muddy driveway solution?

[mrchicken]

With our typical winter weather rain/freeze/thaw/rain the slick clay mud has turned our driveway into a slip n slide.

We still need to grade and add some fill dirt to spots so i don't want to spend $425 a load to dump gravel only to plow it under in 2 months.

I have access to some hay bales and was wondering if unrolling a hay bale down the driveway would help?

Any other ideas? Solutions?

[daswolter]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar45Z4HQPRA

Could you do something like this might bring your driveway up a little and prevent it for years to come.

[northwoodstrapper]

If you have access to limestone gravel or limestone rock it will soak up a lot of water and stabilize you base. it's used when building lease roads through fields.

[lilweasel]

If your drive way is really muddy, I would try a load of clean stone. There is no "fines" in it, pure stone. You may want to put regular gravel on top once it dries out.

[hanson65]

I dont know if I would roll the hay on your driveway the hey is just going to hold moisture and will keep it wet and soupy. We feed our cattle and bed them with hey in the winter and where we feed it gets really muddy and stays muddy for a while. The freeze thaw rain snow and mud sucks.

[rick2]

I wouldn't put hay down.My brother inlaw we have a tree Biz and have lots of chips.We filled a big hole and it was fine for a lil while.But in the end it wasn't worth it.The cheap weasel finally dug it out and put stone in there.

[barkspud]

We use rock to ad to a soft mud clay base and try and fix the drainage for it the best we can. After we get it so it does not muddy up we add crusher dust to the top layer and run a compactor over it a lot... Spring thaw when the grounds unthawing is just tough no matter what you have. Good drainage will help big time and is important or will just hinder your efforts beyond that..
We have a mud run for a drive in the spring and I need rock myself but cost and priorities got it on hold. We have 4 wheel drive so I can get in and out of the yard..lol