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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:47 pm
by lutonlagerlout
planing that have been well chopped are a different matter
i am talking when stuff is just ripped out then re used
LLL
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:50 pm
by Kuts
I'm probably just scarred from having a bad experience with them.
If i go pick up 3.5t of type1 limestone its only £2-3 quid a load more so its not really worth the risk.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 4:55 pm
by scooby73466
lutonlagerlout wrote:planing that have been well chopped are a different matter
i am talking when stuff is just ripped out then re used
LLL
I have been buying planings for years as and when they were available locally. But what I am getting now are the best I have ever seen. Don't know what machine they are using to get them up with but there are no lumps of any sort in the loads.
I needed to make a yard in front of a new building and had 200 tns of brick hardcore that I tracked in and then put about 100 - 150mm of the planings on top and it has set again and made a superb yard. Not good enough for a drive I admit because I just slapped it down with a digger but it can be brushed with a broom and I am sure that it isn't going to move anytime soon. And it does take HGVs.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:20 am
by scooby73466
O.K. Can I ask another question please ? I am now resigned to covering our drive with red granite stone - it's going to look better than tarmac. I have already kerbed it all the way round.
I have the block paving under half of it and had started to take those up and was also going to take the sand up as well. But do I really need to do this ? I was going to take the paviours and sand up and replace with planings and then the stone. But at the moment I could put 100m of stone down. Would that be wrong ? I know the stone will move but maybe at 100mm it won't move so much.
Would be very grateful for any opinions on this please. Thank you.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:27 pm
by msh paving
100mm stone you will never drive on, probilly not walk on, car will get stuck in first 2m drive onto it, fill the area with plannings to say 75mm then 35mm of finish stone on top MSH 
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:36 pm
by scooby73466
msh paving wrote:100mm stone you will never drive on, probilly not walk on, car will get stuck in first 2m drive onto it, fill the area with plannings to say 75mm then 35mm of finish stone on top MSH
Mmm. That's interesting MSH and thanks for your opinion. Can you tell me what will happen if I put say 60mm of planings and then 40mm of stone on top of the block paving ? I thought it might move about if I did it like that.
I would dearly like to not have to take up all the paviours and the sand if I can avoid it.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:34 pm
by msh paving
it will swash about every where, no compaction in 60mm, only 1 answer blocks and sand up....MSH
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:15 pm
by scooby73466
Thanks MSH. Not something I wanted to hear but thanks anyway.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:57 pm
by GB_Groundworks
on another forum dedicated to diggers a candain guy has posted loads of pics of them using asphalt plannings and subbase on a new highway job
plannings are plannings i.e. been ripped up by a wirtigen planer, asphalt thats been dug up my an excavator isnt plannings
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:40 pm
by scooby73466
GB_Groundworks wrote:on another forum dedicated to diggers a candain guy has posted loads of pics of them using asphalt plannings and subbase on a new highway job
plannings are plannings i.e. been ripped up by a wirtigen planer, asphalt thats been dug up my an excavator isnt plannings
Yes, I agree with that. I once put up an 80 x 60 grain store that needed 5ft of sub-base at one end to bring it up to level. I used tarmac that had been ripped up using a 3CX from pavements in Birmingham.
I put it down a bit at a time and bought a steel tracked crawler to track it in as I went. Because the tarmac was cheap I laid it way beyond the perimeter of the shed. Then put 60mm-ish of type one and the membrane and re-inforced the 150mm of concrete for the floor.
We had big grain trailers and artics over it and it never moved.