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[BigBlue1]

Are folks talking about different things? 15' wide for the length of the driveway is pretty wide. 15' at the end flare at the street is small. 10-12' average width is probably normal around here. At the house side and street side they are wider, of course.

 

[4570Man]

Are folks talking about different things? 15' wide for the length of the driveway is pretty wide. 15' at the end flare at the street is small. 10-12' average width is probably normal around here. At the house side and street side they are wider, of course.

I was talking about the end flare. 15 ft isn’t very wide to turn a UPS truck into especially if it’s coming from the same side of the road as the driveway.

 

[Rockbadchild]

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Captioned as British military in India, 1940's.

Bruce

what is this camouflage ?

 

[bcp]

what is this camouflage ?

Pachydermoflage

Bruce

 

[LouNY]

Are folks talking about different things? 15' wide for the length of the driveway is pretty wide. 15' at the end flare at the street is small. 10-12' average width is probably normal around here. At the house side and street side they are wider, of course.

Most of my quarter mile driveway is in excess of 20 feet wide.

 

[California]

I'm a quarter mile in, on an easement that then goes another quarter mile to 2 more neighbors.

The easement was wide enough for cars to pass. Until the orchard on the left was sold, and a vineyard was planted and fenced, right out to his property line. Now with this slight hill you can't see someone coming. It's just luck if you don't meet someone.

A few times/year I have to back up into that space on the left. It used to be the roadway.

 

[ning]

I'm a quarter mile in, on an easement that then goes another quarter mile to 2 more neighbors.

The easement was wide enough for cars to pass. Until the orchard on the left was sold, and a vineyard was planted and fenced, right out to his property line. Now with this slight hill you can't see someone coming. It's just luck if you don't meet someone.

A few times/year I have to back up into that space on the left. It used to be the roadway.

Most easements specify the location and width of the easement, which can affect fence placement. Have you carefully read the easement spec? Just wondering if the fence was built on easement ground...

 

[California]

Most easements specify the location and width of the easement, which can affect fence placement. Have you carefully read the easement spec? Just wondering if the fence was built on easement ground...

We checked this when we saw the layout stakes for the fence. It turned out the easement, on the map recorded 1905, is only 16 ft wide starting a few feet behind the telephone poles. The vineyard guy had a recent professional survey and did put his fence on his own land. Part of the lane had encroached on his land for a century.

My farmhouse a quarter mile farther down the lane, is a few hundred feet into my orchard so this didn't hurt me. But a neighbor's farmhouse before you get to my place was built right next to the easement in about 1920. The recent owner there had to cut back his garden to make the easement passable. A couple of years later they were so discouraged that they sold and moved. That impacted me, he had been the person primarily responsible to maintain the lane with help from the rest of us. Now I've inherited this responsibility - as shown in the photo.

 

[WinterDeere]

 

[WinterDeere]

A 15 ft driveway is tiny. No wonder the delivery truck can’t make it.

Came back across this post, and had to laugh again. When 29 out of every 30 delivery drivers manage to get in and out without leaving the asphalt, I don't think the 30th should be blaming the driveway for their bad driving.

Moreover, we have had everything from cement trucks, to boom trucks (pumping cement up and over house), to 56k GVWR moving trucks (the longest single-body trucks), and even three semi tankers in this driveway for filling our swimming pool. All have made it in and out without leaving the asphalt, so I don't see why an idiot in a comparatively tiny FedEx delivery truck has so much trouble with it. Heck, our oil man manages it several times per month, and his truck is substantially larger than any FedEx or UPS truck.

We live on a very wide road, with only three houses past us to a dead-end, so basically a zero traffic situation. It's not as if they're rushed, or can't use the opposing lane, to make as wide a turn as they want. When I pull my tandem-axle trailer, my rig is both longer and wider than any delivery truck, yet I make it without even having to think much about it.

It's just lazy/bad driving when they go thru a garden or off the driveway into the lawn, because they're looking at their GPS for their next delivery, instead of watching where they're driving. No excuse, don't blame the road.