Washed and recycled 40mm aggregate makes decent free draining sub base, its not much dearer than the rubbish they try and pass off as crushed concrete.
Bob
Tarmac scalpings are brilliant but impervious to water
No good for suds compliance, and labeled as a biohazard
They used to be considered a pollutant but that was lifted along with the price about ten years ago, we used to get it dropped in as a free tip but we are now paying £250 a load for it.When they planed off the M3 we had 1500 tons of it FOC on a stock pile, how times have changed
The story behind the declassification was that so many farmers had used it across their land it was causing issues when they came to sell the farms, NFU and a few other AG bodies lobbied mps and had it lifted.
Bob
Road plainings are not as good as they used to be for topping tracks, the newer tarmac is different, it just doesnt bind on a sunny day with a bit of cherry and the whacker like it used too.Sorry @mtt.tr I was only referring to its use as a track topping or build up. I dont think there is a place for it in construction, or at least one I have heard of.
Bob
A lot of the farmers don’t even prep the ground for it either, just tell the driver to open the tail gate, dump and drive, right over a mud track, happy to repeat again in 6 months time when its all mushed back into mud again.They used to be considered a pollutant but that was lifted along with the price about ten years ago, we used to get it dropped in as a free tip but we are now paying £250 a load for it.When they planed off the M3 we had 1500 tons of it FOC on a stock pile, how times have changed
The story behind the declassification was that so many farmers had used it across their land it was causing issues when they came to sell the farms, NFU and a few other AG bodies lobbied mps and had it lifted.
Bob
Road plainings are not as good as they used to be for topping tracks, the newer tarmac is different, it just doesnt bind on a sunny day with a bit of cherry and the whacker like it used too.
Actually difficult to get at sensible money round these parts. Last lot I got for the drive was full of lumps, though for here it was cheap at a tenner a ton delivered.
Id love the stuff from a dual carraigeway, or motorway, but its 23 miles to the nearest one so haulage would kill it. Also best place for a harley davidson is probably as a drain cover, least its half a chance of going round a corner.I wont take the gear off planed backstreets, its full of breakout where they chop out around drains and manholes. The stuff you want is off motorways or dual carriageways, aside of the odd catseyes its generally clean fines.
We get through hundreds of tons of the stuff a year
Do you like my my HD drain cover?
Bob
Looks nothing like Faslane or Holy Loch, more like something from a Bond movie
it would cost a fortune to reduce that lot to rubble. remember as a kid them knocking down some pillboxes to put houses on and the wrecking ball just bounced off them I bet they lost money getting rid
I wont take the gear off planed backstreets, its full of breakout where they chop out around drains and manholes. The stuff you want is off motorways or dual carriageways, aside of the odd catseyes its generally clean fines.
We get through hundreds of tons of the stuff a year
Do you like my my HD drain cover?
Bob
it would cost a fortune to reduce that lot to rubble. remember as a kid them knocking down some pillboxes to put houses on and the wrecking ball just bounced off them I bet they lost money getting rid
Id love the stuff from a dual carraigeway, or motorway, but its 23 miles to the nearest one so haulage would kill it. Also best place for a harley davidson is probably as a drain cover, least its half a chance of going round a corner.
Looks nothing like Faslane or Holy Loch, more like something from a Bond movie
What size boards are you using at the sides of these @8ob ? I have some of these pics saved you posted before for when i do the road in my field and will be buying supplies soon!