sanmigmike
Bronze Member
Have a young couple for neighbors and they are trying to get their drive in a bit better shape. It it on an easement, goes down from their house toward the west, turns 90 degrees to the south and goes on down to the paved road. The previous owners didn't take care of it in recent years. The drive has few issues. The area right before the paved road gets wet in winter and stays wet. Last winter he put a couple of loads of gravel there and they just sunk into the mud fairly quickly. He does have a culvert under his drive and there is a culvert under the paved main road but where his drive hits the paved road is a low spot for him and his neighbors on both sides, all the runoff heads there, then east by the paved road and then hits a culvert and runs under the paved road.
Playing with a box scraper for a bit I found a lot of gravel at the low point of the drive mixed in with the dirt, just like he said, a lot there, sunk in. Higher on the drive, close to where there is a 90 degree turn you could see where water had carved a little gully in part of the road, guided by large (head sized) rocks in the drive.
I think that he needs to get something down on the low area, old carpet or road fabric to stop or slow the gravel sinking into the ground when it gets wet. Also he needs to do something to keep the water from running down the road and get it off to the side.
Since I am no expert and open to suggestions on how to help him....help! Money is indeed an object here, or at least part of the problem.
Tried to post some pictures but everything I have seems to be too big.
Playing with a box scraper for a bit I found a lot of gravel at the low point of the drive mixed in with the dirt, just like he said, a lot there, sunk in. Higher on the drive, close to where there is a 90 degree turn you could see where water had carved a little gully in part of the road, guided by large (head sized) rocks in the drive.
I think that he needs to get something down on the low area, old carpet or road fabric to stop or slow the gravel sinking into the ground when it gets wet. Also he needs to do something to keep the water from running down the road and get it off to the side.
Since I am no expert and open to suggestions on how to help him....help! Money is indeed an object here, or at least part of the problem.
Tried to post some pictures but everything I have seems to be too big.