OK, now that we've actually seen the area in question it does help quite a bit.
You're going to have to cut into the bank on the upper side to produce the flat area of the roadbed. You'll want to have a drainage ditch on the upper side of the roadbed to prevent water from running over the surface of the road from higher up and washing mud onto the road and road material that you paid for off the road. The ditch should be deep enough for 12" culverts plus some material on top the culvert at appropriate places to carry water under the road if necessary/advisable. If your drive crosses any swale, it's a natural place to run water from the high side to the low. Given the visible slope, I wouldn't personally bother with a ditch on the low side. The ditch on the upper side is a must, 14-18 inches is a good depth so a monsoon won't wash over your road.
Real roads are crowned to direct water to their ditches on either side. Most driveways don't bother with the concept since they're only one lane wide. If you crown a driveway and then plow it in winter, pretty soon there's no crown and a whole lot of stone that you paid for somewhere else.
Use the dozer to compact your initial loads of stone into the soil. Bigger hit up front, less aggravation later. As several of us have said, make your base # 2 or 3 stone.
At the road, most counties/states only install a 20 foot culvert-that you may have to pay for. Depending upon the road you're pulling out on, that may not be enough if you pull trailers. My farm has a 30 foot and 40 foot culvert on different entrances to make sure I can get onto the @#$% state road without driving through ditches.
You're going to have to cut into the bank on the upper side to produce the flat area of the roadbed. You'll want to have a drainage ditch on the upper side of the roadbed to prevent water from running over the surface of the road from higher up and washing mud onto the road and road material that you paid for off the road. The ditch should be deep enough for 12" culverts plus some material on top the culvert at appropriate places to carry water under the road if necessary/advisable. If your drive crosses any swale, it's a natural place to run water from the high side to the low. Given the visible slope, I wouldn't personally bother with a ditch on the low side. The ditch on the upper side is a must, 14-18 inches is a good depth so a monsoon won't wash over your road.
Real roads are crowned to direct water to their ditches on either side. Most driveways don't bother with the concept since they're only one lane wide. If you crown a driveway and then plow it in winter, pretty soon there's no crown and a whole lot of stone that you paid for somewhere else.
Use the dozer to compact your initial loads of stone into the soil. Bigger hit up front, less aggravation later. As several of us have said, make your base # 2 or 3 stone.
At the road, most counties/states only install a 20 foot culvert-that you may have to pay for. Depending upon the road you're pulling out on, that may not be enough if you pull trailers. My farm has a 30 foot and 40 foot culvert on different entrances to make sure I can get onto the @#$% state road without driving through ditches.
