Thanks everyone. It's just a normal drainage ditch but my DW is .6 mi. long & very steep in 2 places (300 yds.) plus I've got trees/hills almost the entire way so backing up perpendicular won't happen. Just need to clean leaves, sticks, & a little washed dirt here & there from it. Will take some pics & post them...
Cleaning ditches along driveway
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SO you have trees between the road and the ditch?
How about cleaning it from the other side then?
Can you drive the tractor parallel to the road and straddle the ditch?(if not too deep) If so that would be the quickest and easiest with a back blade to clean the whole ditch in just a few minutes.
CobyRupert
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OP just wants sticks and leaves gone. He's not moving dirt and stone, or excavating.
We don't know the specifics of the ditch (tree lined? depth? width? slope? etc...).
Maybe a power broom or a big *ss (3pth?) blower would be sufficient. :confused3:
We don't know the specifics of the ditch (tree lined? depth? width? slope? etc...).
Maybe a power broom or a big *ss (3pth?) blower would be sufficient. :confused3:
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If one has a high enough pump flow rate.
Here's something that I ran across a while back that piqued my interest. Might be of interest to someone stumbling across this thread.
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I rent excavators to do ditch work. Working around ditches is hairy; having distance (boom) helps keep you from soft edges.
Piston
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Sounds like an offset landscape rake angled and tilted would do just fine?
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Those are not new. My Dad bought one that ran off PTO to use for drainage across rows. It dug a nice clean ditch while dispersing the removed soil several yards away. This was in the late 1960's so they have been around a long while.
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I too use a grader blade and back into the ditch to pull it out 5' at the time. My blade has an offset and tilt option but I have never tried to use it.
oosik
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I got the heavier rear blade because where I do have ditches along the driveway - its a LOT easier and faster to offset & angle - then drive forward. If I had to back into the ditch and pull up and out every eight feet, on both sides of the mile long driveway - I don't have that kind of patience.
The heavier blade will stay down - do the work it is supposed to do - not bounce along behind the tractor like a rubber ball.
The heavier blade will stay down - do the work it is supposed to do - not bounce along behind the tractor like a rubber ball.
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In my experience if the (road side) shoulder of the ditch is not close to the same pitch as the scrape blade...it is only going to take a short pass before the blade/rake is loaded with earth/gravel from the shoulder and along with any accumulated debris just falls/rolls back into the ditch...