DK35vince
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Last summer I think I paid around $550 for 23 ton of 2A limestone delivered. (Dumped, not tailgated)
What do you pay for Gravel??
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k0ua
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Isn't everything you buy more expensive out there? I know housing is about 4 or 5 times more expensive out there. 250,000 will buy a fine house back here.
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We used to pay about $380 for 16 ton delivered and spread from quarry about 50 miles away. Two years ago.
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Pretty much... trying to think of one thing that isn't... trailer tags, 5 years for $18
Homes have more than doubled since 2012... I think the median is around 600k and that could be a spruced up 50 year old ranch style home on a small lot.
A few weeks back I paid $1.99 a gallon and now it's $2.69
k0ua
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Sell your house. Move back here, and buy a mansion, and take the rest of the proceeds and retire on it. It is what so many from your part of the world do.
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Well it sure seems to be all over the place on price. I don't feel to bad paying $325.00 for 20 ton of 3/4 with fines delivered and spread/tail-gated. When we haul our own it cost $6.50 a ton + tax at the pit and about $6.00 in fuel round trip for the 2005 1 ton Dodge dulley pulling the goose-neck trailer with a legal load of 6 ton. Just to do 140 ton takes for ever.
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Big difference between gravel and lime stone too. So for comparing, be sure to specify. Alot of people call limestone "gravel" as well.
I have 20+ ton loads of "crusher run" or 3/4" minus, or road base, etc hauled for $16/ton and thats limestone. With a contractor discount at the pit, its about $11/ton to buy. So about $5/ton delivery, and its about 35 miles one way. So he is making ~$100+/- per load, and about 1.5 hrs of time involved. Honestly dont know how he is making money, unless he is getting an even bigger discount due to volume at the pit.
The "gravel" pit is only 10 miles away. Still charges about $5/ton over what I can get it for for delivery. And that stuff is $6-$7/ton.
I have 20+ ton loads of "crusher run" or 3/4" minus, or road base, etc hauled for $16/ton and thats limestone. With a contractor discount at the pit, its about $11/ton to buy. So about $5/ton delivery, and its about 35 miles one way. So he is making ~$100+/- per load, and about 1.5 hrs of time involved. Honestly dont know how he is making money, unless he is getting an even bigger discount due to volume at the pit.
The "gravel" pit is only 10 miles away. Still charges about $5/ton over what I can get it for for delivery. And that stuff is $6-$7/ton.
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I think limestone is ~2700/yd
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Sell your house. Move back here, and buy a mansion, and take the rest of the proceeds and retire on it. It is what so many from your part of the world do.
It is mighty tempting... Olympia was supposed to be the solution... property taxes jumped from 6800 to 12000 there... don't know if it is still a long term solution.
The contractors I deal with in Olympia are handshake kind of operations... never had a problem... a lot is due to my neighbor for giving me referrals... I mention George said to call and it's like they couldn't do enough for me... the gravel guy is tops... owner operator and lays it down like a carpet.
I take care of Mom and moving isn't in the picture... all that she knows is here and with memory failing it would be devastating for her.
Living in the SF Bay Area the cost of many things don't register unless you have been elsewhere to compare... no speaking of real estate... but other things like utilities, gas, etc.
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k0ua
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I think everything's higher ,including wages. But if you are retired, your money goes a heck of a lot further back this way.
