Box blade...I don't understand Problem?

[coffeeman]

Of course it's difficult at first. Got to get a level spot. Then go from there. I have best luck doing most prep in reverse. Once closely where you need it, it seems the touch up is not so bad. If doing small things then for the $$ box blade works. Building a over the hump driveway is challenging . The box has helped me out many times after huge rains. Its quick and the wife can use her car again quick. I can get other equipment in to finish up.

Just some thoughts rattling around in my head. Coffeeman

 

[sdef]

I imagine you will get a lot of comments and I am surprised there have been none yet. I have a very challenging situation clearing my retirement property that is densely wooded and a glacial dumping ground for rocks up to 3.5' or so in diameter with most of them ~ 2' x 1', densely interspersed throughout the very dense clay. I am currently working on the 275' x 16' driveway. The ROBB has been a godsend, so far primarily to dig out/lift the rocks to the surface using the scarifiers. so we can manually coax them into the FEL. I am new at this and learning every time I use the ROBB and grapple rock bucket.

I have the first half of the driveway mostly ready for gravel, that is as soon as I can get an EA rake to get the smaller rocks gathered up and am now working on the back half. I just ran three passes of the ROBB to bring the first layer of rocks to the surface. We will have to coax the largest rocks into the bucket. And once we have completed this, I am hoping to be able to drop the ROBB deeper on the next passes to loosen up enough "soil" so I can more effectively use the rock bucket to scoop some of them up. The first half was completed very manually and using the grapple on the bucket for the largest ones and then using the bucket as a carryall for the rocks we loaded manually.

It would have been much easier to just have a dozer or grader level the driveway after I cleared the trees, but I do not want to deal with all of that aftermath and the less stable ground afterwards.

A couple before, during and after pictures of the driveway I have posted elsewhere on TBN and I could not have completed this work without the ROBB. BTW, I am only able to use the basic file uploader and attach one file at a time for this post; what a pain:

 

[tow653]

I imagine you will get a lot of comments and I am surprised there have been none yet. I have a very challenging situation clearing my retirement property that is densely wooded and a glacial dumping ground for rocks up to 3.5' or so in diameter with most of them ~ 2' x 1', densely interspersed throughout the very dense clay. I am currently working on the 275' x 16' driveway. The ROBB has been a godsend, so far primarily to dig out/lift the rocks to the surface using the scarifiers. so we can manually coax them into the FEL. I am new at this and learning every time I use the ROBB and grapple rock bucket.

I have the first half of the driveway mostly ready for gravel, that is as soon as I can get an EA rake to get the smaller rocks gathered up and am now working on the back half. I just ran three passes of the ROBB to bring the first layer of rocks to the surface. We will have to coax the largest rocks into the bucket. And once we have completed this, I am hoping to be able to drop the ROBB deeper on the next passes to loosen up enough "soil" so I can more effectively use the rock bucket to scoop some of them up. The first half was completed very manually and using the grapple on the bucket for the largest ones and then using the bucket as a carryall for the rocks we loaded manually.

It would have been much easier to just have a dozer or grader level the driveway after I cleared the trees, but I do not want to deal with all of that aftermath and the less stable ground afterwards.

A couple before, during and after pictures of the driveway I have posted elsewhere on TBN and I could not have completed this work without the ROBB. BTW, I am only able to use the basic file uploader and attach one file at a time for this post; what a pain:

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May be a dumb question,but why not leave all that rock there for a good solid base,and put 2" rock on top of it?

 

[sdef]

May be a dumb question,but why not leave all that rock there for a good solid base,and put 2" rock on top of it?

You are not looking at the original first layer of rock except in the first photo. And most of these rocks are simply the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Many of the rocks were sticking out of the ground ~ 3" - 6" all over the place, with the main part of their bodies buried, which made for a slow, very rough ride with the Jeep and simply laying gravel over the top was not an option at that point.

I had to remove many to get down to a point I could have 2" Crusher Run or similar laid on relatively flat ground. There is still a very firm base of rocks- everywhere, as they are not just surface level and all I have done is prep for gravel by removing the rocks that were the tips of their iceberg type of scenario. All of the rocks used as landscaping over the entrance culvert came from this area. These pictures are a bit old and there is about double the amount of rocks over the culvert now on each side.