4 inch gravel delivery
We finally found someone
local with a medium dump truck to deliver some gravel.
It was just under 4 tons for
80 dollars.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Looking at the picture, I notice the road is the lowest point, with no place for water to escape. I have a problem similar on one of my roads. The road bed is lower than the side areas. We try to push out drainage in a couple of places to keep the water from sitting or from running down the ruts. I wonder if there is anyway to get a blade and try to 'cut' a ditch along one side and find a couple of places along the way to push out the slightly higher sides to let water out.
I got a good maintenance booklet from the local cooperative extension on woodland roads. This isn't the publication exactly that I have, but this might be a slightly older edition: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/30039/ec1137.pdf?sequence=3
I got 6 inches of rock laid on mine and a few drainage issues addressed. I love it! My road guy told me to try and drive over the entire road, to avoid rut development. He also warned me to try not to dig into my roads to improve drainage, rather try to add rock bumps to direct water off, where necessary. Once you get a nice road bed, you will want to baby it.
WOW! A '68-'72 one ton Chevy dumptruck not rusted totally out!
Oh, and if you were natives of that part of VA, you would say you had "gravels" delivered.