Driveway was destroyed in rainstorm. Adding new drainage & water control. Steep hill gravel drive
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
- The driveway needed a total rework with the right heavy equipment.
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The water washing across the driveway was a big problem. The new changes will keep water from entering the driveway and helping rain that falls on the driveway will exit quickly and where we want it to.
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Love watching old equipment work.
Jonathan can do anything. Drive anything good. He is so talented
The dozer is amazing! Sure beats doing this job by hand with a shovel!!!
Your driveway reminds me of mine I had to deal with 20 years ago , same grade,. I had to make a ditch down to bedrock to overcome the torrent of water during big storms. There was always some washouts. I would put on the raincoat and take the camera out to video how mother nature was going to send the water. I bought a very old one bottom plow that I used up on the high fields to cut culverts and direct the water towards a small pond I dug for wildlife and act as a holding pond during big rain events. The plow I picked up for $20 at a farm estate auction. Just sharing my battles. I left that property, it was my womens at the time. Way to much work and so little return in my case. Good luck guys!
Wow, Jon is pretty talented on a mini excavator.
Something I have seen used for surface maintenance on both gravel surfaces, and dirt (track) surfaces, is old chain link fencing. Find a section of old chain link fencing, maybe 6-10 feet long when stretched out. Put a bar at one end, through the chain link (top-to-bottom if the fencing were standing up vertically). The entire setup then tows flat on the ground, and requires so little tow effort that your golf cart could be used, uphill or downhill.
The box blade is obviously necessary after major weather events, but in between major tune-ups, drag this piece of fencing around flat behind your golf cart, 4 wheeler, argo, lawn tractor, probably even a bicycle, and it just smooths out things.
Horse racing tracks and farmers use it for sweeping tracks, dirt parking lots, etc. Between races, it gets rid of ruts, hoof prints, etc. Not a replacement for the box blade and heavier equipment, just a supplemental thing that can be done by low-powered equipment.
Can also embed it under gravel layers to help keep gravel in place
Scott, you’ve done extremely well with the driveway. I’m also impressed with Grandpa Bulldozer. Strong little beast.
Scott thanks for sharing your life on YT. I always look forward to your content. Happy Holidays!
Thanks for watching the videos ;)
Has Jonathan worked with machinery in the past, he seems like he's got experience, or he's got natural ability?
Yes a mini-ex and backhoe he used to use a lot when he worked for a fiber optic company
Steep gravel driveways and stormwater don't mix. You've upgraded your equipment and approach, but nature is hard to fight. That waterboarding may be a natural result of repetitive heavy vehicle use over the surface. The last time I saw a bulldozer in action was when my driveway was cut in 32 years ago. That is a sweet piece of machinery. The mini-ex was the perfect companion for this job.
Now you will have to find a Detroit powered roller to complete your driveway maintenance fleet! Looks great
Scott, that dozer is the bomb! The older machines seem to go on forever! The late models that are computer dependent seem to have lots of issues even on the mechanical side! Great real life video!
It’s a good ol dozer. 70+ years old and a work horse
Oh, how I remember! I worked on a golf course maintenance crew one summer. Many times we attempted to solve drainage problems for gravel walks on the hills of the course, but the water always defeated us, to the lack of delight of the club pro and manager. Fortunately for me, his son was my companion in these efforts, and drew much of the acrimony. Had they paved those walks, we wouldn't have been having the issues. It's good to see the paving process begun for old Cert Hill!
I put my Jackery in the back of my car to finish charging my big tablet for use in displaying symphony music for a concert -- I had delayed charging and needed every erg.
Awesome improvements, Jonathan is great with that thing!!! The driveway is looking great! Thank you for sharing Scott, I always love ❤️ seeing your property improvements!!! :)
Maintaining gravel driveways.....and even land in general is a constant battle against Mother Nature.
Definitely need to stay ontop of it. As soon as you see water going where you don’t want it you need to fix it because next time it will be way worse. Never gets better on its own. ;)
One wonders if/when BGM finally decides to replace his iconic driveway with asphalt! It would take an all new road bed in addition to the asphalt. The estimate for that staggers the mind but, it would solve all the problems of the current arrangement.
Scott, you and Kelly have an amazing property.
Hi Scott, I can suggest the straw hay bails locked into the ground with stakes in a zigzag pattern to catch and slow the water and divert it while also mitigating the erosion
It would be great if If you could find a solid road maintainer/grader at a good price. As a child raised in the 50s-60s on the red clay roads of earst Texas, our roads were maintained and the bar ditches were cleaned twice yearly. Did such a good job that the school bus never missed a trip to pick up or deliver us children. It was only many years later that we graduated up to oil sand.
I know you probably don't want it, but 1 more dump truck full of the asphalt stuff put down may help with any busses needing extra traction to get up the hill
Scott, I think you need A Road Grader take a few passes up and down your road to create a crest on the center of the road to shed water into your ditches.
Just saying…
Wow, BGM Route 1 looks great!
I work for the forest service in Idaho, One of the ways they would do a rotation control on logging roads was to get to 2 / 12 and form it into a sea channel and Bury it into the road and get the water off to the downhill side of the road Maybe this would work for you.. Good luck
Erosion control
2×12 c Chanel
Looks GOOD your new ditching, WASH BOARD IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO ALL GRAVEL ROADS. It happens when vehicles travelling uphill keep the power on and the drive train suspensions starts to bounce. The only way to avoid this is to let off power and creep up the grade. You probably do not have that option. I think this is going to be something you will have to deal with. Bob
If you stop any water on top from making it to the drive way it will be a big plus on the amount going down your road
Wow. Absolutely fucking fascinating.
Riprap rock and roll!
Those washboard holes are the 1st symptom that most of the extra material that was used to build the road has vanished and you need to get more.
That upper dricpve part, where the dirt is four feet higher, you should consider put in some drainage pipes, or cutting some gaps to get the water drained out.
A club I belong to is near the bottom of a hill. Our gravel parking lot was washing out. It turns out the shoulder, on the street, needed to be graded down. It was only a couple of inches high.
Could you possibly put in a retention pond somewhere to bring the water into then slowly discharge it off the side further down the line?
After watching it, cut that ditche out to the left from the top of the hill looking down. You dont want it to go around that turn and diwn the hill. You want to get it out if that ditch. You did good with the rock check dam you put in to slow that water down.
The washboarding is from wheel hop. Once you get it it will keep getting worse over time.
cool clip, keep them coming
Don't drive down the middle, alternate sides up and down. It won't stop it, but it will slow it down.
Good work. You need to a big ass roller to tighten it up would help.
We have compacted it before. It helps
I keep suggesting this but you need to get that water off that road and out of those ditches and low it down. In your case this is hard. Your going to have to make some really borad based dips since you have those busses to get over them and your going to have to put check dama into those ditches since you don't have a way to turn the water off and around back on itself to slow it. I would cut that high side of that hill every 50ft or less on that hill to get turnouts.
The ditches are carrying the water away and keeping water from entering the driveway from the outside
@BusGreaseMonkey but if you don't slow that water in the ditch down it will errode I to hue gulleys that will wash your drive out. The goal is to get water off drive your correct but you also have to slow the velocity down you want as little soil movement with that water flow.
Edit: to be fair I'm only a few minutes through this video, I had to stop watching to do something else. So I'm not sure what you ended up doing here. I'll come back and watch it.
To keep water from gaining speed in the ditches and eroding everything in the process, I think that digging the side ditches a bit deeper and filling them in with #57 rock from a cement plant or quarry would slow down the water flow and prevent erosion. The water will still flow freely enough all the way down.
@BlackPill-pu4vi I'd put piles of surge every 25 foot or so. You can use hay bales but as steep as that is and how much water would need to get down fast it won't work here it would make actual dams and then flow back over the road.
Washboard is from slowing down or spreading up on gravel roadbed
Washboarding is caused by speeds over 10 mph on dirt or loose gravel surfaces. Since you have to maintain over that speed to charge up the hill with the busses, you are always going to have to box blade the road. Just don't create the dam situation on the sides anymore, let the far end of the box blade hang over the edge of the drain trench.
Now that you've got the trenches dug out with the mini ex, you'll be able to maintain the trench with your non-blade tilt bulldozer. Just drive it with one track down in the trench.
Do the little spruce trees next to the drive seed themselves?
Yes
Your one handy man to have on the team dozer backhoe tight spots hope he pays you enough
I hope comment wasn't to testy I am in hospital on chemotherapy 😅
With your lower culvit had that cause a dam effect on n the road and wouldn't pass compression test
So dug down on up hill side and knocked drain holes wide mesh then same crushed rock pattern your using on the top side drain
Once again on chemo only trying to give something to think about 😅
You may have to spray road tar on the area and pack it down
What make is the dozer?
Sounds like a 2 cylinder GM. Is it a Allis Chamlers?
Nice work.
Yes allis with 2-71
Looks like you're having too much fun.
15:05 crusher run ,,zero to 3/4 crush with finest to lock it in
If you buy an old quarry, expect issues.
It’s come a long way from when we bought the place.
Better ditches and a few culverts.
Called "washboarding", not "water boarding".
Line your ditches with grapefruit sized rocks as the water will erode the ditch. Dirt roads need a higher crown than paved to get the water off faster. Where water wants to cross the road to the other side is where culverts are needed. Steep park road with switchbacks near me were cut in 1909 and had high crown with drainage ditches lined with rocks. It was later paved by tar and chip (many layers over the years). Erosion was not much of a problem. They eventually regraded it all flat and put in curbs and better storm drains.
Right now i want the ditches to erode a bit to make them bigger. Then i’ll add more large rock
It’s hard to believe that 2-71 has that much grunt.
Respectfully stated… you need to consult a real Civil Engineer… what they will likely recommend will stun you, but like any big, overwhelming project… you break it down into smaller, manageable sections…. Then accomplish the first section.
Common sense won’t cure issues like yours with that much rise or fall.
Good luck.
I can see what the water is doing and where it’s going and why. I just never had the equipment to try and deal with it until now.
@ I’ll repeat, good luck and take pictures…🙃🤣👍
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