[TheForge] Adventures in steel delivery.

[Ries Niemi]

Out here, we live on an old river delta, where a big enough rock will end up in china if you leave it where it is for a few years.
We use "road cloth", which is this ten or twelve foot wide black porous fabric, it lets water through. You pre-grade your driveway, then lay down the road cloth. Then, you dump something like 1 1/4" with fines- gravel with the grit still mixed in. After a winter, and a bit of driving on it, it hardens up into a pretty solid driveway. Sometimes we use "pit run", too- its smaller gravel, with more fines- it hardens up even better, but the smaller gravel is less resistant to being spun out by car tires. 
Its a LOT cheaper than paving. Still costs money, though- I probably have 500 feet of it, with my various driveways- a fair amount of dump trucks full.

ries


On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> All covered.  Got us a rental car and adjusters should be out early next week.  Other than repaving the entire driveway, I am not sure how they will repair the damage there.
> 
> On 3/8/2013 12:00 PM, CGRAF wrote:
>> I am hoping that the house is OK. The dirt can always be pushed back in
>> place.
>> Does the trucking company have insurance to cover any structural damage?
>> 
>> Mike Graf
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