watglen
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2009
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- 1,314
- Location
- Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- Farmer, drainage and excavating contractor, Farm d
I am sick to death of my muddy driveway. Am looking for ideas on how to fix it.
My farmyard is typical gravel over sand over clay. Pretty typical in these parts. For reasons i don't understand, the mud somehow comes up through the gravel and you wind up with more mud than stone. Its fine when its dry, but its a mess when it rains.
I got so ticked off, in 2005 i hired an ex to dig the whole area down a foot and haul it away, then bring in hundreds and hundreds of tons on granular "A' i think to fill and grade. It only took 3 years and it was back the way it was!
So what am i supposed to do besides concrete the whole thing!
I was thinking of digging it all up again, laying down geotextile or something, screening the gravel out of the spoils and re-laying those down, then fill with more new gravel.
Any other suggestions?
By the way, its not just my farm yard, my road is a total mudbath when it rains, and not too long ago the road department put down about a foot of gravel. It only takes a few years and its like it was never done.
:beatsme
My farmyard is typical gravel over sand over clay. Pretty typical in these parts. For reasons i don't understand, the mud somehow comes up through the gravel and you wind up with more mud than stone. Its fine when its dry, but its a mess when it rains.
I got so ticked off, in 2005 i hired an ex to dig the whole area down a foot and haul it away, then bring in hundreds and hundreds of tons on granular "A' i think to fill and grade. It only took 3 years and it was back the way it was!
So what am i supposed to do besides concrete the whole thing!
I was thinking of digging it all up again, laying down geotextile or something, screening the gravel out of the spoils and re-laying those down, then fill with more new gravel.
Any other suggestions?
By the way, its not just my farm yard, my road is a total mudbath when it rains, and not too long ago the road department put down about a foot of gravel. It only takes a few years and its like it was never done.
:beatsme