There’s one thing that’s for sure in the life of home improvement: Despite all the dull moments, there’s rarely a dull moment. It’s always something.
On a landscaping project we removed an unused portion of an asphalt (or macadam) driveway to make room for a play-set. And while the tools were basic to remove it—everything from angle grinder and worm drive to landscaping tools—it was hard work once the black-top was broken up.
The reason is that under your driveway is a steam-rolled layer stone dust (or “screening”) and a 6-ish inch layer of what I call “trap-rock”—essentially 4-ish inch stone aggregate.
Digging rocks is tough enough, but these rocks are smashed together by the steamroller. This interlocks them and makes them brutal to dislodge from each other and remove.
What’s more, there are a lot of them.
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