Would love an update video. See how that wood chip road lasted. I've been learning from Gary's best gardening that a huge drought in Texas killed trees along the highway and they ended up pilling the wood chips from the dead trees alongside the highway. The next year it was all green around the wood chips because they held the water from the dew on cool nights. Another Gary tip is that soil is sand, silt, and clay and NOT compost. Compost is toxic poison to roots, sure they can grow in it for a bit but real permanent soil is sand silt and clay. Key thing is having the duff layer where fungus grows and trades the roots nutrients and roots give it sugar. the fungus connects all the root systems of all the plants. He has mentioned some farms with orchards were up on this and piled a foot of wood chips everywhere even up on the tree bark. Didn't matter and they never had to water their trees again. Pretty sweet. The rotting compost rots the roots and starves them of oxygen so it's important for any long term plant to be in actual real permanent soil. All the compost stuff should be on top. Pretty logical when you think about it. All the nurseries have been scammed by the academia mafia to start growing things in dead stuff so you can always wash off the dead stuff and plant in real soil...it's amazing I have seen my plants come back to life instantly when they get the oxygen back. When I get some land I'm going to go crazy with wood chips. But I would love to know how your's has held up over the last 7 years. Thanks man.

So happy to see this video. Have a very long driveway and in need of something affordable in order to have a driveway. Thank you so much!!!

Thanks for the update. Very helpful to know how the roads have held up.

Can't wait to do it, hope it work well like yours.

This is great I'm planning to put wood chips down on my 80x80 clearing I have on my hunting property I hope it works as well as your paths !

Good luck to you John. We just got some goats so I get to use that pasture rotation and pasture info you went over with Troy awhile back looking forward to it.

The wood chips are a great idea, and can be used for so many things. Thanks for the update

Thanks for the update on the wood chips John!

John, thanks for following up on this! I'm glad to see it's working so well. I've attempted to contact 10 or so tree services in the area and they either don't answer their phones / email or they're not interested in bringing it out. This video has reinspired me to keep asking around. Thanks!

that's awesome. Now I want to do this. We have 2 big driveways constantly filled with weeds and drives me absolutely crazy. The wood chips look really nice. - Mike

Hi john,I use mulch in my vege garden for the paths in between rows,let them go for 12 months then dig them in and make the old paths where the mulch was the new beds.the wood chips are a untapped resource.great benefit to the soil and plants.

Looks good. Show us your garden John. It looks great in the background.

Looking great!

Sweet I've been thinking of doing this after seeing this video I will be getting it done when the snow melts!

Thanks a MILLION

Looks really great.

your road will only improve each year as you layer it

Very cool!

Around here wood chip roads turn to mud holes in a year. I have gotten my truck stuck badly in my level wood chip road.

Thanks so much for this! Been getting a lot of nay sayers so it's helpful to see a success. Sorry if you've addressed this in the comments, but do you have any hilly areas? Any thoughts on whether this will work on hills? Property slopes the entire length of the path/drive I want to cover. Can't take my x534 garden tractor down there if it's at all wet or damp from rain. Thanks for any insights!

Would this work on a driveway up a gentle hill?

What implement do you use to level out the wood chips?

Awesome 👍👍.

looking Fantastic:')

👍🏼Great idea. !!!!

do the wood chips push to the surface?

How is it holding up?

I’m very interested in doing this. How often do they drop loads off? And do they always dump w you or do they see if you can take it first?

Now that it has been 3 since your original post how are the roads doing? Specifically when you have traffic and it is raining? How deep is your base of chips? Thanks John

hows it look in 2021? curious, might do this with my property tree lines. Please tag me in the next updated video!

Hey keep up the good work I need some land to do farm stuff

Anyone tried a plate compactor on it?

Hey, what about plowing in the wintertime?

Cool road way John. Shouldn't you also use the wood chips in your hops garden?

Im Gonna try this for my parking area. There’s no downside really. If it doesn’t hold up I can go over it with gravel.

Are you eventually going to have cows or other farm animals in the future?

thanks for the vid! still working good? I actually own a tree service and about to purchase a large property and I think this may solve my problem!

Wow, how you made that slow motion sound? That was awesome.

Hey John, when you laid down the wood chips did you put any geo-fabric or plastic down before you put the wood chips down? Also, how is the drainage off the wood-chip paths after rain storms?

3:35 .. that's how i feel in the morning! ha!

Did you do any plowing on the wood chip road or pathway? Curious how that worked out.

that is awesome 😉😊

great shirt

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Thank i know how to use them now

did you dig up the nice compost soil underneath and use it by now?

Have you had any problems with getting chips and getting infestation of an unwanted bug or fungi? The background of where you filmed looks so beautiful and peaceful. ~Smile!

Hey John, have you seen this film: www.backtoedenfilm.com/ (free download at the bottom of the page link) There are a TON of benefits to the wood chips but I'd not thought about them for roads. Great usage for sure. I'll use that for sure at The Covering as we'll be building roads for tourism as well. Blessings...

you wear that shirt a lot, must be a favorite

The after

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Cardboard.

Har har. Lol. 😀

Gravel is a better idea. my soil is a mix of clay sand and rock after grating and compressing it I add gravel. Twice a summer I grade it with the tractor. every couple of years I add some gravel it isn't that expensive and you have a road that isn't muddy that is semi-permanent. broken down woodchips are good around trees but not great for weed control in gardens.