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My 36 hp tractor with loader and filled tires weighs 7,000 lbs.
Sounds like quite the beast - what tractor is that?
My 36 hp tractor with loader and filled tires weighs 7,000 lbs.
West Edmonton Mall ?The biggest parking lot I can find is in Edmonton Canada and holds 20000 cars.
MoKelly
Wingfield American Harrow - American Steel. American Labor. American Quality.who sells that frame? i have the harrow.
If I had a 40 A lot, my first choice would be a small motor grader. I know a new one is high $'s, but you can find good used at DOT/government auctions, or even at construction equipment auctions. Second choice would be land plane, but you still have to have a 40-60 hp tractor.I recently bought a business that has approximately 40 acres of gravel lot. The lot sees infrequent automobile use (5-15 cars/day), and less frequent use by a seventy-ton capacity Marine Travelift carrying up to 80,000 lbs of boat (up to 4 times a day). The gravel lot was in rough shape when i purchased the business and i would like to repair and maintain it. I know nothing about grading but can drive a tractor. If I Only Buy One Piece of Equiptment to fix/maintain this lot, what would you recommend? I've thought of perhaps a tractor/box blade, or a skid steer ("Bobcat"), or a backhoe, but am not experienced enough in grading to choose intelligently. If you have a recommendation, could you please include model and/or minimum horsepower. Oh, i should maybe mention the lot seems to have undergone some haphazard repairs along the way. There are spots with #57 slag, fine slag, fist-sized concrete chunks, #8 stone, sand, etc. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
4 acres. 40 was mistake.If I had a 40 A lot, my first choice would be a small motor grader. I know a new one is high $'s, but you can find good used at DOT/government auctions, or even at construction equipment auctions. Second choice would be land plane, but you still have to have a 40-60 hp tractor.
And only about 2 acres to maintain.First of all, did I say forty acres? Yikes , I meant four acres lol. And almost half of that has boats on it, so most of the ongoing maintenance will be on the remaining 2 acres. It's sort of like 40 foot wide driveways running between the stored boats. I wonder if the smaller lot size changes what some of you might suggest? I apologize if my typo sent some of you in the wrong direction with your suggestions.
Rain will be the killer to a gravel surface if people are continually driving on it.To me it's down to two choices since I think everyone agrees just keep it gravel. No snow to worry about. So:
1) pay someone to fix it now one time...then probably would need minor repairs in the future which wouldn't cost much.
2) buy equipment to do it yourself. You have to factor in equipment cost, your time, gravel cost, fuel, equipment maintenance, etc.
Me I'd lean towards #1. I'm thinking once it's done it will last many years, especially if it's hard packed and level.
Once it's fixed right, how much & how often would anything have to be done to it?