2021 Gamekeepers / Summer - Road Grading and Repair

Caring for Farm Roads is Always Ongoing

 For those that manage secondary roads, whether leading to your front door or your back field, simply saying that it was a wet winter won’t dry up the memory of muddy ruts. When it wasn’t raining, it was cloudy weather for days, and the winter groundwater table kept rising up. The real time frustration kicks in when you realize that you can’t work a road when it is wet, and that the best thing to do is plan to engineer ways to keep future flooding running to a destination of your choosing.

Photos show Shady spots and Culverts

Woods roads can seem fine for years, until a spate of wet weather exposes road work upkeep neglect that can quickly turn into compounding headaches. Rotting, decaying matter from the tree canopy falls on these secondary roads each year, and with ample sunshine from daylighting of roads the debris factor is mitigated when dried out. But this same organic debris forms into the black, greasy layer of soil that gets squishy on top of your road during wet times. You can’t scrape away this layer, and you can’t top it while it is wet, so the best plan is to address the lack of drainage where it is apparent.

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