Leinbach Land Plane & EverythingAttachments.com

[CowwFace]

Hey List,

After reading about the land planes / levelers here I decided to pull the trigger on a 72" Leinbach land plane from everythingattachments.com. Since I'm out of the 1000 mile free shipping area I had to pay a bit more for residential delivery (total was $1354.50).

I just wanted to give everythingattachments.com an "attaboy" because I got email confirm of shipping THE day I ordered it .. I spoke with them on the phone and they know what they are doing over there.

I'll get some pic's up when it arrives .. hopefully I don't have to wait till spring to play ... uhhh I mean WORK with it!

Tractor on

 

[jenkinsph]

You will find these landplane graders are very handy once you learn how to use them. A hydraulic top link is a help too.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

In general it is nice to have a complete hydraulic top and tilt system whenever one is grading no mater what implement they happen to be using.

 

[Sackett2]

can the land plane work effectively to save the crown in the road? Here in Oregon we need the water to run off the driveways; level driveways don't cut it.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

can the land plane work effectively to save the crown in the road? Here in Oregon we need the water to run off the driveways; level driveways don't cut it.

Yes, I have 7' and 5' land plane grader blades. I have been using them for 6 years on our roads and have not had any problem with cutting off the crown. Crown has remained and in fact you can increase the crown if desired. These are very very good implements to maintain a road or driveway. *I can't think of hearing of even one person that has one of these that has ever had even one complaint about them. They vary a lot in weight and cost, but it seems that everyone has liked all of them.

 

[Professor Marvel]

I have been using back blades and b ox blades for about 20 years to maintain about a mile and a half of family gravel roads. I borrowed a Leinbach Land Plane with n o great expectations. Within about 10 minutes I knew I hjad to have one. I bought a Land pride 6' because I could not find a Leinbach dealer near me and I have been very happy with my landpride mowers. I see no difference between the 2. It works great. If you are maintaining a gravel road you will find they are idiot proof. Just drop it and drag. They are almost too easy. You will love it.
I have not used it for anything else. Does anyone know how they work on a yard?
I have not needed to crown a road but if I did what method do you use?

 

[Gordon Gould]

I have been using back blades and b ox blades for about 20 years to maintain about a mile and a half of family gravel roads. I borrowed a Leinbach Land Plane with n o great expectations. Within about 10 minutes I knew I hjad to have one. I bought a Land pride 6' because I could not find a Leinbach dealer near me and I have been very happy with my landpride mowers. I see no difference between the 2. It works great. If you are maintaining a gravel road you will find they are idiot proof. Just drop it and drag. They are almost too easy. You will love it.
I have not used it for anything else. Does anyone know how they work on a yard?
I have not needed to crown a road but if I did what method do you use?

Your experience with the plane/grader was exactly the same as mine. Except I only have 1 mile of gravel road that I had been doing for 10 years with a rear blade. And I agree with your assesment of the grader 100%. They are unbeatable for maintaining gravel. I still use the back blade once in a while if I need to recrown or change the contour of a road after a heavy mud season or severe storm damage. After 10 years experience using the rear blade I believe it with a top and tilt system is one of the best, if not the best, tools for adjusting road contours. Once the contour is set it is easy to maintain it with the plane/grader.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

This has been my experience also, build a new road with a rear blade and a box blade, or a dozer. Maintain with the land plane grader blade.

As far as using them in a yard to level or even things out, ABSOLUTELY. :thumbsup::thumbsup: The biggest area that I have done with mine is about 100' x 200' maybe a little bigger. Worked great, much better than a box blade, but then my unevenness was all less than a foot. A lot has to do with the existing conditions and what you want or need to do. It is not a do-all implement, no implement is but they do certain things very very well.

 

[jenkinsph]

I have been using back blades and b ox blades for about 20 years to maintain about a mile and a half of family gravel roads. I borrowed a Leinbach Land Plane with n o great expectations. Within about 10 minutes I knew I hjad to have one. I bought a Land pride 6' because I could not find a Leinbach dealer near me and I have been very happy with my landpride mowers. I see no difference between the 2. It works great. If you are maintaining a gravel road you will find they are idiot proof. Just drop it and drag. They are almost too easy. You will love it.
I have not used it for anything else. Does anyone know how they work on a yard?
I have not needed to crown a road but if I did what method do you use?

I built mine with the blades set straight and flush with the wear strips for smoothing out lawn areas. Works extremely well for that, my lawn area was a mess before planing. Had erosion ditches, mounds and stump holes to fill.
First pic is of the finished lawn and others of the landplane and harrow I made.

 

[Professor Marvel]

First off --EXCELLENT job of building that equipment. You should be proud of that.
When you dealt with the lawn did you have to plow or tear it up first or did you just go over and over the earth with your land plane?

 

[beppington]

I have been using back blades and b ox blades for about 20 years to maintain about a mile and a half of family gravel roads. I borrowed a Leinbach Land Plane with n o great expectations. Within about 10 minutes I knew I hjad to have one. I bought a Land pride 6' because I could not find a Leinbach dealer near me and I have been very happy with my landpride mowers. I see no difference between the 2. It works great. If you are maintaining a gravel road you will find they are idiot proof. Just drop it and drag.

Exactly :thumbsup:

They are almost too easy. You will love it.

Exactly :thumbsup:

I have not used it for anything else. Does anyone know how they work on a yard?

Mine worked great for grading the terrain along a fenceline I replaced. I removed the old, rusty 4-barbed wire cattle fence, land planed the entire stretch to smooth out the highs & lows & just make it flow better. Worked great. It had to drag through all kinds of crud, grass, weeds, vines, sticker, saplings, etc. Just keep driving back & forth from one end to the other, & the next thing you know it's smooth & ready for new fence.

My 6' Land Pride grading scraper is heavy enough to rip grass out without the teeth down, although may take a couple 2 or 3 more passes in some cases. Sometimes the ripped out grass will bunch up on the blade causing the blade to just slide over any other grass rather than ripping it out, so I'll lift the scraper to let the ripped-out grass fall off the blade, & then push (also using the scraper) that loose grass backwards out of the way. Works great.

 

[Professor Marvel]

Thank you bep
I am going to hit my slightly sinking drainfield with mine and see if I can straighten it out.

 

[LetsRoll]

I can't think of hearing of even one person that has one of these that has ever had even one complaint about them.

You haven't talked to the right person. I hate mine. :smiley_aafz:
It seems like every time I hook mine up to do my driveway, someone in the neighborhood wants me to do there driveway. Or I get someone to show up from a client that I've done in the past. First thing out of there mouth is: so and so said you smooth drives real cheap. My response: the only thing cheap is my advise to you. "NOT FOR HIRE NO MORE, SO LEAVE !!!"

I think my neighbors watch my place and as soon I hook mine up, they call there friends and family and tell them to get over here if you want your drive smoothed right now cause he's got it hook up and he probably wont say no (wrong answer). :laughing:

I'm just tired of people wanting my service and not wanting to pay for it.

Now, for my own personal use, its the best implement that I own. :cool2:

 

[LetsRoll]

Few pictures of mine when I built it.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Steve, your yard in the picture is very park like. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: How long does it take to mow the lawn? It sure is pretty there, you have quite a view.

 

[beppington]

You haven't talked to the right person. I hate mine. :smiley_aafz:
It seems like every time I hook mine up to do my driveway, someone in the neighborhood wants me to do there driveway. Or I get someone to show up from a client that I've done in the past. First thing out of there mouth is: so and so said you smooth drives real cheap. My response: the only thing cheap is my advise to you. "NOT FOR HIRE NO MORE, SO LEAVE !!!"

I think my neighbors watch my place and as soon I hook mine up, they call there friends and family and tell them to get over here if you want your drive smoothed right now cause he's got it hook up and he probably wont say no (wrong answer). :laughing:

I'm just tired of people wanting my service and not wanting to pay for it.

Now, for my own personal use, its the best implement that I own. :cool2:

Let's see. You could either raise your rates; Print up a nice looking page with your info, "services" & "rates", keep a few on your tractor, & just hand it to them ... or grade late in the afternoon or evening & respond with: "Sorry, it's too late. I only have enough daylight to do mine. And after this I've got to remove the grader to move onto _________ (fill in the blank: plow, auger, whatever)"

 

[jenkinsph]

First off --EXCELLENT job of building that equipment. You should be proud of that.
When you dealt with the lawn did you have to plow or tear it up first or did you just go over and over the earth with your land plane?

Thanks for the compliment on the implements.

In the third picture the Deere 673 tiller was used to till everything up, ran it once over the entire area then raked up the debris, then ran the plane across it until smooth. I used a broadcast spin spreader for the seed and covered with the harrow in the last pic. Last trip was with a roller behind my small riding mower.

 

[jenkinsph]

Steve, your yard in the picture is very park like. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: How long does it take to mow the lawn? It sure is pretty there, you have quite a view.

Thanks Brian, making it "park like" was my intention, glad it is percieved that way. This rear section sat for many years with brush, juniper trees and knarly bent over pine trees and a few piles of old farm trash. When I started to clean this up lots of the neighbors wanted to know what I was going to do with it, I told them I was going to put in a trailer park.:laughing: Had them worried for a while.


To mow the whole thing takes 2.5 hours with the L130 or about 1 hr with the x749.

 

[CowwFace]

Yeowzers!! that is one nice looking area jenkinsph! Makes me want to set up the crocuet set ASAP!!!

The home made land planes look FANTASTIC!! I wish I had the time (and/or the ability) to make one! Great work on thoes guys!

I think I'll have to paint mine to match my tractor .. that counts as a modification dosent it? ... hehehehe

Tractor on

 

[jenkinsph]

I haven't played Croquet in almost 50 years, used to do this at my grandmothers when trying to grow up.


Thanks for the compliments, building the landplane and harrow were easy projects compared to some I have seen on here.