"Glenn" wrote in message
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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?

Just yesterday I parked my car in a grass car park. The space I parked in was
sloping and as I was going to have to reverse out uphill I did think I am glad
its not wet!

When I left I noticed that there was some green plastic in the grass. Sort of
loose mat specially made for allowing light vehicles to be driven over grass.

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Michael Chare