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   Piffin | Aug 02, 2004 03:44am | #1

   Off he top of myhead, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work for a graveled drive.

    

    

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   Mooney | Aug 02, 2004 03:52am | #2

   Move to Arkansas.  [grin]

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   mizshredder2 | Aug 02, 2004 05:15am | #4

   HEY! quit pickin on my home state!

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   Mooney | Aug 03, 2004 01:22am | #9

   LOL. Nothin intended , thats where I am .

   Tim Mooney

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   WayneL5 | Aug 02, 2004 04:17am | #3

   Anything other than a smooth, hard surface is a real pain to shovel, blow, or plow.  Every spring you'll spend two weeks of nice weather when you'd rather be doing something else raking stones back into the driveway.  You'll have to balance that work against the aesthetics and cost.

   Using electricity to melt snow will cost more money than you can imagine.  Electricity is by far the most expensive form of energy available to the typical homeowner.  You are better off spending the money for an asphalt driveway and hire someone to plow your driveway at $15 bucks a pop.  Or buy a four wheel drive car.

   If asphalt isn't your thing, there are all sorts of decorative concrete, from simply dyed concrete to textured with faux finishes.

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   mizshredder2 | Aug 02, 2004 05:20am | #5

   I'd recommend the asphalt.  All the reasons the others have already said.  And if ya come to Ark an Saw in Feb or so, will show ya that it snows here too - and was glad had my asphalt drive versus rock, like a lot of my neighbors.

   And for a totally different perspective: woman groan internally when we see we gotta be walking on rocks when we're all dolled up and walking in our CFM pumps...  (THERE! that oughta help seal your decision! LOL!)

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   raybrowne | Aug 02, 2004 05:32am | #6

   Depending on your location the gravel might not be all that bad, nobody has a problem with them south of Philadelphia that's for sure. I saw a great driveway made of crushed seashells in Provincetown, MA this weekend, must be a summer only home or 4wheel drive vehicles only because I bet they'd lose them all to a snowplow.

   -Ray

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   Quickstep | Aug 02, 2004 06:37am | #7

   I've seen walks at historic houses here made of crushed oyster shells. Looks like it compacts pretty well, but still seems like there would be enough loose that it would keep getting tracked into the house. I guess that might be true of gravel also.

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   raybrowne | Aug 02, 2004 06:44am | #8

   A couple of restaurants use the shells as well and they really don't seem to get tracked around too much, not much more than gravel at least. I think this place had regular old sea shells(they all seemed very white) and that's why it especially stood out.  I was just telling my wife the other day how much I prefer the gravel look to the asphalt..perhaps the deciding issue will be whether good aesthetics let you tolerate occassional operational nuisance; I find that I often can tolerate some flaws if I like the look/environmental friendliness/ease of install of something.

   -Ray