Material to put around buildings

Freeborn

5 year old buck +
What material are folks putting around your farm builds for driving and parking? I have a couple small buildings I want to put something down like crushed concrete for parking trailers and equipment on.

Was wondering what others are using that works well and holds up.

Thanks!
 

sandbur

5 year old buck +
Just class 5 on my light soil. sometimes not even that, but I am cheap.
 

West Branch

5 year old buck +
We use pit run gravel, but we have a few small gravel pits that we can pull it out of so we don't have to buy it from someone. It has larger rocks that class 5 since it hasn't been ran through a crusher but works good for us.

It should be a a lot cheaper than processed stuff if you have pits locally.
 

foggy

5 year old buck +
I'm too tight to spend for crushed stone.....and my sandy soil really does not require any. But, I have used some crushed concrete and crushed granite with very good results. Not too expensive either. Really stays where you place it!

I've got a fire ring area at my house with crushed granite.....and it's clean and fantastic looking....IMO.
 

biglakeba$$

5 year old buck +
We just use some gravel/class 5 type stuff we dig from the property to fix approaches or around the barn. Works great.
 

Jim Timber

5 year old buck +
Crushed granite does look really nice. I've been thinking I'd use that for the top layer of my driveway when I get that far.
 

Freeborn

5 year old buck +
I have used crushed concrete some and it packs nicely but the top layers seems to wash-out and your left with agregate/rocks. Crushed concrete is also expensive and because I need quite allot of material I was thinking of putting down a base of maybe class 5 or even sand and then a top layer of either crushed concrete or other material.

How many inches of top material should be put down on top of a base? If I put down 10" of class 5 as a base what how musc for a top layer; 4"?
 
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Freeborn

5 year old buck +
What did you pay for the class 5?
 
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