| Author | Message | ||
     Old_school (Old_school) Senior Member Username: Old_school Post Number: 502 Registered: 01-2009 |
Shoes are way over rated sometimes! | ||
| Joe (Joe) Moderator Username: Joe Post Number: 568 Registered: 07-2006 |
The edges of broken slates can be sharp as razor blades - even sharper. So if someone falls on them or tries to walk barefoot on them, look out! | ||
| Old_school (Old_school) Senior Member Username: Old_school Post Number: 500 Registered: 01-2009 |
There you go. Like I said, it makes good fill! | ||
| Milo (Milo) New member Username: Milo Post Number: 9 Registered: 05-2009 |
After sorting a very large batch of used slate and keeping anytinhg that could be cut to 6"X10" i still had a large batch of broken "scraps"...so I killed 3 birds with one stone. 1. Needed a bunch of topsoil for other part of yard 2. Needed a place to put my firewood racks which drained well 3. Needed to get rid of slate scraps So I dug a large pit ( got my needed top soil), threw the slate scraps in the hole and then put my wood racks on top of the filled hole. Good drainage keeps the damp/mud off of the bottom of the wood stack and no unslighty piles of scrap for the wife to comment daily on. | ||
| Old_school (Old_school) Senior Member Username: Old_school Post Number: 499 Registered: 01-2009 |
Broken slate also makes good fill! | ||
| Wernerapnj (Wernerapnj) New member Username: Wernerapnj Post Number: 8 Registered: 08-2010 |
I was thinking the same thing - keep the 'solid' pieces for projects/art/birdhouses...etc Most of it is crumbling and flaking... I un-expertly identify them as black PA with a diagonal vein through them. Ribbon Slate from what I've read. My guess is using it as ground cover will keep the weeds from growing, allow water to pass through and look interesting. I generally I like to re-purpose anything. | ||
| Blue_sky_roofing (Blue_sky_roofing) Intermediate Member Username: Blue_sky_roofing Post Number: 34 Registered: 05-2010 |
Artists like them for their paintings. I've got pieces set aside just for that, but they must be pieces that the surface is not 'flaking' off. I can easily get 25 cents for them; just a little extra pocket change. Some artists even grind into the slate (thicker ones) to give their paintings 'depth' - awesome! I don't see any problems though with driveway material - as long as there is no nails in them  ...it is rock after all. | ||
| Wernerapnj (Wernerapnj) New member Username: Wernerapnj Post Number: 7 Registered: 08-2010 |
Along with the batch of 'good' slate I was given I have the opportunity to take a mixed batch of material that is mostly broken/defective. After culling out the good pieces I'm thinking the leftovers would make a fine ground cover along the lines of 'dirty stone' or gravel. Any major downside to doing that? |
