Grading Preventing Box Blade Bounce

[ArkRet01]

I am new to this forum and have a question regarding how to prevent a box blade from bouncing when grading a steeply sloped gravel driveway. The dealer recommended removing the teeth but that didn't really help. Whenever I pass over a rock the size of a tennis ball or bigger, the blade shoots up in the air and leaves a deposit of the gravel I was dragging. I am not going fast and the bigger rocks aren't stuck in the driveway. They will pull out by hand quite easily.

The problem is the driveway is 3 tenths of a mile with a 200 foot rise in elevation, so picking out the larger rocks by hand is not an attractive option.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if this issue has already been addressed, please pardon the repetition.

 

[TripleR]

Rock rake is about all I can think of or heavier duty bb.

 

[sandman2234]

Maybe instead of trying to smooth out the existing driveway, which contains larger rocks embedded in the current roadway, you might consider (and at a lot more expense) maybe purchasing a, or a few truckloads of rock to smooth over your current driveway. That way you aren't messing with the base of the roadway, by removing the rocks that are sticking up (cause there is always going to be another one just when you think you have them all) and it gives you a surface to keep smooth. The size and configuration of the rocks added to the surface will have to be of just the right size to prevent washing, and yet small enough to allow them to be smoothed out.
My Dad has a similar road to what you discribed, (and in Arkansas) and after years of fighting it, that is what he had done, with the surface being crowned to shed water to the sides immediately instead of running down the road. That has been a couple of years now and is still hanging in there.
Good luck! As a kid, I put many, many p/u truck loads of shale, rock, dirt, etc on that driveway and never got ahead of the wash problem, that was fixed by adding gravel and crowning it.
David from jax