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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1543062" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>We purchase our road fabric at Flury Supply, a logging supply company that is located just down the road from our ranch. I don't know the brand but it is a heavy woven plastic. Our Farmers Cooperative also has it. We first built a cow road using it about 15 years ago. At that time we were calving in a flat pasture on the other side of a small creek from our feed barn. We had made a hardened crossing over the creek years ago that held up well, but the trail from the main pasture traveled past a swampy area, through several gates and down a trail that turned into mud so deep the little calves would be lunging through mud up to their bellies. We rolled out about 500 feet of fabric about 10 feet wide and covered with 6 to 8 inches of rock. We would have liked to put it on thicker, but hauling it in the RTV a few bucket scoops at a time, discouraged that. That road is still good today. We do haul rock in when ever we get a spot that is puddling or shows exposed fabric, but there has not been as much maintenance as we expected. We have added many other roads and pads since then. </p><p> </p><p>We can buy the fabric by the foot, but we now keep a roll on hand, so we always have some whenever we decide to work on another project. This is a large ranch and there are always more projects.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1543062, member: 9933"] We purchase our road fabric at Flury Supply, a logging supply company that is located just down the road from our ranch. I don't know the brand but it is a heavy woven plastic. Our Farmers Cooperative also has it. We first built a cow road using it about 15 years ago. At that time we were calving in a flat pasture on the other side of a small creek from our feed barn. We had made a hardened crossing over the creek years ago that held up well, but the trail from the main pasture traveled past a swampy area, through several gates and down a trail that turned into mud so deep the little calves would be lunging through mud up to their bellies. We rolled out about 500 feet of fabric about 10 feet wide and covered with 6 to 8 inches of rock. We would have liked to put it on thicker, but hauling it in the RTV a few bucket scoops at a time, discouraged that. That road is still good today. We do haul rock in when ever we get a spot that is puddling or shows exposed fabric, but there has not been as much maintenance as we expected. We have added many other roads and pads since then. We can buy the fabric by the foot, but we now keep a roll on hand, so we always have some whenever we decide to work on another project. This is a large ranch and there are always more projects. [/QUOTE]
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