For Christmas this year, I used about five gallons of diesel fuel. I had four loads of concrete washout delivered two days prior and spent about five hours spreading it out around the parking area. I’ll start calling this area the parking lot, just for reference’s sake.
Concrete washout is great as a base layer for gravel or stone. After one rain and dry cycle, it packs down quite well. After it’s shaped, packed, and covered, most of the rain will run over the top of it, just like concrete.
While tractor time was a success, this batch of washout was too wet to get a final smoothing. I’ll come back after one wet/dry cycle and finish it off.
With limestone and bluestone quarries nearby where I grew up, it was easy and cheap to get the “Quarry Dust”, a form of coarse sand sized pieces composed of the siftings and breaker powders. Many neighbors around my parents home paved their driveways with this, because it packed down and became almost concrete after a rain or two. As a teen, I managed to help some of our neighbors spread this around and usually got “fun money” tips for helping. It became quite waterproof after a couple of rains, and only heavy drainage across it could erode it. What you are spreading around looks very much what I remember. I wish I had a tractor back then.
Charley
You need to used bucket to pull back material after you dump it, will make it a little easier and quicker.
Just wondering why they didn’t tail gate it out and spread it so you could start with box in the beginning.
G’day Jay, Jamie & Tyler Kay
It’s all coming along really well, you’re getting good at “troweling” the washout with the tractor.
Pictures from friends and family show they got snow over in Tupelo and Shannon. Looking forward to seeing your place with snow on the groung, the new pups first snow.
Regards from down under
Wayne