock, i'll prolly need about 200 more ton on my lot in town.

Shameless, is this the same product as "recycled" concrete? If so, do you have tire issues with the rebar/fencing pieces in it? I was on a jobsite last year where the general had multiple loads hauled in for a temporary driveway to the site-EVERY sub contractor suffered flats :-(

Oohhhhh, THATS where they went. Maybe I can get them to ship it back?

When I put in my driveway I bought limestone by the semi load, it was a back haul and I got it cheaper than I could get gravel hauled in from the gravel pit 15 miles away. I don't remember how thick I put it down but I leveled it with my backhoe then put 6" of ashphalt grindings on top of that, after the house was up I had id double tarred and chipped with lime stone and it's held up great that 15 years ago.

I bought #3 and #4 gravel a month or two ago. They were $565 per load. One load was a dump truck and the other was a trailer so I'm guessing the truck was probably 18 tons and the trailer probably 22 to 25 maybe? Got the same guys to bring 2 loads of medium sl*g from a local casting plant and they were $285 for the dump truck and $300 for the trailer. Medium sl*g is about like a #3 gravel. The problems with sl*g are it's hard to get because the plant doesn't run a schedule and you get reject parts in there sometimes to. Works great for a base though.

Shameless they have a large electro magnet on the crusher and it picks out almost all of the metal, once in a while I see a piece of wire.

Wow 110 miles!!!  I am spoiled here have a quarry two miles from the house plus two other quarries in the county.

Darrell G (MN) wrote: Shameless they have a large electro magnet on the crusher and it picks out almost all of the metal, once in a while I see a piece of wire.

Your processor must have a stronger magnet that what's available "here"!! Was just on a jobsite that got "clean" recycled concrete and personally picked up 10 #'s worth of mainly the 3/16" mesh fencing mat and several chunks of 3/8" rebar that were 12-18's long !! The worst part is the chunks of wire still attached to chunks of concrete (1 1/2"x1 1/2")that were pointing straight up but couldn't/wouldn't lay over due to being "trapped" within it's cocoon.

last time I did buy crushed rock years ago, I paid just shy of $2000. and a case of beer for 246 ton of rock delivered to my industrial lot in town.

I live in Kentucky but I use “ manufactured sand “ basically crushed concrete. The place I buy it has a concrete plant nearby and claims its metal free. Says it concrete left on trucks they didn’t use or user rejected due to slump issues. We put it in all equipment sheds we use for storage only, hay sheds, cattle working barn and flat spots , I.e. lots in front of barns sheds where it doesn’t wash with heavy rains. It’s cheaper than anything from the quarry. If you get on it when first spread it packs well and stays packed. So far we have Never found any metal in this product knock on wood. Maybe they have something similar where you are. Or try thr crushed concrete they have ran across magnets. I use to haul a semi load of skids in to be ground for mulch and in hard times bedding. They would grind skids and the ground wood was passed over a series of magnets and I never found a nail, staple or piece of metal in the mulch. They make terribly strong electro magnets nowadays, just visit any big scrap yard. Best of luck, Keith

I had to put in sand 2 filters when I built