Mud Control

Now that we are digging again, we have a lot of dirt and rock to move around.  We have put in a fairly extensive system of roads to facilitate this operation but some of the roads are still rather basic.  We have been bringing dirt up to an area we call the "filled hollow".  To get to this location more easily we built a short section of curved road cutting a rather tight corner.  We call this little road the "fillet road" because it resembles (to us) a fillet weld between two perpendicular sections of metal.  Unfortunately, The fillet road happens to be in a spot where there is a natural seepage of water from uphill - a sort of almost-spring.  The result is persistent mud, even now when it hasn't rained recently.  We had been driving the tractor through it anyway but it was getting rather messy and every time we drove through it the ruts got a little deeper.  We decided to get some coarse stone and finally fill fillet road.  It worked excellently.  Fillet road is still wet - but it is wet stone rather than wet mud.

Fillet road - wet and muddy

Nick dumps a load of stone to fill the ruts and control the mud.

We brought the stone in with our F450 truck.

Fillet road - stoned and ready for serious traffic.