Buying road salt / grit

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
We now have a lot of tenants using our yard and the last two mornings have made me realise just how dangerous our concrete yard is when we have freezing conditions.
I need to buy some road salt as used by the council. Apart from a night time journey with the JCB where can I buy this? 1 or 2 tonnes would be plenty.

BB
If you get some can I come and pinch a bucket full (hand bucket!) please. the north facing ramp up to my house is lethal and I was using Maldon sea salt out of the salt grinder on it yesterday like a mad posh lunatic.
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
If you get some can I come and pinch a bucket full (hand bucket!) please. the north facing ramp up to my house is lethal and I was using Maldon sea salt out of the salt grinder on it yesterday like a mad posh lunatic.
cant you just pee on it Adam?
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
Here you go, obvs once you have found the required rock salt
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Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
It will really eat into your concrete (salt anyway) unless you have concrete with an air entraining agent in it.

I did a couple of hanfuls of salt back in the 80's in a crescent outside our feed store, the concrete is now quite eaten away there, once it gets started the water sits in it and makes it worse with every freeze thaw.

Grit or sharp sand is what I use now.

How does the air entraining agent stop it eating it away please?
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
How does the air entraining agent stop it eating it away please?
Not sure how it works .
1st concrete I laid outside the dairy in `75 was just a 1/2/4 mix.
Few hard winters where it needed salt / nitram to de ice & the top scaled off badly

Since then I`ve always used a mix with air entraining additive ( currently called PAV ... ) & never had any more trouble
 
We now have a lot of tenants using our yard and the last two mornings have made me realise just how dangerous our concrete yard is when we have freezing conditions.
I need to buy some road salt as used by the council. Apart from a night time journey with the JCB where can I buy this? 1 or 2 tonnes would be plenty.

BB
Get white salt as it is A lot cleaner and a small amount goes a long way cutting through packed snow and ice

rock salt may be cheaper but it will be trailed into every shed and office making a right mess
 

Wurzeetoo

Member
Depending on your tenants requirements I use to use mitey to grit our car parks. It was a lot cheaper than I could have done it for, and you get a text message the afternoon frost is forecast that you could reply you were happy to leave it that evening. Or don’t reply and it was gritted and an invoice emailed to me. The paper trail was valuable purely from a claims perspective
 

slackjawedyokel

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I recently bought a pallet of salt in bags from these guys:
Cost was £192 delivered incl VAT. Not exactly cheap, but not expensive compared to a pranged or overturned vehicle!

What was quite nice was that you can specify what day you want it to arrive, which is more than most firms do.
 

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