HARD CORE Sculpins recycled £6 per ton is this good price thanks

[briquette_seller]

Scalpings are the smaller pieces, about 50mm and down, left over from quarrying, limestone ones crush down in situ to give a firm sub base normally as a layer over bigger hardcore.

 

A similar specification recycled material made up of a mixture of screened hardcore and cold planed tarmac is called eco around here and available at about £150 per 20 tonne load delivered. I imagine most of the cost is in transport so if you are out in the sticks it will cost more. It is basically a waste material from a skip business. Plain screened hardcore costs £80 per 20 tonne load here but again you can get it cheaper straight off a demolition job.

 

If you catch firms doing road surfacing they will often deliver the planings for free as it saves them taking them back to a recycling plant but be aware it is a waste material and you do need to comply with transfer notes and exemptions to use it. Long term road planings aren't a lot of cop as they are 50% sand and 10% bitumen which gradually oxidises away losing the binding effect.

 

If you take any screened material try to avoid wet periods as the screens won't separate out the mud in the wet.

 

What's the other 40% of the road planing's?

[openspaceman]

What's the other 40% of the road planing's?

 

Screened 10mm chips, limestone locally, on smaller roads. Aggregate on motorways and major roads looks much smaller, possibly to lessen risk of being thrown up??

[briquette_seller]

Screened 10mm chips, limestone locally, on smaller roads. Aggregate on motorways and major roads looks much smaller, possibly to lessen risk of being thrown up??

 

Ok thanks, interesting.

I knew they added sand, didn't realise just how much.

That explains why the planing's go all mushy after time.

 

Sorry, slightly off topic.

 

I think £6 a tonne is cheap.

I was on hire with a crusher last week and it was costing £7 per tonne to hire.

[openspaceman]

Ok thanks, interesting.

I knew they added sand, didn't realise just how much.

That explains why the planing's go all mushy after time.

 

Sorry, slightly off topic.

 

I think £6 a tonne is cheap.

I was on hire with a crusher last week and it was costing £7 per tonne to hire.

 

Well the skip firms will have costs to process stuff that exceeds the sale value but the gate fee of £200 odd a skip is their profit.

 

I'm really interested in a small screen for cleaning shingle and also screening woodchip for the boiler but haven't seen anything as small as a 20 tonne per day device.

[timbernut]

You'd be lucky to gat road planings round here for under 15 delivered but then I've never had it with sand or anything else added to it.

[mendiplogs]

Ok thanks, interesting.

I knew they added sand, didn't realise just how much.

That explains why the planing's go all mushy after time.

 

Sorry, slightly off topic.

 

I think £6 a tonne is cheap.

I was on hire with a crusher last week and it was costing £7 per tonne to hire.

 

Hi mate thanks for your in put do you think I can get it cheaper thanks Jon

[john p]

It's not a bad price that Jon , you might save a pound or two ringing around endlessly but you might not

[mendiplogs]

It's not a bad price that Jon , you might save a pound or two ringing around endlessly but you might not

 

Hi john thanks for that you down PILTON POP YET THANKS JON

[openspaceman]

You'd be lucky to gat road planings round here for under 15 delivered but then I've never had it with sand or anything else added to it.

 

It's not sand added to it, it is sand inherently in it, just like concrete has an aggregate of sand and shingle with cement holding it all together so tarmac has the same with bitumen holding it all together. The stone adds strength and the sand fills the voids between the bits of stone.

[john p]

Hi john thanks for that you down PILTON POP YET THANKS JON

 

 

Not yet, too busy at the mo, doin tree surveys and climbing inspections there at end of month