- Joined
- Apr 16, 2005
- Location
- Sharon, SC
Ok, a sincere question and no dough boy comments please.
This morning I met with a guy who is co-owner of a demolition and excavating company. During our meeting and looking at his operation he drove me buy their "holding" field.
What this field consisted of was approximately 5-10 acres of broken up concrete slabs and asphalt patches. Now unlike house sized boulders these were in a range of sizes from pebble, to very manageable. Most of what I saw on top could actually be hand loaded into a truck if need be.
So my question is. Could this material be useful to a privatepark such as DPG, or The Farm etc. I am not personally interested in building this, more over curious as to if it is even useful.
According to the owner, they simply hold this stuff and have a group that keeps an eye on sites looking for debris fill and then this material is trucked out to be dumped. I explained my thoughts and he was even receptive to possibly delivering for simply the cost of fuel, just to get rid of some of it.
Now my concerns are 2 fold.
#1 How would you ever stabilize a hill made of broken concrete to prevent an avalanche of sorts? Could you poor a mortar or concrete mix over it and make a man made mountain?
(I know I have seen this technique with some of the urban wheeler parks)
#2 Would sharp concrete edges be more harmful on sidewalls than rocks?
Again not looking to start a slam fest just curiosu if this is even remotely useful or not.
Thanks for any opinions.
This morning I met with a guy who is co-owner of a demolition and excavating company. During our meeting and looking at his operation he drove me buy their "holding" field.
What this field consisted of was approximately 5-10 acres of broken up concrete slabs and asphalt patches. Now unlike house sized boulders these were in a range of sizes from pebble, to very manageable. Most of what I saw on top could actually be hand loaded into a truck if need be.
So my question is. Could this material be useful to a privatepark such as DPG, or The Farm etc. I am not personally interested in building this, more over curious as to if it is even useful.
According to the owner, they simply hold this stuff and have a group that keeps an eye on sites looking for debris fill and then this material is trucked out to be dumped. I explained my thoughts and he was even receptive to possibly delivering for simply the cost of fuel, just to get rid of some of it.
Now my concerns are 2 fold.
#1 How would you ever stabilize a hill made of broken concrete to prevent an avalanche of sorts? Could you poor a mortar or concrete mix over it and make a man made mountain?
(I know I have seen this technique with some of the urban wheeler parks)
#2 Would sharp concrete edges be more harmful on sidewalls than rocks?
Again not looking to start a slam fest just curiosu if this is even remotely useful or not.
Thanks for any opinions.
