I have an extremely steep (@30% grade), long (1/4 mile) gravel driveway. After a summer's worth of thunderstorms, huge erosion ditches appear and tons of rock end up at the bottom of the hill. Maintenance includes digging diversion ditches for runoff by hand before and after heavy rains and hiring a dozer operator to grade it once a year. This year I'm finally ready to buy my first compact tractor (probably a NH TC45D w. hst & loader) and I though I might use it to try and maintain the driveway among other things. My question(s) is what implement or combination of implements should I use to do the Job? Also, should I be concerned about balancing the tractor with weights? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as this is all new to me. Thanks in advance for your help...
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