Box Scraper Tips for flat driveway

[Rgladden]

Just looking for suggestions to spreading crushed concrete for driveway.

 

[PILOON]

Back drag!

 

[opie74]

What do you have for implements? How thick are you wanting to spread it? Existing drive or are you installing a new drive?

 

[Hay Dude]

Everywhere I used crushed concrete, horrible weed problems happened. I would consider modified. Where I used modified, there were some weeds, but far less.
Anyway, My tool of choice would be a small bulldozer. Next would be a tractor with a loader and wide bucket and a back blade and then maybe a mini ex with a grader blade

 

[bcp]

Get a bunch of marking shiskers.

Amazon.com : marking whiskers

Place them and grade until all the exposed whiskers are the same length. This keeps you from having 1/2 inch deep in one area and 6 inches deep in another.

Bruce

 

[stuckmotor]

Get a bunch of marking shiskers.

Amazon.com : marking whiskers

Place them and grade until all the exposed whiskers are the same length. This keeps you from having 1/2 inch deep in one area and 6 inches deep in another.

Bruce

Cool! I didn't know such things existed.

 

[oosik]

I use my tractor - front bucket - rear blade - LPGS. Of course, I've only ever had to repair my "historic" 100 foot long mud hole. I've never applied new material along the entire length of my driveway. This year I will use my LPGS to correct some lumps/bumps. It will require that the scarifiers on the LPGS be used also.

Timing is very critical. Too soon - the driveway is still too wet. Too late - the driveway has dried out and is just like concrete. My driveway - mile long - comprised of - base cobble - gravel, sand, silt, volcanic ash.

 

[Thomas]

Have truck driver tail gate spread as much as he can than use front loader or back blade,finishing touch turn back blade 180 degrees spread.

 

[Hay Dude]

Fabric underneath helps create a barrier between soil and your substrate. Keeps the stone from pushing down into the mud and numerous other benefits if its a new driveway.

 

[CobyRupert]

Fabric underneath helps create a barrier between soil and your substrate. Keeps the stone from pushing down into the mud and numerous other benefits if its a new driveway.

^This.
Also, not sure if there’s a saying about “a road is only as good as it’s ditches”, but basically water needs to flow in the ditches, not flow on and erode the road. Ditches, crowns, pitch can be important.

 

[Streetcar]

Everywhere I used crushed concrete, horrible weed problems happened. I would consider modified. Where I used modified, there were some weeds, but far less.
Anyway, My tool of choice would be a small bulldozer. Next would be a tractor with a loader and wide bucket and a back blade and then maybe a mini ex with a grader blade

It helps to describe product. Modified can vary from region to region. Crushed concrete quality is highly variable based on location

 

[Hay Dude]

It helps to describe product. Modified can vary from region to region. Crushed concrete quality is highly variable based on location

2B limestone or granite is what we have here. 3/4 inch gravel with screenings.
As far as crushed concrete goes, I deliver to one plant. The concrete brought in always has wire in it and frequently has dirt stuck to the bottom. Great for flat tires and vegetation growth.

 

[LindenBruce]

Interesting BCP. I have seen "whiskers" at construction sites. But is there a video on how they work? I would think that as you laid down aggregate, it would just lay the "whiskers" over and they would disappear in the first pass. Thanks, B.

 

[oosik]

I've seen "whiskers" used by Highway Dept - private contractors. What I've NEVER seen around here is - crushed, recycled concrete. The further East one goes - the more concrete is used in highway construction - I would guess. All of our gravel around here is crushed basaltic lava. Maybe a little crushed granite in specific areas.

The tires on my tractor will wear down to become "slicks" - long before any of my driveway gravel breaks down to something finer.

 

[bcp]

Interesting BCP. I have seen "whiskers" at construction sites. But is there a video on how they work? I would think that as you laid down aggregate, it would just lay the "whiskers" over and they would disappear in the first pass. Thanks, B.

The whiskers can be fastened to a stake or simply nailed/spiked to the ground. Here is a video showing a road grader going over whiskers. Road grader arrives at about 0:40.

http://smicarr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/StakeChasers.mp4?id=0

Bruce

 

[LindenBruce]

Awesome, thank you sir. B.

 

[JohnnyMX]

I have had issues with my flat driveway in upstate NY, as by the time I get the correct crown for spring, summer and fall, when I got to plow It doesn't seem to work well and I'm just hitting the crown. Sometimes I just take out the crown for winter and put it back in the spring. Probably an easier way I don't know about for my 1/2 mile drive.

What are people doing with they have an abundance of water on one side that washes over the drive? I have an ag field uphill of the drive, the drive and then another ag field. Not sure if there's an easy solution for that one.

 

[deezler]

I have had issues with my flat driveway in upstate NY, as by the time I get the correct crown for spring, summer and fall, when I got to plow It doesn't seem to work well and I'm just hitting the crown. Sometimes I just take out the crown for winter and put it back in the spring. Probably an easier way I don't know about for my 1/2 mile drive.

What are people doing with they have an abundance of water on one side that washes over the drive? I have an ag field uphill of the drive, the drive and then another ag field. Not sure if there's an easy solution for that one.

Man... you gotta get that water off the driveway. You need a full ditch on the uphill side, with culverts or box trenches to send it under the driveway every so often, as needed.

I also have seasonal crown challenges. I try to keep some crown through the winter so that when the snow piles finally melt off, the water goes away from the road center at all times. I don't let ANY water wash across my drive.

 

[CobyRupert]

What are people doing with they have an abundance of water on one side that washes over the drive? I have an ag field uphill of the drive, the drive and then another ag field. Not sure if there's an easy solution for that one.

Ditches and culverts.