Repairing driveway ruts with cinder blocks
The driveway
troubled spot is now one of the more solid points thanks to several
well placed cinder blocks and some heavy tamping.
Anna says there's a 70%
chance of rain tomorrow.
That means there could be a
race between when the rain starts and how fast I can go pick up a load
of gravel, unload it into the other troubled areas, and haul in a few
supplies.
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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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Won't the cinderblocks sink away?
If you put something solid (like a concrete pavement tile) under the cinderblocks, they'd have more "buoyancy" in the soil, spread out the loads from the pickup's wheels more, and less of a tendency to sink away.
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Roland_Smith
— Tue Oct 11 12:14:15 2011
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Sinking cinder blocks
You would think that, but we've installed cinder blocks in similar trouble spots elsewhere in the driveway, and they're still looking great five years later. They do sink in a bit, but not that much, and then they seem to stop. I think there must be something about the way they distribute the weight? I don't know why, but it seems to work!
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anna
— Tue Oct 11 13:32:05 2011
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Cinder block sinkage
I suspect it has something to do with our high percentage of clay....but it's only a guess.
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mark
— Tue Oct 11 17:08:18 2011
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