Slowing traffic on farm tracks

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If you have a tractor, look into some form of grader blade or the DIY method of towing RSJs. A pretty basic setup is fine, if you run over it regularly before the potholes set in, so you wont be shifting as much material each time.
 
The costly solution is to build up the road so as to be higher than the ground either side, so that water doesn’t have much chance to settle and form puddles. Takes a lot of stone and time, unfortunately.
 
Quixote said:
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 🙏👍
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Some years ago we put the rubber screw in type on the driveway to our sports club. They are quite fierce and really caused the traffic to slow right down. They were bolted / screwed into a tarmac road surface and were quite secure but I’m not sure how they would be on a dirt track.
Maybe lay a flat concrete strip and secure them to that, but then again if you are doing that might just be simpler to put in some concrete speed bumps.
 
Sadly speed bumps nor much else will slow delivery drivers. If it’s not their vehicle they don’t care if it gets bashed about. Regular repairs are pretty much your only option.
 
I seen RSL the weldibg/eng8neering company had a fancy new implent out.

Sort off like a mini grader thats fits on the 3 pnt linkage.
Some riiping teeth followed by a blade followed by a roller.

I see some cobtractors have sort of rotavotors for stone now and mix some cement in with it.
Meant to be pretty good but i dont imagine its cheap
 
Another option move the house down to the other end of the track.😂 .Years ago I had cause to visit the Sultans of Brunei’s place and the drive to it had been designed so you couldn’t speed as the gravel surface span you side ways.On one visit an over zealous guard speared a delivery van with the sink and rise barrier.
 
Quixote said:
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 👍
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If you have any refurfacing going on around you anytime when they have the planer out on the old road, you usually can get the planning cheap if they can drop them off to you there and then. Give the surfacing contractor a ring if you see them working, works in Norfolk, so it should work in Scotland.
 
I'd have speed humps set at an angle across the track. These type seem to slow drivers down better than ones at right angles across the track/road due to the added "wobble" inflicted to the vehicle. Going over these slow can still set my dash cam off thinking the vehicle has been hit!
 
I think you'll be fighting a losing battle, I watched the so called experts repair a road locally a few month ago, dug the old tarmac out in a few places, Filled it with new stuff and sealed the edges with bitch and the rain and cold weather has lifted it all again and now its worse than it was.
 
Dazb1967 said:
I think you'll be fighting a losing battle, I watched the so called experts repair a road locally a few month ago, dug the old tarmac out in a few places, Filled it with new stuff and sealed the edges with bitch and the rain and cold weather has lifted it all again and now its worse than it was.
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South Gloucestershire has this issue. One of our potholes was repaired in this way 4 times last year, and again last week. It’s started to breakup on the edges already
 
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