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   Guest_ | May 22, 2000 09:01pm | #1

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   I'm sure that you'll get some great advice from the regulars here, but I'd like to suggest, modestly, that you begin by reading All About Driveways in FHB #118, September 1998.

   Andy

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   Guest_ | May 23, 2000 10:25pm | #2

   *Not only that but you might try your local Coop Extension Office. Although construction techniques are similiar around the country each area has a method that seems to work best for that area. You may even find that gravel is a poor choice for your soil type and some type of pavement would serve you better over the long haul.

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   Guest_ | May 23, 2000 10:44pm | #3

   *Consider using a product called Stabilizer. I've used it with DG (decomposed granite) paving and am very impressed. They claim it will work with gravel, too.http://www.stabilizersolutions.com/index.html

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   Guest_ | May 24, 2000 01:01am | #4

   *Yehh baby bottom hands Andy, You could reference a FHB article for about 70% of the questions here. Your editor really took a cheap shot at you after you hinted that you could work in the trades again. (;-)joe d

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   Guest_ | May 24, 2000 02:37am | #5

   *Mike - do you just spray this stuff on compacted material or do you have to mix it in and then compact it? Is this stuff cheap, moderate, or "you don't want to ask"? BTW- when you place your link reference on a line by itself, for some reason the Breaktime server software doesn't want to convert it to a clickable link. If you were to bury the reference in a line or proceed the line with a paragraph HTML tag (<p>), it is almost always a "hot" link so that I don't have to invoke the exhausing thought processes of cutting, moving the mouse, and pasting - whew.... i.e.:<p>http://www.stabilizersolutions.com/index.html

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   Guest_ | May 24, 2000 02:44am | #6

   *Gravel drivewways I don't know but your link has to be typed in as an HTML command for this software to recognize it as such.<a href="www.for-instance.com/folder/page.html">Name of link here</a>Pete

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   Guest_ | May 24, 2000 03:41am | #7

   *mark.. here in ri with heavey clay soils.....i always cut the loam about 8 inches.. install 12 inch bank run gravel... and then drive on it for a year... or compact it with rubber tired equip...by the time the project is done , the compaction is OK..the driveway is finished....done..fini..if you want it to look special...top it with 3/8 pea stone....or 3/8 crushed bluestone...dress the shoulders and loam and seed.. make sure you've taken care of drainage..and next spring.. drag a york rake over it and fix it up...keep the snow plows off if you have a stone topping..

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   Guest_ | May 24, 2000 03:47am | #8

   *Regarding the need for HTML on Breaktime - not quite so. Breaktime's server software somehow has the ability to recognize active URLs under certain circumstances, and I am lazy enough to use that capability. I gave up doing the full HTML some time ago on Breaktime and now just put the URL reference at the beginning of a line and on the preceding line have only a <br> or <p> and it has given me an active link every time so far. Don't expect this to work on sites using different HTML server software, however, in which case you will need to do the complete URL reference as you describe.I have had the Breaktime server make active links when I placed a URL in the middle of a sentence and used no HTML coding at all, but I also had this fail a couple of times, so I usually just do it with a <br> on one line and the URL address without any HTML on the next - and so far so good. I was fairly surprised one time when I referenced a old Breaktime post I found the Breaktime Archives and just pasted in the URL without any HTML, in which case the Breaktime server not only made it an active link, but it also substituted the header information for the original post in place of the URL code. The Breaktime web server definitely has some interesting built in smarts...Lazily yours, CR

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   Guest_ | May 24, 2000 03:50am | #9

   *I think it's granular or powdered. It's best to premix it with the material. I bought my DG mixed by the supplier, and it cost quite a bit. I think the material is about $3 per pound with 8 pounds or so per cubic yard. It can be put on the ground and rototilled in. It is an organic plant product that binds the particles together. You place the material, compact it, wet it, and when it dries its stable. Water passes through, but the stuff doesn't wash out. I used to do all kinds of fancy posts but I got lazy. Copy and paste is about all I do any more.

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   Mark_Helling | May 24, 2000 03:56am | #10

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   I need to install a gravel driveway and I'd like some suggestions as to the best way to construct it. How deep to cut? Best base? How thick?