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paulz
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2016 07:55pm
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I just put down 5 tons of road base in the parking area fronting my cabin. Sounds like a lot but it didn't go far, maybe 15x20. Raked it out but it's still lumpy. I was thinking how they drag a screed around baseball diamonds. I have a piece of fairly heavy gauge expanded metal about 2'x5', would that work for a screed? Anyone done this sort of thing before?
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darz5150
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2016 08:04pm
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We use an old box spring mattress that we drag with a couple of cinder blocks and a piece of an old railroad tie on top for added weight.
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Just
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2016 08:35pm
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A hard wood pallet works well ,..
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2016 08:42pm
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My neighbor drags a section of railroad track along the gravel, helps a little but not much.
Best solution is a tractor and a grading scraper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHbUJQsZtnM
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 10 Jul 2016 10:44pm
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A chunk of chain link fence if its just topdressing or smoothing unpacked material.
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Littlecooner
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2016 08:07am
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Anything that will move the aggregate around will work. That chain link fence trick is used by a lot of people. What you want is something that will allow some of the product to spill over each pass and be picked up by the next part of your screed so your expanded metal will work great if the aggregate is sufficiently small enough to "trickle" through the screed
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Littlecooner
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2016 08:10am
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If you want to do an excellent job, after you screed the pad flat, water the pad until very wet and use vehicle to compact pad. When it drys, it will be like concrete
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paulz
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# Posted: 11 Jul 2016 11:02am
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Thanks guys. I also happen to have a section of chain link fence, and a pallet or two, plus several hundred gallons of water from my well cleanup, so I'll be on it later this week.
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