How To Fix Potholes In Gravel Driveway- 1 Step You're Missing!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In this video, Mike makes a guest appearance to explain the important step many people miss when fixing potholes on a gravel driveway.
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Clearly, farming takes a lot of hard work and involves a wide variety of tasks that the non-farmer may not consider. A lot of times, as a farmer you have to be your own road maintenance crew. That's why we thought it'd be helpful to make a video on how to fix potholes on a gravel driveway.
In the general form, dirt driveways tend to be smaller in size compared to brick driveways or asphalt driveways. However, the dip in the road or driveway surface caused by potholes can be quite the nuisance. There are three simple steps that allow for easy filling and smoothing potholes on dirt and gravel driveways. Watch our video below to learn the best method for fixing a pothole on gravel driveways.
What causes a pothole? Most potholes on a dirt or gravel driveway are caused by simple water displacement. This water comes from groundwater as well as rainwater drainage issues. As the water changes temperature and thus expands and contracts, the aggregate in your gravel or dirt driveway will become displaced and create a compacted ring. That ring is the basis of a pothole.
Remember that potholes can not be fixed themselves, but can get larger and deeper all on their own. We recommend fixing the problem as soon as possible to save you and your vehicles some pain.
In this video, Mike is using a Ditch Witch. Now we are well aware that this is likely not the best tool you have on your farm for this job. When you have a skid steer or a tractor, there's not much use for a Ditch Witch! But that's what we're working with on our property. If nothing else, this shows you the variety of tools with which you can fix potholes.
Before you Start - Remove Debris From Potholes
Before tackling a pothole on your gravel driveway, remove any large loose stones or other debris that may cause damage to your machinery.
Step 1 - Break it Up
This is what most people overlook! You have to completely rip out and break up a pothole for it to not re-form once more water fills it up. You have to rip our the hardpan and actually create a much bigger hole. Remember that compacted ring we were talking about earlier? These firm edges has to be completely broken apart in order for the pothole to truly go away.
The area that you tear up needs to be at least double the size of the pothole itself. In the case of our video, Mike dug up an over 4x4" area to handle a 2x2" pothole. This is so the compaction can be completely dispersed. We recommend cross ripping- tear up the pothole one way, and then the other. Cut the edges of the hole straight down as much as possible.
Step 2- Fill it In
Step two is get the large pieces of aggregate broken up and compacted back into the are where the pothole used to be. Run the area over a few times to get the more coarse gravel back into place.
Step 3 - Level it Off
Lastly, pack in smaller aggregate to level off the area. We recommend using a really fine aggregate. In this example, we used granite dust. Be sure to use enough gravel to achieve your desired level of evenness across your driveway surface. Voila! One less pothole to be jostled by when you use your road.
It’s difficult to take excavation advice from a man in flip flops, but I appreciate the vid. Peace, my man. ✌️
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Most of us farmers rock the flops. lol
Drives my military family crazy.
Flip flops are for taking showers in prison…..only
@@JD2CYLINDERNUTjust cause you got nasty feet don’t take it out on the rest of us. 😉
I have been keeping up a mile if well traveled gravel road for 30 years. The easiest way to keep potholes away is to catch them when they are small and filll them with a shovel from the gravel that is on the side of the road so the potholes are now a bump and don't hold water. You can't have a pothole if you don't have standing water.
Good point!
When you tear it out get all the down to where the ground is normalized ( Undisturbed Hard pack/ No excess moisture ) and then pack in back in "in layers"... Look behind him at the side of that small hill, down low the dirt is still wet... (also on the left side where you can see where water has been standing) See where the moisture is coming into the sub base (The Hard pack) as long as nothing is done for the drainage of "That" water Those potholes Will return in That area of the road... Give that ground water some place to go (cut a drainage ditch) instead of soaking back under the road... Making it soft so that another pot hole will appear... Just a thought... Worked on dirt roads (road maintenance crew) daily for Ten plus years... Drove on dirt roads for a living for another 10+ years...
I always just dumped some two inch stone in the hole and after a couple rains it fills in around the stone to smooth it out and the pothole never comes back
I’m sending this to our county road & bridge department. Their version of fixing potholes is to drive around dumping a couple of shovels full of asphalt into the potholes and moving along. 😂
Yikes! haha
Never seen a machine like that in my lifetime🧐😳
Yeah, I was raised on a farm and had my own and the only thing I never saw or did was wear flip flops but hey times have changed I guess ! Thanks for the video though ! P.S. I don't suggest ya put up hay in them though ....
LOL. Point taken!!
Brilliant advice. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Should have steel capped flip flops! Road authorities do not know how to repair potholes. Best repair I saw was Hole full of water , patrol truck rolled up, premix asphalt shovelled in, truck rolled over it .Job done!!
Great commentary!
Thanks! Glad you liked the video.
Great content! Move the step by step!
Ain't never, ever seen a farmer wearing flip flops while working on a farm...😂
haha yeahhh we know it's not the best
Step one is to brush the surface, to get rid of the accumulated silt, that hampers the proper drainage of the surface😉
This is why it takes a few years for potholes to show up, but once they form, they can form everywhere. It is, because the conditions have changed. Reroll the clock, by not only losening and recompacting the surface on a schedule, but brushing off the silt beforehand.
Good tip, thanks for sharing!
*To Poultry Biosecurity* The one reason why your having potholes form is because you do not have any ditches dug on either side of your road. Dig ditches on either side and if possible and necessary both sides and make them deep enough, about 3-5 feet to allow the water to drain out and away and also allows for evaporation.
Thanks! Maybe we will get some ditches around here.
What about potholes that butt up to yard....skinny driveway. Fits one vehicle. Do you have to dig out in grass where it's humped up?
Good question! If you want it flat, you will have to do that. Same principles apply.
It will be forever hard to stop potholes on a flat gravel road as the water has no where to go so that each time a wheel hits the water the gravel is in effect sluiced to one side ready for the repeat. wheels should be on a high point with repeat travel at different points to stop uneven wear in which water can then accumulate leading to sluicing, and pothole formation. Driver training is then equally important.
Great info!
Why not put a drain pipe in an cover that?
I just drag something down the road about ten times with the quad. Way easier and tou can have a beer cause you have to go slow. The trick is not drive like an idiot and start the pot holes for starters.
Haha! Sounds awesome.
This was a very thorough and informative video, but I really love your flip flops.
lol thanks so much😅
Farmer in flip-flops. LOVE IT!!!
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f- ing flip - flops,, imagine that.. i bet he f"s with his hat on..
What is the song that was played? I like!!
Haha thanks! I think it is just some royalty-free music...
Still watching in 2024.
This safety slippers 😄
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@@PoultryBiosecurityIf i could get a greencard, to come from germany to texas or florida, i would build up my own truck company !! Here i failed cause of taxes, ragulations, health taxes, you name it ! I like your stile, just do it, if it works will show.
Thanks for saying so!@@captainnutzlos3816
Or a shorter version of this that I was told from a veteran equipment operator, "You have to dig a hole to fill it." Nice job there.
Haha nice! That's a good one.
Fuckin flip flops😂 you da man!
😂. Thanks 😅😅
I have a shovel 😳
We have a gravel driveway on a steep hill... We basically have two trenches running all the way down the drive.. would the same principal apply for fixing something like that?
It should be. Ideally the middle of your drive would have a crown in the middle that tapered off to the edges and to the trenches. Getting water to run off into the trenches so that they do not cause ruts in the drive is the critical point on steep slopes.
@@MikeUsrySouthland thank you! We will try that!
USA: is there a swimming pool? Ohio: yeah that one
Ohio jokes are not funny and jokes are dead like five months
Gots to get me some flip flops and fix my roads
I can't stand flip flops 😂 get er done
Gotta do what you gotta do!
Scarfires!!!
Dang all I have is a pick and a wheelbarrow. Def can't rock the flipflops on my job.
LOL good luck!
Next rainy day, 3 more pot holes in the same spot...!😅
I’ve got 4 miles of this to do. 😢
Wow, good luck!
Hire a contractor! You will be glad that you did. Get several bids and check with a few of his customers.
I need some osha approved sandals myself.
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They are even goon from my already watched
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Right... but totally wrong... water is the issue, but It's the hydraulic action of driving through them that makes them grow in size. A mix of clay and crusher run thrown in the hole is THE easiest way to take care of it. Throw it in while the hole is dry, then pack it by driving over it. Avoid the hole when wet for a couple of rains.
Nice advice! Thanks!
The talking is caused by the flip-flops on a jobsite....must think he's in beachmode😊
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Not sure if I should trust a guy who works his gravel with flip flops on? lol or maybe he knows something I don't?! lol
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A bowl
And if the pot holes come back just take after them with the flip flop like it was your mom.
LOL that'll show 'em!
I got a shovel.
Sometimes you just gotta use what you got.
Saw the foot wear and turned it off, flip flops really?
Haha! Yep. We shot this with Mike on his own property with his own equipment, so he got to come as he was per se. And we didn't give him much of a heads up on the video shoot... so we know flip flops are not the best choice for this task, but if you can get past it I think you'll appreciate the info and video footage of the process!
Flop flops… really?
LOL yeah apparently you can wear what you want on your own property... not the professional choice of footwear but it is what it is.
Just can't take "farmer recommendations" from someone wearing FLIPFLOPS.
Haha! I hear ya. It turns out you can wear whatever you want on your own property... but yeah definitely not the appropriate footwear!
Too much waffle
Too much talking
I been pooping in the pot holes in my driveway for about 3 years
LOL what
You are ging to keep getting potholes if the drainage isn't corrected. Regrade with a crown or grade to drain on one side, if not possible on both sides. Then you place and compact proper driveway class material. Recycled product generally has better setup and stability for washout due to either Portland medium or asphalt.
You have the best and most accurate solution to this problem so far. As a retired engineer for a state highway department I agree with you.
I was taught by Military Engineers, cut that hole diagonal in line with the traffic flow, so once you have filled and compacted, the traffic just keeps right on going, merging the edges for you. If the edge is across the traffic flow, the thump as each tire goes over can start to scour the hole instead. Do it diagonal.
Ah very cool!
And if the pothole is directly centered between tires, place 30-60 cones directing traffic over it. Unwritten rule.
Sounds legit. I'll give it a try
@@johnwayne7595 Should come out a diamond lozenge shape =>
I completely agree with your method of repair! But the problem itself can be summed up in two words: Hydraulic mining. If the least bit of water is accumulated, your vehicle's tire runs over that water and forces it outward. That water carries bits of gravel with it. Do this enough, and you 'dig the hole' hydraulically.
It starts with just a bit of standing water... Drainage is what you should be concerned with, if you do not want to see the potholes reappear.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Ain't never, ever seen a farmer wearing flip flops while working on a farm...😂
Haven’t seen many farmers have you?
try digging out the pot hole, then put down some used tires that have had the sidewalls cut out.. dig out the hole 3 to 6 inches deeper than the width of the tire as , then dump the gravel over the tire and grade it . the tire will keep the gravel in place and also allow the water to seep through and you will never ever get a pot hole or rut ... it will last forever. the area will be so strong you could drive an 18 wheeler over it with no problem ever.. just my 2 cents...
Great idea for another way to fix potholes! Thanks!
Awesome info….thx
@@PoultryBiosecurity your welcome....P.S. if you want to get fancy and its for a driveway sorta thing.. get some railroad ties and use the railroad ties as the boarder usually they are pressure treated some way.they will last a long time and you can paint them what ever color you like, make them stand out and easy to see.
@@PoultryBiosecurity your welcome....P.S. if you want to get fancy and its for a driveway sorta thing.. get some railroad ties and use the railroad ties as the boarder usually they are pressure treated some way.they will last a long time and you can paint them what ever color you like, make them stand out and easy to see.
Ohhh nice that's a really neat idea!@@highlanderthegreat
as always, great info! Gonna share this with my guys at our poultry egg plant and our grain mill. But as the safety officer, first thing I'm gonna tell them, "boots, not flip flops!" LOL! Thanks again for the tips. It's a huge problem here in Michigan, especially in the spring, when our frost lifts.
Ha! I know. I have a horrible habit of forgetting to change into my boots! I do agree with you and need to be reminded often.
LOL definitely not flip flops! So glad this was helpful, hope you have a smooth transition to spring.
Walking down our road today, pointing out the potholes and the ridges that surround them to my wife, I described the pothole repair strategy that made the most sense based on first principles. Now, turning to RUclips to find out how it’s really done, the first video demonstrated exactly the tools and method I envisioned, using pick and rake. The second video was yours. From time to time I rent exactly the Ditch Witch machine you used. Next time I rent it pothole repair will be on the week’s task list. (But I will be wearing steel-toed work boots 😊) Thanks for confirming my original hunch, and saving me the manual labor.
They finally filled the potholes on our county road last summer. After our rainy winter here in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, the potholes are back and much worse! I will let out supervisor know! So thank you!
We also have a renegade pothole crew that has become famous up here among the Santa Cruz Mountains Boys and Girls (SCMBAGS). I think the pothole crew nhas it right! Will check on that too. Wi let you know!
Why is one hen sitting on all the eggs? She does not give them up easily. Lately green grass will get her up. She pecks and bites! Then she loudly cackles! I was thinking maybe throwing a towel over her head and gently lifting her off the nesting box. Not my hens, just babysitting and eating fresh green eggs while he's away. Any suggestion?
I needed that one bit about tearing it up and out! I’m going to fix this situation today!
So glad this was helpful. Good luck!
See, you don’t have to wear big heavy boots to do road work on the farm. Flip flops are all you need!
Really
Wow, I was unaware of the proper method to repair pot holes in a driveway which was really Enlightening!
Thank you for the education which I will take to heart!
Well done, Sir!
Thanks so much for watching, glad you liked it!
So, I'm supposed to take advice on road construction from a guy wearing flip flops. I think not.
5 to one , taper 5 inches deep 25 inches taper , fill with road base or same as existing , last 12 years, rotate drive lane, tires never same rut over and over ..... neighbors repair their drive every year me, one small indent over 12 years lol, me civil eng. inspector, pay me million but neighbors to dumb free advice lol
Haha! Thanks so much for sharing this. I hope your neighbors wise up to your advice!
What if you're dealing with a rut that flows downhill, and the rut is down to the large stones that are the base of the driveway?
You need to get the water to shed off the driveway sooner
Yeah add a water bar to shed the water
You have to put a crown in the driveway so water run off both sides unless you drive way is slanted to one side,if that’s the case,just make sure it all drains freely to that one side
Rip, Fill, Pack. Ok
I see this video is 10 months old which means it must have gone through some rains. How has it held up? Did the potholes come back?
Those have held up pretty well.... but of course others have formed to now deal with! The road is crowned well and the base was packed. If I would have rented a smooth drum roller for more even compaction it would likely develop fewer potholes.
So thanks to you and this video it looks like I may have solved “the spot” at the bottom of my neighborhood dirt road. After years of just mindlessly filling 20+ potholes over and over again every winter, I tried a ten foot spot just by hand and with a little help dropping road base and just smoothed it out with a small crown in the middle, then sloping slightly down on both sides, then drove over it back and forth to pack it down. After the first rains, zero potholes formed, while about 15 formed in the spot where I didn’t crown. I am finishing the last 20 feet tomorrow which will finish the entire 60 foot section. I just wanted to say thank you. This was such a huge help to our neighborhood, and mostly me, the guy who had to fill the potholes all the time!
I have a 1,000 foot long driveway that is stone and for the potholes I get, I put the blade on my John Deere mower and drag some stone out of the middle of the driveway where no one ever drives and has a slight hump in it and I fill whatever potholes I have and grade them flat with the drive. To keep this from happening every year I top the drive with a washed, crushed limestone, that is about 3/4” round (in Ohio it’s called 57’s but everywhere has a different name for it) placing those washed 57’s with no dust on top will protect your base for years. I usually top mine with about 2” of stone and I’m good for 3-5 years.
Good luck with it, just part of having a stone driveway.
Got to fill in lots of potholes like this but i've only got a pickaxe and wacker plate :/
Oh man! That'll be a tough job, but you can tackle it.
Couldnt tell from his vdeo whether he was using the correct material. To fill a chuck hole after cleaning it out, you have to use crusher run. Regular road rock like they normally spread doesnt contain enough dust to pack solidly. The area that he is repairing is way too large to repair without heavy equipment. You can repair small (a foot or two across) with hand tools. You will need a tool to tamp the material solidly. For deep holes, its best to fill in layers. The surface should be slightly convex when completed. Remember to clean the hole of all loose material.
tell your wife don't drive that fast! it's a laneway not a FREEWAY!!!
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LOL 🤣 you wanna tell her? JK haha
Great video. Well done. Here's a thought: If you stand at the waterline on the beach (on wet/firm sand) and tap our feet, you will drill a hole in the sand. The tap splashes out the water and sand. Only the water returns. It leaves the sand around the hole and returns to repeat the process. I have sunk up to my shins this way, in just minutes, on the same wet sand that people were walking and playing, even driving on. Large potholes are formed the same way when tires hit small ones filled with water. The faster the tire hits the water, the farther the gravel/dirt and water splashes out. The water leaves the aggregate behind and refills the hole for the next splash. Potholes don't grow, or even form, on dry road beds. Drainage is the key. Camber the road so water will naturally leave. Makes it hard for potholes to get started.
It's the threads on tires that causes the pot holes. The thread picks up gravel according to tread patterns. Especially when wet and in low spots that forms. If you only run bald tires on a gravel road you will not get pot holes. This can be seen summer times when gravel roads are smother then even asphalt. But 4x4:s and winter tires are the ones doing the damage. Modern tires are much worse then those used 50 years ago, because they have so many very narrow groves.
Interesting! I hadn't thought of that.
if its flat it's going to have potholes. simple as that.
The people who are complaining about the flip flops obviously don't know any real farmers. Farmers wear whatever the hell they want. I grew up on a farm, we'd mow the yard and bushhog wearing flip flops all the time. Agricultural areas can be really humid, and getting hot exhaust on your leg or getting your feet dirty is... not something we have a problem with. A lot of times its preferable to stomping around in heavy, hot boots that never seem to have time to dry from the sweat and mud.
Oh and we also don't give a fuck so we're gonna keep wearing them.
Haha! I think a lot of other farmers may agree... when you're farming on your own property, dress code isn't the first thing you think of in the morning. However, we definitely want to promote farm safety and know that flip flops are not the safe choice for footwear.
@PoultryBiosecurity oh I'm not suggesting anyone else do it, we know proper safety precautions but sometimes the heat takes priority. 😄
Exactly! Sometimes it just is what it is.@@OneMoreRedNightmare
Bad shocks and beam axles developing a bouncing frequency creat the "pot holes" in the soils in North texas ,not water .
Its a chicken or egg question. Which came first. The pot holes or the bad shocks.
Great info!
Now if I can get the hubs to bring the tractor home- I’m in business 😂😅😄
Haha! Best of luck!
Thank you for the information.
It is our pleasure. Hope it can help.
Think of a pothole as a bowl.
You will see, it is you that bends, not the bowl
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Put some dry dirt in a bowl. Punch down on the dirt with your fist.
Add water to the dirt to turn it into mud. Punch down with your fist and watch the mud splash out of the bowl. That's why potholes get larger. It's called hydraulic pumping.
@@bobwallace9753 Matrix reference doesn’t hit home for you?
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Good analogy though
Complete waste of time, guaranteed it’ll be back in a month or two. The problem is ground moisture, not moisture on the ground, which is why you normally see an entire area of potholes in a cluster.
Excavate the entire area 6”or 8” put big stone or crushed concrete 2” and down then cover with geotech fabric overlapped, then finnish with same material only 1” and down over filled slightly or come back after it settles from running it over, then it won’t happen again.
The guy with the tread ring of a tire was a pretty good method that most people can do by hand also.
Thanks for sharing your method! It's been over a year and these potholes haven't come back though, so I wouldn't say this was a waste of time 😉
Poor man method: Just add more gravel /cement in pothole and crown it so water runs away ! That's the secret ! Better to crown entire driveway if possible. As you see, he left the driveway entirely flat w/o anyway for water to run off. There are no ditches either. He will have potholes again. Most of us don't have the equipment to do as suggested.
Hey thanks for sharing this! It's been over a year and our road is still in good condition. But I totally understand, most folks don't just have this stuff lying around, haha! This video was made for poultry farmers who already have equipment on their farm.
dig up the tree stump.
i wish you lived in my neighborhood. i am almost 44 but nearly the youngest. younger are ganged up with the elders. no one listens to me and in 8 years blew away over 10k road funds in gravel. now they want a special assessment cause we broke road fund wise
Yikes!!!
Dude, are u serious, you trying to do road repair while wearing f--king flip-flops 🤷♂️
lol 😅 it's his property so he took some liberty with the dress code. Not the best choice but it is what it is!
Yep now I need to buy an excavator, and I'll be able to fix 4 pot holes.
Haha! If you were a farmer you'd already have something like this, and that's who we made this video for. But best of luck with your project!
Sadly, this isn’t much use to me who only has shovels for repairs.
Ah yeah, definitely more than a shovel going on here! Best of luck.
What he did was waste of time w/o crowning the driveway or having ditches !!
🤷idk it's been over a year and the road still looks good so I wouldn't say it was a total waste
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I don't have potholes I have craters lol
OMG yikes, good luck!!
Ok now do it again with a hand shovel so we can all do it
Haha for sure, to be fair this video was designed for poultry farmers who would have some equipment already.
Not where I live brother, ripping through a pot hole just results in a bigger pot hole. The reason is the clay pockets go hundreds of feet deep
Step one buy a 15000 piece of equipment.
Haha! Well, this video was designed for poultry farmers, who would already have some equipment on their farm.
Best advice yet on this, great video!
Thanks so much, glad you liked it!
He’s sporting flip-flops…….
lol yeah whoops!
Nice one brudda
Main cause of potholes in gravel roads are usually standing water due to uneven surface and bad water runoff. If the road is graded to have the highest point in the middle and leaning towards the sides it manages much better. If the filling of the road is not good, low points might occur. So, crushed stone, at least 12 inches or more, with larger fractions in the bottom, like 0 to 3 inches, then 0 to 1 1/4", and finally 0 to 3/4" . Each layer compacted with a 1100 pound plate compactor. And a geotextile below the crushed stone. This way the road will hold up better. If the ground is bad or heavy traffic is expected you might have to fill even thicker layers of more crushed stone (and larger fractions).
Thanks for sharing this!
That's a lot of work for a small pothole. If your driveway has a perfect crown so that it never has any puddles, then you will never get potholes. No gravel driveway ist that perfect!. A pothole develops where there is a small puddle of water (a low spot), and you continually drive over it. Just has to be a tiny puddle, and it makes the gravel and subsoil beneath it soft, and it sinks under the weight of your vehicle. Then you drive over it time and time again and the puddle gets bigger and bigger, softer and softer, until you end up with a pothole like the one in the video. The solution is to simply over fill the pothole with similar material, so that you have a decent hump where the pothole was. Overfill it, and scratch around it if necessary, to try and make the surface water run away off the driveaway, you dont want the surface water to just move to an adjacent spot, becasue it will just start a new pothole. The overfilled soft pothole packs down quickly and slowly dry out. I purposely aim for my filled potholes everytime I drive past, to compact them down as much as possible. You end up with a very solidly compacted pothole. I dont see the point of digging it up like shown in the video, all that is doing is loosening up all of the material around the whole area, material that has been well compacted from years of driving over it, and make it more prone to surface water ponding.
Thanks for sharing your method!
Y'know, sir, it would really have helped me if you had put this video on RUclips much earlier. I'm in a house in the woods with a long right-of-way gravel driveway. Ah, nevermind, I've been here since 1989, there was no RUclips then. 😆
Haha! Can you imagine having RUclips back then?
Rip, fill, pack. But also create a way for water to get off the road surface. Standing water allows the opportunity for hydro-pumping when a vehicle runs over the waterlogged spot.
Fill a bowl with dry dirt. Punch down with your fist.
Now add water to the dirt and punch down. You'll see the mud splatter out of the bowl (pothole).
I drive 3.5 miles of unpaved road going in and out. The potholes are all on the level places where water is allowed to stand.
Thanks for sharing this!
naain my experience pot holes form when your road is uneven. That makes so you pumping out gravel and rock every time your tire run trough it. Gets worse when wet and the deeper it get the more water it collects. So it escalates over time. I have Zero heavy equipment I take rocks gravel and old concrete junk fill it in to make it somewhat even with the surroundings and the i pound it in with a really really big stick of steel that has a big heavy lump of flat steel in one end. I pound it until it's firm and until all rocks and concrete is busted up to not be a hazard when i drive over it.
Nice! Thanks for sharing this, especially helpful for those folks out there without big equipment.
Dealing with the 4 miles of dirt road at the family cattle ranch, I learned the very underappreciated tool is the tire drag. We would drive the drag over the roads fairly often, before anything really got formed (potholes or washboard). And if there was puddles, stop and cut in a small drainage notch. With the water out, regular driving and dragging would fill in the holes.
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
Ditch witch? Tractor? Skid steer? I have a shovel....
Haha for real, we know most folks don't have all that stuff. But this video was made for poultry farmers, who generally have one or more of those things already.
I don't have the money for any of this so I just wait until the hole is big enough then I put a flat concrete stepping pad in it and gravel on top of it. It been working great for years. Cheap too !
Nice!
Superviser for county road commission told me the number one reason for pothoes is rapid acceleration . Somebody keeps changing my comments
A couple of corrections: it is a pickmattox vs a Matix; it is a scarifier vs a scarfire; and lastly are those steel toes thongs? ;-)
Haha! Thanks for these corrections 😄
Cut side walls out of some small passenger tires screw them together lay in hole below grade fill with 3/4 clean re grade.
Nice!
That was my first impression also, it's hard to trust a man in flip flops.
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Jump on the skid steer and dig some gravel out of your neighbor's driveway to fill those pesky potholes in your driveway. Oh sure he'll be pissed but he doesn't have a skid steer to steal it back. 😉
Ha! Good idea! 😂
LOL