Tarmac Track - Price

[donnk]

id have planeings all day long.

[topchippyles]

4 minutes ago, donnk said:

id have planeings all day long.

Most people would and used plannings months old with pack down and bind nice in warm weather.Just get some dicks who know better. 

[eggsarascal]

10 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Most people would and used plannings months old with pack down and bind nice in warm weather.Just get some dicks who know better. 

Yes they will bind down even if they have stood for months but much better if you can get them straight off the job, when using older plannings we used to rake out and lightly spray with red diesel to soften the tar before the roller went over.

[Commando]

22 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Most people would and used plannings months old with pack down and bind nice in warm weather.Just get some dicks who know better. 

I get your point Les but as Kev alluded to, the days of getting them cheap are long gone, also availability in the SW is difficult, with many of the aggregate suppliers buying it up by the job lot.  But its certainly worth thinking about as an option?

[topchippyles]

11 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Yes they will bind down even if they have stood for months but much better if you can get them straight off the job, when using older plannings we used to rake out and lightly spray with red diesel to soften the tar before the roller went over.

Seems like we are in agreement for once ? 

[topchippyles]

9 minutes ago, Commando said:

I get your point Les but as Kev alluded to, the days of getting them cheap are long gone, also availability in the SW is difficult, with many of the aggregate suppliers buying it up by the job lot.  But its certainly worth thinking about as an option?

We have a massive road building project ongoing local and has been for the last 8 years so been a surplus about,Quite a few wagon lads drink in the one pub on a friday and always looking for a back hander.

 

 

Edited November 18, 2020 by topchippyles

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, topchippyles said:

Just get some dicks who know better. 

Now then....

 

Is that comment directed at the Egg for claiming fresh & hot is better than stale and cold (not an entirely inappropriate maxim for life in general) or is it directed at me for suggesting you still reside in the Kingdom of Deheubarth?

 

Either way, it's a bit harsh you miserable old barsteward.

 

Of course we all remember the days of beer tokens for left over tarmac and the youngest daughter offered as a sexual favour with the hairy assed drivers in exchange for road planings.  

 

All I was suggesting was, those days at least within most of the UK, are long gone.   This can be seen with even a cursory search for planings throwing up County council and highways accredited schemes for the sale of recycled materiel. 

 

Cornwall, with it's entirely questionable 100% County council share owned 'private' contractor (Cormac) as the preferred bidder on all CC road jobs pretty much has this angle sown up.

 

That said, I would entirely agree that planing can still be a relatively cheap and often readily available choice.  

 

As to the discussion of hot & fresh v old & stale I don't really have sufficient knowledge to comment - other than to be suitably horrified and seeking my safe space by the suggestion that a generous dousing of red diesel might in any way be appropriate in these more 'enlightened' times.

 

And, I wouldn't be so bold as to question the scale and nature of any transactions you might be able to secure in your local hostelries, nor the currency of preference ?, I was merely seeking to highlight that which passed for 'normal' in previous decades has gone through something of generational change.  

 

I'll leave it to the Egg to decide if you were calling him a dick, I'm sure he'll be on best behaviour.  If it was intended as a retort to my earlier disparaging comment then I withdraw it unreservedly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Ratman]

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[aspenarb]

There is a bit more to surfacing an old farm track than just throwing down tarmac, it will need edging, drainage regulating and compacting prior to tarmac, get the regulating wrong and you could end up with a bigger bill on the measure. The tarmac is the easy bit and a road of 450mts would be less than a days work for a proper outfit, the last one I was involved in was £25 sq mtr, that was for a 20mm dbm base laid at 70mm thick and a 10mm topping at 30mm thick . We had laid all the edgings, done the drainage and regulated the surface. All they did was rock up with the tarmac laying machine and roller, supply labour and the tarmac.

 

Bob

[AHPP]

There is a bit more to surfacing an old farm track than just throwing down tarmac, it will need edging, drainage regulating and compacting prior to tarmac, get the regulating wrong and you could end up with a bigger bill on the measure. The tarmac is the easy bit and a road of 450mts would be less than a days work for a proper outfit, the last one I was involved in was £25 sq mtr, that was for a 20mm dbm base laid at 70mm thick and a 10mm topping at 30mm thick . We had laid all the edgings, done the drainage and regulated the surface. All they did was rock up with the tarmac laying machine and roller, supply labour and the tarmac.

 

Bob

What’s regulating, Bob?