The row is 66 ft, the chipseal is supposed to be 10 ft per lane, 20 ft total but it varies from 8 to 10 ft. The shoulder varies from 0 to 4 ft, usually around 18 inches. Much of the shoulder is too soft to actually drive on, you see the grader stuck time to time due to shoulder collapse when they try to fix it.
Once the pavement is damaged so the width of a lane is down to less than 8 ft they patch strips of the shoulder. Snow removal in the spring scrapes the pavement next to the shoulder off as its broken up and unlevel.
The road is about 200 years old. The best sections are on old rockpiles hauled there to make the road. You used to pay your taxes by fixing the road through your property. The dirt was first chipsealed in the 1940's.
In places my 102" wide trailer touches yellow line and dirt at the same time.
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