Plastic matting - road?

Orkneyboy

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Location

Orkney

• Apr 10, 2018

• #1

I am looking to lay a road down the side of a field.
I'm considering a plastic mat or cow track style road, but I have absolutely no idea about them at all so I'm looking for advice of where to look.
The road will not need to support a huge amount of weight during wet conditions, no more than a pickup. If it could support a tractor that's all the better.
I would consider two 1m wide strips that I could lay 400mm apart to make a 2.4m road, or a mesh type one that the grass grows up through.
Any advice / price examples appreciated. I'd imagine they'll not be cheap!

 

Grouse

Member

• Apr 11, 2018

• #2

We have just priced up SureGreen14mm mesh - it comes in 2m x 20m rolls and costs £245 per roll, plus the cost of the pegs to hold it down.

The benefits being no ground works are required you just cut the grass low, roll out and peg down and the grass grows through it and it becomes a load bearing surface.

The above was a price based on covering about 8 acres so maybe more for less quantity.

 

David.

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Mixed Farmer

Location

J11 M40

• Apr 11, 2018

• #3

 

pycoed

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Location

Pontarddulais, UK

• Apr 11, 2018

• #4

At £6 per sqm that comes out at £186,000 for the 8 acres?? Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a hovercraft?

 

Grouse

Member

• Apr 11, 2018

• #5

No, because the end use uses all 8 acres, for vehicles - it isn't wet, the surface just needs protecting and preventing from breaking up. Plus it's a very cheap option when compared to other surfaces, and doesn't need planning permission.

 

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sheepmatilda

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Location

Hertfordshire

• Apr 11, 2018

• #6

We have used this for national trust overflow car park and walking paths, good product do your homework because you can source it a lot cheeper!
You just need to know who makes it

 

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Doing it for the kids

Member

• Apr 11, 2018

• #7

sheepmatilda said:

We have used this for national trust overflow car park and walking paths, good product do your homework because you can source it a lot cheeper!
You just need to know who makes it

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Care to share!? I could use some roll!

 

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sheepmatilda

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Location

Hertfordshire

• Apr 11, 2018

• #8

Geosynthetic turf mesh

 

Sparkymark

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• Apr 12, 2018

• #9

Wouldn’t concrete railway sleepers be cheaper?

 

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Doing it for the kids

Member

• Apr 12, 2018

• #10

Would this be overkill for the immediate area around a horse field gateway?

 

suffolksmallholder

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Location

Suffolk

• Apr 12, 2018

• #11

I can recommend this product; http://www.terram.com/products/porous-plastic-pavers/bodpave-40-porous-grass-gravel-paving-grid.html
I've used it with great success. My 7.5 ton tracked excavator trundles over it without any issues & my tractor with 5 tons in the trailer has made many, many passes over in one spot without any problems. Providing you create a good sub-base & no more than 20mm of sharp sand on the over-layer you'll have success with this. I make a 50:50 mix of sharp sand & soil blended together on a sugar-beet-pad using sais 360.
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Grassman

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Location

Derbyshire

• Apr 12, 2018

• #12

Excellent quality sports surface available. Makes a good road

 

TripleSix

Member

Location

Helmsley, North Yorkshire

• Apr 15, 2018

• #13

You can get used Astroturf for free generally.
You just pay haulage.

 

suffolksmallholder

Member

Location

Suffolk

• Apr 15, 2018

• #14

TripleSix said:

You can get used Astroturf for free generally.
You just pay haulage.

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Mmmmm wont last a winter unless you are in Wensleydale!
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steveR

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Gods own County, Shropshire of course

• Apr 18, 2018

• #15

Grouse said:

We have just priced up SureGreen14mm mesh - it comes in 2m x 20m rolls and costs £245 per roll, plus the cost of the pegs to hold it down.

The benefits being no ground works are required you just cut the grass low, roll out and peg down and the grass grows through it and it becomes a load bearing surface.

The above was a price based on covering about 8 acres so maybe more for less quantity.

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I installed the 14mm mesh on a Parish Council car park next to a playground late last Summer. Hugely successful other than being slippy when we for the first 3-4 months. Zero issues from locals (and Council) in a Conservation area