How to construct new lane

temujinhayes

Hi all,
I am planning to put in a new lane to my place. It will be 300 metres long, soil is heavy marl, I will be following a field boundary. Any advice? I have read about using tyres as a foundation- cutting out the sidewalls and then tying them together with fixings, then filling with stone. Or is it beast just to put in a good under road felt? Should I get an engineer on board?
Any advice welcome.
Thanks Chris

Dont be daft

temujinhayes wrote: »

Hi all,
I am planning to put in a new lane to my place. It will be 300 metres long, soil is heavy marl, I will be following a field boundary. Any advice? I have read about using tyres as a foundation- cutting out the sidewalls and then tying them together with fixings, then filling with stone. Or is it beast just to put in a good under road felt? Should I get an engineer on board?
Any advice welcome.
Thanks Chris

Every place is different but one thing I saw making a HUGE difference here was having a roller on site as your laying the surface.

Put in 3 separate roadways here, two were rolled one wasn't. You wouldn't believe the difference between them.

The roller was something like 12 or 15tonne so pretty costly to hire out, but in my opinion worth it.

We didn't use felt or any of those other materials. I'm not knocking them but we've gone on fine without them.
Dug out to a depth of about 6" and filled with stones picked of fields over the years, then reclaimed road surface and dusted of with 804.

temujinhayes

didn't think a roller would make such a difference, do you use it after last layer of stone has been put down or between each layer?

td5man

temujinhayes wrote: »

didn't think a roller would make such a difference, do you use it after last layer of stone has been put down or between each layer?

The big ones with the pumped whees can fairly pack stuff best to pack in layers .

whelan1

we had a guy with a hy mac last year, no need for a roller, he packed it between layers

ABlur

whelan1 wrote: »

we had a guy with a hy mac last year, no need for a roller, he packed it between layers

Same here 14 tonne track machine levelled the gravel, have had
several trucks of concrete drive over it since and it hasnt moved.

td5man

ABlur wrote: »

Same here 14 tonne track machine levelled the gravel, have had
several trucks of concrete drive over it since and it hasnt moved.

It depends on the type of stone used and the depth i usually just track the stone in.
But the roller will leave it like concrete.

ryandevitt

Use 4 inch broken stone first then 2 inch working down to whats called 804 stone use a whacker plate between layers

6480

the key to doing a good job on the lane is to do it when the weather is good and any real bad soft spots you need to dig down to hard subsoil or channel