Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice?

   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #31  
2” minus is the best of the best, it is super heavy and compact super good therefore super expensive. It is use as a base like it said and since the biggest pebble are two inch it’s hard on tires so it’s best to cover it with 3/4 inch minus.
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #33  
So,,,, someone explain to me how 2" minus gets called 304? Or 57?

Where's the correlation to logic?
#57 is 1.5” to 1” (pure stone)
304 is 2” minus …

i don’t see the logic
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #34  
#57 is 1.5” to 1” (pure stone)
304 is 2” minus …

i don’t see the logic
There obviously is none.

Us Missourians are pretty simple. We'll just name our gravel based on rock size in inches thank you. :)
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #35  
Illinois is worse, going by the DOT numbers. Gravel with fines is CA6, CA7 is gravel with no fines. CA standing for coarse aggregate, FA being fine aggregate, more like sand.
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #36  
Illinois is worse, going by the DOT numbers. Gravel with fines is CA6, CA7 is gravel with no fines. CA standing for coarse aggregate, FA being fine aggregate, more like sand.
Yep, forgot about that one. Had heard that before. Maybe from you here in other discussions.
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #37  
So,,,, someone explain to me how 2" minus gets called 304? Or 57?

Where's the correlation to logic?
304 is odot specification number since op is in Ohio. It is one inch minus.
57 are stone sized between the 5 and 7 standard sized sieves
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #38  
304 is odot specification number since op is in Ohio. It is one inch minus.
57 are stone sized between the 5 and 7 standard sized sieves
Okay. So explain the logic in what you just said? ;)
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #39  
Okay. So explain the logic in what you just said? ;)

I don’t know why people want to feel special and describe gravel in mostly regional terms. Everyone knows what a washed 3/4 stone is or what 1-3” looks like.
 
   / Any Excavation Professionals Feel Like Giving Advice? #40  
I don’t know why people want to feel special and describe gravel in mostly regional terms. Everyone knows what a washed 3/4 stone is or what 1-3” looks like.
Me too.
 

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