Driveway repair

[Case215]

Not sure if this is the right fourm to post under. My shop drive way has a few pot holes. The whole driveway is old and year and years of adding rocks and the potholes develop. Would a couple bags of cement be the beat option to fixing these holes. What really needs to be done is to dig down and refill but not a option and also to grade the dirt on the sides but each side is not my property and would make a mess

 

[HarleyHappy]

looking at the standing water, you need some crown both ways or to the ditch side.
This looks like a driveway that could use some filter fabric and a dump and run of mini pack.

 

[Welder Dave]

Would be good to scarify the whole driveway and add a load of roadcrush to it. You can't just put material in the holes. You have to work it up and dig the holes up to get rid of them.

 

[Case215]

looking at the standing water, you need some crown both ways or to the ditch side.
This looks like a driveway that could use some filter fabric and a dump and run of mini pack.

Yes added 2 loads of limestone two years ago on just the front half and its back to being bad…problem is we are farmers and when we harvest its 7 days a week for 3 months straight rain or sun and 90-100k loads pass down that drive way for 10 days straight plus randomly threw out the season to repair tires etc but we got caught cutting out at the shop in the rain last year and really blew it back out…

 

[Clyde Hathaway]

Everyone is correct. Edges should be higher than grassy shoulder, rising to the center crown at 3% which is 0.03' per foot or 3/8" per foot. That way water gets off the road and haul vehicles don't be plowing thru standing water.

 

[smifwal]

Being a farmer do you have a box blade with rippers, or a tiller, you probably have 100 tons of gravel under the surface this is my back dive I don't use very often every other year I reclaim it with my skid steer tiller

It looks like so when I am done.i didn't add gravel I swear

 

[Tinkerer]

No bags of cement. You will have to remove the rocks they will create.
The LH shoulder appears to be nearly level with the road. If it is, that is a major problem.
The ditch on the rh side in the photo appears to be a lot higher than the ditch along the access road.
Can you regrade it, so it can drain.
I see you haven't logged in since you posted this thread.
I'm done here until I see some a reply on your part.

 

[Case215]

I took my angle blade from a old motor patrol we made to fit a 3 point hitch for a tractor and turtle backed it…i took most of the dirt off the top but also took alot of limestone with it. It has been raining every few days lately so i will try to keep packing it down then haul a few loads to cap it and hopefully he holds for quite a few years

 

[Tinkerer]

You may as well waste any limestone that has dirt mixed in it.

If that was my driveway with the problems you have, I would it excavate it deep enough to make room for 6 inches of three inch stone, then top it off with CA7 limestone.
I have done that and have had excellent results ----> A driveway that drains and will not settle.
I never put CA6 or any gravel with fines in it for a finish grade because it compacts too tightly and will develop puddles like you are having problems with.
CA6 is terrible to have in front of a building because the fines sticks to tires and will always make a floor dirty. Especially when the driveway is wet.