ground help!

[jack707]

As you can see by the pic. I have clay and water to deal with. I plan to build and extend my wood shed and build a lean to for my tractor implements and a road so I cant get a delivery of more wood. My question is how can I put down rocks and road gravel after scraping the ground with my bucket? If I still have water? on the ground.

 

[12Bravo]

It looks like you are dealing with some of what I am dealing with on the left side of my driveway.

Suggestion and only my opinion:

If you have anywhere on the property that you can steal some dirt from, fill the holes where water sets and drive over it several times to pack it down. Then let settle for a few days and do it all over again. Once this is done and the water starts to shed away from where you plan to drive, have the rock delivered then and make a crown so the water will continue to shed. Use a large rock base 2-3" rock and smaller on top of that. The larger rock will settle into the clay, which is what happened for me. Clay once compacted will hold hard as long as it have rock in it. If it doesn't have rock in it, it will get slicker than snot!

:2cents:

 

[Ed of all trades]

You will have to build up not down. If you cut down and fill with stone you will never finish putting stine in there because it will be a place for the water to stand. I would plow a furrow on each side of the road throwing the dirt toward the center of the road and round up the road and then add stone. The worst part of my drive is where they cut down and added stone. It needs more now and has had way more than the rest. Ed

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Is the mud just from the thaw or is it a year round problem? 1foot of mud over frozen ground seems like a different problem then a permanently boggy spot.

 

[PILOON]

Also adding geotextile will help prevent the wet clay migration to the surface.
The textile acts similar to wearing snowshoes to walk on snow as it spreads loads but the main advantage is to prevent the wet clay from seeping up thru the crushed stone base.

Hint: old carpeting (if it is synthetic) can do the job of the geotextile in many cases.
But you also need to remove any larger rocks down to frost line as frost could heave them up and eventually out.

 

[jack707]

I have did a search and found out clay mixed with sand should help. Last year that spot had grass I had it dug up so I could run the line to my pole barn. Anyway that whole area is wet! there a swamp about 100' in the woods on that side! and a big hole about 30' across that fills with water at this time of year!.