On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:50:43 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 4/19/2016 4:18 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:57:33 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


Not anymore. I kissed the 1000 ft long, 16 ft wide driveway over a
month ago. It was due to be repaved as well. Glad I am not paying for it.

I think I would consider asphalt for that much road (anything over
100' is a road).
That is about 20 truckloads of concrete (200yds) What is that up
there? $20 grand?
It would take a 10 man union crew 2 days to do that but 3 Mexicans
could do it in a day ;-)

Three of Judy's guys did my 40 yard driveway in about 3 hours but I
did have it graded and formed when they got here

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/house.jpg



As mentioned in a previous post there are very few concrete driveways up
here. In fact, I don't think I've seen any. Too much damage can occur
due to freezing ground and frost heaves. Even the code for putting in
footings for decks, etc., require them to be at least four feet below grade.

There's a weird phenomena that occurs when the ground experiences a deep
freeze during the coldest part of the winter. It expands (as water does
when it freezes) and over a few years can actually lift buried boulders
and rocks up out of the ground.
The driveway at our last house had a 14" dia concrete pipe buried
across part of the driveway to allow water from a brook to pass through
it. Over the years the concrete pipe was pushed upward, causing a
"speed bump" to develop in the asphalt driveway. Had the driveway been
concrete, it would have broken it up.

I remember while living in Connecticut the Wilbur Cross Parkway was
concrete. It had expansion joints about every 100 feet and when you
drove on it there was a constant "bump bump, bump bump" as the car
tires hit the expansion joints. Haven't been down that highway in a
long time but I'll bet it's asphalt now.


I understand that and I think I mentioned up thread a note or two. The
beltway had it's share of problems because the government contract
specified concrete. They had lots of problems with buckling where one
plate would end up 4-5" above the next one. That is exciting if you
are going over the ski jump but devastating of you hit the wall from
the other side. One of my Harley buddies hit one of those and sailed
about 50', breaking a leg and really doing a job on a 74 sportster. I
ended up fixing it and selling it for him. They had the whole beltway
stopped until they could pick up the pieces of the bike and get him
into a van.
No license so they did not wait for the cops. Harley guys. ;-)