Posted by Truck on May 07, 2012 at 06:27:12 from (198.68.208.108):
I have several properties where the houses are gone but the concrete remains...(see my Urban renewal post for details)...I have a need for a good parking area for larger trucks, and all this concrete laying around would make a good dent in the driveway project.
This is old concrete from the 20's and 30's but they built things pretty well back then.It looks as good as stuff poured a year ago.even the slabs that were in the fire. I have porchtop slabs from porches where they poured slabs on top of walls that were filled in with rubble. I have sidewalk slabs that are 3-6 feet wide and 4-10 inches thick. SO far I have seen little sign of reenforcement, tho I bet there is a bit of scrap steel in the sidewalks.
If I haul it off and dump it in a hole in the ground it won't do anyone any good, and it will cost to dump it, by the ton.. I also have probably ten yards of old bricks and hollow clay tiles that were the style for home building here a long time ago. None are worth saving for bricks as they have deteriorated to the point where they are half or smaller bricks and spalling into pieces.
I would like to bust it up into coarse aggregate of some sort. I realize there are machines the highway guys use to do this, but I bet I couldn't afford to rent one for a minute.
I do have access to an old Joy air compressor and a similarly old jackhammer.. and a sledge. Is that the only way to do this for a guy like me, or is there a process I am not thinking of that i need to look into?
I guess I could dig out where I want the parking area and just place the slabs there in dirt, but it seems like it would be pretty tough to get them level and mated up to each other...
Any ideas?? If I were up in NY I'd be filling in the low, wet areas of my property with them, then adding gravel to the top. That works well, but here in TX the ground is hard clay dirt, and I don't have any low spots. After reading this I am thinking I just need to dig out where I want the driveway and parking area, and just use this as fill. Probably ought to sledge or jackhammer the large pieces, right?
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