Re: Driveway Material

Posted by JD Seller on February 17, 2018 at 20:16:06 from (208.126.196.24):

In Reply to: Driveway Material posted by John in La on February 17, 2018 at 16:52:54:

John I do not know how long your drive way is but you really do not have any base under any gravel you will put on it. The clay is good until it gets wet and then it gets soft. I also do not know what type of traffic your expecting to have on it. Car traffic is one thing while truck traffic is another. So I will guess lighter weight vehicle traffic.

Of the materials you listed the one I would like the best is the recycle asphalt if it is grindings. If it is milled/ground material it will be a smaller consistent size and not have larger clumps. The nice thing about it is with hot summer temperatures and sun shine it will stick back together pretty well. If you compact it and then get good hot weather it will fuse enough it will resist washing if you have many slopes/hills in your drive. Also it does not produce much dust.

The river gravel or dirt river gravel would be my last choice. The sand and natural round stones will not pack well. The gravel will stay loose unless it pushes into the clay base. It will push into the base worse than crushed rock too.

Crushed/recycled concrete can be good IF it is crushed and screened into a small enough size. You do not want anything larger than 1 inch as a finish on a drive way. They recycled the concrete on the road in front of my house. They used it as the base. It was 2 inch and smaller. Even rolled it would be a rough drive way.

Some thing for you to look into as well is ground fabric. Since your drive does not have a base of gravel and it seems like it is flat with the surrounding area so it can get wet at times. You would smooth an roll your existing drive put down the fabric and then cover that would the material of your choice. It keeps the gravel/material from sinking/mixing with the clay base. The cost is about $1 a liner foot for 12 foot wide material.

I used the fabric directly over compacted dirt in my cattle runs to and from the pasture fields. I covered it with 3-4 inches of 3/4 road rock(crushed 3/4 rock down to lime). It has lasted over ten years with little maintenance. Before that the gravel would be a muddy mess in less than a year or two at the most.

I will also advice to not go cheap. If you can not afford to fully do the job, either wait until you can or borrow to do it right. Doing a half way job will just be back to mud soon without much return on your money.

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