JimK
wibbled on Saturday 12 December 2009 19:13

On Dec 12, 5:17 pm, "Phil L" wrote:

How wide is the overall path? - could you not do one full length track,
rope it off and allow drivers to use the other part of the path, then do
the other one a week later when the first has cured?

not wide enough afraid.

Is it not wide enough to set one track at a time, allowing vehicles to drive
straddling it, then the other track with the vehicles straddling that one?

Or is this road just a vehicle width?

Off the wall idea:

Could you work with a "precast" approach? Cast the tracks in the centre of
the road, including reinforcing mesh, then slide them across by the 2-3'
required to have them in the correct place? That will limit you to perhaps
2-3m cast lengths.

Assuming you were planning on having a digger handy for trenching with the
direct pour approach, the digger might be able to drag and drop them into
the trenches that you cut at the end. Disadvantage: you need to either cast
flat and trench flat so the strips bed well enough, or line the trench with
some sand and be fairly confident of bedding them. 2nd disadvantage - lots
of joints.

Dunno - maybe there are improvements to that silly suggestion that might
lead to something that would work?


Steel plate will have to be at least 8mm, and thats gonna be expensive

how much is expensive?

I'm imagining 18" wide X "liftable lengths" - load 500kgs say (2t /4
wheels) spread over contact patch of average car tyre (4"x2"?) ... a
few vehicle movements a day....it will have curing concrete right
under it too.....

Cheers
JimK

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Tim Watts

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