Fixing driveway/road dip

GaryWT wrote:
Good luck, the key is to get as strong as you can but keep them as light as you can.

Yes, strong and light is why I'm asking here for ideas. I guess strong and easy to setup/move is good too....

A photo of just the driveway won't look too bad. I would need one of of the trailer backing in, which I don't have.


The problem is that one side of the trailer goes over the curb and the other side goes in the dip between the road and the driveway. The TV is at the crown of of the road. This causes things to be at a strange angle. I can't disco or loosen the WD hitch either - it will hit the driveway when backing in if I do that. Many times when backing up, I have to put my foot in the throttle way more than I should have to. I'm pretty sure that if I can get rid of the dip so that I'm backing on more level ground that I can eliminate whatever is binding before something breaks.

I suspect that I need to fill in about 6" at the point where the driveway and street meet.


Another approach would be a variation on this:

I use to have 6, 10 foot 2X10's that I used to get the trailer in and out of the driveway. Built a cart to move them around but would have to lay them out with support under to get in and out. Put 2 down and one on top. My son spray painted the outline so we knew where to put them. They got beat up pretty good over the 2 years and what a pain they were. Pull out some, set them out, get in the street, park, put boards away, come home, park, set up boards etc etc to put away and usually 90 degrees out on a Sunday afternoon. After 2 years we traded in the trailer for something higher.

Good luck, the key is to get as strong as you can but keep them as light as you can.

You would need to have the entire approach covered - how about some 4 X 8 sheets of plywood supported underneath by sand bags? Will brainstorm more on this.

Very difficult to offer a suggestion without a picture of the actual situation but if I had a configuration like the one pictured, instead of building ramps, I'd lay down plank, lengthwise, in the dip.