sanmigmike
Bronze Member
Neighbor\'s road repair...
Well, here I am in wet Oregon with a new L3830 with a combination loader bucket and 72" box blade. Neighbor saw the new tractor and wants us (me) to fix his gravel road.
There are some parts of it that are so bad that the newspaper guy will not drive on it. There seems to be some gravel somewhere, I brought some up playing with the blade on my road. But there are no traces on his drive until you get below the surface. The potholes get up to almost four feet in dia. and about eight inches deep. Right now full of water. So many holes that in some areas you just have to chose which ones to hit and which ones to avoid, you cannot miss them all!
Reading here it seems as if I will not be able to do much if anything until it is not so wet. If I read things right I will need to scrape or box blade or use the scarifiers to "remove" the pot holes and then big gravel and then smaller and then smaller to lock things. Am I missing something?
Also, how will I be able to get a crown on the road?
My drive has river run, smooth rock about three inches plus on it with it sinking into the dirt (amost gone in some areas). Smooth that and then medium and then smaller to lock things?
The road in front of my place has a little gravel left on top and when I scraped at it I got a fair amount of three quarter to one inch stuff. I think I read something about using the box blade to turn it and get the gravel back up on top? Should I get a rake and or a back blade?
My wife wants to know if we start to dress this mess with rock, will it all just sink-in because of the wetness of the base?
Any ideas and or suggestions will be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael
Well, here I am in wet Oregon with a new L3830 with a combination loader bucket and 72" box blade. Neighbor saw the new tractor and wants us (me) to fix his gravel road.
There are some parts of it that are so bad that the newspaper guy will not drive on it. There seems to be some gravel somewhere, I brought some up playing with the blade on my road. But there are no traces on his drive until you get below the surface. The potholes get up to almost four feet in dia. and about eight inches deep. Right now full of water. So many holes that in some areas you just have to chose which ones to hit and which ones to avoid, you cannot miss them all!
Reading here it seems as if I will not be able to do much if anything until it is not so wet. If I read things right I will need to scrape or box blade or use the scarifiers to "remove" the pot holes and then big gravel and then smaller and then smaller to lock things. Am I missing something?
Also, how will I be able to get a crown on the road?
My drive has river run, smooth rock about three inches plus on it with it sinking into the dirt (amost gone in some areas). Smooth that and then medium and then smaller to lock things?
The road in front of my place has a little gravel left on top and when I scraped at it I got a fair amount of three quarter to one inch stuff. I think I read something about using the box blade to turn it and get the gravel back up on top? Should I get a rake and or a back blade?
My wife wants to know if we start to dress this mess with rock, will it all just sink-in because of the wetness of the base?
Any ideas and or suggestions will be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael