Glenn wrote:

Hello all,

We have a long term renovation project in the French alps, vehicular access
is via a 30 metre long grass covered "drive way" which slopes gently upwards
to a height of about 1 metre over the length of the drive. In anything other
than dry weather, car access is entertaining to say the least. The local
council has a dump of gravel not far from us, and it seems to me that one
night we could easily "acquire" enough gravel to lay two lengths of gravel
to aid vehicular access. My question is, should we dig out two parallel and
shallow "ditches" to take the gravel (and if so, how deep should they be?),
or just lay the gravel straight on to the grass and bed it in by driving a
car over it?

Many thanks,

Glenn



Gravel is not te best for this. Best is crushable limetsone which
eventually turns the drive into an approximation of a nice well drained
chalk upland.

Havingf said that, if its mud you have, get a pile of gravel and just
spread it over wehere you drive to about 2" depth.

And simply keep on doing it.

Evenytually you arriove at a matrix of gravel, mud and grass, which is
usually better grip than straight mud..