Corduroy Firewood Road -E181
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2023
- Hi everyone! We started another spur road on the woodlot to access another stand of hardwood. A major wet hole stopped us in our tracks and we thought we would try to corduroy road technique to get through it...
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At the mark of 11:18, that is the sound that reminds you why prefer have a brown dog than a white one... Lol! Slab wood is perfect for making a corduroy road. Much better than round logs. It's not going to roll or move with the pressure and traction of the wheels. There are also small voids that will remain with those slabs that will allow the water to escape towards the lower side too. Nice job, it will sure be good to run heavy equipment on. When I was young, I've seen a corduroy road, that extended for 1/2km, over a swamp. I was at my parents summer house, deep in the woods. It was built from the 50's and yet at that time, still very stable. Then a logging company came in and they had to built another road next to it and they spend numerous weeks with heavy machinery to sink down impressive amount of big rocks into the mud in order to build the base of their road. So to say, the corduroy method is indeed quick and effective! Especially when you have limited equipment and resources... including time! Thanks!
Thanks Joe. I bet that corduroy road at your parent's summer place would have been something to see as it was being built. We left a few boards in some of these slabs when we were sawing for 8x8s so they are excellent for this road repair. Almost through the wet hole this morning. Need to stop and make a fuel run for the machines and for myself and then back at it!
JASON YOU ARE A VERY COMPETENT PERSON. AN EXCELLENT SOLUTION USING THE SLAB WOOD.
Thanks James. The slab wood roads work!
Good job.I fixed a lot of roads with corduroy.
Seems to work pretty good! Back at it today to get through this wet spot. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello Jason, nice work, take care 👍🏼🇺🇸
Thanks guys! How are the firewood deliveries going?
That’s a great idea. Use up the slabs. I have a bunch of slabs here, which some have been cut up into firewood. I don’t have any wet spots like that to fix Jason. But a thought I had was, if a fella had a sorta steep
hill you wanted to travel over, you could build a ramp to help smooth it out to make it easier to travel over. 🤷🏻♂️maybe.
Any way, nice fix, have a great Sunday.
Great times in the Maritimes. 👍🏻
Thanks Noel! Sometimes the solution is right in front of me and I fail to see it. Anyways, I have a big pile of this stuff so I can see some wet spot repair work in my future! Finally some nice weather to work in...
@@OakMountainAcotts yes a nice week weather wise coming up. I’m still trying to finish splitting my Fiona wood.
Hehe. How many times have I said to my self, why didn’t I think of that before. !!!!
Have a great Sunday Jason.
Very good idea. Enjoyed the video. Lots of years ago, at least 40, my dad and one of his brothers done something simular and I remember telling them the logs would rot and make it worse. They told me that the logs would take a mighty long time to rot being 2 - 3 ft under dirt. Sure did save a lot dirt moving if we had brought in dirt. They were patching a wet hole in a hay field about a 20 - 30 ft. and they took it down 2 -3 ft. Nothing fancy but the next year of plowing the hole was nowhere to be seen. This method works as long as the wood is buried below your frost line.
Finished it yesterday. We will see if it stands the test of time!
Always enjoy your videos. I don't think you are too far away from where I am at in eastern Maine so a lot of the wood types, weather, and soil conditions etc... are similar. I've just started a RUclips channel so enjoy watching others with similar content - keep them coming!
Thanks for the note. We are in the Woodstock, NB area. I’ll check out your channel!
@@OakMountainAcotts I'm in Topsfield, Maine (20 miles east of McAdam NB) - not that far away!
@GoodWoodTJ208 I watched some of your videos last night. You guys have all the gear!
They did lots of that work in muskeg and marsh areas on the Alaska highway and northern Alberta back in the days I remember my grand dad an uncle George talking about it in the 1930s and 40’s
Laying a road like this is hard work!
Great idea and making of the water problem solving.
Where’s all the water coming from ?
Underground stuff or just natural draining ? Thnx…
We have had a tremendous amount of rain from August of last year to now. I've never seen the woods so wet... This area is naturally low so all of the rain water is running here and it is slow to dissipate. In a normal year, you would be able to drive right through this spot! Anyways, this seems to be the fix for it and the culvert will let the water get away as I continue to ditch the new road I am building. Thanks for watching!
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This works well!
Looks good bro, I would have gone a bit deeper with the culvert but not there to look at the landscape and grade,,, oh,, I believe it is called SLAT wood because they make carpentry slats with it,, not SLAB wood,,, might want to pull up a dictionary app for that one,,, cheers bro
I finished it today. I have about 2’ of compacted fill over the culvert now… just right! Not much of drop on the downhill side so couldn’t put the culvert much deeper… Not sure about slat wood… we will agree to disagree on that one!
I have the swamp, the slab wood, a pit with about the same dirt, small tractor with backhoe but no time 😂. I’m thinking I’ll but the slab wood a couple layers thick as it’s a black mud swamp and I can’t even walk across it so one layer will sink out of site for sure.
You are all set to start! I would lay one layer parallel to the road and the second layer perpendicular. It works great!
I've done this to some spots to get a tractor out of were it was stuck with logs
Works quite well!
I would put more wood on the road.
Probably not a bad idea. I snapped a piece this morning going over it with a full bucket of dirt. I'm almost through now but next time, maybe a couple of layers run perpendicular to one another would be better.
ah ah ah....like Joe said, dark dog better than white dog. Although the camera was pointed towards the dog, I could see Karen's eye get big when he went in the muddy water....lol. Great work and kills 2 birds with 1 stone...fix the road and get rid of some slab
Thanks Yves, it is working out pretty well. It is actually holding the weight of the backhoe with a full bucket of dirt this morning. I did break one slab but I just added another bucket load of fill at that spot and it is good to go. Amazing really the difference the slabs make. Ranger was worn out last night after our day in the woods!