Great job, we used the fabric on our road years ago, and it made a huge difference. The next road up from ours is maintained by the town, has no fabric, and looks like shit during mud season.
Wish we had soil like you guys that doesn’t expand and contract...all of our roads are cored out and rocked with 4” then 3/4. 2-3’ of rock opposed to 6-8”. Good old Oregon black sticky for us...
Curious as to how this is holding up 3 years later? It looks like you just used 3/4" minus for the entire driveway? Looking at a property, and we would need to build a 1/4 mile long driveway similar to this to reach the house location.
Question from a fellow road builder. Got a private dirt road behind my house which is about 6” below grade on each side. I would just cut out a ditch on both sides but the one side is not my property and it’s lined with trees. Only other option I can come up with is just to build up the road at this point. Before I do I didn’t know if you could think of any other options. FYI: I have access to any type of equipment I could possibly need. Love the videos and thanks for any input. Jone Sing
Nice job. My kind of project. Love having a dozer blade on the front of the maintainer on projects like that. Makes it real easy to spread the stone or unroll the fabric. Also, Chris, if you do a lot of these go to TSC or someplace similar and buy you a big disc blade, axle and bearing and build you a sod cutter or coulter to bolt on the end of your blade. Sure makes for a neat and pretty edge.,If you can drive straight, for less than a $100 bucks and an hours work. :)
Once you get some seat time in that grader you'll be signing your jobs with the edge of that blade lol. What I used to do was angle blade towards front tire, raise whole blade then drop one end down and dig a nice v-ditch where my edge was going to be, final pass fill it in.
What type of stone were you guys putting down and what type of fabric?, putting in my driveway in 2 weeks and I was planning on using a W200 woven geotextile for it, curious if you guys were using something similar or a stronger fabric. I have to remove about a foot of topsoil, looks like you guys didn't have quite as much.
Loving the new style man. Got a question for you, how would you suggest a 17/18 year old go about getting into running equipment? Not necessarily as a career but just a job to keep me going util I can start my own company in another field. I've run a fair number of machines in the past, so I know pretty well how to run some stuff.
I'm not an operator myself, but I would suggest just going into places with equipment and handing in your resume. Even if you start out as a labourer you might get a spot running equipment if you're a good worker.
+Nicholls & Sense it can range so much depending on the stone cost and how much it cost to get there it can easily be $15-20 a linear foot 10-12' wide
