alternative driveway ideas

we have to have a driveway so I dont have to ask the neighbors to pul my truck out of the mud/ clay every time I pull up oin the property. When its not wet or barely wet we have no problems but when it downpours we get stuck. lol

Make sure you use geotextile fabric under whatever type of aggregate you finally choose.

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Ours is "crusher run". Much less expensive than gravel, compacts into an almost cement-like surface. Lime can stabilize soil that tends towards mud.

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wet clay is going to be a real problem, particulary after a good hard freeze and thaw. Chocolate pudding comes to mind. In our area we use #3s for a base coat, about six inches worth. Once you drive over that enough to get it squished down, a few inches of dense grade makes a good finish. Creek gravel is cheeper, but its really difficult to build the base up with it.

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I cant see why gravel is that high? Can you give me your location? I wor with a network of aggregate companies and can get aggregate depending on location. Road millings will need a base material and just about anything else. Your soil will also have alot of bering on it to. I just redid road for a family that made the mistake of digging out their road bed. The removed the topsoild but didnt haul in any clay to build up the roads base. they took and added grvel to this. It looked good at first but it was a mess wen it rained as the water seeped into the gravel. We moved over a road widt h and built up the road bed and used a good clay grved on top of it. Gravel here is about 3.55 a yard and crushed lime stone is about 8.00 One part was on some unstable ground so we put down 3 inch crushed stone and compacted it in and then put clay on top and then our gravel.


I would also recomend geotextile to seperate the base from existing stone to. Check with the county they will haul material here fro drivewys if you purchase the materials. In SC in the late 60's and early 70's dad said that most folks used the tabs removed from shingles in a shingle plant and dumped out on the gound and run over in the sun made them bond together. It mad e a fiar parking lot cover. Later he imported crushed stone by the rail car from this area. He used it for his business installing bill boards and lots. Made a ton of money at that business.

Carpet works great as a geotextile use in a wet area to.