Temporary driveway

Abstract

A temporary driveway for new home construction includes one or more removable pre-cast planks. The pre-cast planks are constructed of reinforced pre-cast concrete and are sized to accommodate the passage of vehicles over their surface. The reinforcement is in the form of a row of pre-stressed cables adjacent the top surface and the bottom surface of the plank. Four lift inserts are recessed into the top surface of the plank near each of the corners of the plank to balance the load during lifting. The pre-cast planks are lifted with a standard lifting rig such as a boom crane attached to the lift inserts. The pre-cast planks are transported to a construction site, lifted from the transport vehicle by a standard lifting rig, and placed in a desired location at a new home construction site. Several pre-cast planks are placed end-to-end to form the temporary driveway. When the temporary driveway is no longer needed, the pre-cast planks are lifted and transported away from the construction site.

1 . A method for constructing a temporary driveway comprising the steps of: 
 preparing a location at a job site as a temporary driveway location;    transporting at least two pre-cast planks to the location;    successively positioning each plank adjacent each other at the location to form a temporary driveway; and    subsequently removing the pre-cast planks substantially intact from the location and transporting the removed pre-cast planks to another location for a temporary driveway.    
   
   
       2 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 1 , wherein the step of transporting includes loading the pre-cast planks onto a hauling vehicle and unloading the planks from the vehicle at the job site.  
   
   
       3 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 1 , wherein the step of successively positioning each plank includes lifting each plank with the plank substantially horizontal and lowering the horizontally positioned plank onto the location.  
   
   
       4 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 1 , wherein the step of preparing a location includes at least rough grading the location to form a driveway.  
   
   
       5 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 1  in which each pre-cast plank has a plurality of lifting elements embedded within the plank and the step of successively positioning includes engaging the lifting elements.  
   
   
       6 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 1 , wherein the pre-cast planks are formed of concrete.  
   
   
       7 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 6 , wherein the concrete is portland cement concrete.  
   
   
       8 . The method for constructing a temporary driveway of  claim 6 , wherein the concrete is polymer concrete.  
   
   
       9 - 25 . (canceled)  
   
   
       26 . The method of  claim 8 , wherein the polymer concrete comprises a polymer binder and a filler.  
   
   
       27 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein said filler comprises at least one recyclable material.  
   
   
       28 . The method of  claim 27 , wherein said at least one recyclable material comprises waste rubber particles.  
   
   
       29 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the polymer concrete is reinforced with a fibrous material distributed throughout the polymer concrete.  
   
   
       30 . The method of  claim 29 , wherein said fibrous material is fiberglass.