Posted by Destroked 450 on December 02, 2018 at 10:11:10 from (66.38.93.182):
In Reply to: washboard roads posted by 37chief on November 30, 2018 at 17:01:13:
I'm not a expert or have a phd, barely did get through high school, but I have lived on and helped maintain the same gravel road I've lived on my hole life. The first 2.75 ten's is up hill with the remaining mile rolling with some level.
Last year they blacktop'd the first 3 ten's and chip and sealed the remaining portion so now I only have to grade the 950 ft drive way to our poultry barns.
The biggest contributing factor to wash boarding on our road has been pickup trucks with worn shocks, the rear suspension design on pickups amplifies the wheel hop effect, without good shocks to dampen this effect it becomes more pronounced wash boarding the road at a faster rate.
I've spent a good amount of time grading the road surface smooth only to find ripples in the road from the very next vehicle that drove on it, I've followed those ripples to mine or a neighbors driveway to find that someone in a pickup had just driven on the road.
Replacing the rear shocks didn't completely eliminate the wash boarding but it did increase the amount of time it took the road to become wash boarded again, often times from a few days to several weeks.
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