Replying to a message of Cindy Haglund to Bob Ackley:

 CH> 0n (18 Apr 07) Bob Ackley wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 BA>> Replying to a message of Cindy Haglund to Bob Ackley:

 CH>> The roads crack because they were laid too fast so I've read,

 BA>> I don't think they let the ground properly settle before they go to
 BA>> work paving it.  It should sit for probably a year before they pave
 BA>> it.

 CH>  A year??? :) :) :) you gest. Here They put it down as fast as they
 CH> can. But then we don't get frost... hmm.

Alternatively, they can really soak it down with water - equivalent to several
inches of rain.  But then they have to wait for that to dry out.

 BA>> Of course, in this area there is considerable 'frost heave' caused
 BA>> moisture in the ground freezing, the frost line is about 3 feet down

 CH>  Nod. Not long ago IIRC someone said comenting on the cracks that it
 CH> didn't get to settle long enough before big trucks came over it to
 CH> start building houses... hmm. The developent' streets (the
 CH> residential roads not the main thoughofare) are laid in slabs rather
 CH> than the the other way regular roads are done.

 BA>> in this area. Streets - even streets that have been paved for decades
 BA>> - break up under this stress.  The solution, of course, is not to
 BA>> pave the streets with concrete or asphalt, just gravel/crushed rock;
 BA>> run a grader over it every month or so and it's fine.  That's what's
 BA>> in front of my house and it works just fine.

 CH>  That wouldn't look good I guess, here  abouts..

I'd rather have a good road and really cheap road maintenance.  Besides,
lotsa folks don't want to drive on gravel or dirt (might get their shiny SUV
dirty) so it keeps the traffic down.  The downside is that road dust gets
on the clean laundry on the line in the backyard.

 BA>> My 'orchard' now has four apple, three pear (and one more coming),
 BA>> four peach, five cherry (and one more coming), four paw paw, two
 BA>> hazelnut, two hickory, and two chestnut (there are also two black
 BA>> walnuts on the property).  I planted all but the walnuts, they came
 BA>> with the place and boy are they messy.  I don't count mulberries,
 BA>> there are several ...

 CH>  Sounds wonderful. :) Where's your locale? We could plant pecans but
 CH> they take ages to nut and then are very messy so we're told.

Southwest corner of Iowa, just about 25 miles east of the Missouri River and
25 miles north of the Missouri Border.

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