Creating a turn around area for truck deliveries

If all that driveway is solid, and visibility from the driveway to 67 is good, I think it'd be easy enough to just pull in and down to the creek.

Unload, then back out onto 67.

Driveway looks around 16-18' wide

 

bigger is always better and if you unloading hay off a truck don't forget to leave plenty of room for your tractor or skid loader to unload the truck from both sides. you don't want a gravel pad just big enough for a semi and then have your tractor dragging mud all over the pad while unloading.

Backing off your narrow driveway a 60ft wide pad would be nice and I'd go 150ft deep to give the truck room to wiggle around

 

Keep in mind not all drivers delivering to you will have the same experience and skill set.

A good set of wings on each side of the entrance as you have here (red line) will be helpful…..

 

I can add some gravel across from it, but probably only 10 feet or so deep because there is a fence there for the neighbors pasture

 

I get what MSlachbar is saying, further down 67 there are some decent ditches along the road, but thankfully not where I am, and the shoulders are solid. Semi's have pulled off on the shoulder before. The issue with unloading on 67 is 1. I'd be unloading on the road (as in blocking traffic) and 2. it would only allow for unloading on one side.

 

When I mentioned before I don't like jacking my tires too much, sometimes you just have to, but doing it unloaded would be much bettee . No wider than your drive is, unless you widen it where you put that pad, i still think pullin in and backing out empty, or just backing into your drive from 67 to the creek would be best.

For me anyways.

 

Yeah, i was just saying it looked like plenty of room to get in

 

The width of a skinny 2-lane road, or a 1.5 lane dirt road, is not much room in front of the spot you need to back into. I vote to make the yellow section AT LEAST 4 truck-widths wide if the driver needs to back in off the skinny road south of the road marked 67. Remember that truck not only has to back into your property but ne needs, presumably, to get back to hwy 67 when he leaves, so minimum width for a parked truck to be delivered by helicopter isn't even the minimum necessary. It also depends on whether the hay is coming in on a spread-axle trailer, which doesn't maneuver well, or tandem axle which maneuvers better.

 

Dry van or tandem flatbed, maybe. Add half that for spread axle flatbed, if they don't want to scrub tires.