Slowing traffic on farm tracks

[User00056]

I've just spent yet another day with a tractor and tonnes of Type 1 filling in the washouts left by delivery drivers, posties, etc on our mile long dirt farm track. I'm beginning to get a tad cheesed off with having to do this twice a year, and I'm seriously considering putting down speed humps. Anyone else done this? Did you use rubber ones? Concrete? Or something else? Would signs be effective? Looking for some advice from anyone who's experienced a similar issue

 

[TringSaint]

Nails! That’ll slow them down!!

 

[VSS]

If your track is on a slope, and you put down speed bumps, you'll most likely end up with an ever-deepening hole just before the bump. And a puddle just after it.
At least, that's the situation where we have a hump across our track. And anywhere else on the track where there's a bit of a bump.
I am resigned to having to get a bloke with a digger in every couple of years to re-level the surface.

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[Will the chippy]

Grow your hedges wide and have some sheep wandering too. That should slow folk down.

 

[spanj]

I've just spent yet another day with a tractor and tonnes of Type 1 filling in the washouts left by delivery drivers, posties, etc on our mile long dirt farm track. I'm beginning to get a tad cheesed off with having to do this twice a year, and I'm seriously considering putting down speed humps. Anyone else done this? Did you use rubber ones? Concrete? Or something else? Would signs be effective? Looking for some advice from anyone who's experienced a similar issue

Thought about a letter and drop box at the top of your dirt track ? They’ll all thank you too - win win

 

[sh1kar]

We have rubber ones and 10mph children and dogs signs on the track The humps are pretty severe but the white van delivery drivers still crash over it i would guess at 25mph. I go over them in my hilux at c 5mph!

 

[Camdig]

Leave the potholes.
I get regular shifts with my machines the sorting tracks, the muilti occupant ones are the worst, stop start with delivery drivers in and out aw day.

 

[Liveonce]

just send the delivery vans via an alternative route

 

[User00056]

Thought about a letter and drop box at the top of your dirt track ? They’ll all thank you too - win win

Too many light-fingered scrotes around

 

[Taff]

Long tracks to the house are common here, resurfacing every 5 yrs, even with post box at the entrance, it’s called living rural.

 

[User00056]

Long tracks to the house are common here, resurfacing every 5 yrs, even with post box at the entrance, it’s called living rural.

Yeah, I suspected this would be the case

 

[countrryboy]

Seen a few folk a box type off attachment fir 3 pt linkage, just 2 ir 3 rsj's welded a foot apart and just use that to level it before pothiles aoear too deep.

Have u tried road a. Ings instead of type 1?
If u fill holes ul and dabble a bit of red diesel, not too much and give it a goof packing/vibrafing it sort off goes quite hard abd setts.

I duuno if ur ttack is on the level or on a hill/slope.
But water is the worst thing for it, if u can either make speed bumps but at and angle so diverts water off the road not just forming a dam.
Or bury some crash barriers upside down to run water off.
If u can keep the water off it is half the battle

 

[Dunwaters]

You might want to look at your local agricultural contractors, the ones with the big tractors and trailers clipping along at 50Kph plus, all the while looking at their phones June through November.
When not engaged hauling trailers, they tip along with a 6 sod reversible plough August through to early April at the same speed on the same tracks. They’ll do it with a full sprayer or slurry tanker. They don’t take prisoners and it seems like there are more of them, the machines are bigger and the campaign is longer and more intense every single year.
Then theres combines with the bar attached tipping from field to field. Everyone is expected to give way to one of those, and there can be more than one heading to the same location.
Thats just the tillage guys, how about the livestock hauliers?
2 two story 40’ trailers on country lanes leaving a generous coating of slurry wherever they go?
Farmers make absolute shite of the roads, always have, always will and long may they continue.

 

[GBR66]

If your track is on a slope, and you put down speed bumps, you'll most likely end up with an ever-deepening hole just before the bump. And a puddle just after it.
At least, that's the situation where we have a hump across our track. And anywhere else on the track where there's a bit of a bump.
I am resigned to having to get a bloke with a digger in every couple of years to re-level the surface.

This.

 

[countrryboy]

If your track is on a slope, and you put down speed bumps, you'll most likely end up with an ever-deepening hole just before the bump. And a puddle just after it.
At least, that's the situation where we have a hump across our track. And anywhere else on the track where there's a bit of a bump.
I am resigned to having to get a bloke with a digger in every couple of years to re-level the surface.

Best thing u can do is have ur speed bump at 45 degrees, so its shedding water off the track not holding it like a dam.
Or stick some crash barriers in to act as cundy's

We used to do a lot of big hill fencing on an old grouse moor.
Sadly no longer shoots and been a while.
But has plenty tracks and in surprisingly good condition, will have been decades since a digger over tracks.
Their trick is pretty big speed bumps like 8ft+ wide and a decent sized cundy ( roadside drain) on the uphill side.
So the cundys are pretty much self cleaning.

Water is the problem even on flat ground but running water on strep ground is even worse.

 

[MilesW]

I've just spent yet another day with a tractor and tonnes of Type 1 filling in the washouts left by delivery drivers, posties, etc on our mile long dirt farm track. I'm beginning to get a tad cheesed off with having to do this twice a year, and I'm seriously considering putting down speed humps. Anyone else done this? Did you use rubber ones? Concrete? Or something else? Would signs be effective? Looking for some advice from anyone who's experienced a similar issue

Your putting down base material. Blows out pretty easily. Try putting something over it for a stable running surface and hire a vibe roller for half a day.

 

[User00056]

Your putting down base material. Blows out pretty easily. Try putting something over it for a stable running surface and hire a vibe roller for half a day.

My new plan is to get a few tonnes of tar planings in Spring and get the whacker plate on it. Hopefully it'll take a bit more punishment than the Type 1

 

[finnbear270]

You might want to look at your local agricultural contractors, the ones with the big tractors and trailers clipping along at 50Kph plus, all the while looking at their phones June through November.
When not engaged hauling trailers, they tip along with a 6 sod reversible plough August through to early April at the same speed on the same tracks. They’ll do it with a full sprayer or slurry tanker. They don’t take prisoners and it seems like there are more of them, the machines are bigger and the campaign is longer and more intense every single year.
Then theres combines with the bar attached tipping from field to field. Everyone is expected to give way to one of those, and there can be more than one heading to the same location.
Thats just the tillage guys, how about the livestock hauliers?
2 two story 40’ trailers on country lanes leaving a generous coating of slurry wherever they go?
Farmers make absolute shite of the roads, always have, always will and long may they continue.

One of my locals insists on dragging his 5 ton steel roller through the village, battering all & any road imperfections.

 

[finnbear270]

Your putting down base material. Blows out pretty easily. Try putting something over it for a stable running surface and hire a vibe roller for half a day.

That should get the speeds up a bit