How To Save Money When Graveling A Road

How To Save Money When Graveling A Road MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Darol Dickinson got tired of paying for road gravel that he didn’t need So he came up with a simple idea that lets dump trucks spread gravel only over vehicles’ tire tracks “We operate a large ranch where the soil is prone to get muddy We often put in new all-weather pasture roads or resurface old ones ” says Dickinson “Normally the dump truck will lay an apron of gravel 3 in thick across the width of the road It costs about $200 to gravel 200 ft of road so the cost really adds up in a hurry We needed a way to reduce the cost ” His solution is to lay a 6-in sq 4-ft long wood block in the center of the truck’s inside dump gate when the truck is empty The truck driver opens the gate 1 in high to let gravel out but the block limits the release of gravel to two 18-in wide streams on either side of the gate where the wheels track The two 18-in wide streams of gravel are about the width of a set of duallies on a pickup “The 4-ft wide section in the middle of the road doesn’t get any gravel As a result a truck with an 8 1/2-ft wide bed can go twice as far before it runs out of gravel It saves a lot of money ” says Dickinson Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Darol Dickinson 35000 Muskrat Barnesville Ohio 43713 ph 740 758-5050; darol@texaslonghorn com

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