AchingBack
Veteran Member
If I had a rototiller, which I don't, I'd do the job if the guy was planning on planting a bunch of politicians in the road. You know, growing his own dope.
Have you ever tilled a driveway
- Thread starter Hooked_on_HP
- Start date
- Views: 46535
johntab
New member
I have a 200 ft driveway. When we bought the place in 2001 we had approximately 46 tons of driveway mix spread over the existing driveway - composition unknown. A couple years later had a small truckload of driveway mix delivered. 2 years ago had 23 tons of pea gravel added.
Given that I know what is the upper layers of gravel consist of, I do use my tiller. I use it primarily in the spring to freshen up the gravel after winter. I set the tiller to till the top 1-2 inches. It evens out the gravel, eliminates holes and low spots. I follow up with the 3pt landscape rake and give a finish raking by hand using an aluminum landscape rake. The end result is that it looks like I added new gravel. I think that tilling soil at full depth places more strain on the tractor than tilling 1-2 inches of easy to loosen gravel. I would not till large base layer gravel.
Given that I know what is the upper layers of gravel consist of, I do use my tiller. I use it primarily in the spring to freshen up the gravel after winter. I set the tiller to till the top 1-2 inches. It evens out the gravel, eliminates holes and low spots. I follow up with the 3pt landscape rake and give a finish raking by hand using an aluminum landscape rake. The end result is that it looks like I added new gravel. I think that tilling soil at full depth places more strain on the tractor than tilling 1-2 inches of easy to loosen gravel. I would not till large base layer gravel.
AchingBack
Veteran Member
johntab, where did you get the idea to put pea gravel on a driveway? To me, it sounds like it would be almost impossible to get round rock to tamp down, and stay in place. I wouldn't want any round rocks of any size in a road bed or as a topper.
Mace Canute
Elite Member
Anybody else notice the link in panasonic's post? His link to Simulation credit auto | Taux credit auto (a totally french language site) is posted as white letters on a white background rendering it invisible. What's the purpose in this? Goofing on us? Practicing HTML? Weird....
Iplayfarmer
Super Member
I didn't notice the link, but I did find it a little odd that someone's first post ever to the forum would be a generic pat on the back for discussion in a particularly average discussion. The frowny face at the end of the sentence is way out of place too.
I put the full text of the thread into a google search and came up with over a thousand hits with the same sentence. The few that I clicked on all came up with the same silly french link in them too.
Maybe spammers like that should be tilled into the driveway.
Willl
Elite Member
No doubt, very weird. Panasonic, what you up to ?
Mace, I'm curious as to how you found it ?
((if you want to see what were talking about, go back to 'panasonic's' post and highlight his entire post.))
((see attachment))
Last edited:
marimus
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2006
- Messages
- 280
- Location
- Toogoolawah, Queensland, Australia
- Tractor
- New Holland TT75
Its a kind of spam.
When you do a google search, the first results are for websites that are "popular", with popularity decided by how many websites link to it.
So if a great site like tractorbynet has a link to that site, it makes that site appear higher up on google. The more forums they do the white link/white background trick on, the more they trick google into thinking that site should be displayed right at the top.
When you do a google search, the first results are for websites that are "popular", with popularity decided by how many websites link to it.
So if a great site like tractorbynet has a link to that site, it makes that site appear higher up on google. The more forums they do the white link/white background trick on, the more they trick google into thinking that site should be displayed right at the top.
Willl
Elite Member
Wow. So somebody human like went through all that trouble just to do that ?, UNREAL !
ampsucker
Platinum Member
i have used my 54" howse tiller on the potholes in the driveway. i wait until a day or two after a good rain when the clay is still soft but workable. run the tractor about 1800 rpms so i can still lift the tiller with the pto but it will kill the engine or slip the pto clutch easily if i hit something major.
works pretty well. you can tell the little bx is working hard and it shakes you up a bit, but it's the only way i have to dig down to the bottom of a pothole and break her up.
this particular tiller has a 40hp gear box, so i'm not too worried about it and the pto slip clutch protects the tractor so i'm not too worried about it, either.
amp
works pretty well. you can tell the little bx is working hard and it shakes you up a bit, but it's the only way i have to dig down to the bottom of a pothole and break her up.
this particular tiller has a 40hp gear box, so i'm not too worried about it and the pto slip clutch protects the tractor so i'm not too worried about it, either.
amp
Mace Canute
Elite Member
Willl, I found it totally by chance, my cursor just happened to be in the right spot as I used my scroll wheel to move downwards on the page, it just happened to stop on the link and I noticed the change from an arrow to a hand as it does when moved onto a link. One of life's little mysteries...