Need driveway/road suggestions

[MODiesel]

Here's a quick & dirty explanation of chipsealing. Around here, most any asphalt paving company also does chipseal work, so I'd start there.

- Jay

 

[Egon]

Chip seal is not intended for a gravel road.

Get your culverts and ditches fixed up. You can place straw bales in the ditches to slow down the flow of water.

Gravel roads always need maintenance such as grading. That's just a fact of life. If the road has steep gradients it gets rough quickly in these areas from braking and from vehicles climbing up.

 

[MODiesel]

Chip seal is not intended for a gravel road.

Yet, that's exactly how the local counties convert gravel roads to hard paved surfaces. The process starts with adding some more gravel and smoothing the entire road. Then, they chipseal the road, and let traffic run over it for about a year or two. Generally, the following summer, they'll then come and asphalt over the chipseal surface.

The process works fine & has been done for many years around here, and I've even seen it done out in the Western states.

- Jay

 

[Egon]

They are not using chip seal as the final finished surface. At best they could call it a dust abatement coating.