Building a Gravel Road

We're dealing with over a foot of mud on the road. We're trying to scrape that mostly off, to get to the hard stuff underneath, then tailgating 4-6 inches of rock on top of that. Its absolutely necessary to get this done before rains start. Otherwise I won’t be able to return here until spring.

[bmo]

I recommend throwing contractors fabric under the gravel. The fabric comes in rolls that are roughly 12.5 feet wide by 430 feet. It costs about a dollar a lineal foot, cheap for how well it works. The fabric keeps the mud and rock separated for the life of the road. It also prevents vegetation from growing through if the rock isn't that deep. I wouldn't even consider putting rock down for a driveway until I put down fabric, especially here in the Pacific Northwest.

[Wiredogrepair]

The way the weather chanel is talking you are right to go ahead and get your rock down. With flooding in the Southern Eastern States you will be getting more rain then you need in a couple of days If you would like you can ship some of that rain out here to California we could realy use it!

[TheEcoClimber]

A nice video. If I may, some criticism/ feedback:
The digger driver would do a much better job of scraping the mud if they were to use a scaping / grading bucket. A simple 2 minute job to change if the machine has quick hitch. You get a much more level finish and it is quicker too.
Question: The lorry driver has very small loads in it for the size of the lorry. I wonder why?? Both loads are really light.
It is so, so, so worth using a membrane over the whole scraped area, after u have clearing away the splodge/ mud. ( free membrane can be marquee or house carpet, but wool carpet is no good as it rots quick). Marquee and wedding tent hire companies landfill massive sections of carpet after each and every wedding ! We have picked up 3km in length from a local firm.
I didn't hear u explain what the trench is for? Maybe you mention it in another of your videos?
Cheers 4 making the films :)

[larryshulman]

fabric, fabric, fabric, and make sure height above side culverts to keep water flowing off it

[newtechomes]

Together with the feedback, an informative video.

[andythomson]

is the rock crushed? do you have to use crushed? like round stone is no good? won t lock together?

[dslynx]

Wow, so these videos are almost a year behind, you mentioned it was the middle of November.

[Bodgemiester]

Ha, just found this channel. I'm moving from the UK to upstate NY to live off grid. Small world

[JunkworksGarage]

my brother in law went threw this he finally had to get some sort of ridiculously expensive mesh because he was having to do this every year but it fixed the problem

[andrewbrenneman]

should have used road fabric under the gravel/rip rap. Mud wouldn't be engulfing the rip rap.

[fivelands]

Viewers want to be entertained, not preached at!!! The water need to run off the road, you can make boxes, where the water travel inside, heavy stuff need to be deposit where the wheel turn. I can see so much lumber, did any one think to put the lumber down, and drive over? Many, many years ago in Italy they used pipe, made in lumber, to transport water!!!

[imacrazyguy]

would have been smart to drop a binch of pit rock along the road.. then drop your gravel on that. i assume you found out ahortly after that the gravel will get absorbed into he mud shortly after :)

[mydick]

Tail Gating? We call it gate speading where I'm from. Tail Gating is riding someone's ass while driving.

[spudrubble]

Seen a lot of log roads built and they just put bigger rock in 8"+ then another layer of the smaller crushed rock.