Driveway Make Over

[LBrown59]

We paid $4.25 per ton for slag; plant is 10 miles away. I heard the same thing - it will not compact, and you still should get crush run on top, which will compact. I asked if you need the 4 inches of crush run that you normally do, in order to get enough depth to compact tightly and 'permanently' and I was told no, you didn't need as much. Maybe two inches of crush run. I'm not sure I believe that. I thought the compacting / 'locking' required 4 inches of the same type of material (crush run). So this slag seems to be a temporary repair kind of material - which we wanted. I'd still like to get crush run in the spring. The advice I've heard before, from here, is to have a compacted base before putting down crush run. So if this slag does not compact, how can I get a compacted base?

Pete

I just use slag and it compacts so there is no need for any other type of aggregate.
Slag is better simpler and cheaper for me.

 

[dirtworksequip]

weedsport, all you need to do is top it off with crusher run slag. The crusher run slag will get hard once it gets a little moisture and gets run in with a vechicle.

Sincerely, Dirt

 

[weedsportpete]

Thanks Dirt, LBrown59,

I like the sound of that. I'll be compacting it in the spring.

Pete

 

[Texas Dodge]

Just curious if the slag or the ash pulverizes after a while?

What i got does not pulverize. It was run through a grinder at the bottom of the boiler before it is sent to the ash pit.

 

[Texas Dodge]

Will it ever pack? or stay loose? maybe after we get some of that stuff that falls from the sky...whatta call it? oh yeah -- rain.

Yes it has packed in really nice.:thumbsup: