Talk about thread hijacking! My house is almost completed and they are about to pour concrete for carport approach and turn-around. I’m about 100yds away from the (gravel) road and need to surface the entire length. Soil is a very sandy loam on a 20% grade (at worst). Gravel is between $30-$40 per ton and delivery adds another $175 so a bobtail load costs about $500 or so for the cheapest material.

I bought a load of what the call, “construction base”, the cheapest grade, which consists of fines and gravel up to about 1/2”. This is the cheapest. I just spread the load with my FEL and boxblade. Over a couple of days the stuff has nearly solidified. The downside of buying gravel by the ton is that the fines hold a lot of water so I’m paying to haul water, too. Spread to about 1” depth I got about half-way to my house.

So my question is — should I continue with the base or pay a little more and get cleaner gravel? Should I continue with construction base and then spread gravel over it? This is all new to me. Thanks!