Hi All,
I've got about a 1000 get off driveway to maintain. I've currently got a DR Power Grader as and a 6 foot scraper blade. The Power Grader works fine... But it never takes long for my potholes to come back. They get filled in with loose material during grading, but very quickly that material is knocked back out by vehicle traffic and the pothole is right back.
One suggestion I've heard is that I need to rip up the area around the potholes as and then let it be recompacted by traffic. that way instead of hard packed large areas with little small holes with loose material in them, we have larger softer areas that could all get compacted together and instead of getting kicked out of the small hole. A box blade would work for this.
What are your thoughts on this? Should I try a box blade, or should I just keep at it with what I've got and eventually it will stick?
Other implements I've considered are a land planer and landscape rake. But it seems like they would have the same problem that my power grader has. It would fill in the low spots, but then after a very short period of time the loose material in the low spots would get kicked out but I'd by traffic and I'll be right back where I started.
-Josh
I've got about a 1000 get off driveway to maintain. I've currently got a DR Power Grader as and a 6 foot scraper blade. The Power Grader works fine... But it never takes long for my potholes to come back. They get filled in with loose material during grading, but very quickly that material is knocked back out by vehicle traffic and the pothole is right back.
One suggestion I've heard is that I need to rip up the area around the potholes as and then let it be recompacted by traffic. that way instead of hard packed large areas with little small holes with loose material in them, we have larger softer areas that could all get compacted together and instead of getting kicked out of the small hole. A box blade would work for this.
What are your thoughts on this? Should I try a box blade, or should I just keep at it with what I've got and eventually it will stick?
Other implements I've considered are a land planer and landscape rake. But it seems like they would have the same problem that my power grader has. It would fill in the low spots, but then after a very short period of time the loose material in the low spots would get kicked out but I'd by traffic and I'll be right back where I started.
-Josh