bcarwell
Gold Member
I have a ranch road maybe 7 years old made of kolechee-type roadbase around Austin, TX that has developed some ruts maybe 3 and some cases 5 inches deep relative to the center or crown of the road.
I have an incredible opportunity to purchase asphalt road grindings or millings from a state highway to resurface my road.
Can somebody tell me how important it is to prep the existing road in some fashion like grading it before applying the asphalt grindings ? Or could I just put the asphalt grindings on top of my road as-is and then roll it.
If I have to do prep work it may be a show stopper, as they must deliver the stuff this Friday as they tear the highway up, which probably wouldn't give me time to do any prep work.
So please give me a sense of how absolutely necessary it would be to level the existing road bed and/or roll it or do any other prep.
I'm sure in an ideal world that would be desirable. But I'd hate to miss out on this stuff which is $1.10 a linear foot 10 feet wide by 4-5 inches including being laid out along my 2000 foot road by a belly-load 18 wheeler. And dumping it in a pile so I can prep and then spread the ashpalt is NOT and option as I don't have the equipment and it would take me forever. Them laying it out on the road is a big advantage to me and another show stopper if they must just dump it in piles to give me time to do any prep.
Thanks for any advice !
I have an incredible opportunity to purchase asphalt road grindings or millings from a state highway to resurface my road.
Can somebody tell me how important it is to prep the existing road in some fashion like grading it before applying the asphalt grindings ? Or could I just put the asphalt grindings on top of my road as-is and then roll it.
If I have to do prep work it may be a show stopper, as they must deliver the stuff this Friday as they tear the highway up, which probably wouldn't give me time to do any prep work.
So please give me a sense of how absolutely necessary it would be to level the existing road bed and/or roll it or do any other prep.
I'm sure in an ideal world that would be desirable. But I'd hate to miss out on this stuff which is $1.10 a linear foot 10 feet wide by 4-5 inches including being laid out along my 2000 foot road by a belly-load 18 wheeler. And dumping it in a pile so I can prep and then spread the ashpalt is NOT and option as I don't have the equipment and it would take me forever. Them laying it out on the road is a big advantage to me and another show stopper if they must just dump it in piles to give me time to do any prep.
Thanks for any advice !