Free road planings
- Thread starter Richie B
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Doing it for the kids
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Ha, free!?
Hoping to get 10 load off the motorway next week that will cost me £200 a load, was paying £110 not long ago.
If I want it from their yard it’s £400.
At this rate it will be cost effective to start using a stone bucket in the fields and crushing the extraction.
Nothing will be free in the aggregate market now
Hoping to get 10 load off the motorway next week that will cost me £200 a load, was paying £110 not long ago.
If I want it from their yard it’s £400.
At this rate it will be cost effective to start using a stone bucket in the fields and crushing the extraction.
Nothing will be free in the aggregate market now
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
The only ones likely to be free are the contaminated ones off older roads. Avoid.
Best I ever had was cheap "out of hours" from a Supermarket carpark resurface.... until I realised it was full of plastic mesh reinforcement.
But it was cheap, and I sorted out most of the loose plastic, as I graded and levelled the planings that were dumped straight on the lane
What are they contaminated with?
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Get a load of concrete if In a yard cheaper in long run
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Need to get your name in the book of a contractor. They will not be free, you really need to say 'yes' to the full job and they will probably come in at night so you will need to be there to push up and direct traffic.
- Location
- East Sussex
Only in the good old days were they free!!
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
30+ years ago they were glad to get rid of it instead of paying land fill taxes.
Local car breakers owed me a favour and lent me a Drott, and found me a pro driver and he made a grand place to park trailers and stack round bale silage.
On a water board farm we rented Yorkshire Water were happy to drop off lots they had to dispose of, and did the same again.
Local car breakers owed me a favour and lent me a Drott, and found me a pro driver and he made a grand place to park trailers and stack round bale silage.
On a water board farm we rented Yorkshire Water were happy to drop off lots they had to dispose of, and did the same again.
Thanks, I'll look into it
Doing it for the kids
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They tend to over fill at night too to get the job done.
Avoid them off c roads as quality is always poor. Motorways are the best