Bog mats

[slack ma girdle]

I have a wet site that i am going to be making wetter, and i need to access with my digger. Does anyone have any recommendations  for track/bog mats?

[swinny]

All the yanks use big wooden sleepers and place in front of themselves.  Not sure what uk folk do

[Stephen Blair]

Get McGiver!  Find some big railway sleepers and make your own or if possible gather brash and timber close by and run it in.  
 Thats what we were helping with last week, luckily Windblow site beside the bog that’s to be made Boggier! 

[slack ma girdle]

53 minutes ago, swinny said:

All the yanks use big wooden sleepers and place in front of themselves.  Not sure what uk folk do

I think I will try a few of these.

Used Ground Protection Mats - Safe Trak Mat - SAFE-CYCLE

SAFE-CYCLE.CO.UK

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Ideal for moving heavy machinery, creating temporary driveways and parking areas and protecting ground in various...

I will splice some polyprop loops in the middle so i can easily move them around with the digger .

I might make a few out of sleepers and scaffolding poles, but they will be very heavy.

[doobin]

16 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

I think I will try a few of these.

Used Ground Protection Mats - Safe Trak Mat - SAFE-CYCLE

SAFE-CYCLE.CO.UK

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Ideal for moving heavy machinery, creating temporary driveways and parking areas and protecting ground in various...

I will splice some polyprop loops in the middle so i can easily move them around with the digger .

I might make a few out of sleepers and scaffolding poles, but they will be very heavy.

Those will fold in half if it's as boggy as I think you are describing.

 

Proper bog mats are made from half a dozen large sleepers bolted together, and yes, they are heavy!!

[dumper]

There is a big difference between ground protection and bog mats, these 8 x 4 mats will just let the machine slid of if used in the wet, true mats are timber baulks bolted together if really wet I’ve used sleepers stitched together four / five is about as much as a three tonne digger can handle, then hay make your way out and back using as many as you can afford 

  

[swinny]

1 hour ago, dumper said:

There is a big difference between ground protection and bog mats, these 8 x 4 mats will just let the machine slid of if used in the wet, true mats are timber baulks bolted together if really wet I’ve used sleepers stitched together four / five is about as much as a three tonne digger can handle, then hay make your way out and back using as many as you can afford 

  

Yup the yank way

[slack ma girdle]

Back to the drawing board .

Next option is 2 sleepers parallel 8" apart, with 3× 24" scaffold poles drilled through and bolted.

The tracks on the digger are 7' wide, so i can either track across or along them.

That will also work out the cheaper option.

[slack ma girdle]

37 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

Back to the drawing board .

Next option is 2 sleepers parallel 8" apart, with 3× 24" scaffold poles drilled through and bolted.

The tracks on the digger are 7' wide, so i can either track across or along them.

That will also work out the cheaper option.

Forgot to add shit diagram

[monkeybusiness]

4 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

Forgot to add shit diagram

I’d just use 3 or 4 loose sleepers instead of that tbh.