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Originally Posted by Pete
But if your existing roadway is firm - since you have a stream - you can put some 4x4s along the edge of the roadway, take the same bags of cement, hand mix them and pour them between the 4x4s. Some old wire fencing would be a nice addition in the middle of the cement..
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Old railroad ties, if you can get them cheaply...coated with creosote, they might lasts forever...old power/phone poles, cut to length could help build a corduroy road...if you had some cable, drilled holes through the 4x4/railroad ties/powerpoles, anchored with a dead man at either end, you should have a pretty substantial ford...and if you can find a pre-70s FM 5-34, some of this stuff should be in there...there is also an FM on Roads and Airfields, FM 5-430...should be something for that in the subject area of Theater of Operations Construction...FM 5-280...
And wikipedia is occassionally useful...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy_road
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Last edited by lksteve; 02-14-2011 at 18:37.
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