Farm Avenues

Peter B

I live where the house is located about 1/2 a mile off the road.

We sell produce from the house so we have a bit of traffic on the avenue. We have a horrendous time filling potholes and keeping the avenue in good shape.

After every rain shower the material gets washed out of the potholes or more potholes created around the filling.

Does anyone have any idea what's the best way to keep the avenue in good nic?

Victor

Fill potholes, compact content, fill potholes, compact content, fill potholes, compact content, then add a wearing course of asphalt (tarmacadam doesn't cut it on anything bu low usage areas like private driveways and foot / cycle paths).

Dking

we have a drive way about 1 km long, about 2 years ago we got two layers of clays {type of gravel rolled it and compacted it level ,
however at the corners it seem to cut up with trailers turning so we put a good slope into the corner rolled and compacted then tarred and chipped it twice,
not a bother since.

leitrim lad

4 or 5 lorry loads of concrete and leave expansion joints in it ,with a nice brush finish, and trowelled edges,

same finish as a footpath, lovely lifetime job,and also will give grip in bad weather, but use fairly strong concrete, 4-6 inches thick

and remember with a road no matter how deer of stuff you put into it ,if its built on soft ground it will always boil up,

so its cheaper in the long run to do it right

snowman707

leitrim lad wrote: »

4 or 5 lorry loads of concrete and leave expansion joints in it ,with a nice brush finish, and trowelled edges,

same finish as a footpath, lovely lifetime job,and also will give grip in bad weather, but use fairly strong concrete, 4-6 inches thick

Jaysus ye must have big lorries in Leitrim,!!

lets say the road is 10 feet wide & 1/2 mile long with 5 ins. thick it would take in excess of 300 cu.mtr.s of ready mix.

lanod2407

A more primitve but non-permanent solution from me -- I run the hydraulic back-box (at a slight angle with the edge level to the ground) up and down the avenue every few months to level it out. Gets a lot of potholes esp when it rains and filling them only adds more material. While it's not a permanent solution it is effective, and the need to repeat the activity is offset by the low cost!

highway-man

you could try speaking to a road milling company and asking them for plannings off the roads goming into the summer now if we ever get good weather thats dry and hot compact them as much as you can and tar and chip it again. unless you are talking about twin axle milk lorries and stuff which would only mean a good macadam base and a marshall asphalt but any job that is going to withstand the job you are talking about is only going to work with a hard pavement construction, hat county do you live in