Grading Gravel Road Maintenance

[Scrambler82]

I just used my Grader/Scrapaer for the first time yesterday.

All I can say is I have a new Best Tool !

So far it has been easy, leveled the tool to a flat area, started pulling it, that easy. I found I had to adjust the front a little higher, just the way I think it should be, I have had no instruction YET ! Dryer the material being dragged the easier it was for my little Tractor to pull it. Damp material cause the little lady to sit up and take notice, 4x and low range for Her to pull thought almost everything.

I don't have anything to put on top of the road yet, I have rain coming and I am afraid I may have a mud mod after the rain leave but I started dragging to see how ell it will work on the upper section of the driveway and lost control, just kept going and going, and going; sort of that little Rabbit and the Battery thing.

I still have a LOT to learn, will be watching a few Videos this AM and will go out after noon to see if I can clean up the drive better than it is.

I would say Get a Grader/Scraper, (Land Plane), and get to it. I luv this thing !

 

[Smokeydog]

Lots of good advice and experience given.
Land plane has certainly improved driveway, decreased maintenance and saved time and gravel on my 1/2 mile driveway. Very easy tool to use. 2nd to shedding water off the road of importance, is the management of fines. Fine management is efficiently done with a land plane.

 

[Jaylegger]

I just shake my head when I see someone just drive through the biggest pothole!

I just had that conversation with one of my neighbors. I spend time and dollars to grade our private lane without compensation that has homes on it and during every rain fall I can follow all the vehicle tracks driving through every god darn pothole, it makes my head explode/

We all have way too many visitors to educate. To be honest it's usually the women.

 

[ovrszd]

I just had that conversation with one of my neighbors. I spend time and dollars to grade our private lane without compensation that has homes on it and during every rain fall I can follow all the vehicle tracks driving through every god darn pothole, it makes my head explode/

We all have way too many visitors to educate. To be honest it's usually the women.

Try 50 miles.

 

[Industrial Toys]

But it's your bread and butter no?

It's alwo amazing how the suspension of vehicles creates a nasty washboard after the pothole as it settles down.

 

[Scrambler82]

- Just came back in, decided to go over the road I scraped earlier with the Grader/Scraper to clean up some of the left overs. Noticed the dirt road that goes by my house and decided to clean it up a little.
It is level and the pot holes are filled but I need more experience with materials, hoping I didn't just build what will turn into a BIG Mud Puddle.

BUT... the road does look good... for now !

 

[Jaylegger]

Try 50 miles.

I'd have to replace the skid shoes on the land plane half a dozen times or more per grade if that were the case. Doing that with my subcompact would be like painting a battleship with a toothbrush.

 

[ovrszd]

But it's your bread and butter no?

It's alwo amazing how the suspension of vehicles creates a nasty washboard after the pothole as it settles down.

No, it's my hobby.

We only have washboards on steep hills or at intersections.

 

[ovrszd]

I'd have to replace the skid shoes on the land plane half a dozen times or more per grade if that were the case. Doing that with my subcompact would be like painting a battleship with a toothbrush.

Proper equipment is paramount in any undertaking.

 

[Jaylegger]

But it's your bread and butter no?

On the private road I live on, no bread or butter, I do free of charge, and that's why watching others homeowners drive through the standing water makes my head explode. I also maintain another private road a couple KM's that provides a little pocket change.