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Cost of roadway laying?

  • 28-01-2016 10:41am
    #1
    howdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭


    Roughly what does it cost to lay cow roads per m. I have about 500 metres of roadway to lay I have filling to put in a sub base and crushed slig stone is costing about 6 euro a ton delivered to put on top.. Roads will be 3 metres wide.


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  • #2
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    howdee wrote: »
    Roughly what does it cost to lay cow roads per m. I have about 500 metres of roadway to lay I have filling to put in a sub base and crushed slig stone is costing about 6 euro a ton delivered to put on top.. Roads will be 3 metres wide.

    We get them in here for €15/m 4m wide. That's contractor removing top soil and buying in all material (slig)


  • #3
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    We get them in here for €15/m 4m wide. That's contractor removing top soil and buying in all material (slig)

    That's a bit of a how long is a piece of string answer though frazz. A lot would depend on the ground and conditions when the job was being done. One of the utility companies laid in around 500m of roads here in August 2014. Contractor doing the job made out like a bandit. He quoted for standard conditions and only had to supply a fraction of the work or materials he priced. He was on stone as soon as he took off the sod.


  • #4
    howdee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭howdee


    freedominacup wrote: »
    That's a bit of a how long is a piece of string answer though frazz. A lot would depend on the ground and conditions when the job was being done. One of the utility companies laid in around 500m of roads here in August 2014. Contractor doing the job made out like a bandit. He quoted for standard conditions and only had to supply a fraction of the work or materials he priced. He was on stone as soon as he took off the sod.

    Roadway laid here in 1987 onto topsoil and its only now i started thinking of doing some patching on it.


  • #5
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    howdee wrote: »
    Roadway laid here in 1987 onto topsoil and its only now i started thinking of doing some patching on it.

    I heard tell of someone that put silage wrap plastic down on the topsoil and put shale filling on top of that. He rolled it well and the water stays off the lane as it's higher than the ground beside it. The ground was dry when he put it down and the plastic stops the soil coming up in the filling. He even drives the tractor and slurry spreader on it and it's as sound as the day he put it down. He put it down 10 years ago.


  • #6
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    howdee wrote: »
    Roadway laid here in 1987 onto topsoil and its only now i started thinking of doing some patching on it.

    Most of ours are done that way. No problems. This was for access for a phone masts and their spec was for software to be removed. Suited us as there was a rough/stony area close to the end of the track and sod was dumped there bringing almost as much ground as the track covered into production.


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