What is the best way to degrass a area for a limestone parking lot. Using a tractor?
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Spray gasoline over it and light a match. Good times, good times.
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Its not just grass, you need to remove all the topsoil also. All the way down to hard clay. It could be 4" it could be 4' thick. Start digging it out and piling it up. Lay down geo fabric then lay down 1"-3" crushed limestone with 21aa over top of that. Compact the piss outa it and 10 grand later your done.
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JUST OUT OF CURIOUSITY, WHERE IS THERE A (ooops caps) directory of what different commonly used construction aggregates are located. 21aa I am sure equates to a specific size or other detailed description. I see things listed as #1, 2,3 A, B ,...21aa stone etc. Just curious. We here use the inch based lingo to denote gravel and stone.:waving:
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21aa would be like 1" minus w/fines
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how big of area are you talking?
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yeah but it will take you three weeks to drag a box blade full at a time out. you dont have a loader on the tractor?
dig a fe sample holes by hand to see how deep the topsoil is.
dig a fe sample holes by hand to see how deep the topsoil is.
yeah i do. i just found running the disc over first helped break everything up. i would come back with the box blade and drag the loose stuff out and then use the bucket to clean it up. just wondering if there was a easier way without renting a dozer.
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nope, given what you have your going at it the best way.
but think about it.... you can probably rent a dozer for 450 a day and have it done in a day. That will save you at least 200 or so in fuel for the tractor so now its only costing you 250 more then using your tractor. Not to mention the time you saved and the wear and tear you save on your tractor.
but think about it.... you can probably rent a dozer for 450 a day and have it done in a day. That will save you at least 200 or so in fuel for the tractor so now its only costing you 250 more then using your tractor. Not to mention the time you saved and the wear and tear you save on your tractor.
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Take a tractor with a loader and a bucket and have at it. Take the disc to it only once if you feel the need to break it up a little, but there's no reason to over analyze this task. I've removed tons and tons of sod with a skid steer and a bucket by just peeling it up once bucket at a time, it's not rocket science. Just under 4,000 square feet won't take more than half a day to remove, if that. The box blade requires you disc the hell out of it, which will create a whole wad of tiny pieces of sod. Then you're going to drag them all over the place? What a mess that would make. Don't make the material any smaller than necessary to remove it, you'll only create more work for yourself if you do. On top of that, the box blade doesn't get the material into a truck so all you're going to accomplish is dragging the chunks off the grade and placed somewhere else where it needs to be bunched up and loaded out. Go with a bucket, it will be the fastest, trust me.
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