m5guy
Bronze Member
Land plane does a good job. Rear blade has a steaper learning curve.
oosikI have a mile long GRAVEL driveway. The gravel size - 3/4". The surface is gravel, sand, silt and volcanic ash. In the summer it is hard as concrete.
I have a Land Pride LPGS - GS2584. It has scarifiers and weighs 800 pounds. The scarifiers are definitely needed to break the surface - so the two blades can do their job.
I do not know what the OP means by "stone". Here I would call railroad ballast - stone. 2 1/2 inch to 4 inch in size. Something that definitely CAN NOT be worked with a LPGS.
Another point - DO NOT expect an LPGS to either create or eliminate a crown on a gravel driveway. This type implement simply will not do this type job. It breaks the surface and lays it back down. Basically in the exact same place. It DOES eliminate surface imperfections - washboard, lumps, bumps, even some minor wash outs.
I improve the crown, eliminate potholes, clear the ditches with my heavy duty Rhino rear blade. Then, if we ever get any snow, the rear blade clears the driveway.
Even with the scarifiers full down - I've never had a problem pulling the LPGS. There ARE a few spots where I put the tractor in 4WD. Otherwise - it's basically a 2WD operation. It is a slow operation but when finished - that section of the driveway looks brand new.
With either the rear blade or LPGS on the 3-point - the tractor weight a bit over 10K pounds. It has 1550 pounds of RimGuard in the rear tires also.