Draft Control

[sixdogs]

Well, I'm the lone wolf on this but I have a Kubota L4300, love draft control, had it installed and would't be without it.
Actually, I installed it myself.
On a lighter tractor such as mine, I use it to level fields and have used it to level my lawn and drive. Plus a few commercial lawns.
With a similar sized Ford 2110 I leveled maybe 50 acres of timothy fields until they looked like pancakes.
The gound has to be a little bit compacted and I use an 8 ft rock (landscape) rake until it barely scrapes the ground.
The harder the ground the more I let it scrape. You have to experiment.

Draft control has varying degrees so you have to fool around but after a couple of runs with rain and dry in between,
I can do a beautiful field,lawn or drive. People ask how I did it.

For a driveway, the finer the grit surace the better the job. Stones do not grade well.
Just my two cents.

 

[GarthH]

Thank you everyone.

Obviously several options. I do have a LP 72" landscape rake with the rear wheels that I have not got onto yet. Recently I've been using my rake on the gravel without the wheels which is working well although I suspect I will screw up the rake quickly.

One of my projects for the year is to some new lawn area.

The suggestion to slow down is likely good although I don't go that fast but slower can give some time to react.

Garth

 

[crazyal]

I don't own either a box blade or a grader but I have spent plenty of time looking into each. I was originally going to get a box blade but have changed my mind. From the sounds of it I think a grading scraper is the attachment you need. Are there any rental companies near you, maybe you could rent one. For the $700 for draft control you could buy one in the states, not sure how much more Canada would be.

Read up on them, there are plenty of posts. But in general they are longer than a box blade. They can't move dirt like a box blade but because of their length they don't drop into the dips like a box blade does so they pull the high spots down into the low spots much easier. They come with and without rippers like a box blade, if you have a box blade then you could save some money if you decided to buy one.