I have no real experience with any of it other than a few years ago the county was doing the "road cement" think around here. Didn't seem to last past the first freeze but maybe they were doing it wrong. They dumped it, spread it and let traffic pack it.
Couple of years ago they did a few stretches with reclaimed asphalt and that seems to be working well.
On my drive, a neighbor put river rock on it a few years ago and that lasted about 4 years with just a little bit of erosion. A few weeks ago another neighbor was going to do some work at a new home site close by and he said he would fix my drive while he was at it. When I came home that night, I had a nightmare in my driveway. He had "fixed" it, a lot, with a dozer and spread a load of gravel on it. But the gravel can better be described as small boulders. I can drive it with my truck but my wife has been having to drive through the front yard since the "incident".
Now I have to fix it and so far nave just made it worse. I need to do something but not sure exactly what. I just recently got a tractor and am new to actually doing anything with them. I can fix em', just never tried to work em'.
So far I have succeeded in making a bigger mess out of my drive....but I am learning. I have been trying to move the big rocks to the side and bring the small stuff to the center but I am just about the point where I think I might have to hire someone to come in and remove the stuff that was put down and do it right.
That's why I bought a tractor tho. I convinced my wife, and myself, that I could do it myself cheaper then have equipment to do all those other things around here. Now I'm thinking that maybe city boys and tractors don't mix well. Maybe I should stick to the wrenches and leave the dirt and gravel work to those who know what they are doing.
Of course if I was a rich man I would just have it paved.....
