They told me in very plain words how little I knew about fixing roads.
I have spent over 50 years of my life working the soil and building
roads and learned the hard way. I don't have to have to be hit over the
head too many times before I get the message.
I told them at the meeting in mud season that when we get a heavy rain
in the summer that mud was going to be back on top which it was last
June 12. My wife and I headed for New York that morning and drove out
the Plunkton Road. It was so slippery that at 10 or 12 mph you could
hardly stay in the road. I believe anyone who tried to drive that road
that morning will tell the same story.
It was not just that road that was bad, but several others that they had treated the same way.
I learned a long time ago that when you have mud in the spring like
that, you need to put down several inches of silty sand first and then
add a little good gravel on top of it. The sand will not let that mud
up through. It is like a filter cloth that keeps the mud down.
There was no sign on June 12 of the crushed stone that they had dumped
into that mud. It was the slipperiest road I have ever been on and I
have seen some pretty slippery wet ice in my day, but nothing like that.
Lenord Robinson
Warren
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