Stone hardcore track remediation, restoration & repair
WBC Civil Engineering Contractors, established since 1998 are based in rural Herefordshire. The experience and wide ranging construction knowledge that WBC have gained over this time has given WBC the opportunity to expand it's range of plant and machinery to provide an access track restoration solution which recycles existing stone and hardcore tracks. Much of WBC's work is within the rural, farm, forestry and agricultural sectors and the owners of WBC are keen cattle farmers themselves.
WBC have invested in the latest plant and machinery. Problems such as sunken wheel tracks, potholes and rutting are removed. The machinery is tractor mounted and can therefore be utilised over difficult terrain or areas where access is difficult. WBC also have their own HGV transport to deliver the plant and machinery to your site.
The cost in constructing or resurfacing a new Tarmac asphalt or concrete roadway can be very expensive, so a cheap method of restoring existing stone and hardcore tracks, utilising the existing stone or recycled hardcore materials, is a cost effective answer for repairing roadways, tracks or public rights of ways, which can then be used for tractors, plant, machinery and HGV's. The process is quick and disruption is minimal. It is surprising what WBC can do! Sunken tracks can have additional material added to bring them up to levels. Pot holes and ruts are removed, Large lumps of rock, bricks and concrete blocks are crushed and broken up into an ideal size to make a hardcore material, which can easily be consolidated to form a new roadway.
WBC's civil engineering experience ensure the process is a longstanding solution. The tracks are ideally laid to falls, so that rain and surface water are shed off the roadway surface, to help prevent pooling and rutting. There is often other works required on site, such as land drainage, ducting, installation of services, bridges, culverts, footpaths, fords, ditching, boardwalks, drainage, attenuation ponds, concreting works and buildings which WBC can also provide due to their fleet of other plant and equipment.
WBC can also construct new roadways. WBC have a range of excavators, dumpers, tractors, agricultural plant and machinery to excavate sites, move spoil and debris to create level paths, cut roadways across hillsides, fell and clear tree stumps or obstructions and create culverts, where roadways cross existing streams, ditches or brooks and ditches.
Stone material can be excavated on site and transported to the track, if there is an area of stone or an old quarry on site. Alternatively, recycled aggregate or quarried stone material can be delivered to site and then distributed along the track using our tractor and tipping trailer units. WBC can often provide solutions where there seems to be none.
Many rural sites have issues with waterlogged fields and wet areas, which make access difficult. WBC have 4-wheel drive tractors and tracked access vehicles. WBC also have a wide understanding of drainage systems, which can dewater an often flooded area of land, either by trenching, installing perforated land drains, constructing French drains or by raising the access track above water levels.
Constructing a rural, farm, equestrian or forestry roadway with hardcore, rather than non-permeable asphalt or concrete is more sustainable and environmental. Hardcore material, made up of waste bricks, concrete and asphalt allows penetration of rain and surface water and is better in absorbing and providing a non-slip surface. It is therefore ideal for agricultural, equine or forestry plant and machinery.
Often, old access pathways sink during continued use, which make them more prone to water pooling in periods of wet weather. This makes them softer and more susceptible to rutting and potholes. Low areas of existing lanes can be brought up to a level higher than the surrounding ground by introducing additional hardcore material. This hardcore is combined with the existing material and re-consolidated to remove soft spots from the roadway. Culverts or bridges can be constructed to bridge especially wet areas and drainage installed to divert water away or under the roadway.
To provide a longstanding and durable track, it is important that the road is angled with a camber to ensure the rainwater is shed off the surface of the roadway. This can be provided with either a central camber, so that the water is shed off the roadway either side, or using a cross fall, running across the width of the track. We can also incorporate speed humps to help shed water off a roadway running up a hill or set precast concrete or steel channels within the track to prevent rainwater tracking through the hardcore material.
If there is a requirement for a track or hardstanding area to be constructed of a stronger, harder material, or where plant and machinery are turning, which would loosen a hardcore structure, cement can be added to the remediation technique.
The road stabilisation technique binds the hardcore structure to provide a hard, durable surface suitable for loading areas, yards or to construct an access onto a highway. The amount of cement incorporated within the hardcore structure is calculated dependent upon the use and loading's required.
The ground remediation process can recycle a huge range of hardcore materials, to include bricks, concrete blocks, asphalt, tarmac planings, quarried stone, granite, tiles and crushed concrete. The exact makeup of the hardcore is not of overall importance, as long as the hardcore material is non compressible or will not break down over time, like wood or plastic. The soil stabilisation technique, adding cement to the hardcore, can provide surfaces which have similar properties to concrete.
WBC is located in rural Herefordshire but can offer track remediation, drainage and soil stabilisation services throughout Wales, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Bristol and Somerset. Please contact us on 01568 605060 so that we can discuss your proposals.
Plant hire with skilled operator
WBC have a wide range of plant available to hire with skilled operators
- 360 excavators/diggers from 6-22.5 T
- Dumper hire up to 10 Tonne
- Bobcat skidsteer machine with laser controlled grading blade
- Hire of Telehandlers/Loadalls
- Sit-on vibratory rolls to hire
- Somero Copperhead laser screeding machine
- Whiteman sit-on Power Trowels
- Total station and dual grade lasers
- Tractor with MeriRoad Crusher unit
- Tractor with PTH Ripper
- Tractor with multi-plate compactors
