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re: Material other than Limestone for driveway
Posted on 4/12/15 at 4:15 pm to Agforlife
Posted on 4/12/15 at 4:15 pm to Agforlife
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No stabilized sand turns hard as a rock, if you turn it into your gravel/crushed conc and roll it it will band all of it together into a fairly durable hard surface
Awesome... Now just need to figure out who in Baton Rouge has some of this to deliver
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Posted on 4/12/15 at 4:27 pm to geauxcats10
I used Mexican limestone and it came out great. Looked good as well. Nice and white.
Not sure why they'd call it Mexican. I guess Caucasian limestone would cost to much.
Not sure why they'd call it Mexican. I guess Caucasian limestone would cost to much.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 4:49 pm to thejudge
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I used Mexican limestone and it came out great. Looked good as well. Nice and white. Not sure why they'd call it Mexican. I guess Caucasian limestone would cost to much.
Hahaha I've heard horror stories about Mexican limestone... Said that it leaves a milky residue when wet that gets over everything.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:18 pm to geauxcats10
No love on here for crusher run?
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:27 pm to DoctorTechnical
Hahah WTF is that?!! There are so many aggregate materials.
Every place I have seen only has limestone or crushed concrete.
I need to find where y'all's fills are at and bring a dump truck there
Every place I have seen only has limestone or crushed concrete.
I need to find where y'all's fills are at and bring a dump truck there
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:33 pm to TIGER2
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would bite the bullet and start all the way up the drive and form up a little at a time. Form up twenty or fifty feet, or what ever you can afford to Pour. Pull and reuse your form boards for the next time you have the cash. Start searching Craigs list and other classified adds for wire mesh. Kind of what I did. 160 ft. of driveway on the first pour. A few years later did a second pour in the back about 200 ft. Never have to work the rock on your drive again. My two cents.
I would do the opposite........ start at my house and work my way to the road that way the cement truck can back all the way to the house.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:39 pm to geauxcats10
Call the asphalt gypsies, they will cover your driveway in a mixture of industrial byproducts that's just barely cheaper than anything else and looks good, but it will kill everything within 10 ft on both sides, and after 6 months it will be full of cracks and have grass growing through it healthier than your yard.
They mostly target old people.
They mostly target old people.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:47 pm to geauxcats10
There is a large underworld of driveway paving and aggregate services that is filled with con artists.
There was a program on the history channel about an entire town that had to be shut down because the people that got contracted to maintain the roads applied a mixture of highly toxic industrial byproducts (that they were played to dispose of properly) to roads in a several square mile area.
There was a program on the history channel about an entire town that had to be shut down because the people that got contracted to maintain the roads applied a mixture of highly toxic industrial byproducts (that they were played to dispose of properly) to roads in a several square mile area.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:50 pm to Scireverum
They demolished everything, put about 10 ft of dirt on top of everything, and made the whole area into a wilderness reserve. If anyone else saw the program or can find a link I will award 1 cake.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 5:59 pm to geauxcats10
Do we live on the same road? I am in the AP and my driveway looks almost identical! I started 5 years ago with a base of bearlite and it has needed a re-coat nearly every year. I am thinking this time we might come back with crushed concrete.
I have 1100' of road... Asphalt is $16k, have not even looked into concrete.
I have 1100' of road... Asphalt is $16k, have not even looked into concrete.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:09 pm to Gringo
Nah... Haha no roads that long by where I'm at. Who did u get to do your driveway?
It seems there are only a couple guys around AP
It seems there are only a couple guys around AP
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:13 pm to Agforlife
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Get you a couple of loads of cement stabilized sand and mix it into the crushed conc and pack it down, should last for a good while.
So basically soil cement like under road pavement?
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:15 pm to geauxcats10
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:18 pm to geauxcats10
BTW, it's hard to beat the price and durability of bottom ash. Call Entergy or any local coal plant and see who is handling the distribution of it for them.
Bottom ash also makes a great base if you ever plan on paving later down the road.
Bottom ash also makes a great base if you ever plan on paving later down the road.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 6:59 pm to thejudge
quote:It comes from Mexico.
Not sure why they'd call it Mexican.
German wine is from Germany.
Irish beef is from Ireland.
That's how this language thing works.
There's also Bahamian and domestic Limestone in the Gulf South markets, the domestic usually is from Kentucky.
This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:31 pm to CHEDBALLZ
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I would do the opposite........ start at my house and work my way to the road
As long as you have a way for the trucks to get to the back and not drive on the driveway.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:33 pm to geauxcats10
Make it a solar panel, obviously
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:39 pm to biglego
Call Construction Aggregates in Port Allen for prices on limestone. You can go there with a truck or trailer, pick it up yourself and save some $$$.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 8:40 pm to stout
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So basically soil cement like under road pavement?
Yep, we have our own crusher and recycle any conc we demo. We sell it as well as use it on our larger projects and it makes a very stable and lasting road when mixed with stabilized sand or base.
To the OP asphalt milling will work well to if you can get a steel wheel roller and compact it.
Posted on 4/12/15 at 9:08 pm to poochie
Quick dicking with it and pour concrete. A quick calc says you should be able to do that for about $8k.
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This post was edited on 4/12/15 at 9:09 pm
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