How to Stake a Driveway
The proper way to stake a driveway is extremely opinion based. If you are plowing your own driveway it may seem unecessary. However, when a driveway is winding and there are obsticles that must not be pushed into the need becomes genuine.
I will start with the entrance and end at the garage:
The Entrance: place a stake on either side of the drive where the drive becomes the consistent width. This is normally about 10 feet from the road. This allows enough room for snow to be pushed off the entrance to the sides if necessary.
The Drive: stakes are only necessary 20-30 feet appart if the drive is straight. If the drive winds then place a stake at least at the begining of the wind, middle and end of the curve. It is extremely important to remember these stakes must be placed at least 2 feet off the drive. It will be impossible for the Plowguy to get right close to the stakes without hitting them so to make the drive wide enough make sure the stakes are set back at least 2 feet.
The Turnarounds: These are the time consuming part of plowing. simply stake the corners and if there are any obstacles which must be observed place a stake in front of them. (Well, or power box, Driveway lights) Keep in mind the snow must be pushed to the end or back dragged. So do not put a stake in the middle of the Turnaround just the corners.
Garage itself: mark off the flower beds by placing a stake at the corner of each so the Plowguy knows where it ends. If no snow can be pushed in a flower bed make sure stakes are 6ft apart so a plow can not be pushed past the stakes. This will make it obvious for whoever is plowing that snow should not be pushed here. However, it will limit the ability for the snow to be pushed. - it will make the job more difficult and take more time.
Staking is easy and necessary to keep the grass from being destroyed. Sometimes the grass will be overturned and every Plowguy hates it! Winding drives are very hard to stay on and often will have tire marks on the edges in the spring… Unavoidable. where the snow is being pushed is another place where the grass will be scalped. It only takes one push to tear it up. Figuring the plow goes over the spot 60-80 times once is a good percentage.
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