The road is a private road, and up until last year was privately owned property. However the owner quit paying the taxes and the county got it for back taxes. The width doesn't meet the required amount to get it brought up to a real road, which would allow for ditch work and PAVING. BTDT on trying to get some help. The adjoining owners won't donate enough property, so it isn't going to happen that way either.
I have considered J_J's idea, but the U-joints won't allow enough deflection to get the trencher turned sideways enough to cut the channel that you envision. Good idea though!! I do have another one of those wheels and thought about using a pillow block bearing and a straight shaft off the
pto. Only problem with that is the same with all the others, which is getting it far enough offset to reach outside the tire track. I could use it for other projects if I thought it would work for this one, but building it for this one probably isn't a good idea.
Putting the boom mower back on the Ford and havng a go at the brush and small trees is probably the best answer, and then just pulling a middlebuster behind the middle of the tractor. That is just a lot of work, especially when doing it for nothing.
David from jax
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I started to buy the roadway property for back taxes, but realized that it was always going to be a roadway, and in reality nothing more than a way to spend money (taxes) because nobody is going to want to buy it, should I decide to sell. I can't close it down and hold the access to their houses ransome, so why should anyone want to buy it?
David from jax