Rockbadchild
Veteran Member
4'' minimum of crush gravel 3/4'' minus... to cut cost you could do a layer of sand underneath the gravel.
well not true, to one extreme to the next but organic matter under a road always moves one day or the other fabric or not … now in your case you do what you have to do to make a pad to retain material and elevate the road but you will always have to touch up that section. Don’t give me wrong i would’ve done the same thing to go through a swamp.I built a driveway through a swamp that was basicly a clay bowl. Road fabric and drainage ditches on each side is your friend. Dont bother scraping off the topsoil, road fabric dosnt care what its on.
How long a driveway holds up depends alot on what and how often its driven on.
My driveway through the swamp is a corduroy road with enough clay from the ditches to cover the logs, then road fabric and 4-6in of crusher run. I have had a 20,000lb gravel truck on it with no issues. I did this all with a 3,500lb micro EX and its front blade.
Depends what's driven on it. A road is going to hold up alot better to daily traffic of a honda civic vs daily traffic of a cement truck.well not true, to one extreme to the next but organic matter under a road always moves one day or the other fabric or not … now in your case you do what you have to do to make a pad to retain material and elevate the road but you will always have to touch up that section. Don’t give me wrong i would’ve done the same thing to go through a swamp.
how well a driveway holds depend on the material it is built with.