What a mess!!!

[TerryfromSWIowa]

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.

County does not own it landowner owns to the middle of the road, county just has a right of way so many feet from middle of the road. No different than a gas line or a power line. Farmer owns the land they have right of way around it.

 

[Mcrafty1]

County does not own it landowner owns to the middle of the road, county just has a right of way so many feet from middle of the road. No different than a gas line or a power line. Farmer owns the land they have right of way around it.

That's different, seems strange the county would maintain a road for a private landowner. I don't understand why they would do that...but then again I learn something new every day.

 

[Mcrafty1]

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.

Ok, I won't argue about a situation I'm not privy to, I was just stating the way it works where I live.

 

[Harold Hubbard]

That's different, seems strange the county would maintain a road for a private landowner. I don't understand why they would do that...but then again I learn something new every day.

Probably a public road. Probably been there forever, at some point a landowner gave a deeded right of way to the county, rather than actually selling the land the road is on.

The only real cure for the gravel problem is pavement, and I bet that would get some serious complaints about taxes.

 

[Weldon K]

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

A large, powerful backpack gasoline powered leaf blower will move that loose gravel from your short grass if it is above freezing temperatures and gravel has not been run over and mashed into the soil. Won't do anything for the grass turfs that are there, you'll have to move that by hand. Move the gravel into a concentrated row or piles near the road. If you put it into the road, it will be plowed out again next time snow is scraped.

 

[Watthour]

If they salt the same way they plow, there won't be much grass there to mow this summer anyway.

I'm in the group that thinks a powered broom would be worth a try, but sometime after April.

 

[Dick L]

I get the sod in my yard when we get snow when the ground is not frozen. When it is bad like yours I use the disc and packer to chew it up. I don't get the stones in my yard. A neighbor with a long lime stone driveway would use a shop vac and dump it back in the drive. As lazy as I am in getting stone like that out of a yard I would most likely use the disc and packer on it as well to get the stone down where the mower blades didn't catch them.

Run over it with a cultipacker a couple of times,,,,, set mower as high as possible, run Very SLOW AND hope for the best.

You got my vote.