"Cobblestone" Driveway Made With Farm Rock
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"Some people say it looks lovely. Others are polite and don't say anything at all. They wonder why I would ever want to ruin a perfectly good driveway," says Mike Judge, Nevada, Iowa, who made a driveway out of rocks he collected on his and his neighbors' farms.
The driveway is 200 ft. long and 12 ft. wide. The rocks were laid on top of an existing limestone driveway.
"It was a retirement project that I thought would take only a month or so to do, but it ended up taking three years. I started in 2002 and finished last fall. However, I enjoyed doing the work - it got me out of the house and was almost like therapy," says Judge.
He got the rocks free from neighbors who, through the years, had piled them up in field corners or near the entrances to roads. He picked up all the rocks by hand and hauled them home in his pickup. All the rocks he used were about the size of a basketball or smaller, and had at least one flat side.
He fit the rocks together like a jigsaw puzzle. To make sure the surface was level he sometimes had to dig holes in the limestone. For thin rocks he had to first mound up a limestone base. A single layer of concrete blocks along both sides of the driveway keeps the rocks from bulging out too far.
Last fall he dumped a couple pickup loads of crushed limestone over the driveway. Eventually, the traffic from vehicles will turn the limestone to powder and fill in the cracks to keep weeds from growing up between the rocks.
"I got the idea when I saw a movie called The Crown Affair, where a house is shown with a cobblestone driveway," says Judge. "I wasn't taking a big chance because I have another driveway nearby, semi circular in shape, which I could have used if this one didn't work out."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mike Judge, P.O. Box 175, Nevada, Iowa 50201 (ph 515 382-5121).
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"Cobblestone" Driveway Made With Farm Rock MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 30-2-43 "Some people say it looks lovely. Others are polite and don't say anything at all. They wonder why I would ever want to ruin a perfectly good driveway," says Mike Judge, Nevada, Iowa, who made a driveway out of rocks he collected on his and his neighbors' farms.
The driveway is 200 ft. long and 12 ft. wide. The rocks were laid on top of an existing limestone driveway.
"It was a retirement project that I thought would take only a month or so to do, but it ended up taking three years. I started in 2002 and finished last fall. However, I enjoyed doing the work - it got me out of the house and was almost like therapy," says Judge.
He got the rocks free from neighbors who, through the years, had piled them up in field corners or near the entrances to roads. He picked up all the rocks by hand and hauled them home in his pickup. All the rocks he used were about the size of a basketball or smaller, and had at least one flat side.
He fit the rocks together like a jigsaw puzzle. To make sure the surface was level he sometimes had to dig holes in the limestone. For thin rocks he had to first mound up a limestone base. A single layer of concrete blocks along both sides of the driveway keeps the rocks from bulging out too far.
Last fall he dumped a couple pickup loads of crushed limestone over the driveway. Eventually, the traffic from vehicles will turn the limestone to powder and fill in the cracks to keep weeds from growing up between the rocks.
"I got the idea when I saw a movie called The Crown Affair, where a house is shown with a cobblestone driveway," says Judge. "I wasn't taking a big chance because I have another driveway nearby, semi circular in shape, which I could have used if this one didn't work out."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mike Judge, P.O. Box 175, Nevada, Iowa 50201 (ph 515 382-5121).
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