Dirt

[Tdog]

Got a load of clay & topsoil delivered yesterday - - looks like I've got stuff to play with for a few days.

Jack

 

[tile]

Looks like fun lol

We just got about 20 yards of topsoil a few days ago for the grass around the house. Just not had time to get to it yet.

Ron.

 

[RobS]

Just curious as we don't have clay here (only Lake Michigan sand). What does one do with a load of clay?

 

[plowking]

We use a thin layer of clay between the sand and loam to help the loam hold moisture for lawn to grow. There is an old brick factory near me that had clay yards ,they would heat the clay in kilns or furnaces to make brick. Racetracks such as Rockingham Park[ horse racing] use clay on their track. plowking

 

[sandman2234]

I wandered out back on my place a few days ago and found a couple of piles of dirt/grass that a contractor had dropped offf. He worked on the house next door and I told him if he ever had any extra dirt, drop it by. Sure comes in handy filling the low spots.
David from jax

 

[MrWoodChips]

Just curious as we don't have clay here (only Lake Michigan sand). What does one do with a load of clay?

It holds our dirt road together, making a tough, water resistant surface. When I fill potholes in the road, I add some clay to the mix if necessary. So I actually try to keep at least a small pile of it on hand.

John

 

[Tdog]

The clay is used around here as a base to build on - - they scrape off the topsoil. I'm told it is unstable to build on. Then they bring in clay to give it some elevation above grade. I just built a garden storage shed & ran out of clay before I could fill in around its perimeter. Clay just about will not wash away.

Just for comparison purposes, each load was 24 yards. The clay was $200, the topsoil, $350.

 

[LBrown59]

Just for comparison purposes, each load was 24 yards. The clay was $200, the topsoil, $350.

I have a pile of 6 dump truck loads of top soil and another stack of 3 dump trucks of clay .

The nice part is it was all free
.

 

[LBrown59]

I wandered out back on my place a few days ago and found a couple of piles of dirt/grass that a contractor had dropped offf. He worked on the house next door and I told him if he ever had any extra dirt, drop it by. *Sure comes in handy filling the low spots.
David from jax

Yep and the price was rite too .

 

[LBrown59]

Got a load of clay & topsoil delivered yesterday - -
*** looks like I've got stuff to play with for a few days.

Jack

*** I know the felling/ been playin in mine for the last several days.

 

[sandman2234]

Yep and the price was rite too .

When they were building the house next door, the concrete guy and I were talking and I mentioned that he could back his trailer into the edge of my property and I would secure it over the weekend and keep an eye on it. While it was backed in, I took a couple of deck screws and replaced the ones that his loader had dragged against and broken off. Took all of 10 minutes to drag the cords/tools and put them up. Seems it was a good investment!
David from jax