Driveway Marker

[truckdiagnostics]

Don't know what everyone else is using but this is what I found works best for me.

It is 1/2 inch rebar 5' long, buy it in 20' lengths, it is in the ground about a foot. On top is clear soda bottle with reflective tape around the out side. I like the rebar, because you can hit it, it bends over then you can just bend it back. Also, when it goes into the ground if you hit something it is not a big deal.
Well after fifteen years of pounding them in final got smart.

Around here the soil is clay with rocks, sliding the rebar in the tube keeps it from bending and controls the depth. Only issue is need someone needs to load the rebar. sure is better than pounding them in.

 

[oldpilgrim]

I know where my driveway is. I haven't forgotten where it is in over 20 years. I don't need markers. I have it's location memorized.

 

[Will_C]

I know where my driveway is also, but they have a way of moving when it is 15 degrees, 5:00 am and you are plowing 2' of blowing snow!

Will

 

[kevinwak]

Don't know what everyone else is using but this is what I found works best for me. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/snow-removal/445935-driveway-marker-imag0227-jpg"/> It is 1/2 inch rebar 5' long, buy it in 20' lengths, it is in the ground about a foot. On top is clear soda bottle with reflective tape around the out side. I like the rebar, because you can hit it, it bends over then you can just bend it back. Also, when it goes into the ground if you hit something it is not a big deal. Well after fifteen years of pounding them in final got smart. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/snow-removal/445936-driveway-marker-imag0518-jpg"/> Around here the soil is clay with rocks, sliding the rebar in the tube keeps it from bending and controls the depth. Only issue is need someone needs to load the rebar. sure is better than pounding them in.

the rebar is a great idea. I have probably spent near $80 on reflective markers from the hardware store, and I only expect to get a year or two of life out of them. I think I will built some for life out of rebar! Another way to drive into hard and or frozen ground that I see surveyors do around here is to drill a hole. Get a long auger bit of a diameter just smaller then the rebar and drill a hole and then tap the rebar in.

 

[Rustyferrious]

I use the 5/16" fiberglass rods from Lowes. $2.00 each, last forever. I pound them in with a length of 1/2 iron pipe with a cap on the end. place point of rod on ground, slide pipe over the top. 4 whacks, done. 20 rods took less than 15 minutes today. easy peasy. Your re-bar system is very heavy duty, but kinda looks like something the gov would do to make a simple job complicated and expensive. IMHO.

I also know where my driveway is too, but the wife????????? eh, I wonder.

 

[3930dave]

My driveways are well defined by big hedges. I added strips of hi-viz tape to the gate posts on the main one a number of years back...... a friend of mine was showing up here around 1:00am after pulling a 20' trailer across the continent, so it seemed a prudent addition....

Weather/visibility can be hard to control..... same for who is using the driveway, esp. w/o a gate. Deep ditches around here, and I've seen plenty of "just turning around" vehicles end up in them.

I wasn't home at the time, but years ago a furniture delivery truck driver managed to lay the truck down on its' side in the ditch in front of a house I owned in Eastern Ontario. Nobody hurt, and it was the biggest excitement on the street in some time.

With good visibility, level ground and no ditches you may not really need markers, but for many of us it is a help esp. when city folk happen by....

Typing this.... reminds me of my uncle talking about having to get the tractor out years ago, when a couple of young women tried to turn their car around in the middle of his farm lane. He had to pull them out of his ditch on the side of the lane..... nobody born in the countryside would have attempted to make that U turn.

Rgds, D.

 

[Ed of all trades]

I use the store bought ones. Had them for 5 or 6 years and they are as good as new. Ed

 

[johnems]

I have fond this site and their products are top notch and chapter then what I can get locally.

https://discountsnowstakes.com/

Thanks John

 

[skyhook]

I do about the same as the rebar except I put about a foot of old rubber hose painted orange instead of the bottle.

 

[coobie]

I know where my driveway is. I haven't forgotten where it is in over 20 years. I don't need markers. I have it's location memorized.

With my old eyes and snow & wind blowing 40 mph its hard for me to find the edges of my driveway while plowing snow at night.OP good idea on the rebar.