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Customer story. Hennessey, Oklahoma
Thought it was going to rip through but it didn't.Edgar Olmos, Okie Hauling & Dirtworx LLC
Edgar Olmos runs Okie Hauling & Dirtworx out of Hennessey, Oklahoma: land clearing, grading, site prep, gravel driveways and the hauling that goes with it. In September 2026 his crew cleared a site near Ringwood, built a shop pad, and ran a new gravel driveway around to the house. Under all of it went nine full rolls of DOTDAY XBAR 5oz dual-layer, the gravel driveway fabric Edgar had sourced himself before we ever talked fabric. Then he drove a Bobcat and a loaded end dump across it. Here is how it went.
This site started as trees and red Oklahoma dirt. Edgar's crew cleared the north side, ground the stumps, set a water hydrant below grade, then sloped and graded everything so water runs away from the building. That left a fresh sandy subgrade and a problem every dirtwork contractor knows: the moment you tip crushed rock onto bare sand and drive on it, the rock starts working its way down and the sand starts working its way up. Within a season the gravel is thin, the ruts are back, and the customer is calling. Edgar's answer was to separate the two. In his own job post: "Laid down heavy-duty geotextile fabric to keep the sand and gravel separated for long-term stability." The fabric he chose was XBAR.
Crazy but I got some rolls of your fabric will be installing for a gravel job in a week or so!
Installed a water hydrant below ground before installing fabric and gravel. Sloped and graded all areas around the site to ensure perfect drainage.
First pictures was 2inch gravel a bit tougher thought it was going to rip through but it didn't.
A single-layer woven works fine under mulch. Under 2 inch angular stone, tracked machines and a loaded end dump, the fabric is doing two jobs at once. It has to spread point loads from sharp aggregate without opening up, and it has to stop fines from the subgrade pumping up through the stone every time a tire rolls over it. XBAR pairs a woven polypropylene top that carries the load with a non-woven needle-punched backing that seals the underside. That combination is what let Edgar tip stone directly onto the fabric, drive over it, compact it, and come back with the note you see above.
Available in 9 roll sizes
From $37.99 per roll, or $0.15 per sq ft.
5 oz dual-layer woven. Nine roll sizes. Edgar ordered nine of the 6 x 200 ft.
Two layers, working together.The woven face carries the load while the needle-punched backing adds body, blocks light and helps keep fines below the stone.
Built for angular stone.332 lb CBR puncture resistance, ASTM D6241. Edgar tipped two-inch rock straight onto it and expected it to rip. It did not.
Water still moves through.10.5 gal/min/sf, ASTM D4491, lets water drain through the stone and fabric while the finished grade carries it away from the shop.
Made for long, straight runs.Twelve-inch guide lines gave the crew a reference for clean overlaps along the shop and around the driveway corner.
Ready for traffic before stone.A tracked Bobcat and loaded end dump worked on the bare fabric before gravel went down. Keep turns gentle and cover it promptly.
This one did not start with a sample or a pitch. We found the Okie Hauling page because we like watching people who know how to run a skid steer, left a comment on a site-prep video, and got a reply we did not expect: he already had rolls of our fabric sitting in the shop for a gravel job. Not a 3 x 50 to try it out. Nine rolls of the 6 x 200, the largest XBAR roll we make by area, bought on his own for a real customer's site. That is the kind of vote of confidence you cannot ask for.
Built for gravel, pavers, hardscape and surfaces that carry load: driveways, shop pads, equipment yards and parking. On this site it went under a 2 inch wearing course, a tracked Bobcat and an end dump.
Edgar's crew did this the way a dirtwork outfit does it: get the ground right first, then let the fabric do its one job. Every step below is from his photos and his post.
Trees and stumps came out on the north side, the pad was cut and the whole site was sloped so water leaves the building. A water hydrant went in below grade before any fabric was unrolled.
Six foot runs went along the wall, across the apron and around the corner to the driveway. Runs were overlapped at the seams with the yellow guide lines as reference.
The Bobcat and the loaded end dump worked directly off the bare fabric. This is where a lighter fabric usually gives up.
Two inch angular rock went straight onto the fabric from the end dump, was spread with the skid steer and compacted. Edgar expected the sharper stone to rip through. It did not.
White rock along the shop wall, grey crushed rock across the pad and down the driveway to the house. Smooth, drained, and ready for the customer.
Fabric down and white rock already along the wall. Pad covered, machine parked, stone coming in the morning.
From the air you can read the whole job: fabric down the driveway and across the shop pad, the end dump tipping rock, then the finished gravel sweeping around to the house. Every foot of it sits on XBAR. This is a cut of Edgar's own job film. He posted the full version on the Okie Hauling & Dirtworx page and gave us the go-ahead to share it here.
For future job I'll be using this material for roadways with sand.
Edgar Olmos, Okie Hauling & Dirtworx LLC
That line about roadways with sand was the last line of Edgar's message, and it is the review we care about most. Not that it held once, but that a working excavator looked at how it behaved under 2 inch rock, machine traffic and compaction on sandy ground, and decided it goes on the next roadway job too. The customer was happy with the driveway. Edgar was happy enough to send us every photo he took and tell us to use them.
All photos by Okie Hauling & Dirtworx LLC, shared with permission.
Okie Hauling & Dirtworx LLC is Edgar Olmos's outfit out of Hennessey, Oklahoma, working Enid, Ringwood, Kingfisher and the surrounding counties. It is a demolition and excavation company built around skid steer services: land clearing and stump grinding, grading and site prep for shops, barndominiums and homes, gravel driveways and parking lots, milled asphalt drives, trench drains, hauling and, when the weather turns, snow removal.
Scroll his page and you see the same thing on every job: the base gets done right before anything goes on top of it. That is exactly why we commented in the first place. In his words, "we strive to do our absolute best and leave every property looking much better than we found it."
Edgar Olmos is Okie Hauling & Dirtworx. He runs the machine, he answers the phone, he posts the jobs, and he is the one who wrote back when we commented. There is no marketing person between the work and the page. That is why his feedback reads the way it does: short, specific, and honest about the one thing he would change.
He is the kind of contractor we built XBAR for. Someone who cares enough about the base to grade the whole site for drainage and set the hydrant before the fabric goes down. When he tells us the next roadway job is going on XBAR too, that carries more weight than any spec sheet we could print.
We strive to do our absolute best and leave every property looking much better than we found it.
Edgar, from the Okie Hauling & Dirtworx job post
DOTDAY XBAR 5oz dual-layer, a woven polypropylene top over a non-woven needle-punched backing, in 6 ft x 200 ft rolls. Nine rolls, 10,800 square feet, ordered by Edgar Olmos of Okie Hauling & Dirtworx before the job started.
Edgar ran a tracked skid steer and a loaded end dump across the bare fabric on this job and reported no tears. XBAR is rated at 332 lb CBR puncture resistance (ASTM D6241). As with any fabric, avoid sharp pivots on a bare surface and get stone down as soon as you can.
XBAR is the DOTDAY gravel driveway fabric for a wearing course over a graded subgrade: the woven face carries the load and the needle-punched backing keeps fines from pumping up into the stone. TERRA non-woven geotextile is the pick when drainage and filtration are the main job, such as French drains, behind retaining walls, or under a road base that needs to drain through. Different ground, different fabric. That is why we make both.
Each 6 ft x 200 ft roll of XBAR covers 1,200 square feet before overlap. Measure the length and width of every run, add 6 to 12 inches of overlap at each seam, and put the numbers into the Fabric Calculator for a roll count. For a site like Edgar's, nine rolls covered the pad, apron and driveway.
On a firm, graded subgrade with stone going straight on top, 6 to 12 inches is typical. On softer ground or where machines will turn on the bare fabric, go to 12 inches and pin the seams. The yellow guide lines woven every 12 inches make the overlap easy to hold across a long run.
Yes. XBAR is water permeable at 10.5 gallons per minute per square foot (ASTM D4491), so rainfall moves down through the stone and the fabric rather than sitting on top. Edgar graded the whole site to drain away from the building before the fabric went down.
Yes. Contractors, excavators and landscapers can request trade pricing on pallet quantities and full-width rolls, shipped direct from the DOTDAY warehouse in Miami Gardens, Florida. Samples are available before a larger order. Start on the bulk pricing page or send us the plan.
On the Okie Hauling & Dirtworx LLC Facebook page, including the drone flyover of the finished site, and reshared on @dotday_landscape_fabrics.
Thank you for buying nine rolls of a fabric you had never run before and putting it under a real customer's site. For driving on it, tipping stone on it, compacting it, and then telling us exactly how it went, including the part you would change. And for sending every photo with a "feel free to use them." That is the kind of trust we do not take lightly.
If Okie Hauling sent you here and you need dirtwork done right anywhere around Hennessey, Enid or Kingfisher, call Edgar. If you came here because you are putting fabric under a gravel pad of your own, the fabric in every photo on this page is XBAR 5oz.
Disclosure. This is not a sponsorship and not a gifting deal. Edgar Olmos bought his rolls at retail before we had spoken, installed them on a customer's site, and every photo and quote on this page is his own, shared with permission. Edgar approved every image on this page, including the flyover shots.
Tell us what is going on top and what is underneath. We will point you at XBAR, SHIELD or TERRA, whichever actually fits the job, and size the order. We would rather help you choose the right fabric than sell you the heavier one.
