Sand hill road help.

[Farwell]

Washout is the stuff that the cement truck drivers come back to the plant with after they do a load of cement. They use water to wash most of the still wet concrete out of the material and what is left is a little cement mixed with sand and gravel. After a while the stuff accumulates at the plant and they love to get rid of it and most of the time at a reasonable price. It makes a very good base material for driveways etc, but is not really that attractive so most folks that use it cover it with rock or some other cover material. This is not from experience but what I have learned from reading posts on TBN and I plan on getting around 100 yards of the washout and use it for fill in some bad areas on my property. I do have experience with something called crushcrete ( I think that is how it is spelled) I have an area where I park some of my equipment that is about 16 foot by 16 foot covered with around 4 inches of crushcrete. It is very stable and I drive on it all the time with my tractor and it stays put and the wheels do not sink in to it. It is old concrete that has been crushed into small chunks and recycled. I built a ramp that leads up to the large entrance to my pole barn. The ramp is 10 feet by 6 feet, and about 10 inches deep at its thickest point. It has settled a little over the past year and will eventually have to have some more material added to it but I am very happy with it.
Farwell

 

[Farwell]

Kevin,
Thanks for the info. You beat me on the answer to what washout is. I am a bit long winded. The Rockcrete guy told me that water would pass through the washout. To be safe I think I will get a small load and experiment before I commit to the 100 yards.
Farwell

 

[txdon]

Thanks, I'll try to find out what is cost effective and available locally in Lee County. Looks like the first choice with the least amount of hand labor will be washout or gravel or recycled concrete. I noticed in Houston around wet (gumbo) construction sites they use recycled cement chunks about 5-7" in diameter.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Evening Don,

Around here we call the crushcrete product "roadbase". Three inches spread over gumbo will allow Lucy to move with ease.

We can get it for about two fifty for a twenty yard end up load. I'm not sure about down in Lee County or how it would work in sand. But in gumbo it's the cat's meow when you're wanting results for the smallest investment.

One of the advantages of base versus washout is the powder and variety of aggregate size in the base. The sizes fill in and work much better than just rock or just sand. I've got stuck on a yard covered with just one to two inch rock. You need the fines.