What a mess!!!

[Fordy20]

If the ground is fairly level, a Harley rock rake would work good.

 

[Fordy20]

Harley rock rake

 

[Mark-Mi]

Township rocked the road last spring, bigger rock and few fines. Didn’t get much rain to be able to work it in . They plowed snow and this is the result. I usually mow to the road, not sure what to do with it now.View attachment 137709View attachment 137709View attachment 137710View attachment 137711View attachment 137712View attachment 137713View attachment 137714View attachment 137715

Township rocked the road last spring, bigger rock and few fines. Didn’t get much rain to be able to work it in . They plowed snow and this is the result. I usually mow to the road, not sure what to do with it now.

Township rocked the road last spring, bigger rock and few fines. Didn’t get much rain to be able to work it in . They plowed snow and this is the result. I usually mow to the road, not sure what to do with it now.View attachment 137709View attachment 137709View attachment 137710View attachment 137711View attachment 137712View attachment 137713View attachment 137714View attachment 137715View attachment 137716

Poor management and supervision.
In the late fall of 2024, my county did a 4-in deep grading on my perfectly smooth road with a 90% chance of rain the next day. Never got a chance to get packed and all I had was a sloppy mess all winter.
Seems to be a new truck driver this winter. Plowed a tiny skiff of snow off my gravel road last week and then decided to do a 40 mph high speed 1 in grading with the truck blade. Now all I have is a muddy mess. Should always carry the blade on a gravel road and leave a little snow on top to protect the gravel.
I had a friend that when his roadway looked like yours. He would go in with a couple neighbors and rent this machine that looked a small ride on front roller accept it had fiberglass fingers on it and he would power rake the stones back into the road with it.

 

[Brownie450]

#1 problem is that they rocked the road too late in the year. It
didn't have a chance to get worked in enough.
#2 problem is that Chris had about the same amount of snow
that we did [around 10" on a Saturday] since we're 15 miles
apart. Nobody here [Eastern Iowa] got roads plowed except
for blacktops that day, & in most cases the plows got called
off. It's very difficult to plow snow & determine exact depth
when you have that much snow & wind blowing like it did.
But yes, that is a bunch of rock to reclaim.
Jim

 

[dixon boy RL]

that just goes with live in country , we just rake it back,i hav edrug cattle panels at times also it will pullit it back to road if you just keep looping around. we apreeciate the road being passable more than some rock in the yard, they have a battery power broom that works on also. just part of the life in country

 

[Mcrafty1]

Harley rock rake

It's not really a rock rake, it's a box rake, but where to the rocks go?

 

[Earl Grey]

The only way to prevent that is to pack the snow down, let it freeze, then the plow shoes will have something to slide on. Maybe if the plow had bigger shoes on the blade? If it doesn't freeze, there's not much you can do about it, people want their roads plowed.

 

[Fordy20]

It's not really a rock rake, it's a box rake, but where to the rocks go?

If you look close you'll see that it has a pto to turn the carbide spiked drum and hydraulics to angle the drum. The sides that you see as a "box" are removable, you angle the rake and a winrow of rocks comes off the side. If you do a search for Harley rock rake you'll see several examples.

 

[psimmer]

Township rocked the road last spring, bigger rock and few fines. Didn’t get much rain to be able to work it in . They plowed snow and this is the result. I usually mow to the road, not sure what to do with it now.View attachment 137709View attachment 137709View attachment 137710View attachment 137711View attachment 137712View attachment 137713View attachment 137714View attachment 137715View attachment 137716

We have lived in this house 39 years, and have it to clean up every spring. Doesn’t seem to matter which county truck driver, have been many different ones over the years. I have used rakes and wheelbarrows, blade on tractor, and the self propelled walk behind power brooms. The power brooms work the best.

 

[Mcrafty1]

If you look close you'll see that it has a pto to turn the carbide spiked drum and hydraulics to angle the drum. The sides that you see as a "box" are removable, you angle the rake and a winrow of rocks comes off the side. If you do a search for Harley rock rake you'll see several examples.

Ok I see, so the one you've shown in the picture is just being used to level out the farrows?

 

[Tony in SD]

I have had that problem in the past. This is what I successfully used:

https://www.garvee.com/products/garvee-6-ft-landscape-rake-for-pho-15qc20pn?variant=51025873535289&country=US¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&tw_source=google&tw_adid=&tw_campaign=23139703141&tw_kwdid=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23129844156&gbraid=0AAAAA9Syo39QJcmrJ8oPQQirIU42LRD6P&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiqesxIfgkQMVDZXuAR0_rRTJEAQYASABEgJyy_D_BwE

It didn’t get every last rock but it got most of them .

 

[Sbird]

I've got almost a mile of gravel lane on our place and I use a landscaping rake every spring to recover as much as I can and to smooth the dirt out. At $35 a ton now for 57's I want it back. I barrowed a Harley rake one year and it scalped the "yard" along the lane and kilt my fescue I had planted.
Talk to the County or Twp engineer and see if they plan on cleaning it up since it's their mess and their road.

 

[2SteveWI]

As others have said I consider rocks, or gravel in the ditch to be part of living in the country. If our plow operator left an inch of snow on the road, he would get called back to finish the job. We have a set of rubber paddles for our stihl mini cultivator. In the spring we paddle it together and used it as a donation to my driveway. Steve.

 

[47fivewindow]

I've got almost a mile of gravel lane on our place and I use a landscaping rake every spring to recover as much as I can and to smooth the dirt out. At $35 a ton now for 57's I want it back. I barrowed a Harley rake one year and it scalped the "yard" along the lane and kilt my fescue I had planted.
Talk to the County or Twp engineer and see if they plan on cleaning it up since it's their mess and their road.

I agree. A landscape rake is what I use in the spring to get the rocks out of the grass. It's not perfect but better than having to do it by hand. Perhaps you could get the township to buy one and keep the citizens happy by touching up their mess.

 

[Rich'sToys]

As others have said I consider rocks, or gravel in the ditch to be part of living in the country. If our plow operator left an inch of snow on the road, he would get called back to finish the job.

Exactly! That's a no-win job. No matter how they do it, someone will complain about it. Everyone's an expert on how to run a snow plow or road grader, but if the plow operator told you how to run your farm, you'd have a fit! I've seen it happen!

 

[Mcrafty1]

When I commented about the county owning a potion of the shoulder what I was saying is they are doing you a favor by allowing you to mow it, if push came to shove they could say stay of of their ditch. It would then grow into a bigger eye sore than a little spring clean up is.

 

[fusion1]

Looks to me like there were Newbie on that shift
boss told them go and spread anti skid and they did it

 

[Texasmark]

They need to bring a grader and cut that shoulder down. If the snow plow is bringing up dirt, that means the water can't get off the road.

And put it in the center of the road if its gravel, tapering down to the sides. That's the way they build country roads down here.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

And put it in the center of the road if its gravel, tapering down to the sides. That's the way they build country roads down here.

Not the amount of dirt I saw in the pictures... Best just to cut the shoulder , gather up the windrow and take it back to the yard, possibly to shred and screen it for topsoil. You make sense , though, if the shoulder contains enough road material for a crown.

 

[McCormick 40]

When I commented about the county owning a potion of the shoulder what I was saying is they are doing you a favor by allowing you to mow it, if push came to shove they could say stay of of their ditch. It would then grow into a bigger eye sore than a little spring clean up is.

Around here, yes they own the ditch but as the adjacent property owner we are required to mow along the road twice a year and control trees and noxious weeds in the ditches.