01-23-2016, 01:58 PM
I learned to drive in a beater PU truck on the kind of washboard gravel roads that can shake loose your fillings and pot holes that could bust an axel. Chip seal came after I had moved out, but they were darn good roads, in spite of hills and seasonal flooding on stretches. But one stretch of road was done by a county commissioner's cousin and it was so bad the local farmers stripped the chip seal off and went back to gravel after 5 years of repairs that didn't work. So my take on chip seal is it can work really well if done right, and be really terrible if done wrong.