Driveway was destroyed in rainstorm. Adding new drainage & water control. Steep hill gravel drive

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[@stanpatterson5033]

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.

[@bryancarlson3673]

The dozer is amazing! Sure beats doing this job by hand with a shovel!!!

[@marc1553]

Jonathan can do anything. Drive anything good. He is so talented

[@KubotaManDan]

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!

[@bnelson313braveheart]

Scott thanks for sharing your life on YT. I always look forward to your content. Happy Holidays!

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

Thanks for watching the videos ;)

[@tomhamilton9816]

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!!! :)

[@wallyfirkins1664]

Scott, you and Kelly have an amazing property.

[@jakem.6359]

Maintaining gravel driveways.....and even land in general is a constant battle against Mother Nature.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

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. ;)

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Has Jonathan worked with machinery in the past, he seems like he's got experience, or he's got natural ability?

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

Yes a mini-ex and backhoe he used to use a lot when he worked for a fiber optic company

[@wesleypulkka7447]

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!

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

It’s a good ol dozer. 70+ years old and a work horse

[@natevanlandingham1945]

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.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

The ditches are carrying the water away and keeping water from entering the driveway from the outside

[@natevanlandingham1945]

@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.

[@physicsphirst191]

Wow, BGM Route 1 looks great!

[@tomriggs3926]

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.

[@homerbolen6826]

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

[@buddyweiz]

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.

[@gregmcdonald9137]

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

[@gregmcdonald9137]

Erosion control

[@gregmcdonald9137]

2×12 c Chanel

[@EricaMTB]

If you buy an old quarry, expect issues.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

It’s come a long way from when we bought the place.

[@DonRRicks]

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.

[@bobsanders2353]

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

[@fatmuscle1]

Don't drive down the middle, alternate sides up and down. It won't stop it, but it will slow it down.

[@AlisonFort]

Do the little spruce trees next to the drive seed themselves?

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

Yes

[@jimbruneau6769]

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.

[@timinsandiego6979]

Better ditches and a few culverts.

[@Lee-qp6gf]

Good work. You need to a big ass roller to tighten it up would help.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

We have compacted it before. It helps

[@user-zi9ec4bd8w]

Looks like you're having too much fun.

[@hotpuppy1]

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.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

Right now i want the ditches to erode a bit to make them bigger. Then i’ll add more large rock

[@williamhague2768]

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.

[@BusGreaseMonkey]

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.

[@4EyedFox]

First

[@The_DuMont_Network]

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