How Do You Get Driveway Gravel Out of Grassy Areas?

[JJT]

The long term solution - Invest in a snow blower and you'll reduce the stones on the lawn by 90%+.

 

[hube2]

I notice way too many people are waaay to **** about this. Sure, knock down and get rid of the worst and of course BIG stones, but it's amazing how totally the gravel disappears when the grass grows. Can there really be that many people looking for something to do?

Every spring the concession road in front of my place is covered with tons and tons of gravel and sand. Looks like it will never be grass again! If it's badly damaged and rutted, I level it with a Harley Rake, but it always grows grass again, and you would never know. Besides, I figure, the agregate will give the grass shoulders a bit of resilience against vehicle traffic in wet conditions.

This is my method as well. Looking out at my front yard now there are stones scattered all over from my blower. I'll go out and pick up the biggest ones before the grass turns green but the rest will eventually just disappear into the lawn when it starts growing. When I first moved it here the first spring and maybe the second when I was younger, I spent hours picking up every stone, decided that I have better things to do with my time. Used to do the same for the stone and sand the town plows through off as well.

 

[bigtiller]

I load the shop-vac and 2000W generator in the Gator and suck them all up. But I have only a couple hundred feet to deal with.
If I had 1.25 miles to deal with like the OP. I would either let them lay where they fall or buy a power broom for the garden tractor.

 

[not2old]

I made a wider bucket to make it practical to push the length of my 150' driveway into the ditch across the street. In the 7 or 8 years I've been doing this there is no apparent "filling" of the ditch and I no longer receive the wrath of the boss when she does the gardening in the spring. When clearing the rear 150' drive I have an area where I can stop short of the grass.

 

[i7win7]

Lazy way, just make it part of the lawn

 

[Aquamoose]

Lazy way, just make it part of the lawn
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What in the blazes is that? I’ve never seen this before. Looks like an effective tool to fine grade areas?

 

[cqaigy2]

I gotta say, it looks like you are 50HP short of using that implement.

 

[Cougsfan]

I agree that the secret is not to plow the gravel off in the first place. It takes different techniques depending on conditions. If the snows with the ground not frozen, I lower the plow all the way, then raise it an inch or two before plowing, so that I am only plowing snow. When there is a hump in the road, I have learned my road well enough to lower or raise the plow to accommodate the hump without plowing gravel. It is easier if the ground is frozen solid before it snows, then you can just lower the blade all the way and go.

 

[i7win7]

What in the blazes is that? I’ve never seen this before. Looks like an effective tool to fine grade areas?

Hoelscher Commercial Products - RB Scraper

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[aczlan]

I gotta say, it looks like you are 50HP short of using that implement.

I agree, but I want one
Don't have enough use to justify it though.

Aaron Z