Homemade Grader

[BrokenTrack]

Oh, and the chainsaw in your other thread,---NICE saw!! (nice lady too!) !!! thanks; sonny580

I am not really a big fan of that Chainsaw to be honest with you. I am a Stihl guy anyway, so a Husky does not help, but it is just a wee bit too small, and I call it my rattle box because I have rattled so many bolts and nuts off it. It cuts okay if it is super sharp, but the second it even gets remotely dull, it is screaming for another 12 cc's.

So far I have cut about 300 cord of wood with it, so not a whole lot, but enough to see what it can do. But it is only a $750 saw too, whereas the Stihl MS 461 is a better saw, but also a $1100 chainsaw. My Husky dealer called it a "Disposable Saw", that is you spend $750 on it now, bring it back in a year and get $350 as a trade in for a new one next year; rinse and repeat!

As for my wife, as a LumberJill she holds more interest than a picture of me with a chainsaw.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I think I would experiment with adding weight to your goose neck if the blade doesn't cut into that dirt well enough (looks like it's some pretty tough dirt). Just start off light so you don't do damage to the blade. You could even add some rippers to help break things up.

I used what steel I had kicking around, but if I did it again (or others wished too and wanted to learn from me), I would use square tubing. The grader is a little light weight, but the biggest issue is that on turns with heavy cuts, the steel I beam flexes some.

 

[TractorGuy]

Came across something similar on You Tube the other day.

 

[mcfarmall]

Looks nice! Not much soil in those rocks!

 

[BrokenTrack]

Looks nice! Not much soil in those rocks!

Potato Rock!

That road is built where an old rock wall used to be, and that section is where there was an old rock dump. This was all potato ground at one time so the rock pickers used to dump their loads of rock here (as well as a few other locations). The rocks are mostly about softball sized. It makes for good road base though and drainage like for French Drain systems.

Not this pile, but another is about the size of a small house. One thing about Maine is, we have plenty of rock.