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Gravel road dust control

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bradk

06-15-2007 20:38:17




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Anyone have a cheap (and legal) way to keep the dust down on a township gravel road? The county does it here,but I didn't take advantage of the scheduled spraying since we generally don't have much problem with excessive dust.

Being it's been dryer than a popcorn fart here lately,the dusty road at the farm is gettin' to be a DRAG!! Just about chokes ya!!

Is calcium chloride very expensive? I've heard of soybean oil,but that sounds expensive.I have access to a sprayer that's pulled behind an ATV for the application.

Any ideas? Thanks guys.

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jonathan s

06-16-2007 16:14:42




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
my dad is the township supivisor in our township. what he once did was spred calcium but it was so expensive he could only put it in front of the houses. then he fould out about slat brine. its a salt and water mixture and its soo cheep that he can put it on the whole road after it has been worked. the salt brine make the dirt road hard as pavement if it is applied after being worked. i hope this helped.

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suptscottyb

06-16-2007 06:47:57




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
Umm...water?



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jdemaris

06-16-2007 06:45:52




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
Hey, I wish I could send you my Calcium Chloride allotment. My town puts X amount of it, every year in front of all homes on dirt roads. I told them to take mine and give it to someone else. It shortens the life of the sugar maples and rots out the cars and trucks. I've got several summer-only rigs and I'd much rather have the dust - then the salt.

20 years ago, we used waste motor-oil on all the local roads - but if we did it now, we'd probably get arrested.

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iowa_tire_guy

06-16-2007 04:32:21




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
I sell calcium chloride in bags that people put in a lawn spreader to apply to their roads. Places I have been past that use it seems to work good. I get $16 for a 50 lb bag but am not really sure how much they put on. Since I have been selling Rimgard I am getting such a large supply of liquid calcium chloride that I am considering applying it to roads to get rid of it.



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RayP(MI)

06-16-2007 04:15:18




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
Calcium Chloride is corrosive to metals, particularly car & truck bodies... Are you sure you want to put a severe rust causing agent on your road? that's why Michigan cars are so shabby in such a few short years.... Salt an calcium chloride in the winter for ice/snow melting. Brine and calcium chloride in the summer for dust control. We can't win!



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Clint Youse MO

06-16-2007 03:23:34




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
We use calcium Chloride it is the best it cost us $.50 a foot through the county and will last a year or more if not graded Do not use the tree sap had a neighbor that used it saved him a dime a foot as soon as it rained it was like driving through syrup and stuck right to the vehicles worst than old road oil.

Clint



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DAN9-Midwest

06-16-2007 02:29:34




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
Calcium Chloride works great, lasts a long time and is easy to apply. Use a drop fertilizer spreader like a Gandy from the 1950s.

Not sure of price but is used in many places where people are very tight with a dollar and mandated to be environmentally politically correct.



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BobinKS

06-15-2007 20:49:31




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
If you can find them asphalt milling work great. Might be kind of pricey but will work for a long time. The are the stuff that is cut off the top of a road right before they resurface it.



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IaGary

06-15-2007 20:43:19




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to bradk, 06-15-2007 20:38:17  
Use glyserin{sp} its a byproduct from soy oil when making soy deisel.

Cost is about all trucking.

Will not last as good as calcium but much cheaper and not as corrosive.

Gary



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Rex in Australia

06-16-2007 00:31:45




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to IaGary, 06-15-2007 20:43:19  
You can use mollassas, (probably spelt wrong) It binds the dry material quite well when diluted, but to do the job best it needs to be mixed in to the gravel.
God Bless,
Rex



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migraine

06-16-2007 08:08:05




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 Re: Gravel road dust control in reply to Rex in Australia, 06-16-2007 00:31:45  
At our show grounds and other gravel roads here they use a product called lignite (sp). It is a by product of the wood mills and is a brown syrup like product that is very effective, long lasting and smells pleasant. They spread it with a truck with a spray boom on it. Each time it rains it is sort of reactivated and works great. Migraine



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