Fixing Up Drive Right

[J F]

Thanks vt. :thumbsup:

 

[coobie]

I have got a 1200 foot drive that needs some gravel put on top. I am not sure what happened to the original stones but they seem to disappear over time. This property I bought a year or so ago and I want to fix it up right the first time. I contacted a quarry that will drop it along the drive. They priced out crushed limestone 310 at 12.50 per ton and #57 limestone at 13.50 a ton. I am thinking the #57 is the better product as it looks like it is bigger and less dust. Any downside to #57 besides the price. Anything else I need to consider? I am in central Ohio. Thanks

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put slag on my driveway,it comes out of the steel mills.Best stuff IMHO holds up real well.coobie

 

[Turbys_1700]

Around here we call it crusher run...
You can also get screenings that we use on ball fields out at the Optimist Park...
I have heard that the best way to build a good road is to use regular washed stone and then put crush run over top...
I have always just done it in reverse...
I need some stone hauled myself...

 

[vtsnowedin]

Around here we call it crusher run...
You can also get screenings that we use on ball fields out at the Optimist Park...
I have heard that the best way to build a good road is to use regular washed stone and then put crush run over top...
I have always just done it in reverse...
I need some stone hauled myself...

There is no need to wash the stone in the base. Screening out the dust is good enough.
One of the best roads I ever worked on started with a foot of sand covered with eight inches of 5" minus crushed ledge then four inches of fine 3/4" crushed stone and three inches of pavement. The 5" ledge has to be placed with a D-8 sized dozer and the operator needs to keep the blade near full to be able to grade it.
That road is a commercial strip with 30,000 cars a day on it and leads to the concrete and asphalt plants as well as a landfill so gets a lot of heavy trucks. They have over laid the asphalt just twice in thirty five years.
The five inch stones interlock like a puzzle and spread the loads from tires over a larger area of the sand below. To make it they run the output of a big cone crusher over an inch screen and separate all the fines out and send them off to a smaller crusher to make the 3/4 mix .