Recycled Asphalt (Free) or buy crusher run

[Stimw]

Free is good!
Deeper is better and if you have the space, several loads "stockpiled" would be handy.
If you don't have overhead wires & limbs, the guy's should spread it for you as best as they can, especially if you have a pocket full of $10 bills.

You better offer more than $10.00 !
Especially if you want them to Tailgate it.
Pic is 20 yards and cost me $450.00 for a 50 mile haul.

 

[fried1765]

So I have about 400 feet of dirt / Clay driveway that I plant to put a surface on.
I have been pricing gravel and crusher run and I am about to pull the trigger to have it brought in and spread at about 4-6 inches the fuill length.

HOWEVER, I woke up this morning and highway 701 is being redone less than a half mile from my house and one of the guys said that they are pretty much giving the asphalt away...

The question is, should I tell them to bring in as many truckloads as possible and spread / compact myself with my tractor or should I just go ahead and purchase the crusher run?

Take all the free asphalt millings you can get your hands on.
If they have more than you need, stockpile some.
I have never been able to get my hands on any that is free, but I have inquired many times.

 

[texas42]

If they have more than you need, stockpile some.

Do not stockpile millings. In no time at all you will have one solid lump the size of a truck load

 

[jaxs]

Take the free asphalt. If you can't be there when it's delivered,hire someone to spread it soon as it hit's the ground. Next truck driving across what was just spread will compact where wheels run. As someone already said,slip drivers a $20 bill on every load and ask them to drive off center of previous wheel prints so that most of it get;s packed.

 

[Cord]

If you don't have a proper base, it really doesn't matter what they're putting on top.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

You better offer more than $10.00 !
Especially if you want them to Tailgate it.
Pic is 20 yards and cost me $450.00 for a 50 mile haul.

Don't remember ever being paid extra to spread material. However asphalt grindings would be iffy for a spreader chain job. I've seen it run from something like a 1 1/4" minus to chunks that were 4x6x2". But a good driver can do a decent tailgste spread but it will probably be fairly thick and need to be graded out immediately.
You don't want to leave it in piles very long. Worst case scenario it would almost solidify into a very hard to dig chunk. I was asked by a contractor to bring some from his aging stockpile. Using a Deere 624 it took me a half an hour to load a truck and trailer. Way tougher digging than native pitrun.

 

[GirlWhoWantsTractor]

If the asphalt material compacts and more or less glues itself back together in your drive then thats a good thing. Until it starts to form pot holes and break into large chucks flipping up. Your not likely to have the means to rework the recycled asphalt.
A crusher run driveway does require some maintence but if your in this tractor forum then you likely have the means to maintain it.

A neighbor did that (they completely resurface our 2-lane about every other year; asphalt doesn't last too good here) and a couple of years later he had to pay someone to scrape it up and take it away. I see you're near the coast; maybe it will last better there w/ less grade and less frost-heave.