After a true winter with lots of snow, it is now mud season. A few weeks ago my friend called and said I may not want to come visit because of the mud. I took my son's car and barely made it through. It is always that one patch that wants to suck you in. Mud season is a time when driving gets fun. No matter how many times the town grades the road (if they can) the mud wins. Only once did I bury a vehicle. The tractor finally got it out. Happy Mud Season Monkeys!! Hope you are prepared
Its a loosing battle with mud, until the frost goes out of the ground. We are right in the middle of it here.
The past year we have had a crazy amount of rain, we have been in mud season all winter. The rain has been killing cattle at an alarming rate, they can't get enough calories from hay to deal with long term cold rain.
We go through mud and dust cycles all year here, but I only see mud after I get a few miles inland. Dad used to push mud around with the tractor on our 1/4 mile long driveway in Michigan. Put tons of gravel on it and it all just sank into the mud. After years of runny mud on the driveway we started using a tiny triangular garden hoe to make drainage channels for the water during the spring thaw. With a little work in the fall to get the driveway nicely crowned and packed down before the first freeze we finally had a driveway that was passable to cars, and only required an occasional scratch with a hoe to drain off the puddles.
LOL, I get no snow, but lots of rain in different seasons in different amounts. I also get not much in the way of mud. My sand hills just do not make good mud. However, give me mostly dry spells for a month or less and my AWESOME SUGAR SAND on my 1.2 mile drive from house to mail box develops about 7 or 8 real good SAND TRAPS that if any fool slows down too much or intentionally comes to a stop, will drag your vehicle to a stop, and when you try to get moving again will suck your vehicle down until the drive axle or bodypan is firmly sitting on soft fine sand. One guy in a Crown Vic, whose profession you can probably guess, got in here okay, and then got stuck 3 times leaving. Can anyone say Barney Fife?
Alaska has two seasons. Winter and Construction. I can tell Breakup has started, the beer bottles and dog poop are starting to show as the snow melts down in the park across the street....
Odd year here Mud Season started in October and thus far has persisted to this day. Usually MUD Season is February, March and April. Even the hogs are sick of the mud!
Just spent a few days back East. Mud season is in full swing. Places where drainage is blocked or non-existent have mud a foot deep in places. The boys and I spent time working on Grandma's driveway. We dug some trenches so the snow melt stays out of the driveway. But the roadway was a mess.
If you get an old style box springs and drag it behind the Kubota,Adding a little weight to it The thing will grade the driveway after several passes....
We have dragged fields with old box springs. It works good. Issue back East with mud season is frost heaves.
