Gravel Driveway Options ??
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Topic: Gravel Driveway Options ??
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Gravel Driveway Options ??
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 5:10pm
| Freind of mine has a HORRIBLE issue with his drive this season and the frost hasn't even "gurgled" yet "HERE". he's getting quotes for asphalt, limestone, recycled concrete( I told him to BAIL on that due to steel tire spears) and recycled asphalt. What would be your choice of the above-mentioned products ?? Thanks |
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 5:21pm
| https://selectstoneohio.com/product/411-berm-stone-bulk/" rel="nofollow - https://selectstoneohio.com/product/411-berm-stone-bulk/ Berm Mix is the best for a driveway that has no bottom. Your friend is probably too late as Frost Laws limiting how much weight a truck can haul are going on in most counties in Southern Michigan. Unless they live on a Class A road then weight restrictions are less or don't apply. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 5:48pm
| Thanks klinemar, I will forward this link |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 7:02pm
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Have seen people have good results with ground up old asphalt, spread and rolled. Best done in the heat of summer. Very little dust. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 7:07pm
I have several tons of ground up puns( crusher pun), I could let you have, if you ask nicely...
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Posted By: Dirt Farmer
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 10:18pm
| I have experimented with putting a matting layer of straw down first in the spongy area, pressing it into the area then covering it with rock. My reasoning for trying this came from watching how they treat wet spots in the grass areas at the farm progress show before they had the roads and also at the state fairgrounds. The straw layer seems to spread the weight and keep you from sinking in. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 7:11am
Around here they call that stuff millings. Worked good for me without rolling. It stiffens up quite well in the heat of the summer.
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Lars(wi) wrote:Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 2:56pm
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Here we use a material called chirt. When it arrives it looks like mud and makes you think "boy I've screwed up". But you let it dry a day or two then you can spread it and when you get it spread 2 to 4 inches thick and it dries it's there. It sets up like concrete. And it's about 1/2 price of gravel to boot ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 3:01pm
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Years ago, my grandfather got what was called ‘cinders’. Spread it out, it was something that didn’t bind together, always stayed kinda loose, although no dust. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 3:28pm
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kinda depends on the size of the driveway...but.... the BASE is what really counts... and then COMPACTION..... gotta get rid of ALL 'top soil' like material, then 2-3 layers of 'sub base'(big rocks, well compacted, in 4-6" lifts) ,then layers of 'base', say 3, 4" layers WELL COMPACTED, THEN you can put on the 'top coat'...asphalt,pavers, whatever. I installed 4by8 pavers on a 1" bed of sand on top of 16" 'base' on compacted subsoil back in 2014. since then I've driven everything on it, including the 7000# forklift( a ZILLION+1 times), pavers are 99.44% original looking. It's ALL about the base..the stuff you NEVER see, do that RIGHT, you'll only need to do it once. I has RAP (Recycled Asphalt Pavement) installed next door. As long as you drive on it, it's fine. Since there's no 'binder'(tar), it'll separate into bits. drive over it with something heavy(hmmm...loaded forklift...) and it magically is good again ! My driveway here is 32 year old asphalt, crack at paving seem,only been 'sealed' ONCE, maybe 22-25 years ago. It(base) should have been compacted more..oh well... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 5:20pm
Dirt, it's odd that you bring up the "straw" aspect
 ! My friend inquired about the SAME scenario  !! Thanks for the reply !! |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 5:25pm
Lars, when I was in middle school in the mid '70's , the outdoor running track WAS a CINDER TRACK
 . When/if you "wiped-out" on the track, you were digging shrapnel out of knees/elbows for weeks  !! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 6:09pm
| Main purpose of a Cinder Track was Leg Strengthening as is similar to running on sand. Gives with every push off yet easier on the ankles/knees as gives as foot comes down. And yes, we all worked hard NOT to fall down. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 6:20pm
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We have Loess Soils here so do not need a lot of under work for gravel roads. Our drive was Sod pushed off then 2" clean at first then 2" with heavy screenings or Minus rock mixed as a second layer, final was Inch Minus that when wetted and allowed to dry out gets like Concrete. Every heavy rain will soak into topmost layer where several days of rain or as with the recent snows repeated often then quick to thaw and soak in the road still softens up, but just a inch or so of top layer. In heavy clays around the several counties surrounding ours, the contractors will layer in 3" clean at roughly 5-6" depth, followed with 2" minus topped with Inch Minus and ALWAYS Crowned to allow water to direct to edges. Our drive is due for a top coat of 1" Minus stone as is over eight years in place.
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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 6:57pm
| If you have really wet unstable soil or any soil- after grading the top off - get a stabilizer fabric, it works great on job sites Im on , and I laughed the first time I seen it used- but dam it works great, sure cuts down on the amount of rock needed and holds up great |
Posted By: dp7000
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 7:18pm
| Geotextile fabric down first will save tons of rock, literally. I use it in high traffic areas like gates and feed pads. Rock lasts 3 times as long and takes less rock to resurface. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 7:24pm
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friend placed old grinding stones down first... yeah 4' round ones, them suckers were friggin heavy, back then, 1978... I was younger then..sigh.... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 7:25pm
| Several have posted using fabric first and then material. Yes that works as I backed a tri axle dump truck loaded with 12 yards of gravel into a landing as it was being made.With fabric first and then road gravel with no top soil removed. This was on a Oil Pipeline spill cleanup along the Kalamazoo River. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 11:19pm
| lime stone will melt from rain, but...it does put a great base down if you use 3 inch lime stone, then after driving on it awhile follow up with 3/4 inch/gravel/crushed and screened concrete/something that is easier to drive over. the big limestone will melt in place and put a good base down for other stuff. some around here are using slag from the plants that melt steel down. right now it's really cheap. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 6:03am
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We've used a lot of slag here to. It is cheaper but you have to watch it because there's a few scrap parts in it sometimes. Also if you put down to much of the fine stuff it won't lock together and will continue to roll and move ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 6:20am
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There was an episode of 'Mighty Trains' where the guys laid branches and brush down then ballast for the RR tracks in some really,really boggy part of England or Europe( senior's moment). That was back in the 1850-1890s era... tack is still there... Sounds like geotex is the manmade modern version of it.... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 6:33am
| Are several quarries here with a really hard limestone, called Dolomite. Is acids and erosion resistant darned near to a granite but still limestone. Hell Hole at Readsville MO, Magruder Limestone in Ashley MO and one I cannot remember name of south of Pevely MO had this stone. Western Arkansas is supposedly loaded with it. |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 7:09am
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I dont do much of that stuff, but when I do I use a 100% Limestone Product from the Calcite plant in Rogers City MI. The binder is crusher fines, no clay what-so-ever. Lay it down, level it up, pack it down good, sprinkle some Dow Flake on it and when it rains it wont melt, it turns to concrete LOL Then again, the worlds largest open pit limestone quarry is 20 minutes from my house so not everyone may have this option ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 7:12am
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FYI, If you google map Rogers City MI and switch to satellite view you can see the quarry. The primary crusher was installed back in the 40's (I think) and was built by non other than Allis-Chalmers ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 7:56am
Don, didn't realize that's where Millersburg was. Been near there many times, but not quite right there. You aren't all that far away from me.
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Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 8:02am
Where are you located? If you ever through the 'burg just let me know. ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 8:52am
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For being a giant hole in the ground, the quarry is kind of neat. Right now they are at like 300 foot below Lake Huron level, so there are pumps that run 24/7 to keep the water out. Some sections they are done mining in and those areas are now flooded. Pumps are run by a 400HP electric motor. A 400HP 440V 3-phase electric motor is a LARGE electric motor LOL. When the quarry first opened at the turn of the century everything was steam and rail. The rail cars pulled along side the crusher and dumped off the side into it. Now everything is large quarry trucks (CAT 797 I think) and they back into the crusher house and dump into it. The material is crushed and then travels by belt to the top of the screen house which is 10 stories tall. It goes through the screen house to different belts depending on stone size and gets dumped into a pile according to the diameter of the stone. Those piles are pushed up by D10 CAT dozers. The material travels under ground through trap doors under the piles, through "the tunnels" and out to the boat loader where it is loaded onto the Great Lakes Ships It is hard to get into because it is considered a port of entry and is guarded by the US Border Patrol, but during Rogers City's Nautical Festival they have the equipment on display outside the gates. They also do tours at that time, but they are hard to get on. First come/ first serve and fill up quickly ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 9:24am
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Sounds like you are going to have Another GREAT LAKE sometime in the future ! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 11:25am
I'm down toward Tawas / West Branch sorta. Used to be up your way a LOT when the kids were younger. Hockey and Softball took me all over the place. I miss those days for the most part........but I can remember $750 per month in gasoline too, can't imagine what it would cost now the way things are going.
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Posted By: Dick L
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 1:35pm
Probly the cheapest way would be a layer of cinders after dug out and then top it with asphalt grindings. My grandson had cinders hauled in from a foundry and then covered it with crushed limestone. Semi cattle trucks are in on it year round without much attention. arounfd here all you have in both cinders and asphalt only costs the trucking. Crushed limesone is kinda saulty to buy.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 3:00pm
| When I put my driveway in I had #4 limestone for base and 5" to ^' of asphalt grindings then a double layer of Chip and seal limestone and it has held up great, that was 15 years ago |
Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 7:31pm
| Excavate 2-3 ft. Fill with stone. Cover with gravel. Will not move ever. |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2022 at 7:46am
I used to run parts in that area many times. 55 out of West Branch into Tawas to Bolen Asphalt. Not to mention all my stops in and around the WB area. Stopped and drove through the back lot of Willard's many times ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2022 at 7:57am
“Old” Mr Bolen’s wife was a classmate of my dad’s. That place has supplied a LOT of pavement in this half of the state for sure. Not sure what’s up with Willard’s. I’ve heard it’s for sale. I’ve heard they aren’t really a New Holland dealership anymore, but yet they had new units when I was looking for a mower, so…??? |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2022 at 7:46pm
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Well, I'm glad that "according to some" that my BS/whining questions can bring "some of you" together !!
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Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2022 at 7:58pm
| You asked a question and many of us were civil enough to give you an honest answer and then you respond with a snarky post! As my dear father used to say about certain individuals of a category I now associate you with who couldn't pour water out of a boot if the directions were on the heel! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2022 at 8:41pm
Brings us all together, like, say a fish sandwich? ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2022 at 9:27pm
| I got the black fabric put down and then put 3-4" of 3/4" road stone over it. We've had loaded semi's, loaded feed trucks, farm tractors, loaded farm trailers on it. Its held up just fine. |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2022 at 5:56am
I still sell them parts as their fleet is still Kenworth, However the last "Bolen" I ever dealt with was Jerry and he retired. Used to stop at Jefferson Trucking at the Gypsum plant in National City (the metropolis that it is LOL). Plant is still there but the trucking company has long since been bankrupt. Last I knew Willards was still NH, but its been years since I walked in the door. Not even sure if the Wangler family is still involved??
------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2022 at 8:49am
Willard's so, this is some of what I hear, some of what I know!
A rather large dairy nearby to me bought a New Holland self propelled chopper. And Willard's isn't able to service it because something about they aren't a certified dealer. Around the same time, the scuttle butt was that New Holland was doing the same thing as Deere was, if you weren't a "big enough" dealership, the pulled your dealership agreement. A neighbor of mine took a tractor in for service, and they wouldn't work on it, saying they were for sale and didn't want to take in any projects like that. Which, I found extremely hard to believe. Yeah, it was an old POS tractor, but still, I couldn't believe they would say that to anyone and treat somebody like that. Never verified this. Jerry Wangler is still involved, at least a couple weeks ago when I talked with him on the phone. The story goes he is retirement age and the next generations aren't interested. He said he could still sell me a brand new NH discbine. I don't ever see new New Holland tractors, just Kubotas. But I don't drive up that way unless I really need to because it isn't on the way to anywhere I go anymore! I really wish I knew the whole true story. Oh well. |