Grading Rake for a Truck

[mark in nj]

Unfortuantely, I do not have a tractor

But I live in a community that has about 3/4 mile of dirt / gravel road to maintain. We currently hire a guy smooth it out about 2x per year with a medium sized 2wd tractor and grading blade. He usually adds 1-2 dump trucks of gravel when he does it. It is decent for a little while but it dosn't last. I think we need to do it more often OR more seriously...as well as address drainage issues. If we had something to use ourselves, we could do it more often.

There are a couple of us with full size trucks that are willing to help out. We have a quarry within 4-5 miles of us, and can get good quality road gravel ourselves with a dump trailer for about $12/ton, but have no way to spread it. One of us could make gravel runs and the other could spread it out. Sounds like a good plan to me. I am wondering if any of you have a solution for truck mounted equipment to spread out gravel and do light grading? I have a receiver hitch front and rear, and my buddy has one on the rear.

Chain Harrow? Grading Rake? If they can make a grading rake for an ATV, you would think they could make one for a Dodge 2500?

Mark

 

[RobS]

Took me a while, but I finally found this . I remembered it from several years back and it looks pretty slick. I have no first-hand experience though.

 

[northwoodpower]

York Rakes make a rake that is for a SUV/Pickup. It is a 8' rake and goes into a 2" receiver hitch frame. Any local York dealer can order you one, or go to York Landscape Rakes, Rotary Brooms, Stone Rakes, Sweepers, and Scarifiers Manufactured by York Modern Corporation.

Good luck

 

[teg]

Most gravel truck drivers around us will spread it out as they dump. The good ones will do a very good job, a rake can fix what isn't so good...

 

[Rara Avis]

Unfortuantely, I do not have a tractor

But I live in a community that has about 3/4 mile of dirt / gravel road to maintain. We currently hire a guy smooth it out about 2x per year with a medium sized 2wd tractor and grading blade. He usually adds 1-2 dump trucks of gravel when he does it. It is decent for a little while but it dosn't last. I think we need to do it more often OR more seriously...as well as address drainage issues. If we had something to use ourselves, we could do it more often.

There are a couple of us with full size trucks that are willing to help out. We have a quarry within 4-5 miles of us, and can get good quality road gravel ourselves with a dump trailer for about $12/ton, but have no way to spread it. One of us could make gravel runs and the other could spread it out. Sounds like a good plan to me. I am wondering if any of you have a solution for truck mounted equipment to spread out gravel and do light grading? I have a receiver hitch front and rear, and my buddy has one on the rear.

Chain Harrow? Grading Rake? If they can make a grading rake for an ATV, you would think they could make one for a Dodge 2500?

Mark

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[ChuckinNH]

My town has rakes that mount on the front of their trucks for helping out with the dirt roads here. They seem to work pretty well. The color of them looks like they might be York rakes, but I'm not sure. They do have gage wheels, and are pushed by the truck.