MarkV
Super Member
- Joined
- Apr 7, 2000
- Messages
- 5,670
- Location
- Cedartown, Ga and N. Ga mountains
- Tractor
- 1998 Kubota B21, 2005 Kubota L39
VWBill,
First I am no expert but here is how we have been doing it. Here in N. Georgia, the people who built my drive say to use #4 (1 1/2 - 2 1/2) on new cuts to hold the cut and make a sub base. Sounds like don't need that and have the start of a base already. Crusher run is the base material used around here on farm roads, all the way to 4 lanes. Now for the rub. I have been putting about 25 tons on a 400' drive every year for the past four years. We have a pretty good drive now and I have no idea how thick it is. When the wet season comes we still have red clay coming through in areas but not the sloppy mud we had at one time. What many do here is after a base of crusher run is built up they will top with a thin layer of "57" (1/2 to 1", no fines). The draw back to crusher run is the amount of rock dust you track into the house. The "57" stops that but will not lock together like crusher run.
This is how we are going at it, not to claim it is the right way, just the way we have been told. I have found that building a gravel drive is like potato salad, everyone has there own reciept./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
MarkV
First I am no expert but here is how we have been doing it. Here in N. Georgia, the people who built my drive say to use #4 (1 1/2 - 2 1/2) on new cuts to hold the cut and make a sub base. Sounds like don't need that and have the start of a base already. Crusher run is the base material used around here on farm roads, all the way to 4 lanes. Now for the rub. I have been putting about 25 tons on a 400' drive every year for the past four years. We have a pretty good drive now and I have no idea how thick it is. When the wet season comes we still have red clay coming through in areas but not the sloppy mud we had at one time. What many do here is after a base of crusher run is built up they will top with a thin layer of "57" (1/2 to 1", no fines). The draw back to crusher run is the amount of rock dust you track into the house. The "57" stops that but will not lock together like crusher run.
This is how we are going at it, not to claim it is the right way, just the way we have been told. I have found that building a gravel drive is like potato salad, everyone has there own reciept./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
MarkV