Tempory / portable road

I'm after something I can lay over very, very muddy ground and drive a car over to stop it sinking! It only needs to bridge about 6 foot / 2 meters. I could just use a piece of wooden board but if I could get something specially suited for a reasonable price it might be worth it.

Something like the mats here would be ideal http://www.grassform.co.uk/ground-protection-mats.htm although I only need them to cope with a car so something a bit lighter and cheaper would be ideal.

Does anyone know of anything suitable or even what I should be searching for?

Gervase

You might be OK with some waffle boards, which are usually about 6ft long by 18in wide.
Try these people.
It might also be worth trying some of the military surplus places for sand ladders.
Failing that, try searching eBay for waffle boards and sand ladders.

Ixy

They have some stuff for dairy farms that they use to make roads for the cows over mud with - can't think of a brand name and apparently it's expensive but it might be worth looking at some agricultural catalogues for it?

RichardW

What about those car parking on grass plastic grids you can get? More for perm fixing but could be use as a temp measure. Or for a cheap version get lots of milk / beer crates & cut the bottoms off & use them.

Or buy some half round fence posts / strainers & staple to some stiff fencing wire or nail to more half rounds on the edges so they cant spread.

Treacodactyl

Those tracmats seem ok, perhaps a bit narrow as I only have a 2 wheel drive car so and I'll need to reverse over them. Do they have holes in and would they sink much, probably not judging by the pics.

I would mainly use them in one place but if they were portable that would be ideal, so perhaps not the fence post idea. Some robust mats could be ok, I used corrugated metal sheets as an emergency measure and they worked but I'm not keen to carry on using them.

Treacodactyl

Just posting here so I don't forget them.

This looks a bit lightweight for what I want but at about £35 for two 2m x 0.5m strips seem reasonable. http://www.grassmats.co.uk/type-c-mesh-2m-x-05m-strips-26-p.asp

Or these sort of mats might be ok, http://www.fieldguard.com/field_path_mats.html

Bebo

Google geotextile temporary road and lots of options some up. Here's a few I found.

http://www.groundprotectionmats.co.uk/

http://www.groundprotection.co.uk/duradeck/index.php

http://www.boddingtons-ltd.com/forestry/grasscarpet.htm

dpack

old carpet works quite well over mud or snow

dpack

metal sheets can fly out backwards ,maybe a drainage ditch?

Treacodactyl

Bebo wrote:

Google geotextile temporary road and lots of options some up. Here's a few I found.

Thanks for the links, the first one is the same people as my original post. Looks ideal but expensive. It does give me some more clues to search for,

Treacodactyl

dpack wrote:

metal sheets can fly out backwards ,maybe a drainage ditch?

I know, I call the metal sand ladders ankle cutters. Drainage ditch would be ideal but my current problem isn't my land.

RichardW

For the cost of all these things would a tonne of slate waste not be a cheaper, better & longer term solution?

Treacodactyl

To do the job properly a drainage pipe and appropriate gravel and chippings would be best but until that's done I would like some temporary ideas. I bet they would also come in handy elsewhere.

dpack

im not an expert driver but with 4 old carpets i can get a motor almost anywhere Laughing

stair runners are ideal
edited cos i remembered that 4 strips allows for front/rear/4
wheel drive
trenching tool can be useful as well
at a tricky spot even a hessian sack or jumper can give enough traction to get moving
dropping tyre pressure is useful sometimes
moving steadily is best in squelch unless it is a blast through the bad bit situation

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