Lime-- mud relief? or urban legand?

[RadarTech]

Folks,
Sometimes I see and hear stuff that is either such a great idea that I can't believe it, or is such a pile of stuff someone needs to be done things to.....

Well today, I heard from someone who came to the house to do some work that a few bags of lime would dry up the muddy patch on my hill...

So I googled it and found this: http://www.lime.org/mud.pdf
and wow.. really?

and then of course the thought was-- hmm maybe I can rent that dump trailer from Kings and get a small load of lime... ($50 for the trailer) and then use the tractor to "mix" it in the mud.....


But this just sounds to good to be true.....


So oh knowledgeable ones of Tractorbynet.... how say ye?

will it work? or not?

will the lime cause any problems with the tractor?

and of course I see the safety police telling me to be careful with lime so I don't get an skin burns etc....


Later,
J

 

[RadarTech]

-- $50 for the rental of the trailer and then whatever the lime costs.....


Later,
Jim

 

[Hooked_on_HP]

I don't know about drying up a wet spot in the yard. When we get 6wheel drive concrete mixers stuck in mud we can usually get them out with a couple of bags of lime. It's a whole lot cheaper than a wrecker. It dries the mud right up.
Bill

 

[teg]

Any more... yea or nay's - I got one area that I could use this trick on.

 

[Cami]

The lime is a new one to me; is that agricultural lime or quick lime? I knew a contractor who'd treat soft spots and gravel roadways on sites by raking portland cement into the surface and giving it a light watering if needed.

I never saw the results of this first hand but heard plenty about it while helping recover their stranded equipment.

 

[wampum]

The type n or s hydrated lime they are talking about sounds like brick set or block laying cement. I worked in a cement plant for 35 years,we would grind limestone,then cook it into clinkers in our kilns. Then mix it with gypsum and grind it again into portland cement. That would get pretty expensive on a big job,but I can see it working. I guess how much you need to get the job done would determine if it was cheap or expensive.

 

[orezok]

Lime stabilization of clay is a common engineering solution used under asphalt paving. I did an entire truck stop parking lot (about 26 acres) in Sweetwater Texas more than 30 years ago and when I passed by there a couple of years ago I stopped and the paving still looked good. Now they probably repaved it a time or 2 since then, but the bottom line is that if the sub base is not stable, the paving will fail. This lot has 80,000# truck running it over it every day.

Google lime stabilization for more information.

 

[Cami]

Now for some reading, and maybe another item for the old bag o' tricks!

@wampum: I never worked around a lime kiln, in fact I've only walked past one once while touring a pulp mill. On account of the heat and noise I figured it was the closest thing to **** on Earth. Anyway...I heard a story about an outfit with a lime kiln that kept a shotgun handy to shoot any large lumps that would form. Anything like that in your plant?

 

[wampum]

Now for some reading, and maybe another item for the old bag o' tricks!

@wampum: I never worked around a lime kiln, in fact I've only walked past one once while touring a pulp mill. On account of the heat and noise I figured it was the closest thing to **** on Earth. Anyway...I heard a story about an outfit with a lime kiln that kept a shotgun handy to shoot any large lumps that would form. Anything like that in your plant?

We had 2- 8 gauge industrial shotguns. They shot a quarter pound of lead. It was not uncommon to go through 4 or 5 cases at a time.(250 to a case) One shooting one loading,you could shoot out a lot of lead. If the chemistry was not exactly right it would form rings in the kiln which was 12 foot in dia. and 390 feet long,we had 3 kilns. The rings had to be shot out to allow the product to free fall as the kiln turned. I have seen balls in the kiln that formed in the back and were at least 8 foot in dia. We had to bust them up before they dropped in the cooler. Sometimes it seemed like we shot 2 or3 times a shift and sometimes we went weeks with out shooting. Our kilns were cement kilns,the lime was made into cement. The temp was different at certain parts of the kiln,over 3000 degrees,in the middle,about 1200 where it dropped in the cooler. The exhaust temps were lowered by spray water to as low as 400 degrees.

 

[The Haymaker]

Now for some reading, and maybe another item for the old bag o' tricks!

@wampum: I never worked around a lime kiln, in fact I've only walked past one once while touring a pulp mill. On account of the heat and noise I figured it was the closest thing to **** on Earth. Anyway...I heard a story about an outfit with a lime kiln that kept a shotgun handy to shoot any large lumps that would form. Anything like that in your plant?

I deliver shotgun shells to two of the local paper mills 1000lbs at a time. Yep, you guessed it. They use it to bust lumps. The gun it is used in weighs 400 pounds.

E