Tractor would rut the ground and bury up so bad might never get it out. 6000 lbs vs 2000 lbs for the ranger
What is the Fix For This?
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Foggy47
5 year old buck +
You can always do a corduroy road out of timbers like these tamarack logs. They are laid over a geo textile fabric.....and need to be covered with fill.....which I never get around to. This is over a 100 yard span on my land. I currently drive over it with my UTV.....but it's pretty "bumpy" as it is now. I have driven my tractor out a ways......but need that fill to do it again. It's a bit sketchy as it is now.
I thought about this. I have a ready supply of ash. How long did that take?
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Drain tile and option?
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A little, maybe - but I doubt it would fix the problem
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
I had this done by a logger when I logged my land. Took him a day?....I was not there. He had the right equipment.....and the Tammy logs.
Dogshooter
5 year old buck +
I built corduroy road on my property using hardwood slabs from a sawmill (they were free), and then rented a mini ex to bring material from the sides of the road to cover the slabwood. It turned out great. About a 150 yard stretch. A lot of manual labor laying the slabs out but a little exercise won’t kill a guy. Here are some pics:
During the digging:
A year later after green up
During the digging:
A year later after green up
Do your side ditches drain to anything?
My really wet area, like that, has a drainage path at one end.
Do you think that if that those ditches could drain you would need the wood? Or just some geotextile?
I'm also planning on removing some side trees and doing some hinge cutting to get more light in and transplanting some of my willow into the ditch areas to help it dry out.
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
That's exactly what our bottomland trails looked like after the dozer crowned them. Minus the trees underneath.
BenAllgood
5 year old buck +
No. They were just crowned about a foot or so above the surrounding and ditched like that on the sides. We had to touch up places every other year or so to fix places water would come across. But. Some years, these places would be 12 foot underwater for a couple months at a time.
Dogshooter
5 year old buck +
The only need for the wood was to walk the mini excavator on while working. It was very dry when I did the work, but still soft enough that I would have had trouble with that mini if I didn’t have to wood to walk it on. I tried doing it a year prior without the corduroy and about got stuck and had to quit.
The ditches do drain into a lower area, but very gradual as there is hardly any slope to it.
That sounds like my place, not the 12 deep', if you're actually talking deep underwater. My drainage property has water get 30-40'wide 3-4' deep every year. Not depth just wide wet ground.
Peeps
5 year old buck +
This will work the best and is most cost effective. I built this same type of road to cross swamp/standing water to get to the back of my property. I also had to put in a culvert as well. I picked up bundles of slab/waste wood from a local saw mill for cheap and then buried it under dirt when the dozer put my roads in. It’s been flawless.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
That sounds cost prohibitive to me. I guess one could always try it in small sections that are the worst and see if it does anything.
Not that I really mind, but a lot of trees going to have to be removed to do any dirt work
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
My land is only a few feet above the water table. One thing I never considered prior to logging......was that those trees were consuming allot of water. After logging off a substantial part of my land.....the water table was higher for a couple of years.....until the regen trees and brush came back. Had considerable flooding in some areas as compared to other years.
