paulsharvey
Elite Member
Picture 1 and 3, both appear to me, that you could cut a weep hole to the outside, and add material. It's always hard to get perspective though pictures though.
Driveway help
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gengine
Platinum Member
If that is the case, elevating the road is not doing anything but being a temporary solution. You need to be looking at stripping, adding fabric and pit run, then putting road base back on.
jyoutz
Super Member
Actually we have elevated the road with just rock on many forest roads and these roads have held up for years. Fabric isn’t cost effective when you’re doing miles or thousands of feet of roads. Elevating and crowning the road is the key. Water will drain off the road.
paulsharvey
Elite Member
It is Far cheaper to cut a minor swale about 4 ft from the edge of the driving surface, ideally with an invert at or below the bottom of our base (so if we have 8" of base/rock, we want our swale atleast 8" deep), and then cut something like a 6-10% slope on our grassed shoulder. We can probably do that with our box blade, loader, whatever. If the ground adjacent to the roadbed, say, 6 ft away, is lower, than we can grade the shoulders to slope away without the swale.
A typical cross section on a paved road, is 2% cross from the center to the EOP, 6% from the EOP out about 4 ft; and if there is a ditch or swale; after our shoukder, we slope down at a 4:1 to the swale invert. Gravel/stabalized drives, might benefit from a bit more cross slope, like 3-6% from the crown out, but we also don't want to build velocity and wash our fines away.
A typical cross section on a paved road, is 2% cross from the center to the EOP, 6% from the EOP out about 4 ft; and if there is a ditch or swale; after our shoukder, we slope down at a 4:1 to the swale invert. Gravel/stabalized drives, might benefit from a bit more cross slope, like 3-6% from the crown out, but we also don't want to build velocity and wash our fines away.
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2diamondfarm
Bronze Member
I had a quote for that and it was $80,000
I can add some stone every year and just deal with it
jyoutz
Super Member
I would get a belly dump or two of rock spread along the road. Then use the rear blade on your tractor to shape it into a crown. That’s what I did. After a few loads, the road was elevated. Now it stays in good shape with just a few gradings each year. I do try to plow the snow so it doesn’t melt into the road bed. This shouldn’t cost more than $1500 or $2000 at the most.
paulsharvey
Elite Member
Wow, and honestly, your driveway not only looks better than my current drive, but also every drive I have ever lived at...