wet area

[yanmars]

I had thought of that. The right wood would take years to rot. Even have old concrete parking blocks. Not to far to the north of where I live they used trees like that to get through the Black Swamp years ago.

 

[EddieWalker]

To start, you want to use the biggest rock, or cement blocks that you can find. Think of the size of a cinder block. The goal is to create something solid that will not sink when you drive over it. Then build up on top of that will smaller rock. Something half the size of the cinder block, like a 6 to 9 inch rock. Then on top of that go with something that wont wash away, and lock together. A 4 inch road base, or even better, crushed concrete.

You might even try using fabric first. It might help stop the rock from sinking. It also might be a waste of time and money, but I don't see how it could hurt and it could help.

 

[3Ts]

I took my backhoe and dug out as much of the goo as I could. Used my bucket to push out more and away. Had reclaimed 14 inch plastic culvert and 40 plus concrete blocks. Put 15 feet of culvert in, put 10 blocks two high on each side of the culvert and will put in a single course beyond the double. Will put rebar and sackcrete in the voids and pavers on top of the culvert and then try to get all the dirt back on top the culvert so I do not crush it when I go over it.
Unsure how much dirt needs to go over the plastic culvert. Hopefully that will help drain the area until the dead ash branches and debris want to clog up the culvert. We will see how it works. It has to be better than what is there now.

Oklahoma forestry services says the amount of dirt over the culvert needs to be 1/2 the diameter of the culvert with a minimum of 12".

http://www.forestry.ok.gov/Websites/forestry/Images/documents/WaterQuality/Forestry%20Note,%20How%20to%20Install%20a%20Forest%20Road%20Culvert.pdf

 

[yanmars]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up with 2 layers high of cinder blocks filled with Sackrete and then pavers bridging the same to protect the plastic culvert. The blocks were on both sides of the culvert. Today I put back as much of the removed dirt as i could around and over the blocks etc. Maybe 6 inches of cover now. Will let it settle and try to add more. We shall see. Good for an ATV or UTV to cross, unsure of my tractor yet.

 

[airbiscuit]

Is this your problem with the ash trees?

 

[yanmars]

I am not sure whom you are asking but yes the emerald ash borer has killed our ash trees. First Chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, ash borer and gypsy moth near on oaks. What will be left? I also forgot the hickory beetle borer.

 

[GLyford]

After the woolly adelgid, the pine beetles, oak root rot, asian long horned beetle, I think the only thing left will be tree-of-heaven, autumn olive, bittersweet, poison ivy, sumac, burning bush, and probably willow and cottonwood. And maybe wild grape. With a touch of blackberries and multiflora thrown in.