Increased traffic on country road.

[Jstpssng]

sue the gps company.

we had problems with convoys of trucks using a back road we were on in Maine.
The state cops didn't care. Were hostile actually.
So we used gasoline and diesel pouring it across the road in several spots making redneck speed bumps. The convoys didn't approve.

My sister and BIL are having problems at their camp; posted limit is 25, people routinely do 45-50 on a narrow camp road which they have to cross to get to the water. It's a dead end road, but a lot of houses up beyond the pond.The selectmen won't do anything, nor will they allow him to put in speed bumps. It seems to be one of those deals where they will wait until somebody gets hurt of killed, then maybe act.
This was the family camp when we were growing up, and there were always kids, dogs, and bicycles out in the road.

Did I mention the posted speed limit is 25 mph?

 

[Raul-02]

nd there were always kids, dogs, and bicycles out in the road.

Pitch large rocks into the road by large I mean 8 - 10 inches diameter. Pitch 'em all over the place in a random pattern. The locals will drive around 'em the tourists will be horrified and turn around.
Could just lay 6" saplings across the road in several places.

 

[MossRoad]

Pitch large rocks into the road by large I mean 8 - 10 inches diameter. Pitch 'em all over the place in a random pattern. The locals will drive around 'em the tourists will be horrified and turn around.
Could just lay 6" saplings across the road in several places.

Good way to go to jail or at least get sued for causing injury or death.

 

[Eagle1]

Good way to go to jail or at least get sued for causing injury or death.

Well around here the county crew does that when they "grade" the road. Always leave 10" or bigger rocks all over the road. They also pull all the rock of the hills and leave just slick red clay until someone wrecks when it's wet. Then they drop some creek gravel back on the hills, like 8" minus. A few years ago they actually put down 1" minus and it was nice until their grader operator pushed most of it into the ditches 6 months later.

 

[claggstractors]

Well around here the county crew does that when they "grade" the road. Always leave 10" or bigger rocks all over the road. They also pull all the rock of the hills and leave just slick red clay until someone wrecks when it's wet. Then they drop some creek gravel back on the hills, like 8" minus. A few years ago they actually put down 1" minus and it was nice until their grader operator pushed most of it into the ditches 6 months later.

Sounds like our county grader operators went to the same class lol. Mine also runs the brushhog in our area and has managed to run over all the tinhorns and collapse most of them.

 

[Eagle1]

Yup was just out a month ago bending some up enough to work....

 

[Jstpssng]

Sounds like our county grader operators went to the same class lol. Mine also runs the brushhog in our area and has managed to run over all the tinhorns and collapse most of them.

OK, I'll show my ignorance. What is a "tinhorn"? I thought that it was a term that John Wayne used.

 

[claggstractors]

A corrugated metal culvert? Best way I could think to describe it otherwise.

 

[Jstpssng]

A corrugated metal culvert? Best way I could think to describe it otherwise.

Gotcha. I had envisioned something upright.

That's a battle I'm about to have again, as I am about to have a gravel road graded. the culvert is set well below the road surface; yet every year he takes a little bit off the top, and a little bit more off the top... after a few years he's grading the top of the culvert off. He's an experienced operator, it seems like he should know what he's doing.

 

[claggstractors]

At least your situation is hired out and you can correct it easily enough. County guys down here think everything between the fences is theirs even though the right of way is about half of that. Next time fences are replaced they are goin' to the right of way. We had pulled the fences back from it years ago, because county wanted to work on drainage but the people there have changed since then.