Another truckload of gravel — $300 for about 16 yards with delivery.
And I’ll probably need several more loads every year just to keep the road in shape.
Out of curiosity — how much do you guys pay for a truckload of gravel in your area?
by boragena
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$300 is a heck of a deal. It’s like $600 to $800 around me.
$550 for 10cuy. Ugg
That driver saved you a ton of work with that spread!!!! We had some just dump it in a single spot and leave..
It’s $450 a load out here. Probably depends on your soil and snow and your tolerance for imperfect roads, but I don’t need to replace it every year. Maybe a touch up every 3rd year.
Spam.
Like all your other junk nonsense.
Dude that’s a great deal!
Dupont groundgrid and 3/4” crushed rock will last longer with no maintenance.
$800’ish for 18 tons of crushed concrete.
Yeap $300 delivered is a great deal. I pay $665 delivered for 20cy of 1” slag. I’ve been filling my potholes with 3” slag ($765 delivered). The slag stays put so much better than gravel. I’ve been really pleased.
I’m lucky my neighbour has a gravel pit and a bottle of scotch is a truckload. I get a couple a year. He also has a backhoe that he will operate at similar cost. $400-500 is normal around here I’m told.
Interesting. I live where a lot of things are really expensive. But, I generally pay $260 per 10 cubic yards where I’m at. (2″ minus with fines.) It probably helps a lot that I’m only 3-4 miles from the quarry.
You shouldnt need endless loads. Did you not put a fabric down or anything to stop the rocks from being pushed into the earth?
It’s a never ending battle. When we built, we are about a quarter mile off the road. I spent $17,000 to have a gravel driveway put in. And I hated it almost immediately. In the next five years I put about $6000 worth of slag down. Changed my life. So we have 4 to 5 inches of gravel first and then 4 inches of slag on top of that. The slag doesn’t get potholes because it drains well. It doesn’t stick to the cars the way the gravel did. And it’s not nearly as dusty. It’s certainly not dust free but it’s better than the gravel.
I know there are a lot of other materials that are just as good, but that’s what I had access to at the best price.
$500 here. I have the same guy do Bush hogging for me so I keep his family fed.
$300 is dirt cheap…. Seriously. Here it is easy $600 for a single load or up to $1,200. It depends on what quarry is open that time of the year and if they have the right rock.
Diesel is about $5.98 here so delivery is roughly $160 per hour and whatever else for the rock which is the cheap part.
Roads are something most people who buy land for the first time completely miss on estimates of living cost. I know I did and I am pissed 😆 about it now. Luckily I have a buddy who does dirt work and he gives me the homie deal, but even then I am usually getting 2-3 transfers of ranch mix or 3/4″- .
I find it’s best to get the road crowned right and good drainage and then the maintenance is lower in the coming years, well if Atmospheric rivers don’t hit lol
We pay $30/cubic meter delivered, but we are in Costa Rica.
Have you tried to just grade it?
Paving a road is over $1m per mile so what do you expect 😂
A road can make or break a homestead. Many people don’t realize it until it’s too late .
$476CAD/18yd load of limestone gravel, all in – including mileage. The gravel itself is $234CAD/18yd load.
The price is the same whether it is 3/4″ or 2″. This includes being spread in the same manner as your video.
We’re about $22/ton for #57 (not sure what that is in yd^3). We have our own farm dump trucks, so no cost for delivery
What kind of gravel is that? Looks like asphalt millings. That’s a decent price of that’s the case
Nice, to extend the life of your rock road buy and put down either a geo grid textile or even basic landscaping fabric and it’ll keep the rock from pushing into the mud as quick.
Make sure to stake it down and overlap if you bother with it.
Other option is simply just a lot more rock like 1’ hogged in there and it’ll be good for years if shored up properly.
I find doing it the right way the first time (after doing it wrong 7 times) is the key.
Dig down. Insert drainage pipes along the sides. Driveway fabric covered in 2-3 inch gravel. Then, the crusher run over that. Compress. Then, more driveway fabric. Crusher run and then millings. Compress.
Driveway is going on 6 years and still looks great. Costs more obviously, but once my farmer neighbor informed me that’s how his driveway was done.(it’s 20 years old and looks great) I was “re-graveling” mine every year. His method seems pretty awesome so far.
Caveat: It only snows here 2-4 times, and we just let it melt, so plowing is not a concern. If you don’t own the equipment to do all of the above, it might be a bit back breaking on the labor side.
650 around me. And delivery is only a couple miles.
You should be renting a drivable 1 ton roller, and a motorized vibrating plate compactor/ jumping jack compactor for the edges, and getting some sort of runoff drain buried on the lower sloped side of the road to prevent runoff water from pooling and eroding. That will get the gravel packed tight and it will last a decade or more. we did about 44k sq ft of gravel road on our 10 acre plot in a weekend.
I spent about $5000 on 800 feet about 5 years ago. I need to get it done again but I’m not about to pay that every year. I may get asphalt after I get some construction done.