Gravel roads are like water lines. Everyone that has ever drank water is a water line expert, and everyone who has ever driven down a gravel road is an expert.
This is what I learned building roads on my farm, over the last 12 years.
Hire a good excavator that knows how to shoot a grade and get the water off the sides. Long straight down hill runs are going to washout, no matter what rock you use.
Invest in Geo cloth, Best money you will ever spend on a road.
Use a mix of stone sizes, odd shapes so it can pack together and lock in place.
We use crushed stone base, with dense grade on top. NO...#2's they are just too rough for my tastes, never smooth out. 57's are like marbles and just keep rolling around until the roll away.
Put the stone down wet, smooth it careful and rent a vibrating roller.
My roads are all pretty good after 10 years except a few low spots and one downhill ski slope.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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