TODAYS SEAT TIME

[4570Man]

What do you use to do that? this spring i will have to spread about 30yards of gravel on my driveway/parking pad becuase its been too many years since thats been done.
is there a way to effeciently do this? do you just use the bucket or a land rake or what?

If you’re referring to my post 9166 I used my Kubota L3800 with the front bucket and box blade. You could do without the box blade but it’s better suited for cutting down a high place and dragging gravel than the front bucket. If possible you should have the truck driver tailgate it off. The load I spread was probably about 8 yards (13 tons ) and it took about 30 minuets.

 

[Molalla1]

thanks.
Nice note last night from food pantry about a local community in this area, closer to the shore, out in the middle
of nowhere, a community without any grocery store of any kind for 15 miles and no supermarket for further than that.
Very high percentage under poverty level.
And they appear quite interested in my cabbage and collards:

"When we talked to the group down there about how we can help them.
The opportunity to get fresh produce made them almost giddy"

When you get giddy over a head of cabbage...

Every day is an opportunity for kindness.

Yep, your last comment says it all :thumbsup: . . . my "needy field" is getting snowed on as I write this .

 

[Jstpssng]

Thanks. I used a middlebuster last year. It worked but left many potatoes in ground, got clogged on weeds and had to be picked up fairly often leaving big gaps. Could be just operator error, inadequate weed control, ?, but when you are doing a whole acre of potatoes, having something that works better and makes it easier for pickers is a plus. Most of my helpers are seniors...
I'm actually trying to get the food pantry to buy this implement, let them own it, and therefore enable local farmers to grow potatoes for them.

You might be able to get it a little bit cheaper here, they list a delivered price of $2836 including factory freight.

 

[daugen]

You might be able to get it a little bit cheaper here, they list a delivered price of $2836 including factory freight.

wow thank you, almost 300 cheaper. :thumbsup:

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
That's assuming that their web price is up to date, of course. Some companies aren't very good about that.

 

[Oldpath05]

I spread a load of gravel on a driveway. Then I took 4 scoops of gravel to fix another driveway. View attachment 590744

That looks like a good job spreading gravel, hardly a ripple in it and I zoom in and zoomed again, I'm always leaving ridges from the buckets edge.

 

[TheMadOne]

I "finish" the gravel with a pass of the box blade just tilted back far enough that the front blade doesn't dig in. Helps clean things up nicely.

 

[sixdogs]

What do you use to do that? this spring i will have to spread about 30yards of gravel on my driveway/parking pad becuase its been too many years since thats been done.
is there a way to effeciently do this? do you just use the bucket or a land rake or what?

When I fill holes I can dump with the bucket by shaking it out and then using a rock rake to smooth over it and then use a hand rake as it settles down. For my ultra smooth flat driveway of small crushed gravel, the best finish is when I fill the bucket and then shovel it out one scoop at a time and throw it by hand. I then finish up with a hand rake and the driveway stays perfect. It's a lot of work but I find it works best with crushed rock.


If you had glacial till bank-run sandy gravel, a rock rake would likely be fine but with small crushed rock that's what works for me.

 

[sixdogs]

thanks.
Nice note last night from food pantry about a local community in this area, closer to the shore, out in the middle
of nowhere, a community without any grocery store of any kind for 15 miles and no supermarket for further than that.
Very high percentage under poverty level.
And they appear quite interested in my cabbage and collards:

"When we talked to the group down there about how we can help them.
The opportunity to get fresh produce made them almost giddy"

When you get giddy over a head of cabbage...

Every day is an opportunity for kindness.

It's great to watch your efforts every year to grow the food for the pantry that you do. Also great that you bring all the duffers together to pick potatoes. It also brings the recipients a little closer in that they can see the direct link of who is helping them and how it's done. Good job.

 

[Jstpssng]

Today I went down to my mother's to run the L2800 for a while. I knew that it hadn't been used since summer so brought my siphon hose, an empty fuel can and 5 gallons of winter grade diesel. I was quite surprised to find that the tank which was full the last time that I checked was nearly empty today. Looking down at the barn floor I saw where it had gone and soon discovered that the return line to the tank was disconnected; apparently the fuel slowly siphoned out through. Considering that I had to rerun the line to have enough length to put it on, I suspect that it's been off since the tractor was built in 2008.

I put the chains on and spent a couple of hours plowing around the greenhouse, as my mother may be leasing it out. The tractor is a smaller and older than my 3301. Even with the ice underneath it did a good job and I was surprised at how little the HST whines compared to mine.

I took the attached pic because my mother showed me another, much older photo of the same spot with some of my ancestors shoveling snow into a scoot hooked up to the horse. Granted there was more snow that day, but I'm sure that they spent a lot more time clearing out that same place than I did today.