Gravel Driveway Do-Over Advice

[jack707]

I have a 1/4 mile drive and I went with road gravel.

 

[Egon]

Will the road slope away from the timber's?

 

[jadefox]

I have a 1/4 mile drive and I went with road gravel.

What's "road gravel"?

 

[jadefox]

Will the road slope away from the timber's?

No. This is on the downhill side, but there is very little slope.

 

[jack707]

Road gravel is a mix. Of stones, sand.clay and whatever else golds up good and packs tight.

 

[jadefox]

Having done dozens of rock driveways, we always grade the width you want plus 6" past the curb width whether it be wood or concrete . Spray the surface with pre-emergent, then we cover it with fabric like Mirafi 500x then place and compact the new rock on that. I not sure what rock materials or spec. numbers you have where you are located, here we would use class 4 on a residential driveway.

My readily available options are 3/8 crushed limestone, 3/8 natural peastone, 3/4 crushed limestone, 1" minus finish gravel, and reclaimed asphalt.

 

[jadefox]

Road gravel is a mix. Of stones, sand.clay and whatever else golds up good and packs tight.

Got it!

 

[LD1]

I have to assume your 3/8 crushed and 3/4" crushed stone options are uniform size and dont contain fines. (your 1" minus would have fines and pack well).

the stuff with fines and packs well is typically a "dusty" surface and tracks in on your boots. But packs in and once rained on a few times becomes like concrete.

The 3/4" and 3/8" stuff is not a compacting gravel, and is ever moving/loose. Nice for re-grading and maintaining, but sucks for plowing.

Based off the single pic, the drive dont look bad at all. If it was mine, I'd spray to kill the green stuff, give it a few weeks, then top dress the drive. Either LIGHTLY with the box blade/rippers, or with a landscape rake. If at that point, you so desire a top coat, Then top coat it with a THIN layer of whatever you choose.

I'd forgo the landscape timbers. Almost like they arent treated lumber, as they are usually rotten to nothing in just a few years. And really look like crap after a year or two.

 

[The Fred]

Pave it and be done with it! But then you won't be able to "play" with your tractor.

Regards, Fred

 

[bigtiller]

What LD1 said is exactly what I do. A 1.5 gallon weed sprayer with 3 oz. of Glyphosate (roundup) at 41% concentration works great. Walk a straight line spraying the edge on a calm day. Set up a string line if you need to, to help get that straight edge and forget about the wood boarder. I spray every month during the summer to keep the white rock from turning green.