Road Groom

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Any buddy ever used one of these or anything like it?
Got a guy trying to rent one of the out in the area, said it's better than sliced bread.
Road Groom

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[jenkinsph]

Look like it should work great for smoothing out the top surface, but to fix the potholes you would still need to cut them down. Something like your boxblade would do a better job of making longer lasting repairs.

I use a 7' Frontier boxblade (by Gannon) with hydraulic scarifiers to cut deep enough to remove the potholes and smooth the surface. Afterwards I use an 8' landplane to get a smooth finish.

The idea that this thing and a pickup can replace a road grader is laughable, if it were true do you think the local county commissioners would continue to buy $200k graders?

 

[TO_Bud]

I made a home built version of the attached pic. My grader is under 7 feet wide and it is a load to pull for my 40hp fwd tractor. Mine weighs about 1300 lbs. I wouldn't dream of ruining my pickup trans trying to pull it along the road. If you decide to rent it I'd pull it with a tractor. Any potholes do need to be cut through as stated or they will just wallow back out again. It takes numerous passes with my road grader to cut through them on our crushed limestone road.
Bud

 

[Wayne_Freeman]

My Duragrader looks just like the one in your picture. I am interested to here how you set up your machine to grade your road and whether or not you build a crown?

 

[teg]

I like how the video shows grooming a super flat road that's already in perfect condition, with perfect gravel, to boot! Let them come over to my road and video what happens... might win 10k at American's Funniest Videos.

My neighbor has the same pot holes every year since I've been going there, 1989. He just covers them up... and they re-appear. I've had a couple on my road... and they have never come back. Granted, it's only been four years.

Cut a path for the water to drain off then fill so no standing water... even during a rain storm.

 

[Mike058]

Is it anything more than a fancy landscape rake?

 

[TO_Bud]

My Duragrader looks just like the one in your picture. I am interested to here how you set up your machine to grade your road and whether or not you build a crown?

Wayne, sorry for the delay in responding, just got a new computer and it has taken awhile to get up and running. Also, sorry for hijacking the thread. I don't actually own a Duragrader but built my own copy of the Duragrader. When I want to cut the road with my initial passes I shorten the top-link to get the front blade on a sharper and deeper angle. I then do several passes with the unit flat to really boil up the fines and stones. Then I use my landscape rake on an angle for a few passes to force more material to the center of the road. My last pass is with rake in a level straight across position to smooth out the crown. My road is 1/4 mile long and serves 10 homes on my block with low traffic, but several vehicles travel it daily. You must provide a crown or water will sit and soften the surface and then form potholes. They do form eventually anyhow and I groom the road spring and fall. Takes me about 4 hours each time.

Bud