If you have a road that is the only way in to a place and it basically stays wet due to naturally being low and it’s rutted up by trucks is there a way to repair it or add something to it to make it passable

If you have a road that is the only way in to a place and it basically stays wet due to naturally being low and it’s rutted up by trucks is there a way to repair it or add something to it to make it passable

Cities, Counties and the State all do the exact same thing when building roads. They create drainage on either side of the road, and then they build it up with dirt, and compact it. In every area of the state, there will be the ideal dirt that they use for building up roads. It's also the same dirt that is used to build house pads and everything else that's built in that area. Most commonly, it's called Clean Fill. Dirt is by far cheaper then any other material, and once it's built up higher then the drainage, it will remain solid if compacted when it's spread out.

To top it off, crushed concrete is by far the best material that I've seen. It compacts very easily, and it's so hard that it doesn't break down like caliche, or limestone. With most road base rock, you want it at least 4 inches thick so it will lock together when compacted. If you get your soil compacted good and solid, you can get away with less crushed concrete. It's that good!!!

If the area is swampy, and it never dries out, road material fabric will help. You just roll it out first, then build up the dirt on top of it. The fabric will provide a layer of support to keep the soil from sinking into the wet area.

To compact the dirt, the best machine is a sheepsfoot vibratory roller. It's expensive to rent them, so I use my tractor with a full load of dirt in the bucket and I go over the dirt that I just spread with my tires. Then I dump and spread that load, and go over it when I come back with another load of dirt in my loader. My goal is to put as much weight as I can on the dirt, and the front tires of my tractor with a yard of dirt in the loader concentrates the most weight that I can have. I just go over it until it's all compacted, and every inch has my tire tracks on it.

You need a good caliche pit and some equipment. Some places you can't fix the underlying problem. You just have to keep putting rock and caliche on top of it . One place I put 100 loads with my dump truck. I haul 3 yards at a time before I finally got where I can drive over this about 100 ft. place all the time. And this caliche here does not break down. After you dig it up and it gets a good rain on it it gets hard as rock.