gravel

[mmbvd7]

Where is the best place to get limestone gravel? I tried doing a search and did not find results.

Information appreciated. Will need at least one 25 ton load, if not two.

Thanks!

Best wishes

[Seeb]

No limestone here.

[Cagary]

You have to use what is found on the Big Island and that is cinder.

-Veritas odium parit”(Terence 195–159 BC))-"Truth begets hatred".

[Royall]

If you want something that won't float away during a heavy rain, use "base coarse (spl?)" Puna rock has it. It is denser than cinder... Looks like ground up blue rock. Not really blue looking but that is what they call the real hard/dense lava.

[mmbvd7]

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Originally posted by Royall

If you want something that won't float away during a heavy rain, use "base coarse (spl?)" Puna rock has it. It is denser than cinder... Looks like ground up blue rock. Not really blue looking but that is what they call the real hard/dense lava.

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Thanks so much! Need a substance to build foundation for drive. Ended up being a bit of a mud bog after a few trips on it. Thank goodness for 4x4's!

Best wishes

[Seeb]

Something like 1 1/2" stone , try Sanford's

[laurarice]

Kona has coral, which is essentially limestone. Ask the gravel/landscaping people over there.

Laura

[mmbvd7]

Thanks Laura...we got coarse base...which looks a lot like limestone and solved the problem. Driveway was there, just didn't have gravel on it.

Thanks again!

Best wishes

[VancouverIslander]

Base coarse is great. It packs down well, doesn't wash away and stabilizes those muddy spots in the drive way.

[kaialoha]

WHAT you put down is not nearly as important as what you put it down ON to. Subgrade preparation is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to establish a surface onto which you place your gravel/cinder/limestone or whatever. If it's muddy it will be in your best interest to have a grading contractor come in and remove and replace down to 'competent' soils the area and 3-10 feet OUTSIDE of that area so that any 'base' course you place will actually stay and NOT get lost in the mud and BELIEVE me it WILL get lost. There are PLENTY of grading contractors in the Puna area that can accomplish this for you. Generally, if 'competent' soils can NOT be reached (ie, deeper than 3 feet) a 3 foot remove and recompact zone (or 'blanket') will provide enough 'bridging' so that muddy soils won't 'pump' which is another way of saying your base course won't disappear into the ground. Since Hawai'i is volcanic in most areas, competent soils are just below the mud and OF COURSE this entire discussion is relative to the differing soils in the Puna area ~ ~ ~ Pomaika'i ~ ~ ~

Punanny