Seeders Driveway Maintenance - Box Scraper?

[sandman2234]

Weight is your friend with a LP. Mine has 5/8" thick sides, that are a little higher than normal, and 1/2" thick angle iron for cross braces on a 7 foot wide unit. Is it heavy, YES! I often wonder what the city would stay if I actually drop it while crossing the road and it eats up their asphalt!
David from jax

 

[bandaidmd]

my landplane has rippers so no prob.

 

[fried1765]

Weight is your friend with a LP. Mine has 5/8" thick sides, that are a little higher than normal, and 1/2" thick angle iron for cross braces on a 7 foot wide unit. Is it heavy, YES! I often wonder what the city would stay if I actually drop it while crossing the road and it eats up their asphalt!
David from jax

If the "city" were to say anything, it would likely be to question how the scratches got in their asphalt.
The only issue of any consequence would be lots of sparks as your 5/8" sides are being quickly ground down.

 

[airbiscuit]

If you want to deal with the grass and loosen the base for finishing, make a couple of passes with a disc. Then, you can choose your weapon - rear blade, box blade, land plane, etc.

 

[JeffroL]

Okay, I've just read over this entire thread and it seems nearly unanimous that a Land Plane / Grader is the tool I need. So that's what I'm going to get. Specifically I've just ordered a Land Pride GS-25 in 72" width. My Kubota M7060 has almost exactly 6' tire width and my driveway (2 miles) is very narrow, so an 84" would just spill gravel off the sides. Thanks for all the input and help. I'll post some before and after photos once I get the tool in the shed and on my tractor.

 

[airbiscuit]

Are you getting it with the scarifier shanks?

 

[JeffroL]

Are you getting it with the scarifier shanks?

YES. The 72" model comes with 6. I definitely ordered it with those. Again based upon all the feedback I think it's the perfect tool for the job at hand. I'd rather get the right tool vs. something that only sort of does the job. This will be 100% for maintaining the gravel driveway. 2 miles. It's a lot of road to maintain.

 

[JeffroL]

YES. The 72" model comes with 6. I definitely ordered it with those. Again based upon all the feedback I think it's the perfect tool for the job at hand. I'd rather get the right tool vs. something that only sort of does the job. This will be 100% for maintaining the gravel driveway. 2 miles. It's a lot of road to maintain.

Wow, is that guy running a race? I'd never have thought to run that so fast! I guess once you know what to do with it. . . ..! With a 2 mile drive though it's good to know it can handle a pretty good clip.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Wow, is that guy running a race? I'd never have thought to run that so fast! I guess once you know what to do with it. . . ..! With a 2 mile drive though it's good to know it can handle a pretty good clip.

From what I have seen with many of these videos, the operators go way to fast and end up wondering why their equipment is torn up. Not saying that this is the case here, although much faster than I ever do mine, just seems like a common practice.

 

[ovrszd]

Not sure what the intent in that video was.

 

[sandman2234]

If the "city" were to say anything, it would likely be to question how the scratches got in their asphalt.
The only issue of any consequence would be lots of sparks as your 5/8" sides are being quickly ground down.

Actually if you go to my "build" post, you will see that the 5/8 inch thick sides have 3/4"x 2" wide skids as wear plates, and the blades extend 3/4" below the skids. So if anything is going to hit the asphalt, it will be the blades which are angled about 35 degrees. My thoughts, it will be more than a scratch if I hit it at the right angle with the full force of the weight of the blade. My blades are Caterpillar brand Grader wear blades. I do know that if I catch the edge of a concrete sidewalk, the sidewalk looses. Did that by accident, and not with the full force of the entire weight on it.
David from jax

 

[sandman2234]

From what I have seen with many of these videos, the operators go way to fast and end up wondering why their equipment is torn up. Not saying that this is the case here, although much faster than I ever do mine, just seems like a common practice.

My thoughts are, the operator should extend the top link a little so that the LP is picking up less gravel, which will reduce the spillage over the top of the blade, which should make the graded area a lot smoother without any more work. The spillage over the top of the rear blade just makes for a lumpy surface, something that can be avoided.
David from jax

 

[LD48750]

My thoughts are, the operator should extend the top link a little so that the LP is picking up less gravel, which will reduce the spillage over the top of the blade, which should make the graded area a lot smoother without any more work. The spillage over the top of the rear blade just makes for a lumpy surface, something that can be avoided.
David from jax

Never saw bounce one from the start on that ntractor, that lot didn't NEED anything.

Wonder how fast he would go on a rough driveway?

 

[ovrszd]

Actually if you go to my "build" post, you will see that the 5/8 inch thick sides have 3/4"x 2" wide skids as wear plates, and the blades extend 3/4" below the skids. So if anything is going to hit the asphalt, it will be the blades which are angled about 35 degrees. My thoughts, it will be more than a scratch if I hit it at the right angle with the full force of the weight of the blade. My blades are Caterpillar brand Grader wear blades. I do know that if I catch the edge of a concrete sidewalk, the sidewalk looses. Did that by accident, and not with the full force of the entire weight on it.
David from jax

I think you will get a bruise in your lower chest area from the steering wheel slamming into you when the tractor stops dead in it's tracks.

 

[ovrszd]

Never saw bounce one from the start on that ntractor, that lot didn't NEED anything.

Wonder how fast he would go on a rough driveway?

Hmmmm,,, I was going to comment that you could see the FEL bouncing the whole time. Even at the end. I think he simply created a mess. Especially where he turned sharp and dug arched gouges completely thru the loose gravel surface.

 

[JRobyn]

I need to sell my GS1572. I should have bought a GS1560. Guess I need to list it in the classifieds. Got no response to an ad on LSN other than price inquiries (would like to get $1250) and would really rather avoid Craig'sList.

 

[sandman2234]

I think you will get a bruise in your lower chest area from the steering wheel slamming into you when the tractor stops dead in it's tracks.

I kind of did that with a box blade that I used before I had the pull behind grader. i caught a cast iron water valve housing that came up about 4 feet to ground level. I caught it with the boxblade and it ripped the steel where the lift arms hook up. So I replaced it with a serious piece of steel, and a while later hit the same cast iron housing. Seven thousand pound John Deere decided to stop in a hurry!
If it didn't take 40 years to get a road surfacing done here, I would try it just to see what happened, (Here...hold my beer!!) Plus I would get caught and have to pay for a complete street resurfacing!
David from jax

 

[airbiscuit]

I kind of did that with a box blade that I used before I had the pull behind grader. i caught a cast iron water valve housing that came up about 4 feet to ground level. I caught it with the boxblade and it ripped the steel where the lift arms hook up. So I replaced it with a serious piece of steel, and a while later hit the same cast iron housing. Seven thousand pound John Deere decided to stop in a hurry!
If it didn't take 40 years to get a road surfacing done here, I would try it just to see what happened, (Here...hold my beer!!) Plus I would get caught and have to pay for a complete street resurfacing!
David from jax

Post a pic of your pull behind grader (please).

 

[sandman2234]

Apparently the hosting site has gone to using a bunch of ads lately, sorry if they show up with this picture. I imagine I will need to start looking for a new hosting site. I had about 80 pictures posted from the build on another post and it is filled with ads when you click on the pictures to view them.
David from jax

 

[ovrszd]

Photobucket decided they weren't going to host pics free anymore. So they took all the pics hostage. If you want your pics back you have to pay a ransom.

I probably had 700 pics on there. Fortunately for me I never stored them solely there. I only loaded copies on Photobucket.

They can stick their ransom where the sun don't shine........