Driveway weed clearing

[bcp]

Put cultivator sweeps on your box blade on or in place of your scarifiers. They come in many sizes. Here's one.

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[bkenobi]

Yes, exactly like those! Can a box blade be configured so it doesn't dig too deep? Like I said, I only want to go 1-2" deep so as to just get under the weeds roots. I don't want to get into the heavier stone.

 

[oldballs]

How long/wide is your gravel driveway? And...it's been my experience that if the gravel is packed......just leave it alone and don't blade it unless it is really necessary.....because a heavy rain will start washing the gravel around. I can do my 75 x 30 foot gravel driveway with about 2 gallons of herbicide in a spot sprayer. Usually have to repeat it before fall comes.

If I was to use my 55 gallon tank sprayer, I'd use the herbicide formulations that have a residual effect for several months. But that's too much trouble for such a small area as I see it.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[bkenobi]

I just used Google Earth's measurement tool and I'd guess my driveway is between 0.3 and 0.5 acres. Like I said, not that big but more than I really want to do with a backpack and wand. I called the local tractor store and they suggested a smaller tow behind sprayer in the 20 gallon range. I thought they were either manual up to 4 gallon or electric pump at 100 gallon so options in between look like the right solution. Seems like the right way to go would be to mix roundup (or similar) with a per-emergent and spray the center of the driveway and just use the wand or a handheld to get close to the existing plants.

 

[dodge man]

You can set the scarifiers on a box blade to different depths. I got lucky and picked up a 4 foot box blade for $350, I’d been looking for a while. I also have a tank sprayer I use on the 3 point, you can raise and lower it back there plus change the pressure to control width or just spot spray. The box blade will do most of it. Mine was pretty weedy before I did it.

 

[bkenobi]

Northern Star seems to have upped the price to $250 for the cheapest tow behind (on sale for $199 currently). Reviews are not all that impressive unfortunately. For a very cheap frame "trailer", plastic tank, 12v pump, and a bit of hose they sure seem like they got their markup for profit!

 

[bkenobi]

Harbor Freight has a 15 gallon sprayer (no trailer) for $100. I wonder how hard it would be to make a mount to go on my lawn tractor's grass catcher mount. Hmmm....

 

[bkenobi]

Like this maybe...

 

[WM75Guy]

I use Mojave 70 EG herbicide on my arena and driveway. It lasts a full year. I use the Mule and the 25-gallon tow behind sprayer spray bar for the arena and driveway and the wand to spot spray corners and such. Starting this year I will spray fence lines with it. I mix in glyphosate at 4% for a quick kill as the Mojave takes about a month to kill everything. Just don't get it on something you want to stay alive.

 

[dodge man]

I think the one I pictured above is 26 gallons. It’s mounted on one of those racks that’s meant to go in a hitch on a pickup. I already had that setup plus the hitch for my tractor 3 point. I just looked up the price it’s currently about $419. I bought mine about 2 1/2 years ago.