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Doing some excavation around my house, and I have a lot of dirt I need to move from one part of my land to the other. The only way to get there is by crossing my asphalt driveway. Doing this repeatedly with a dump truck will for sure put ruts in my driveway. Any ideas of how to prevent this? I'm thinking of dumping a load or two of dirt on the driveway itself and making a mound to drive across to help distribute the weight. Any other ideas? I have about 100 loads, so that's 200 trips across my driveway in a tri-axle KW dump. Thanks for the help.
Unless you put about 3 feet of dirt on your driveway, you'll wreck it with a dump truck...or many trips with a skid steer.
If you have THAT much to move, you might be better off just scrapping a section of the driveway, and repaving it after you're done.
How about dumping the dirt next to the driveway, then using the skid steer to get across the driveway? Maybe put down some thick plywood on the asphalt?
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Use brakes and throttle to keep the truck level so you won't spill the dirt.
Good luck.
I've done this plenty of times with dump trucks and heavy equipment
If this were my project ~
1. Do like I said above or
2. Cut the asphalt 10' wide and let the Dumps run back and forth to get the job done then tamp the area ( The trks will have done most of that job) to get it even, bring in 7/11 grade stone (Berm stone) to lay pavers. This will allow for future use when something like this is needed again, just pull up the pavers and your road to construction is open again. Actually red pavers in asphalt breaks up the road nicely, brings the driveway alive so to speak.
The price for stone and pavers/laid VS 400-500 trips/time on the skid plus future projects out ways the latter.
Just my 2 cents worth of 38 years in commercial/residential construction
But, if you can afford 400-500 loads of dirt coming and going, you can afford new cobble stone
Good Luck!
And yes I agree, if you can afford this you can afford pavers
get a few truck loads of clay, really packable clay and make sure its a foot thick at least and twice as wide as the truck you will be driving over it with
but like the others said if you can afford to re-pave dont waist your time trying to save it
Plywood ,then 4 or 5 or 6 inches dirt on the plywood,rip it down middle to cover wheel tracks,believe me,been there.
Cover it with how much dirt your ass canremove,,the dirt will kinda spoonge as the weight goes over and really relieve the stress on the blacktop.
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Thanks for all the replies guys. I'll probably end up doing what Old-Man said and just cut that section out and replace it with pavers so I can use it again if need be, but first I'm gonna throw down a couple feet of dirt and some wood just out of curiosity. No difference in cutting perfectly fine asphalt vs destroyed asphalt with ruts in it. I'll have to measure and find the center of my driveway, that way if I have to put the pavers down they'll be at the halfway point purely for aesthetics. haha Thanks for all the help!
It will be a huge pain in the rear to get it all done though. Might be better just to dig out two narrow strips and use the pavers like you said earlier.
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