Fixing a shared access laneway

farmer_dave

We have a shared access single road/lane that serves a number of houses and we want to fix it up as it is tracking from water running down it and is potholing on the level parts.

As the laneway serves 2 farms we intend to do the work ourselves as we have most of the required machinery. However, what we don't have is a machine to lay the stone with a camber.

We have a heavy roller to knock the stones into place, but nothing to lay it down correcting.

As it is single track I thought we could (if possible) throw the camber over to one side (as that is where there is currently a ditch and drains to collect the runoff).

Is there a small scale machine available for hire or an alternative method of laying down a camber - flat lanes are a nightmare for potholing as the water can't get shifted.

Any advice appreciated.


Thanks.

Suckler

Is the road yours or the councils. If it's the councils you can't go carrying out improvements as you see fit. Legal advice is what you are after not construction advice if the council own it.

If it's on your own land then any competent machine operator would be able to layer the stone to form a camber - what surface are you putting on the top?

farmer_dave

Its a private laneway.

Putting on road planings.

Suckler

Your sound so.

We used 6 inch clean to build up levels and used 804 & maintenance gravel to give a flat surface thereafter. Machine a good machine operator would put a camber in easily. Excavator tracking up and down on it would compact it plenty.