attachment for road work

[jackh]

ok thanks for the advice. i think my best bet is to ask around town and see what other ppl do and what attachments they use. my dad grew up with our neighbor and he takes care of his roads real well, ill see how he does it.

 

[jackh]

smoothed out the whole drive way by dumping more caliche on top of the rocks and the smoothing it out with the bucket then driving over it a bunch to smooth it out. this works fine for small projects like the driveway but if i want to do a long strip of road or something else ill need a more efficient method

 

[jenkinsph]

Often what I see done for ranch roads is to bring in a motorgrader for a large job and dig the ditches on each side. The material removed is used to build up the road bed. This is the cheapest way to raise the road bed while providing drainage at the same time. Gravel is added sparingly in most cases because of the cost. Good roads take time and money to build.

To build your own and/or to maintain your roads you need the implements we mentioned in prior posts. Depending on the size and scope of the road projects you may be better off with a combination of a good operator and motorgrader for the initial work and maintain it yourself thereafter.

Have fun with your tractor and good luck with all of it.

 

[schmism]

ant no box blade doing that!

 

[jenkinsph]

ant no box blade doing that!

I think I would be cutting a ditch on the edge of the road and using the dirt to elevate the road base. I would think that water running down the upper side would need somewhere to go. So I would angle the leading edge forward on the ditch side and tilted down to form a ditch throwing the dirt up on the roadbase to help build the crown.

Throwing the dirt against the bank as in your picture would seem to trap the water on the road.

 

[AKfish]

I think I would be cutting a ditch on the edge of the road and using the dirt to elevate the road base. I would think that water running down the upper side would need somewhere to go. So I would angle the leading edge forward on the ditch side and tilted down to form a ditch throwing the dirt up on the roadbase to help build the crown.

Throwing the dirt against the bank as in your picture would seem to trap the water on the road.

(I'll bet every time it rains hard enough there to "trap water" he's out there dancin' in it!! )

But for those 2 times a year "toad strangler rains" cutting a ditch and building up the base and crown does seem to be a good idea.

By the way, Steve - are those 110 lb.er's on your 4520? 3 to a side?

AKfish

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Actually that picture is a little deceiving, I would say that 90-95% of the water does indeed run down where I was grading in that picture. That road was cut back in 1974 and the worst wash out that I know of has been maybe 4" deep. Now there is a place down on the flat area(not shown) that does get a little mushy and would benefit to be raised abut 6". I should probably do that someday.

 

[jenkinsph]

AKfish,
St. Louis could very well get bad weather this weekend, elevating and crowning the road base with available materials certainly helps keep the costs down.

My 4520 has 6) 110# rear weights and 6) 70# front weights.


EDIT Did not know that was Brian's picture so a more arid climate, still would cut and fill the road though.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Just an update regarding the last time that I graded my road and wash outs. We had about 5" of rain and a couple inches of snow in a 7 day period. I had 2 places that water ran across the road. the picture shows the worst washout, about 2 1/2" deep. I guess that the ditch needs to be a bit deeper. The next time that I grade it, I might go ahead and throw the dirt back onto the road and see how that goes. I just hate to cover the long established road by putting fill on top of it.

 

[jenkinsph]

I build up the road base with the ditch materials prior to adding basecourse and gravel where possible. Can't tell from the picture but if you have hauled in good gravel I can understand your concerns.

My point was that you are better off with the road bed elevated and the ditches clean and deep.