Billc
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- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
- Messages
- 357
- Location
- Northwest Georgia
- Tractor
- Kubota 5400 4x4 with ROPS, canopy, 1001 loader, heavy duty quick release bucket with tooth bar, 280 Bush Hog brush cutter, 6' Bush Hog box blade, 6' Bush Hog plug aerator, 3 point hay spear, 6' Lands
Had a fella call me out to redo the drive that leads to his chicken houses. His drive is Georgia clay very thinly covered with #5 gravel (stone that is about 1 to 2 inches in size).
His problem is pot holes. He has about 10 good sized ones (3 to 10 feet long by 2 to 3 feet wide) and lots of small ones. These pot holes hold water most of the winter and makes for a bumpy, muddy ride. He wants the pot holes to go away. He has tried filling in the pot holes with gravel, but the gravel washes back out due to truck traffic. He has tractor-trailers come down the drive on a regurlar basis to drop-off or pick-up chickens, plus delivery of food and supplies to raise the chickens.
He wants me to box blade his drive. I don't think this will work. First, his dirt drive has been packed over the years and is hard as rock. The ripping shankes on my box blade won't make a dent in the drive so there is no way to loosen the soil in order to level it out.
I told him that his best bet is to get a load of crush and run dumped on the drive or to hire someone with a large tracked dozier to level it. Which is his best option?
As always, thanks for the advice.
Bill Cook
His problem is pot holes. He has about 10 good sized ones (3 to 10 feet long by 2 to 3 feet wide) and lots of small ones. These pot holes hold water most of the winter and makes for a bumpy, muddy ride. He wants the pot holes to go away. He has tried filling in the pot holes with gravel, but the gravel washes back out due to truck traffic. He has tractor-trailers come down the drive on a regurlar basis to drop-off or pick-up chickens, plus delivery of food and supplies to raise the chickens.
He wants me to box blade his drive. I don't think this will work. First, his dirt drive has been packed over the years and is hard as rock. The ripping shankes on my box blade won't make a dent in the drive so there is no way to loosen the soil in order to level it out.
I told him that his best bet is to get a load of crush and run dumped on the drive or to hire someone with a large tracked dozier to level it. Which is his best option?
As always, thanks for the advice.
Bill Cook