Road planings

[remus]

Anyone got an idea of the going price for road planings. Next week the road at the end of our farm access is being done. The council have given me the details of the contractor but would like an idea first. I have found one firm online at £7.50 per ton +vat & delivery

[lutonlagerlout]

sounds about right,not much kop but ok for farm tracks
LLL

[msh paving]

in kings lynn norfolk i pay £14.34+vat per ton for planings been thay price for years MSH

[Dave_L]

Bloody hell you can buy type1 for that money!

[GB_Groundworks]

up here you can get them for free, if you've got some where to tip them near where they are planning. they bite your hand off almost if you've a registered waste handler as well.

[Dave_L]

Indeed, worth it's weight in gold having a tip nearby when planing.

[msh paving]

round hear its who bids the biggest buck for em' the aggregate supplies fight over them,norfolk council highways keeps any they do in house for there footpath and cycle way construction,there are acres off carparks and hard standings built with them,MSH

[remus]

Thanks for your comments I have not been ignoring you.
We have just finished laying 320 tons of planings but you name it and it went wrong.
First day all ready then found out that because the tarmac firm wanted to follow the planer with the first layer and heavy rain was expected job on hold till next day.
Day 2. Only got three loads delivered with all the traffic and still parked cars could not get the lorries turned around to come in our direction.
Day 3. 7 loads but drivers could not tip a thin layer so ended up with 20 tons heaps then 7 ton 360 died.
Day 4. Had a 3 ton machine and dumper delivered so rest of loads had to be stock piled. So last few days have seen us working back up the 1/4 mile access road a dumper at a time.

I had planned on 1 or 2 days not a week but all done now, last lot lasted over 20 years.

[henpecked]

I thought they were a dodgy altenative to MOT as the diesel and oil seemed to be thrown back up after laying, mabye old wives tale??

Hp

[Stuarty]

Dunno bout the oil and diesel, but never compacts as well as type 1 imo. Used to fill in the potholes on the old gaffers drive. 1 mile of nothin but potholes, every 3 weeks we were at it for 3 / 4 hours. Endless.

[Tony McC]

Being oil-based themselves, they are sensitive to any fuel based spillage, but they never compact properly, they don't drain properly, they degrade over time and they really only ought ever to be used for skinflint farmer's field access tracks.

[Tommy]

We had a load of re-surfacing done a while back, and as a bonus, we 'got' all the planings to lay in our green waste dump.

Spent two days up there with a loader and tandem roller, and less than 4 months on, you'd not know they were there

[Stuarty]

Best thing for farm tracks is rotten rock imo, although you want to put in the nice brittle stuff that crushes easy under a tracked digger for the sake of preventing lameness

[Bob_A]

I know this thread is a little old but I was thinking are there any jobs where the use of planings might be acceptable.
What about a sub base for a garden shed.
What about the sub base for garden paving that only gets foot traffic.. After all it says on the main site that a sub base may not always be needed for paving, if that's the case wouldn't including a 75mm sub base made of planings be better than no sub base at all?

[dig dug dan]

in short, no. The planings degrade and cause settlement.