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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zghorner" data-source="post: 3238895" data-attributes="member: 35089"><p>our road washed out every single year on a hill which is very steep and about 150ish yards long (neighbor is filling in the ditch at the bottom of said hill)...I paid a "professional" $5,500 to fix it several years back right before my neighbor moved in and it was destroyed the following rainy season. It has been really good now for 3 years since i did it myself and the trick was i borrowed a "skip loader" or landscape tractor (case model 570lxt or john deere 210) that had a hydraulic blade that had down force and could be tilted and held in that position instead of just floating like typical 3 pt. We put it at a tilt and angled it in cutting new much better ditches and brought the material back on the road which gave a really healthy crown then laid gravel and spread at a tilt to maintain that crown. I also went with 2.5" crush thinking it wouldnt wash away so bad on the hill and it is bumpier for sure but seems to have been worth the extra $50 per load. since then the water runs off really well and while those new ditches have taken a beating, our road has never needed less maintenance.</p></blockquote><p></p>