Farm track regrading / stabilisation

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I have a contract farm client that suffered a disaster in the recent storms which caused significant damage to their farm track network - significant amount, couple of miles damaged / washed out by heavy rain

Can anyone recommend one of those companies that rotavate / crush / regrade existing material and stabilise please ?

Does it work well and what’s the approx cost / m ?

Midlands area
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
It’s road planing repairs over the last few years that have apparently caused the problem just washing our when it rained hard
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
It’s road planing repairs over the last few years that have apparently caused the problem just washing our when it rained hard
It is very important, to get the contractor to grade the track with a camber, either like the forestry tracks to either side, or from one side to the other, if it is laid like this, it will last forever, then get drivers to not drive up two "tramlines" but spread out where they dive, I know easier in a car than a tractor. I see so many roads that have been put in flat, which is a complete disaster
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
It is very important, to get the contractor to grade the track with a camber, either like the forestry tracks to either side, or from one side to the other, if it is laid like this, it will last forever, then get drivers to not drive up two "tramlines" but spread out where they dive, I know easier in a car than a tractor. I see so many roads that have been put in flat, which is a complete disaster
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
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Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
I have a contract farm client that suffered a disaster in the recent storms which caused significant damage to their farm track network - significant amount, couple of miles damaged / washed out by heavy rain

Can anyone recommend one of those companies that rotavate / crush / regrade existing material and stabilise please ?

Does it work well and what’s the approx cost / m ?

Midlands area

I was quoted £19,000 for a 280 mtr long farm track - not cheap.
 

Y Fan Wen

Member
Location
N W Snowdonia
It’s road planing repairs over the last few years that have apparently caused the problem just washing our when it rained hard
Our road has the problem that when the burn floods it overflows onto it. To stop it is a serious civil engineering job. I've found that graded 20-40mm stone knits together enough to retain its stability in all but the worst floods. The next size down doesn't work. I had to get some last winter as the pit had run out of stock.
 

farmerman

Member
Location
Leicestershire
We have interests in quarrys and majority of road planning now are recycled re add into the mix cheaper than buying bitumen. And fulfills a voulentry government obligation.

Last time I asked they had 18.000 ton in the stockpile.
 

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