DepthCharge
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Hello,
I am trying to use my JD 4115 to repair and level my 400' long gravel driveway. Since the driveway is on an incline, everytime it rains really hard a little river forms and washes part of the driveway out.
I used my FEL to recover some of my driveway from the ditch along the road and fill in the holes. Then I distributed 10 yards of crushed limestone.
Afterwards I tried to use my TSC 5' box blade to level everything off.
Here lies the problem. Since I can only go back and forth along the driveway, some little hills built up. My wife says it like ridding a roller coaster.
When the front wheels start to climb one of the hills the box blade digs in more. And where it is digging in is where there is already a low spot. Then as the tractor crest the hill and starts down the other side, the box blade raises up and dumps it load on top of the hill.
The more I try to grade it the bigger these hills get. I have tires getting tricky with the draft control and clipping the tops of the hills and dumping it in the low parts but I am not tricky enough. I have also tired to use my FEL to redistribute it hills. That works to some degree but when I go to level everything back out I end up with the hills again.
I can imagine that if I were leveling a larger area where I could come in from different directions that this would be less of a problem but grading my driveway restricts me to driving only along it's length.
Does any one have any suggestions? Is there another attachment which might work better? On the farm where I grew up we used to use a rear grader blade on a 105 HP tractor to grade about 1000 FT of driveway and I don't remember having this problem. Of course the driveway started out a little more level and the tractor had a much longer wheel base.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I am trying to use my JD 4115 to repair and level my 400' long gravel driveway. Since the driveway is on an incline, everytime it rains really hard a little river forms and washes part of the driveway out.
I used my FEL to recover some of my driveway from the ditch along the road and fill in the holes. Then I distributed 10 yards of crushed limestone.
Afterwards I tried to use my TSC 5' box blade to level everything off.
Here lies the problem. Since I can only go back and forth along the driveway, some little hills built up. My wife says it like ridding a roller coaster.
When the front wheels start to climb one of the hills the box blade digs in more. And where it is digging in is where there is already a low spot. Then as the tractor crest the hill and starts down the other side, the box blade raises up and dumps it load on top of the hill.
The more I try to grade it the bigger these hills get. I have tires getting tricky with the draft control and clipping the tops of the hills and dumping it in the low parts but I am not tricky enough. I have also tired to use my FEL to redistribute it hills. That works to some degree but when I go to level everything back out I end up with the hills again.
I can imagine that if I were leveling a larger area where I could come in from different directions that this would be less of a problem but grading my driveway restricts me to driving only along it's length.
Does any one have any suggestions? Is there another attachment which might work better? On the farm where I grew up we used to use a rear grader blade on a 105 HP tractor to grade about 1000 FT of driveway and I don't remember having this problem. Of course the driveway started out a little more level and the tractor had a much longer wheel base.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.