Gravel clearing

[Deleted User]

Thoughts on the best options to clear several tonnes of gravel? The garden currently contains ~20 tonnes of it!

A skip would seem best given the volume, but I see gravel being offered for free collection on Gumtree.

flashg67

You could bag it up but the bags aren't that cheap, or provide a shovel only & invite people to come and get what they want! Facebook local selling pages are an option too

kerri_gt

Offer it free on the local Facebook selling sites, make it clear people need to bring their own recepticles and shovels (you can be kind and say you'll help if available and if you have any large builders bags throw those in).

bloss0m

if it was pea gravel and you lived near me I have a few bags. Always useful if you have an allotment for paths etc

[Deleted User]

Any farms nearby?

When we removed our sunken and cracked old tarmac driveway a local farmer happily took away the broken up tarmac.

He just parked a tractor at the end of the drive with the bucket facing inwards and we shovelled until the bucket was full. Off he went to fill potholes on the farm and back again for the next load.

Perhaps explain why you need to remove the gravel - can you not use it for paths yourself?

20 tonnes if a lot to get rid of. It would take 20 builders bags and need more than one skip too.

martinthebandit

bloss0m wrote: »

if it was pea gravel and you lived near me I have a few bags. Always useful if you have an allotment for paths etc

..... what she ^ said although any sort of gravel would be welcome here.

J_B

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

Any farms nearby?

When we removed our sunken and cracked old tarmac driveway a local farmer happily took away the broken up tarmac.

Of course you checked to see if he had the correct waste disposal licence .... didn't you?

getmore4less

Freecycle/trash nothing sites get stuff like that shifted.

Waste licence!

You could not give anything away if they were required.

[Deleted User]

Thanks all for the helpful replies, I've put an ad up for a free collection and it's getting some interest already.

Certainly better to allow free uplifts than pay out for skip hire from a money saving point of view.

I'll be keeping some of the gravel for future projects, but most of it will be on the way out: not a fan of covering an entire garden in gravel personally, but each to their own!

Kiran

J_B wrote: »

Of course you checked to see if he had the correct waste disposal licence .... didn't you?

Appreciate this was only meant as a bit of a joke but if an item is being taken from one location to another and is being used for the same purpose as it was in its original location then you do not need a waste carriers license. So driveway dug up and re laid elsewhere is no issue. It would be a different matter and you were knocking down a building and using the waste to fill in low spots for example as that was not the original use of the material ib the first location.

hd216

Definitely second the Gumtree / local Facebook pages option having just spent the last week removing some 8 tonnes of gravel from the front garden. Its amazing what people will take if its going free, even managed to offload a load of old breeze blocks and red bricks. Saved me a fortune on skips / hippo bags!
Through a friend of a neighbour I was able to get rid of the the remaining muddy gravel that no one wanted to take. He had a number of fields nearby and was more than happy to drop a trailer off for us to fill with any remaining gravel and rubble which was then used to fill the ruts and pot holes in the tracks between them.