Location to Make a Gravel Road

Series Summary

Making a gravel road is a very cost effective way to make a road on your own property. Sometimes costing a fraction of a concrete road, making a gravel road is perfect for roads through a pasture to a home or ranch house. The road can be maintained very easily and will not crack under the load of heavy construction trucks, Bobcats, and bulldozers. It is fairly easy to make a gravel road, but as with any construction project, getting some advice prior to beginning is very important. Our gravel road making expert can give you some free tips on how to make a gravel road.

In this free gravel road construction video series, learn how to make a gravel road from Ben Ingham. Ben will give you gravel road construction tips such as how to choose a location for a gravel road, how to smooth out the ground before laying the gravel, how to smooth out the gravel, and what equipment is best for making a gravel road. He will give you tips for using a box blade, on your tractor, to smooth out the gravel on a gravel road, and tell you the benefits of using a box blade to make a gravel road.

Video Transcript

"This is Ben Ingham with Expert Village to talk to you about putting in a gravel road. When we first arrived on this property there was absolutely nothing on the property, there was no water, no electricity, external fences was all that were on the place as far as we knew, it had never been used for anything except to raise cattle. We wanted to put a home site on here so we needed some way to get heavy trucks and equipment onto the land on this very red clay gumbo soil that as you can see is very easy to get stuck in. So the process, I started at the fence and had a box blade on the back of my tractor and pulled out and tried to smooth out as much as I could, and I just tried to follow the contour of the land. Instead of just a straight road coming in I just like the even flow of it and then I had a contractor come in and bring me uh, two semi loads of gravel. "