06/06/04, 05:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Washington
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Where I live, geotextile will cost around $5 per square foot. Depending on how close the rock source is, rock will cost around $15 per cubic yard (in place). That cost goes up as haul distance increases (purchasing the rock only costs a few dollars a cubic yard, dump trucks cost $50 to $60 an hour and can only haul about 10 cubic yards or so to meet legal weight requirements). I recommend pricing out both options (a cubic yard of rock is 3 ft. by 3 ft. by 3 ft. or 27 cubic feet). Sometimes, using several loads of pit run rock capped off by crushed rock is the way to treat soft spots in a road.
I've heard of carpeting being used as geotextile. Talk to a local carpet installation company and offer to take some old carpeting off their hands for free (they probably have to pay to dump it so they'll probably drop it off for free too). The geotextile (carpeting in this case) doesn't start to work until the ruts form so you may have some holes to patch later on.
Good luck.
Terry
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