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    Mass Rock Excavation

    michaeljones, I'm in the NJ/NYC area and I generally charge $10/ton or so just for crushing. An additional $4/ton or so to cut, haul and place. I don't do the blasting myself, so I have no numbers. It's too open ended of a question, though. NC has a varied geology, much like NJ does, so if...
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    95 modified compaction.

    Lozano, you can get 95% on ANY soil (even topsoil if someone is misguided enough to test it). But, like some of the posts suggest, this isn’t the whole story. Not even close. It doesn’t address soil STABILITY (rutting, etc.), an ‘adequate subgrade’, etc. As some of the prior posts suggest, a...

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