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Width of car road

  • 09-04-2017 7:00am
    #1
    liamdenn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi lads
    How wide should a car road be to have enough room for a tractor?
    Thanks
    Liam


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  • #2
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    liamdenn wrote: »
    Hi lads
    How wide should a car road be to have enough room for a tractor?
    Thanks
    Liam

    12ft to allow a good base underneath.

    To narrow and the edges will break way


  • #3
    liamdenn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭liamdenn


    Thanks very much


  • #4
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    I presume you mean cow road?


  • #5
    liamdenn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭liamdenn


    Hi Sam
    I would have always called a road through agri land a car road. Maybe it's a Carlow thing?
    Liam


  • #6
    grassroot1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Car road is derived from horse and car(t) road
    I presume you wont be fencing it at 12 foot.


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  • #7
    anfieldrd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭anfieldrd


    Any advice on what to use on a cow road repair. Hasn't been covered in years so bit of build up of muck in places, I will clean the top of it and hoping to put down something to rise it and then something to finer stuff on top? Any tips?


  • #8
    Track9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭Track9


    In places i have seen road making system whereby the ground under the road is turned. ( the topsoil is buried underneath ) if the new surface is firm but requires better finish ,surface can be sheeted off with Blinding from a limestone Quarry ,which is relatively low cost.On the width its worth adding on a few feet as ev thing is getting larger & needs wider roads.


  • #9
    mythos110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭mythos110


    Minimum 12 ft at the stakes. Also leave good wide gaps for swinging into paddocks. You'll never know when a Fusion/silage harvester/trailers may need access to clean up a few paddocks


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