Material to put around buildings

[Freeborn]

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]

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

 

[West Branch]

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]

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$$]

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]

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]

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"?

 

[Freeborn]

What did you pay for the class 5?