the perfect gravel driveway

[CTyler]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'm working on a bike trail around the premiter of my property. )</font>

I'd like to do that on my propery as well, walking/bike trail. It will be later next year before getting to it though. There is alreay a trail that the Deere have made walking through the trees.

 

[have_blue]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There is already a trail that the Deere have made walking through the trees. )</font>

Just take a potshot at any green critters that wander on your land. Works for me! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Just kidding. That's an understandable error on this forum!

 

[CTyler]

LOL!!!....I had to re-read it about three times before figuring out what I did....DOhhhhh!!

 

[tractorchic]

My husband and I are having my cousin put in a gravel driveway through what was a top soil and grass trail on our property. It will circle around and connect to our existing driveway. We have sand and some clay that is all over our property. He is moving contents of pond he's digging to the new driveway and plans to cover with a rough gravel. It looks like a varieted size and almost like a crushed concrete. Will this work? Also wondering about digging a pond and retaining water in the same "soil". Thx! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[OkeeDon]

Not sure where you are, Tractorchic (you should fill out your profile), but here in Florida, we used the "dirt" excavated from the pond to raise our road 12". It was spread with a front end loader, then smoothed and compacted by running a dozer back and forth on it. I haven't put a top layer on it yet. The pond was finished about 6 months ago, and, while there are a few weeds growing up, the road is still really solid and well compacted. I put the word "dirt" in quotes because what we really have here is sand. When I get to it, the top layer will be shell rock, which is a sort of crushed limestone and sea shells that are dug from a pit about 90' deep, a sediment layer from back when Florida was under water. It serves the same purpose as gravel in other parts of the country; we have no rocks or gravel, here.


Attached is a picture of a part of the road.