Gravel Driveway Advice

[whynot162]

I was thinking about installing this on mine, I have ove 15% slope at one point. how often do you have to clean these out?
thanks

 

[MotorSeven]

Depends on how many leaves you have. The sand/silt just forms a 1/4th inch layer on the bottom and does not affect performance. Leaves will clog it some until they all quit dropping.
Also, if you are not careful when blade-ing the road you will scoop gravel in there.

 

[MotorSeven]

Here are the pic's of my trough....still working like a charm after a lot of rain(sorry it took so long):

 

[EddieWalker]

Interesting. I never seen that before or even thought about it. I can see where that would be a lot cheaper and easier then a culvert.

Eddie

 

[MotorSeven]

Eddie culverts work great as long as a crown is maintained. It's hard to tell from the pic, but that water break is just after a steep section & curve, then down another moderately steep section where the tractor sits. Water was getting in the wheel tracks after they compressed a tiny bit, running down the first section & actually making the turn to really take off down the last section. The water break completely negated the water effects making my maintenance job easier.