Hi,
I'm looking for some advice on how best to repair a badly rutted track.
The track is basically hardcore and was probably put in at minimum cost about ten years ago - you need at least a defender to get up and down it now... Although this is the only access track onto my land, I'm not running heavy equipment up and down it, just the occasional medium-size tractor less than 10 tonnes.
I've got a Ford 550 loader/back-hoe digger and this is my plan to repair the track - any advice from people who aren't just winging it (i.e. like I am...) would be gratefully received, though
1. Grade the track back flat again with my digger
2. Buy some 1 tonne bags of hardcore - some big stuff and some smaller stuff
3. Fill any holes with the big stuff and do any levelling with the smaller stuff
4. Hire a road roller (from Gap or somewhere) and compact it down
5. Ta da...job done - sounds too easy, so I must be missing something...
A couple of quick question if anybody can help: I'll have to transport the hardcore in sacks hanging from the digger front bucket for about half a mile - the digger's in "average" nick - is it up to the job?
Instead of hiring a road-roller (at £300 per day plus vat plus delivery plus collection plus <insert charge here>), could I just pull a heavy field roller with the digger (or a tractor if I can borrow one - I'm temporarily short on that account) and compact it down enough?
I think cambering the track's going to be out of my road-building league - will some angled drain channels be good enough every hundred feet or so?
Thanks for any advice, but bear in mind this isn't the M25 and my knowledge of roads/tracks is only based on driving on them...
Symber