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For a long time there's been a de facto path down this hill from the house through the new arbors (the path has been in use for 30 years, the arbors are new this summer).
I take the tractor up or down a couple times a week; less often a lawn tractor, and there's some foot traffic.
Currently there's patchy vegetation over red clay. It's very dry here six months a year, and we get fairly wet in the winter.
I'm considering the best way to make it a more official and somewhat better functioning pathway; something smoother and better traction in the winter.
A major consideration is to make sure I don't increase erosion - there's surprisingly none showing but then I haven't cut into the ground there either.
I have a back blade that I'll likely use to make a hopefully consistent smooth path. The main question is what to put on it afterwards - and how to keep it there? I could see a thin layer of 3/4" that would embed itself in the clay surface, but it seems that given the slope much more would likely end up at the bottom of the hill.
Note that only the very surface of the clay on the hill gets at all soft when wet; the tractor has never made ruts though the tires sometimes slip a bit it it's really wet.
I take the tractor up or down a couple times a week; less often a lawn tractor, and there's some foot traffic.
Currently there's patchy vegetation over red clay. It's very dry here six months a year, and we get fairly wet in the winter.
I'm considering the best way to make it a more official and somewhat better functioning pathway; something smoother and better traction in the winter.
A major consideration is to make sure I don't increase erosion - there's surprisingly none showing but then I haven't cut into the ground there either.
I have a back blade that I'll likely use to make a hopefully consistent smooth path. The main question is what to put on it afterwards - and how to keep it there? I could see a thin layer of 3/4" that would embed itself in the clay surface, but it seems that given the slope much more would likely end up at the bottom of the hill.
Note that only the very surface of the clay on the hill gets at all soft when wet; the tractor has never made ruts though the tires sometimes slip a bit it it's really wet.
