Best Land Plane?

[Williy]

Somepeople use a 55 gal drum and fill it with
whatever they have available

willy

 

[zzvyb6]

Old adage: "The best land planes of mice & men often go astray".

 

[Kep1a]

Nice house. I was part of building an underground house 43 years ago too. I'm thinking that a normal land plane might not work the best at your location because of the rocks. Here, we order gravel that is all the same size and it planes out nice. Correct me if I'm wrong, you are dealing with everything from dust to rocks that might damage a vehicle. The land plane would probable be hopping over the larger stones. If you had something that would grade off the big stones and left the small stuff, I might work better????

Using York & Modern Implements Landscape Rakes as an ATV or UTV accessory

The side the house is on (white road possibly gypsum) never needs repairs or grading. It is like concrete but once broken loose it is like talcum powder and tons of dust. So I don't mess with it. The north or dark side has been graded repeatedly by a commercial grader that has popped out all the larger rocks. It gets regular touch ups because my home is where he parks when doing the road work in the valley. For the security of the storage of the grader he drops the blade on my road when going up and down to go work in the valley and cleans up the shiners with the rippers when found. The only larger rocks now are washed off the wall adjoining the road. They give my scraper blade fits and force me to dismount and manually remove them to toss them down the cliff. Otherwise the scraper blade will pop up and over them dumping the materials right there. Not as bad now with the 420# of weights on the Quick hitch. I doubt that would change much with the land plane. What I really deal with is ripples (stutter bumps) and tire channels in the clay when driven on when wet. Being retired now I just tell myself it's too wet and stay home. But that doesn't stop unwanted trespassers. As the road dries it turns into surface marbles that give dump trucks fits when coming down empty.

 

[Kep1a]

For a driveway that long....maybe go higher quality and adjust ability.

Skid Steer Attachment | Heavy-Duty Grading Equipment

Something tells me run away from that. I'm not too sure what it is that bugs me about that system but in short it looks too complicated.

 

[Kep1a]

Somepeople use a 55 gal drum and fill it with
whatever they have available

willy

I have plenty of weight just need to figure out to hang it on the land plane

 

[Yander]

I really like my Frontier. Has adjustable blades and sides.

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[Kep1a]

I really like my Frontier. Has adjustable blades and sides.

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I kinda like that one but I'm not a fan of anything bolt together.

 

[oosik]

I would bet - most LPGS will do just about the same job. Some are built heavier and have scarifiers - some don't.

Before I got my Land Pride LPGS - I used a 4 x 4 oak pallet. Weighted down with sacks of wood pellets. Simple rope yolk and pulled with my ATV. Worked pretty good until I wanted to work on my mile long gravel driveway.

 

[Kep1a]

I just wanted to post that I received my 7 ft land plane from Everything Attachments and everything was great. It was about 10 weeks from order to notification that it was ready to be shipped and of course to be paid for. Customer service was great I didn't have to pay until it was finished and ready to ship which is the way I feel it should be. I really like the unit. I used it for the first time yesterday and was very surprised at how much it actually accomplished. It is a beast l didn't use the rippers yet and I don't think I will for quite some time unless I have a serious serious washout that I need to move material to fill. Even without the rippers it was simply amazing how much it actually did. I'm so happy to get this one as opposed to all the other ones that are mostly bolt together and really look flimsy to me. I now have a Bobcat CT-5555 that replaced my Montana 2840. But I still really feel this attachment is there when its hooked up. I never had it hooked to the Montana but if I still had the Montana and tried it I don't think it would have went well.

On a side note I did discover something I did not expect. I was told to learn to use the draft control by my salesman. I read and watched everything that I could find on draft control use. But there was very little I could find. Well I tried it and the common theme seemed to be to set the draft control slightly less than the three point height setting. So I tried it and OMG it looked to me like a land mine had gone off every 5' to 10' in my road behind me. Closer inspection showed it was rocks pulled it had pulled out but the cool thing was that the holes the rocks made when the rocks were rolled out of the ground were magically filled back in. The rocks it pulled out varied in size from 6" to 20" long with varying depths. The worst depth was a little over 10". I then used my grader blade to scrape the rocks off the side of the hill. Had I not had a grader blade I would have spent a couple weeks tossing rocks by hand and smoothing things out with a hand rake. Wile it was not a very fast process even with the grader blade it was very smooth when I finally finished 2 days later. All that I can figure is that the Draft control by its nature caught and lifted the rocks out of place through a rolling action being exerted on the rocks. Before the land plane I had never used draft control but I also only used my grader blade that skipped over those rocks making what is called shiners out of them. All in all I am very pleased with my purchase. I want to figure out a way to let the top link float but still allow me to lift it totally off the ground when needed. Ideas? I know about the chain option just looking for other ideas.

 

[scootr]

This looks good to me for those with a skid steer...https://idigtexas.com/products/the-pusher-hydraulic-road-grader?variant=48402112905491