deezler
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- Jan 30, 2012
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- Southeast MI
- Tractor
- Cub Cadet 7305, Kioti CK3510seh TLB
Well this thread has not particularly gone as I expected! Thank to everyone for your contributions, good discussion here.
There seems to be a lot of nuance in regards to driveway maintenance. I've always enjoyed reading everyone else threads where a simple question yields a dozen different opinions on how to best accomplish the job. But somehow I still thought everyone here would support my desires to get a land plane! You guys are telling me not to buy an implement? Weird, haha.
In case it's helpful. My situation:
- Just want to quickly refresh my loose gravel surface periodically. Not to rip up my base, not to fill in any holes (don't have any), not to move a bunch of material. Just "refresh" the surface.
- My drive is already pretty smooth and even, with a nice crown. I just want to keep it looking pretty, haha.
I don't understand how the box blade could be good at this. If you drop it all the way down, it just pulls and scrapes up material until the entire box is full. That's what it's for. Trying to keep it just barely off the ground means any small bumps or undulations in the driveway surface ahead of it make it move up and down with the rest of the tractor, as it is carried on the 3-pt. The beauty of a land plane is that you let it ride the ground, and it can't hold much material - it evenly deposits whatever it scrapes up, with no fussing required.
The basic rear scraper blade does work well for me though, it's what I've used for the last 5 years. I do still need a better rear blade, so maybe this implement upgrade should jump ahead of a land plane on my list.
There seems to be a lot of nuance in regards to driveway maintenance. I've always enjoyed reading everyone else threads where a simple question yields a dozen different opinions on how to best accomplish the job. But somehow I still thought everyone here would support my desires to get a land plane! You guys are telling me not to buy an implement? Weird, haha.
In case it's helpful. My situation:
- Just want to quickly refresh my loose gravel surface periodically. Not to rip up my base, not to fill in any holes (don't have any), not to move a bunch of material. Just "refresh" the surface.
- My drive is already pretty smooth and even, with a nice crown. I just want to keep it looking pretty, haha.
I don't understand how the box blade could be good at this. If you drop it all the way down, it just pulls and scrapes up material until the entire box is full. That's what it's for. Trying to keep it just barely off the ground means any small bumps or undulations in the driveway surface ahead of it make it move up and down with the rest of the tractor, as it is carried on the 3-pt. The beauty of a land plane is that you let it ride the ground, and it can't hold much material - it evenly deposits whatever it scrapes up, with no fussing required.
The basic rear scraper blade does work well for me though, it's what I've used for the last 5 years. I do still need a better rear blade, so maybe this implement upgrade should jump ahead of a land plane on my list.