Road and Driveway maintenance

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Looking for some advice on a 300' driveway and 1/4 mile or road (just put in upto County specs) maintenance. Both will be gravel. All four seasons. We can get a good snow storm or two each year.

Back Blade, box scaper or something better. At first money will be tight as Im getting a tractor and FEL.

Tractor will be 24 hp to 26 hp. Im looking at one SubCut the others will be Cuts. I plan on buy all together.

Any good brands and models?

Thanks

KC
 
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i think ive seen prices at $1500 and up.

I have a LARGE heavy 6' blade. Its GREAT for road maintance. the ability to offset, tilt, etc is very important IMHO for good maintaince.

with options like gauge wheels and end plates they just get more usefull.

Your likely to spend the same amount on a High end rear blade (landpride RB3572) as a dura-grader or simular. (new... i lucked out and got a great deal on a used one) http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/property/Sep_06/DSC02395 (Large).JPG

I think you would find the rear blade to be more usefull overall than the dura-grader. Its abilty to recover materal from the edge, tilt, crown, offset, windrow material etc are all features not easly achived by the dura-grader.
 
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You can get the 48" model from cammond aroun 700 ive been told that is what i am looking at
 
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I am in the process of building a driveway to my barn, and couldn't do it without the boxblade. I have the back blade for snow removal and light grading, but I think the landscape rake works best with the top layer of gravel.
 
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For low bucks, get a used box scrape and practice!
 
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Coyote said:
For low bucks, get a used box scrape and practice!
Click to expand...

That was my thoughts, at least till the new house goes up.

KC
 
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KCook, just worked on this project last week. Installed new gravel over well packed topsoil and some clay that was dug out with the loader. My observations are as follows:

Box scraper is a must to create the level surface, breaking up the soil and smoothing/filling in voids and low spots. A tooth bar on a loader can help some, but the box scraper seemed to do a great job with leveling out the initial dirt surface. Multiple passes required to break up the soil and leve it out nicely.

Box scraper also for maintaining the drive/road with some new gravel here and there as needed.

Rear 5-6' blade for dragging out new just dumped gravel either in piles, or tailgate dropped from the trucks. I attempted to use the box scraper, but just could not seem to spread the gravel out as quick with the box scraper. Perhaps I should have backed into it and used the rear balde on the box scraper to "push" the gravel along. I did find that the angle of the 6' blade did pull the gravel into the center real nice and keep the gravel from spilling out off the intended roadway. I just angled the blade left and right with each pass spreadding the gravel out thinner with each pass.

Can anyone else chime in? This is the first road/drive project I've done, so I'm sure there's a learning curve that others more experienced with these attachments can school me some. How do others use these 2 attachments? Are my observations correct?

Dave
 
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