Robert wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:16 pm
We spread 20 tons of gravel today. Okay, the dump truck spread most of it and the small tractor spread the rest. I did shovel a little, but I paid for all that. I should get some perks.
New driveway, well resurfaced driveway looks great!!
Something stupid rotated the picture, but am too lazy to fix it. Just turn your head.
Are those your Christmas lights still up ? Isn't that a sin somewhere in the bible ?
I'm a bit disappointed in Ohio Jones for not asking if it graveled you to work in the gravel. He usually is on top of things like that.
Sudsy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:00 pm
I'm a bit disappointed in Ohio Jones for not asking if it graveled you to work in the gravel. He usually is on top of things like that.
Graveled? Is that a Canadianism? It's not a term that's familiar to me, except in the sense of "Robert graveled his driveway" which seems to be an unwarranted verbing of the noun form. Technically, crushed stone is more commonly used for driveway surfacing, so it may actually be that Robert stoned his driveway, which sounds rather Old Testament. I do see that one definition of gravel is "to confuse or perplex, be a mystery or bewildering to" so perhaps you have graveled me.
But yes, I am usually on top of the gravel rather than under it.
Sudsy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:00 pm
Are those your Christmas lights still up ? Isn't that a sin somewhere in the bible ?
Talk to my wife and children. They put them up. They need to take them down. I did not want them up so I am not taking them down. And, yes, they are evil.
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Robert wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:16 pm
We spread 20 tons of gravel today. Okay, the dump truck spread most of it and the small tractor spread the rest. I did shovel a little, but I paid for all that. I should get some perks.
New driveway, well resurfaced driveway looks great!!
Something stupid rotated the picture, but am too lazy to fix it. Just turn your head.
Here in Lancaster County Pa, the "gravel" wouldn't be called "gravel", but stones. Hubby has close ties to the quarry/stone industry and the technical title in Pa. are 2B or #57's stones.
Back home in Oklahoma there was (not sure about now) a distinction between stones and rocks. Stones are smooth, and rocks have jagged surfaces. So 'gravel', which we also sometimes just called limestone, is rocks, not stones. (And what they call "bank run" here in Ohio would be stones, not rocks.) But there was also some crossing over, just like with 'motor' and 'engine'.
Neto wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:39 am
Back home in Oklahoma there was (not sure about now) a distinction between stones and rocks. Stones are smooth, and rocks have jagged surfaces. So 'gravel', which we also sometimes just called limestone, is rocks, not stones. (And what they call "bank run" here in Ohio would be stones, not rocks.) But there was also some crossing over, just like with 'motor' and 'engine'.
Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) uses the opposite terminology. I don't know what happens when they talk to their Oklahoma counterparts at the AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) meetings.
As I see it used around here, rock is the broader classification that includes both stone and gravel. Aggregate is a broader category yet, and includes sand as well as other things like slag and recycled crushed concrete. Stone is limestone from a quarry, run through a crusher and sieved into various sizes. Jagged surfaces. Gravel is naturally occurring rock from a river bed, with rounded surfaces resulting from erosion. Bank run is cut out of a river bank and has gravel, sand, and earth in varying proportions.
Grace wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:41 am
Here in Lancaster County Pa, the "gravel" wouldn't be called "gravel", but stones. Hubby has close ties to the quarry/stone industry and the technical title in Pa. are 2B or #57's stones.
#57s are pretty much the same anywhere in the US; there's an AASHTO standard behind those numbers. But I don't know if that's the same as 2B, or not 2B?
ohio jones wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:04 pm
Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) uses the opposite terminology. I don't know what happens when they talk to their Oklahoma counterparts at the AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) meetings.
Might be good to stop discussing this. I think we are on rocky ground.
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Sudsy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:53 pm
Graveled can mean making someone angry or annoyed.
I would rather someone rock my world than stone me.
I've never heard it used like that before in English, there is a Germanism, or perhaps it's from Yiddish, that is very close to that. I thought maybe you were thinking of "galling". There is, after all, such a thing as gallstones. And some people would claim gallstones can be formed by chronic anger issues.
