I guess everyone is telling you to learn real quick how to expertly use your brother's trailer!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I only owned a regular 3pt blade, works well tho. Try to spread the stuff evenly to start with, but that is a learning process & LOOK UP!!!!! There will be places you don't want to be driving & dumping. Try to at least make the mounds down the middle of the drive.
Then, use the blade, run over the mess you made & try to distribute the high parts to the low or zero places (since you own a box blade, it might work well for this part of the operation - I don't know). You can be sloppy, but try to keep things to the middle of the drive. You will end up with one big _mess_ of a washboard road, big dips & rolls! How will you ever get this level & done, worse road now then it was before I started???? The more I go over it, the more of a washboard I get!
Angle the blade. As much as you can without hitting a tractor tire. Angle it in to the middle of the driveway. Keep it about level, but you might want to angle (with the crank on your tractors 3-pt arm) the blade up a little bit so it drags gravel from the outer edge to the middle of the drive. Drive up & down the driveway many times like this.
If you had a tough time getting things fairly close to begin with, you'll have to move more stuff in this phase. No problem, run the grave back & forth, always an angled blade (on side closer to the tractor, one side far away - like a snowplow). You can run it out to one side of your driveway, then back across again to the other side. And so on.
Heck, this looks good, I've got a driveway! And all that seat time helped pack it down nice & stable!
Now turn the blade around, again at an angle, and lightly groom the gravel into a slight mound in the middle, higher than the sides. (Use the crank on the tractor hitch arm again to set this up.) You won't move too much gravel any more, mostly packing, & flattening things down nice & smooth.
Oh, I have a very light rear blade on a rather strong tractor, so it is always down in full float - 3pt control is all the way down, let the blade drag as hard as it wants to. If it scoops too much gravel at one time, you can either run with the blade backwards from the start so it floats a lot more, or you can shorten your top link so the blade does not have much bite - it will want to float more than drag gravel if you don't have much bite in that top link.
Works for me.
--->Paul