New road what do you think - Making a farm road

[martin95]

I have bought an old rundown watermill which is situated at the bottom of a steep winding farm track. The track seems to have a good foundation but when we get heavy rain the track acts as a dry river bed and water cascades down the track washing it away. I intended to divert the water in to a gulley and have started that job. However this track is quite long and i could not afford to concrete it. I had thought of buying reuseable concrete sleepers to edge the track and then in fill, about 9inches of road plannings from Tarmac and then using a wacker plate compact the lot. What do you think. Any advice would be welcomed

Thanks
Martin

[Tony McC]

Road plannings will wash away as the unpredictable grading range can't guarantee sufficient fines to bind everything. If you used a double-drum vibrating roller there's a chance you'd get a better 'bind' than you would with a plate compactor, but I;d still be reluctant to use planings on a steep trackway. You'd be much better off using, say, 150mm of 100mm crusher run topped with 100mm of 40mm crusher run or DTp1, if the budget can stretch that far.