[TheForge] Adventures in steel delivery.

[Andrew Vida]

Our short driveway is asphalt.  Adjuster came yesterday and said it will 
all be covered, so we're good there.

The longer driveway is about 700 feet.  I will put down typar (sp?) and 
do the gravel with fines exactly for the reasons you state.  Have to 
regrade first.  I'll get a bulldozer and fix it... shouldn't take very 
long.  I used to grade my mile long driveway in about 5 hours.

We just had the second very wet winter in a row and to be frank I am a 
little tired of slogging around in the red shale goo.  I got so stuck in 
it the day before yesterday I almost had to leave the boots where they 
were.  Luckily I am too stubborn. :)

On 3/8/2013 1:16 PM, Ries Niemi wrote:
> 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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