Wacker weight for block paved drive

[Chrismitch91]

Hi, I am hoping to start extending my block paved drive in the next few weeks, but i have been looking at hire rates for wacker plates and have decided to buy one and sell it on after I have finished. My question is what is the ideal weight of wacker for a residential drive that will have a van parked on it, looking for maybe a minimum and maximum weight that i could look at buying. This may have been asked before but have looked through the forum but can't seem to find an answer.
Many Thanks
Chris
P.S Great forum, and really helpful information.

[lutonlagerlout]

Ideally (in a perfect world) a roller for the subbase and an 85kg for the sand and blocks

in the real world you need something around 85kg for both

any less and its liable not to compress enough

another tip is try and wack in thinner layers I.E. 75mm at a time

LLL

[Chrismitch91]

Many thanks for your reply, I will have a look around and see if i can find a used machine around that weight. And thanks to the great information on this site I had already planned on doing to MOT in layers, but thanks again for you advice.

Chris

[williams]

I've got a wacker vp1340 which is very very impressive for a small plate, I reckon it's around 70kgs.ive also got a wacker dps1850 which is 110kgs.

While the bigger one is obviously better the little one does a really great job, we wack the base in layers anyway and with a load of water sprayed on the base it does go down well.

I prefer the big one but I prefer lifting the smaller one

Bottom line. Equal weighted wackers are not made equal.

[lutonlagerlout]

agree there williams
we used to hire a particular wacker plater (wacker brand) from our plant hire firm and it just seemed to smash anything down
then they got a load of new heavier ones that werent half as good
go figure?
LLL