Chalk any use

[Flat 10]

For anything other than barn floors? Can you use it to make hard standing at all? Been offered some cheap but can’t see it will be any use?

 

[Fendt516profi]

No use at all if they pay me and deliver I'll do them a favour and take it

 

[Doing it for the kids]

If you put it down in the dry and cap it it forms a good yard or track but certainly not going to pay for it

 

[Flat 10]

If you put it down in the dry and cap it it forms a good yard or track but certainly not going to pay for it

Cap it with something else? Like what?

 

[Wombat]

All our shed floors, yard and tracks are made out of it so nope no use at all

 

[Banana Bar]

It will make a great track or hard standing if capped with planings. Otherwise too slippery to work on when wet. Good in livestock sheds too. Wherever you use it consolidate it 10 x more than you think it needs.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Cap it with something else? Like what?

Type 1 or Plainings.

get the biggest roller you can find and roll it down in layers

 

[Richy12]

As said, needs to be dry. If it gets wet turns to sh!t fast

 

[Lincs Lass]

The gang that put the new gas main under the Humber bored out hundreds of thousands of tons of chalk and dumped the lot ,,cost them more to loose it than use it

 

[Wombat]

Get 40mm crush get it wet and it will track in and set like concrete.

I like to lay it after some rain has got into the heap then it will crush and set

 

[Lincsman]

The gang that put the new gas main under the Humber bored out hundreds of thousands of tons of chalk and dumped the lot ,,cost them more to loose it than use it

It did come out as slurry and then separated solids like Cow slurry, so only fit to put back in the ground.

 

[Lincs Lass]

It did come out as slurry and then separated solids like Cow slurry, so only fit to put back in the ground.

Good job then I didnt take up the offer of a few loads ,,I did some work for the tunnel manager and he asked me If I needed any free hardcore as it was all going to winterton tip to cap it .
If it was that runny ,it wouldnt have been any good

 

[Lincsman]

Good job then I didnt take up the offer of a few loads ,,I did some work for the tunnel manager and he asked me If I needed any free hardcore as it was all going to winterton tip to cap it .
If it was that runny ,it wouldnt have been any good

They may have been talking about the 100's of thousands of tonnes of hardcore imported that is now being removed along with tarmac, it was like a 6 lane motorway was built across a 80 acre field, concrete crushers and power screens have been there for months now, along with a fleet of about 20 artics removing it.

 

[Lincs Lass]

They may have been talking about the 100's of thousands of tonnes of hardcore imported that is now being removed along with tarmac, it was like a 6 lane motorway was built across a 80 acre field, concrete crushers and power screens have been there for months now, along with a fleet of about 20 artics removing it.

All that good stuff came out the quarry up the road ,ni on 500,000 tns went into making the approach road and landing area for the tunnel borer ,,its something like 10ft deep across the whole site,,Welton aggs were supplying 7 days a week to it from hibaldstow and then alot of blue limestone from the 4x4 ofroad quarry up the road

 

[Lincsman]

All that good stuff came out the quarry up the road ,ni on 500,000 tns went into making the approach road and landing area for the tunnel borer ,,its something like 10ft deep across the whole site,,Welton aggs were supplying 7 days a week to it from hibaldstow and then alot of blue limestone from the 4x4 ofroad quarry up the road

The shame of it is the river bank flood defence (500m away) needs raising and is planned for the future, but non of this stuff was deemed suitable!

 

[Lincs Lass]

The shame of it is the river bank flood defence (500m away) needs raising and is planned for the future, but non of this stuff was deemed suitable!

Its not called Goxhill marsh for fun,,it horible in a dry time without getting flooded

 

[Lincsman]

Its not called Goxhill marsh for fun,,it horible in a dry time without getting flooded

I know only too well, but there are still people who say DD will work anywhere, would love to show a photo of an attempt done this year, half flooded all drowned, but its a neighbors so better not.