Best path for a slope

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Hi ,
My builder thinks gravel in special mesh, but I’ve looked into it and we have a 16% slope, so the gravel won’t hold.
I want something cheap that you can get a wheel barrier up and down easily that looks good. It’s about 35 metres, so it’s needs to be faultyy quick to lay or the price of labour becomes prohibitive.

Help please hive mind

gravel in mesh is definitely cheapest. Putting timbers across at intervals would hold the gravel back, and then you might be able to have a narrow slope in the timber that you can drive a wheelbarrow through the gap?

But moving a wheelbarrow over gravel and/or on a steep slope is never easy. how important is the wheelbarrow? you might do better to use a step-cart with a garden trug on it.

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parietal thanks for the suggestions, I’m not sure even the occasional piece of wood would work with our set up. The wheel barrow is important as every year we buy either one or two tons (tonnes?) of horse manure that all gets barrowed down🤪.

I’ve got 10cm steps, and they’re easy with a wheelbarrow if you go backwards. But my steps are a good metre apart, you’ll not manage that with a 1 in 6 slope.

The park/nature reserve solution would be crushed limestone, which is tamped down hard and sets into a solid surface.

otherwise you’re into slabs, concrete, tarmac, resin bound gravel. Anything loose will just all find its way to the bottom.

Ah - just consulted the bible, and self-binding gravels (like tge crushed limestone) aren’t suitable for over 12%

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Talked to DH about this thread. He commented that if the step is less than half the diameter of the wheel, you can bump up it. A 10cm step every 0.5m would give a
20% slope, so a 10cm step at just over 0.5m spacing would do it. You’d probably have to carry a few bucketfuls of gravel from the bottom step to the top every few years but that’s manageable