Woods roads

Donald Lehman · Aug 6, 2014

Drew gravel to repair spring damage to my woods roads again today. Trouble is 5 yd. loads don't go far when you are filling 100-200 yard long axle deep ruts every 50 yards down the road. Roads haven't dried out any since spring either. At least with the ground so wet the rocks are easy to dis-lodge from the center of the roads and push into the deepest ruts. Jeff got stuck three different times with the 1850 yesterday while going after fence stakes. Got some work to do yet before snow flies.........Some fun!

showcrop · Aug 6, 2014

First step is to get the water out.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 7, 2014

Don,
I have a 3100# T5C terramite. I had a similar problem this spring. The thaw went out of the ground. My road was made using sand and gravel from my old gravel pit. The rock went down and the sand went up. I had a good 2 inches of mud. I used backhoe and pushed the mud to the lowest point in the road. I then went to the local gravel pit and bought the cheap #8 gravel. I would tail gate spread the gravel on the dry place. Then use the loader to push the gravel on top of the mud.

So if I were you, dump your gravel on the dry part of the road, then using a loader build the road up keeping the loader on the new grave as you go so you don't get stuck. Try to relocate some of the mud to fill to the low spots.

If I had really muddy deep ruts, I would get the biggest rock my loader could handle. like try #2 or #0 and work it in the mud. When working in mud with a loader, you will need a ballast weight behind the rear wheels to transfer weight off the front wheels, or you will get stuck.

Good luck.

Donald Lehman · Aug 7, 2014

George,

The old roads with good gravel bases weren't too bad. Only thing is, we cut a bunch of new roads out of the woods a couple of years ago. So basically they are billy goat trails. They held up okay until this spring. Yup, I'm gonna need gravel rock, sluice pipes, the whole nine yards. Got a pile of heavy clay fill from when the kid dug a celler and it's loaded with rocks. Gonna use some of that to mix in with the gravel, too. Got a local limestone quarry and sized stone is relatively cheap. Will be using some of that also. I'm working with a light crawler to level the gravel so that makes for less problems working the really wet stuff. But basically that's what i'm doing. Working off the new fill and pushing into the holes. One thing we also have plenty of around here is stones. This is going to be a multi-year project. Sort of work on it until I'm so sick of it I can't stand it and then do something else for a while.

Woods roads

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