by Del Williams
APPLICATIONS
36
AGGREGATES MANAGER / February 2016
A
common gravel road repair
and road building approach
is to remove oversize rocks
and bury subgrade problems,
such as potholes or protruding rock,
under additional gravel. But this "band
aid" approach, which does not deal with
underlying problems, is costly. It can re-
quire hauling in 200 to 300 percent more
material than truly necessary to resurface
a gravel road, only to have the problems
resurface.
About 50 percent of the cost of any
gravel road project comes from hauling
in material; and the roughly $10,000 it
costs to get a mobile crusher into a local
pit can quickly rise if pit permitting and
development is required.
A linear road crusher rehabs gravel roads using onsite material at a
fraction of the cost of traditional methods.
A New Approach to
Gravel Road Repair
