New shed
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Topic: New shed
Posted By: Michael Crowe
Subject: New shed
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2022 at 4:08pm
Im building a new machine shed to store a WD45, bush hog mower and a D8 Caterpiller at a remote farm. Im not even sure ill be able to get power to it without the power company expecting me to pay for it since there won’t be a house there.
Just going to have a gravel floor. What size gravel is best?
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Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2022 at 5:30pm
Bigger is better.
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Posted By: estout81
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2022 at 5:43pm
Then cote it with asphalt grindings.
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Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2022 at 5:52pm
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I've got 1 inch inside the barn probably 4 inches think, 40x40 parking area behind the barn I put down 3 inch as a base then put about 4 inches of 2 inch on top of that,it's all held up real good,I do have one slab of concrete on one side inside the barn that's 12 foot wide by 20 foot long, a lot easier to work on equipment and find those small nuts,bolts and screws that get dropped.
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2022 at 5:52pm
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My Barn floor was 2" Clean.
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2022 at 1:58pm
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When I put my driveway in I was told the asphalt grinding should be 4" to 6" thick and it's on top of a layer of limestone like railroad uses and then had it chipped and sealed it's been 15 years and is holding up great.
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Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2022 at 4:51pm
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I put 10" of class 5 road gravle in my tractor shed. Once it's leveled and your drive over it a few times it gets hard and stays in place. I lik having gravel in my tractor shed. All my tractors leak something.
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Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2022 at 5:37pm
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If you use gravel, spreading calcium chloride on it will really harden it up. Personally, I would put coarser gravel in the bottom, with crushed gravel (3/4" and minus) on top. It makes it easier to walk on.
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2022 at 5:59pm
the "crushed rock" around here is limestone... You get 2-3 inch "rock" to put down as a base... then you put a few inches of 1" and smaller that has a lot of "FINES" or dust in it... when you water that down and compact it, it turns HARD on top and is more like concrete..
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2022 at 6:54pm
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i've used just normal road gravel, sure is nicer to lay on than rock or larger gravel, but some will stick to you unless you lay some old carpet or a rug down first. it's nice like Dave said...something always leaks!
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Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2022 at 7:30pm
On a rented farm they had a slant wall bldg that floor had 3 - 4" of limestone like what is used on county roads and State Hiway shoulders in west central Iowa. Think it's called D stone, is 3/4" crushed limestone down to dust. It worked good, water off equipment drained away, rodents didn't dig, mud unless big clods coming off equip got worked into it. It's still there owned by same family, bldg was built in 1972.
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