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Author Topic: Creating hardstanding at a gateway - road scrapings any good?  (Read 17260 times)

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: Creating hardstanding at a gateway - road scrapings any good?
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2015, 06:23:32 pm »
I did most my driveway by putting pea gravel down - waiting for a wet and rainy day - tossed a few bags of cement over it - then used a whacker plate - seems to be ok after 4 years. To be fair a few holes here and there - but just fille the holes with more pea gravel and cement, whacked it with a spade ;)

WhiteHorses

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • West Lothian, Scotland
Re: Creating hardstanding at a gateway - road scrapings any good?
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2015, 04:24:06 pm »
We've recently put down a track and gateway hardstanding for the horses using type 1 MOT. Doug scraped the mud back to fairly solid and then built it up so there's about 15cm Type 1 deep. We used over 6 tons for about a 15m x 1m track. It hasn't been rolled in, we just filled any holes the horses caused for the first couple of weeks and its worrking nicely 2 months on

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Creating hardstanding at a gateway - road scrapings any good?
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2015, 11:07:05 am »
Scalpings work fine on this farm - just don't be stingy with the thickness of the layer.  Some of our fields also have two gateways, which immediately halves the amount of traffic.

 

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