Grading driveway

[Maineagri]

Hey folks we have a 1mile long track to our yard and house.
Its big rubble underneath with road plannings on top. It’s becoming quite potholed now and while when it’s dry I can keep going and filling them in with more plannings, it’s just not lasting. I do have a 13 ton digger so I can quite easily go down and level it out but takes so long and still ends up the same after time.
i am looking for something I can put behind the tractor and drag down it every now and again to level it off again. What do people recommend? Something that’s not going to cost a small fortune.

 

[benny6910]

Can water get off it easily or does it have high cams on the sides? Any stone road needs to be able to shift the water off it quickly or it sits and makes more pot holes.

 

[Maineagri]

Can water get off it easily or does it have high cams on the sides? Any stone road needs to be able to shift the water off it quickly or it sits and makes more pot holes.

There is high side on one verge side. I was going to go down with the digger and pull it all off so the water can get off it quick rather than sit there

 

[Alchad]

Not directly answering your original question about grading, but as far as improving the effectiveness of using road plannings to fill potholes. “I’ve heard it said” that throwing a little red diesel on the plannings and wackering down can help. The diesel supposedly helping the plannings bind better.Obviously works better in the dry and when it’s warm.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I'd put a base down that packs better. You can get a shale round here that packs well and doesn't erode.

 

[Party Pete]

Cherry products do a sturdy looking one . Can’t see it being any better as the digger really though

 

[IOW91]

A farm near me has one of these made by Murray. Say it does an excellent job, at a decent speed. You can get a vibrating roller for the back of them aswell, to make a real decent job/save hiring in. Only thing to make sure of, is that you have the depth of road planings on top of the bigger stuff.

 

[PSQ]

Meri crusher type machine would possibly help to make the road metal more uniform, but it's definitely a contractors job for drier weather.

 

[Dave6170]

Murray Machinery

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[Yale]

Local haulier has used a barber green recently to lay a couple of hundred of tonne of stone along a driveway. Does a nice job apparently. Damn good roll after and it would be pretty smooth.

 

[Fendtbro]

If you can find a forestry contractor with a grader with a scarifier and a heavy roller that might be best bet for first crack at it. Tar plannings are pretty useless once mixed in with type 1 etc. Lose their sticky. First job grader rips gravel then pulls up as much as possible into middle of road. Then pushes as much soft dirt back as far as possible. Then digger lifts or pushes back all muck forming V ditch at same time. Grader then spreads good material back out with centre camber or cross fall. Roll it then watch everyone drive at 30 mph in exactly the same track boring a groove and throwing gravel everywhere.. Keep the water off it, make it wide enough to drive in on the left and out on the left. Keep the speed down and keep driving all over the whole surface. Car tyres will pack it far better than any roller.