[lit-ideas] Re: question
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:44:01 -0600
I'm exploring things I could do myself. In the car on a 30 minute drive I
bounced some ideas off Jim -- cheap pine boards nailed to one another (kinda
costly); dead vehicle tires split in half and then snipped along the curve
to help them lay flat and placed hump-up until driving flattened them; some
kind of plaster of paris/sand/melted wax mixture I could concoct and pour;
mulch; chicken wire or chain-link fencing (which I have left over in
spades) rolled out flat with sand poured over & in...
By the time we arrived at our destination he was ready to have me committed
for lunacy.
Julie Krueger
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Logs, lumber, palettes, used heavy equipment tires.... Trying to think of
> stuff that might otherwise wind up in dumps and, thus, be inexpensive.
> Not inexpensive, but I fantasize about "mud pontoons," heavy boards nailed
> across pairs of logs that would embed themselves in the sides of the
> driveway, in effect a pier that floats on the mud.
>
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I have a fairly long driveway which in the past I've "paved" w/
>> (increasingly expensive) gravel. It's time again. I really can't afford
>> the gravel, and concrete, asphalt, cement, and brick or paving stones are
>> equally prohibitive.
>>
>> My primary issue is mud when it's wet...vehicles just sink. I keep
>> feeling that there must be some "green", recycled, and inexpensive materials
>> out there that would make innovative alternative solutions to such a thing,
>> but after an hour searching the web, (perhaps I'm using all the wrong search
>> words), have come up thoroughly empty-handed.
>>
>> Anyone have any creative ideas?
>>
>>
>> Julie Krueger
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> John McCreery
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