Grading Scraper (land plane) - Might be my new favorite attachment

[JerryK]

Don't go overboard with the width of the LP. It does not really have to cover your wheel width, it will work just fine if it is a little narrower. Each pass of the LP loosens up more of the drive surface and soon the LP itself will be filled with material. This weight may become hard to pull if all your tractor tires are on loose material too, and you may loose traction, just spin. Just be aware that it is real easy to get more LP than you can handle depending on drive surface and how much you work it. Kind of like over disking a sandy garden where the disk is just about sunk all the way into the sand.

 

[CADplans]

We just made a few changes/improvements to our already great EA Land Plane. It's pretty impressive!

Check out the new video with Ted:

That is a nice looking landplane you offer,,, :thumbsup:
Great video, right up to the point that you say "never have a crown in a road"

I invite you to drive 100 miles north to Roanoke,,, we will tour the local driveways.
EVERY driveway that is flat is rutted during any rain more than a drizzle.

Every driveway that is crowned,,, survives the rain.
It is a matter of velocity. The longer the water is on the driveway, the greater the volume and velocity of water.

If the water is directed to the side with the crown,
the distance of water accumulation is limited to 1/2 the width of the driveway.

If the water accumulates for 150 feet of driveway, and stays on the driveway,
the damage looks like someone used a fire hose to cut ruts,,,

This past year,, two neighbors that insisted on flat driveways gave up,,, and asphalt paved.

I have been doing mine and neighbors driveways for 35 years,,, the successful ones will stay crowned.
Oh, yea,, I crowned with my landplane,,,

 

[EverythingAttachments]

That is a nice looking landplane you offer,,, :thumbsup:
Great video, right up to the point that you say "never have a crown in a road"

I invite you to drive 100 miles north to Roanoke,,, we will tour the local driveways.
EVERY driveway that is flat is rutted during any rain more than a drizzle.

Every driveway that is crowned,,, survives the rain.
It is a matter of velocity. The longer the water is on the driveway, the greater the volume and velocity of water.

If the water is directed to the side with the crown,
the distance of water accumulation is limited to 1/2 the width of the driveway.

If the water accumulates for 150 feet of driveway, and stays on the driveway,
the damage looks like someone used a fire hose to cut ruts,,,

This past year,, two neighbors that insisted on flat driveways gave up,,, and asphalt paved.

I have been doing mine and neighbors driveways for 35 years,,, the successful ones will stay crowned.
Oh, yea,, I crowned with my landplane,,,

I'm sure the need for a crown is determined by soil/gravel type/slope and Ted was probably just speaking from his experiences.
To create/maintain a crown, don't you just adjust your tractor's side links to make one side higher than the other?

Travis

 

[CADplans]

To create/maintain a crown, don't you just adjust your tractor's side links to make one side higher than the other?

Travis

I have done exactly that, but, I do not believe it is the best way.
Adjusting the side links will cause the tractor to carry some of the weight of the landplane.

Much better approaches are;
1) being able to raise one side of the grader blades
or
2) adding a spacer under one of the runners of the landplane.

These techniques will keep the maximum amount of landplane weight on the blades.

You want the tractor to pull the landplane,,, not carry it,,,

 

[JerryK]

If you listen to the video, he is not saying ' do not crown your road '. He is saying some folks that have a side hill type road want the water to run completely across the road downhill. While most of us want a crown so the water runs off to each side. Apples and oranges...

 

[JRobyn]

I absolutely want/need a crown, but only a little is necessary. I agree that the best way to maintain one is to set the blades to cut a little less in the center of your road. I use about 3/4" difference side-to-side. I also use an inch or less of lift arm "tilt"; belt and suspenders. It's easy to readjust the blade height above or below the side skids on the Land Pride models should one desire zero crown. Since I don't own any others, I can't speak to their ability to do this.