Driveway woes...

Yup that sounds about right it costs us a lot to have our road graveled and we only get a few spots done as needed. Our road cost $5000.00 four years ago to do about ½ mile with about 3 to 4 inches of 3 inch stone and a thin layer of 1 ½ inch stone and a thin layer of crusher run. We now spend around $800 a year patching up the bad spots. As we cant afford to do it correctly.

And if you add the cost of repairing the road each year it is almost cheaper to do the big job right the first time and do the repair every 5 years or so. We did what we could afford to do.

Dave

We just priced a 17 yard dump load of chat (crushed limestone) at $250.00 here so your numbers dont seem too bad. Most of our various road beds are pretty hard except during the mud season (like right now) but we have a couple really soft spots we are digging out with the tractor and then filling with some of the rocks we grow on our farm and then we will top it with chat. 85 - 90% of the time the ground is so hard here it doesnt pay to spend a ton of money but the 15% its muddy requires 4wd to get to the back pasture...we just plan on living with it rather than dropping thousands.

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We are constantly getting potholes from trees dripping on our gravel road. Hubby and MIL go into together to get a truckload of "millings" from local pavement/asphalt companies that aren't too expensive. The millings eventually get solid from all the vehicles traveling over them. It lasts longer than just gravel and isn't washed out of the hole. Hope this helps. Reb