There is such a mud pit in front of the barn that we are almost getting stuck in it when we drive up. Can anything be done? I thought maybe we could cover it with hay. Steve thinks plywood is the answer. I'm afraid the plywood might blow away on a windy day and kill someone.
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Hey, Christy,In Hungary, we had two pairs of humungous wooden "slippers". You could put them on over your shoes. One pair had to be left at the house door, the other by the garden gate. Guess that would not help with cars... but sometimes low tech works pretty well.
Ah, mud . . .Here in the PNW we get a lot of it. Until we could afford a new load of pea gravel, my DH put out a mixture of concrete stepping stones and plywood sheeting. The plywood gets VERY slippery!The pea gravel is wonderful, and was surprisingly less spendy than we thought it would be.HTH
as a kid we always used plywood. just throw some huge rocks on it to stop blowing issues
When I was a kid we just got stuck in the mud and had to walk to the house (we lived on the farm and had a mile-long driveway). Then Mom would get pissed off and bitch about 'the road' until summer. But that probably doesn't help you much.
In Massachusetts, we used gravel... hay might work for awhile, but would probably blow away after awhile... but it certainly wouldn't hurt anything if it did, so that would be good! Another thing you can do is take some old carpet, and cut it into scraps, keep them in the trunk... if you get stuck in mud or snow, you throw them under the tires and get traction that way, works great, and recycles.
Definitely gravel.. plywood will be bad and it is not that cheap. Gravel is the tool you need
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Hey, Christy,In Hungary, we had two pairs of humungous wooden "slippers". You could put them on over your shoes. One pair had to be left at the house door, the other by the garden gate. Guess that would not help with cars... but sometimes low tech works pretty well.
Ah, mud . . .Here in the PNW we get a lot of it. Until we could afford a new load of pea gravel, my DH put out a mixture of concrete stepping stones and plywood sheeting. The plywood gets VERY slippery!The pea gravel is wonderful, and was surprisingly less spendy than we thought it would be.HTH
as a kid we always used plywood. just throw some huge rocks on it to stop blowing issues
When I was a kid we just got stuck in the mud and had to walk to the house (we lived on the farm and had a mile-long driveway). Then Mom would get pissed off and bitch about 'the road' until summer. But that probably doesn't help you much.
In Massachusetts, we used gravel... hay might work for awhile, but would probably blow away after awhile... but it certainly wouldn't hurt anything if it did, so that would be good! Another thing you can do is take some old carpet, and cut it into scraps, keep them in the trunk... if you get stuck in mud or snow, you throw them under the tires and get traction that way, works great, and recycles.
Definitely gravel.. plywood will be bad and it is not that cheap. Gravel is the tool you need