Killing corrugations

[m_and_m]

Found this on FB today.
Just brilliant! Love the ingenuity.
I always wondered if someone just dragged something heavy across a corrugated road it would help.
Check it out.

https://www.facebook.com/sheepmerinos/videos/1288017504922134/?vh=e

[Dicko1]

Found this on FB today.
Just brilliant! Love the ingenuity.
I always wondered if someone just dragged something heavy across a corrugated road it would help.
Check it out.
https://www.facebook.com/sheepmerino...04922134/?vh=e

Seen it done many times using anything from railway sleepers, logs, old drag chain and old farm machinery welded together. Naturally a grader is handy!!!

[wanderay]

I think if they dragged it the other way the loose dirt from the sides would be pulled in to fill the dips and potholes.

[sharkcaver]

Seen it done many times using anything from railway sleepers, logs, old drag chain and old farm machinery welded together. Naturally a grader is handy!!!

Dont forget the humble tractor tyre....and railroad rail makes a great levelling skid too.

Ithink if they dragged it the other way the loose dirt from the sides would be pulled in to fill the dips anb potholes.

Until the next vehicle comes along. The approaching tyre's high pressure blows the loose stuff out the hole, and the corresponding low pressure after the tyre passes the now partially empty hole, sucks more of the loose stuff out.

Sweeping dirt under the carpet achieves nothing. It either has to be wet compacted, or you need to get under the skin like the dozer tracks are doing. Those dozer tracks wont be leaving any dips or pot holes.

[erad]

A few tracks around Alice _On the Old Ghan road) have been graded and graded and graded so many times that the road surface gets to be about 0.5 m below original ground surface, so they then start over again with another alignment. I guess that wherever you have gravel roads and vehicles with primitive suspension (leaf springs) and tyre pressures too hard, you are going to get corrugations and those will require graders and compacters to reduce (Not eliminate) them. So costly in time and money....

[sharkcaver]

A few tracks around Alice _On the Old Ghan road) have been graded and graded and graded so many times that the road surface gets to be about 0.5 m below original ground surface, so they then start over again with another alignment. I guess that wherever you have gravel roads and vehicles with primitive suspension (leaf springs) and tyre pressures too hard, you are going to get corrugations and those will require graders and compacters to reduce (Not eliminate) them. So costly in time and money....

I have driven a few tracks now that have been heavily graded over years. 0.5m below the surrounding country would be minor. Some tracks I've seen are now 3/4 car height below normal level. Would hate to see those after rain.....It would be an irrigation channel.

[old Jack]

I have driven a few tracks now that have been heavily graded over years. 0.5m below the surrounding country would be minor. Some tracks I've seen are now 3/4 car height below normal level. Would hate to see those after rain.....It would be an irrigation channel.

In May 2013 we were up at Cape Leveque NW WA, when a large storm front hit as we were traveling Derby. The road south is exactly as Shane describes, when it rains it becomes a channel, we only just got out before the road was closed for over a week with some travelers in caravans becoming bogged and unable to move or be rescued.

OJ.

[HeavyPizzaz]

In May 2013 we were up at Cape Leveque NW WA, when a large storm front hit as we were traveling Derby. The road south is exactly as Shane describes, when it rains it becomes a channel, we only just got out before the road was closed for over a week with some travelers in caravans becoming bogged and unable to move or be rescued.

OJ.

I remember that road and can see how it would be like that in rain. Funnily enough did it in a hired Pajero years before I owned one myself. Maybe that’s why I ended up with one [emoji1787]


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