Fixing a logging road

[Woody65]

Thanks. We had torrential downpours yesterday with flash flood warnings. The road was dry with no issues. The high side had waterfalls coming out of the hillside but all the water went into the trench and through the pipe to the other side.

 

[wmonroe]

It's nice when a plan comes together like that.

 

[vtsnowedin]

HSlogger, thanks for the response.
We tried to get the 3" minus but the person at the gravel pit told us that theirs had a lot of fines in it at the moment. So, my neighbor, who is an excavator, stated that we could use the cobble and top it off with crusher run. It was a bit of an emergency to get it done. But I know,from reading many posts here, is to use the chunky rock (3 " minus) with edges as a base and top with smaller material ( crusher run or 3/4 minus) so it locks together. This road is temporarily for vehicles and then will only be used by quads and tractors occasionally. I was hoping that whatever water doesn't make it into the pipe can travel through the cobble to the low side without washing out the road. It is not a river of water but a slow steady trickle coming down the hillside underground during wet times.

I second your neighbors opinion. While fractured rock of the same size would be ideal what you have there is pretty darn good and chinked as you have it with some fine crusher run will make a good road that will last for years.